The Nanny state- how Labour
is trying to dictate and interfere with the population:
Nanny
state children aged five to get sex education
Tue, Oct 28, 2008- Children as young as five will be given sex
education under labour's nanny state plans to cut teenage pregnancy and
sexually transmitted diseases.
Cervical
cancer jab given 'without consent' by nanny state
Tue, Oct 14, 2008- A mother claims her daughter was injected
with the cervical cancer vaccine without her consent.
Drugs
classification should be scrapped, experts say
Tue, Sep 30, 2008- A leading think tank has called for the labour
Government’s system of drugs classification to be scrapped.
NHS
at 60- Growing ranks of elderly add to costs dilemma
Mon, Jul 28, 2008- NHS at 60- Technological change, ageing populations
and rising expectations: for health ministers and executives worldwide
they are the three furies that bedevil attempts to contain the spiralling
cost of care.
Labour's
nanny state new £10m spin campaign on alcohol ignores science
Wed, June 11, 2008- Health Direct has reviewed
labour's new £10m spin campaign on the risks of drinking alcohol-
which shows that they are again ignoring science and wasting tax payers
money.
Foundation
status promise broken by a mile
Thu, Jun 5, 2008- Health ministers have missed by a mile the
goal that every NHS hospital should, by March this year, have had the
opportunity to become a foundation trust.
Labour's
nanny state bans children with no MMR vaccinations
Fri, May 30, 2008- Labour's latest nanny state wheeze to cover
up their MMR vaccinations fiasco is to ban children from starting school
until they receive the MMR jab.
Doctors
revolt at anti white bias political correctness of labour's nanny state
Tue 20 Nov 2007- One of Britain’s most eminent consultants
has claimed white male doctors are being denied bonuses because of politically
correct “reverse discrimination” by the National Health Service.
Labour's
nanny state wants us to stop eating and drinking
Mon 12 Nov 2007- A new inquiry into lifestyle and cancer has
issued several stark recommendations. They include not gaining weight
as an adult, avoiding sugary drinks and alcohol, and not eating bacon
or ham. Everyone must also aim to be as thin as possible without becoming
underweight.
Sicko
Michael Moore film has mad view of the NHS
Mon 5 Nov 2007- The fourth estate has always had a bad name,
but it seems to be getting worse. Journalism should be an honest and useful
trade, and often still is. But now that journalism has more power than
ever before, it seems to have become ever more disreputable.
Labour
rewards drug addicts as only 6pc of users are free of drugs each year.
Thu 26 Oct 2007- Heroin and cocaine addicts on the labour government's
treatment programme are being given drugs as a reward for clean urine
samples, Health Direct has learned.
UNICEF
blasts labours breastfeeding nanny state
Thu 30 Aug 07- The long term health of mothers and babies is
being put at risk by UK hospitals that have failed to introduce pro-breastfeeding
policies, the United Nations says. UNICEF, the UN children's fund, today
releases a report showing that four out of 10 maternity hospitals have
not implemented guidance from the National Institute for Curbing Expenditure
(NICE) that was published a year ago.
Anger
over NHS plan to give addicts iPods
Tue 25 Jul 07- Drug addicts are to be offered gift vouchers and
prizes on the National Health Service under plans by the labour government’s
medicine watchdog NICE to encourage them to stay clean.
NHS
IVF clinics to help lesbians get pregnant
Tue 17 Jul 07- An NHS IVF fertility clinic is proposing to treat
single women and lesbian couples who have no medical problems. The reproductive
medicine unit at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Trust
believes it would be discriminatory to refuse artificial insemination
to women who cannot conceive because they do not have a male partner.
Smoke
detectives are taking over bliar's nanny streets
Wed 21 Feb 07- Thousands of council officers will be on the streets
this summer, patrolling bars, restaurants and shops to police the smoking
ban. Smokers' campaigning groups said the scheme would be a "complete
waste of public money". The British Beer and Pub Association said
the plan was "heavy handed". Local authorities have been granted
£29.5 million to raise awareness about the rules.
Doctors
who ban surgery for fat smokers are right, says nanny Hewitt
Tue 13 Feb 07- Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, has given
her blessing to the policy of denying operations to smokers until they
kick the habit. Endorsing a position adopted by some health trusts, the
minister also voiced support for doctors who order patients to lose weight
before treatment.
Labour
to extend nanny state with fatherless babies in IVF fertility revolution
Mon 11 Dec 06- A child's need for a father will no longer be
a consideration when a woman seeks fertility treatment, ministers will
say this week. The move which comes despite widespread public opposition
and which will give single women and lesbians the right to treatment forms
part of a shake-up of Britain's embryology laws. One of the key proposals
would allow research on test-tube embryos that were part-human, part-animal
referred to as "chimeras".
Call
for IVF ban for obese, but young, smoking lesbians may win IVF postcode
lottery.
Wed 30 Aug 06- Very obese women should be denied IVF fertility
treatment, experts say. The British Fertility Society is recommending
women with a body mass index of 36 and over should not be allowed access
to fertility treatment. Underweight women and those classed just as obese
(BMI over 29) should be forced to address their weight before starting
treatment, the society said. NHS guidelines say overweight women should
be warned of the health risks, but do not impose any ban on treatment.
Late
motherhood as ‘big a problem’ as teenage mums- nanny state
Mon 14 Aug 06- Middle class women who become pregnant in their
late thirties and early forties are as big a public health problem as
teenage mothers, a leading obstetrician has warned. Dr Susan Bewley, consultant
obstetrician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in London, wants
ministers to formally categorise the epidemic of what she describes as
“middle-age pregnancy” as a health hazard and come up with
specific policies to deal with it, as happens with teenage mothers.
Hospital
fined for treating too many patients
Thurs 3 Aug 2006- An NHS hospital has been penalised for treating
its patients too quickly - losing nearly £2.5 million, the cost
of the care it provided outside an agreed contract. Ipswich Hospital NHS
Trust, which finished the year £16.7 million in the red, had been
doing so well with waiting list targets that in one department patients
were waiting only a week to see a consultant.
The
national homes swindle-a growing scandal
Fri 21 July 2006- In March 2006, Panorama investigated how sick
and elderly people are compelled unlawfully to sell their homes to pay
for NHS care. The film prompted the biggest viewer response Panorama has
ever had with 1,700 emails and 3,000 phone calls. So now we have investigated
the stories you brought to us.
New
Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis wants Dignity debate about caring for
the elderly
Thu
22 Jun- New Care Services Minister Mr Ivan Lewis has said he wants
to make dignity of older people one of his top priorities. Speaking at
a session on the out of hospitals white paper, he said: ‘I want
to make dignity an important theme in my time as a minister. ‘This
is not a gimmick; just another initiative. It should be at the heart of
what we are doing.
Scare
over MMR vaccine safety causes cases of Mumps to soar as immunisation
postcode lottery grows
Fri 16 Jun- The
scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine is still discouraging parents
from immunisation, particularly in London, raising the risk of mumps,
measles and rubella. Cases of mumps soared from 4,204 in 2003 to 16,436
in 2004 and to 56,390 last year. The exodus has been also been driven
by Labour's introduction of bonus payments for doctors who meet immunisation
targets leading to even more health postcode lotteries.
Surgeon
used eBay to buy equipment- and has it confiscated by nanny
Thu
25 May- A surgeon has upset hospital bosses by ordering medical equipment
through the auction website eBay. Kevin Murray, a newly appointed consultant
at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, had been asked to provide
a list of the equipment he would need for his operating theatre.
Primary
pupils face annual obesity check as the nanny state expands
Mon
22 May-The Labour government has decreed that Primary school children
are to be weighed annually, and their parents will be told if they are
obese, after the Government overuled its own public health officials
Sat
8 Apr- The Food Standards Agency in the UK is recommending the addition
of the vitamin folic acid to all flour and bread on sale in Britain within
the next year. The agency will recommend in principle that in future all
brown and white flour be fortified with folic acid. Wholemeal bread will
not require additional folic acid. Calcium, iron, thiamine and niacin
are already compulsory ingredients in white or brown flour.
Wed
8 Mar- The Ministry of the obvious blows £334m on PR- you know
when you’ve been quangoed. Government advertising, once synonymous
with serious matters of public safety, is now campaigning to regulate
the minutiae of daily life. A television commercial warns of the risks
of undercooking the Christmas turkey, while a leaflet reminds holidaymakers
to keep out of the midday sun. Next up is a poster campaign against dropping
chewing gum in the street.
Wed
22 Feb- Ministers are pursuing “meaningless and unambitious”
health targets that will fail to rid Scotland of its reputation as the
sick man of Europe, one of the country’s leading economists has
warned. Dr Andrew Walker, a health economist at Glasgow University and
a former NHS manager, has condemned as “useless” eight of
the Scottish executive’s 14 key health targets.
Mon 26 Sep-
A hospital has banned visitors from "cooing" over newborn babies
to protect their dignity and parents' right to confidentiality. People
have been told they should resist the temptation to touch or be too familiar
with the new arrivals. They are also being warned to respect patient confidentiality
by not talking to staff or parents about babies.
Wed 17 Aug-
The government lured voters with big ideas for children and the elderly,
but the sums don't add up. If you're a member of the "sandwich generation",
trying to hold down a job, find quality childcare and organise support
for a frail and elderly dad who lives a hundred miles away, Labour's manifesto
promises must have sounded especially sweet.
Thurs 14 July-
Mushroom sellers have criticised the law banning magic mushrooms and making
them a class A drug which has come into force. The Drugs Act 2005 ends
the situation in which fresh magic mushrooms were legal but those which
were dried or prepared for use were not
Fri 3 June-
Bosses from Leicester's three main hospitals said they were considering
moving the holy book from patients' bedsides because it may cause offence
and may be responsible for spreading the superbug MRSA.
Tue 17 May- One
in five complaints received by the Healthcare Commission have been waiting
more than half a year to be resolved under a deluge of cases. Latest figures
released by the commission show that 19 per cent of complaints have not
been closed within its own six-month deadline. A further 25 per cent have
been with the commission for five or six months.
Wed, April 27-
Hundreds more heroin addicts are to be given a fix on the NHS. Hundreds
of heroin addicts will be able to get the drug free on the National Health
Service under a Government programme.
Tony
Bliar's nanny state - Listed on the link are some of the steps
that the labour government has taken to nanny and subjugate the UK populace
in 2004:
Here are listed some of the
steps that the labour government has taken to nanny
and subjugate the UK populace in 2004
It's no nanny
state more an extended family, minister says
GOVERNMENT intervention in family life is justified because it enables
parents to do “the best for their children”, Margaret Hodge,
the Children’s Minister, said yesterday. She likened the State to
an extended family and defended its right to meddle in the home.
Mrs Hodge said the
Government had a role in children’s upbringing. “There is
a proper role for the State in helping parents in the home,” she
said in a newspaper interview. “In the past, people got support
from the extended family; now they are looking elsewhere.” The State
could be a force for good, allowing families to do the best for their
children, she said.
“There are always
tensions between the liberty of the individual and the wider interests
of society, but the State has a role. Parenting in the home is crucial.”
For example, the NHS had to deal with the effects of mothers feeding their
children nothing but chips. She said that intervention was justified because
the State had to pick up the pieces if parenting went wrong. “If
children are taken into care, then we have failed, the State has to go
in at the beginning and help.
“It’s
not just about reading to your child. All the evidence is that if you
sing to your child, if you talk to your child, then they do better. If
you’re just watching the telly or chatting to your friend on the
mobile phone rather than talking to your baby, then your child is not
going to prosper.”
Many families wanted
advice from the Government on child-rearing, she said. “You take
home this little bundle of joy from the hospital and you don’t know
where to start. People want the State to help them.”
Her comments precede
a government campaign to improve the way parents bring up children. A
booklet on how to raise a child will be published by the Department for
Education and Skills and given to all new parents. It will offer information
about healthy diets and “top tips” on television viewing habits,
reading to children and teaching them about sex.
Mrs Hodge is also
trying to enlist soap opera writers to the cause, with storylines showing
the importance of discipline, safety and education. “Parents have
to set boundaries,” she said. “We need to support parents
in setting the boundaries.”
Taking the traditional
line, she said that ministers should not be afraid of taking a moral lead
by claiming that marriage was the best context for rearing children.
“Stability really
matters for kids and people are more likely to stay together if they are
married,” she said. “Without a childcare infrastructure, there’s
no real choice.”
Next week the Labour
government is expected to promise yet another big spending increase on
nursery and childminder places.
This article first
appeared in the Times 25th November 2004:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1376066,00.html
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