Tag Archives: Health

Living Below the Line – an impact for everyone?

Baroness D'Souza 15/05/2012 – 9:08 am

Having just got to the end of five days of living on £1 or less a day, I celebrated with two hard-boiled eggs, toast and marmite and some freshly-ground coffee.  It tasted wonderful and was greatly appreciated. But this exercise has been an incredibly sobering experience for me. I have spent many years working in the developing world amongst communities where food is scarce and have seen for […]

Obama's healthcare dream

Baroness Murphy 22/12/2009 – 4:40 pm

Snowed in at home in Norfolk on Saturday, a slight rise in the freezing temperatures means we are now able to slide a car slowly down the lane to the main road rather like steering a boat. I had some sympathy with Senators in the US yesterday, trying to get into their crucial vote on the Healthcare Bill with Washington covered in two feet of snow and major delays in public transport. It is said th […]

I was wrong about BMA

Baroness Murphy 19/03/2008 – 6:54 pm

I was so right ( see my last blog) to meet the BMA representatives today to talk through their concerns about the Health and Social Care Bill. In fact the anxieties which some of their members had expressed about the new fitness to practice procedures seem to have been addressed by their discussions with the GMC so we had a very amicable and informative meeting.  I was also pleased to have attend […]

Preparing for a Bill

Baroness Murphy 19/03/2008 – 1:03 pm

Like other blogging peers I've been amazed and delighted by the response of you blog-watchers. It's certainly an incentive to carry on. A very busy couple of days for me. Yesterday was my Council meeting at St George's University of London. I've been Chair of Council, the governing body of this college of the University of London, for nearly two years, at a time of great change. We are a small me […]

Health in the Lords

Baroness Murphy 05/03/2008 – 1:01 pm

I've been fascinated to read other peers' blogs, although trying not to rise to the Lord Norton's bait about the most fanciable peers....(I naturally have a private list) but after reading Lord Dholakia's diary week then seeing he has been running for charity I feel positively exhausted...I hope it's doing him some good healthwise.... Health is back in my mind because today I learnt that the Healt […]