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Nik's avatar

One would have thought that perhaps NICE, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, whose remit is to ensure that, to quote "Our recommendations help practitioners and commissioners get the best care to people, fast, while ensuring value for the taxpayer" would be taking a careful look at the costs of genome projects, AI etc

Sadly, the executive is full of praise for the 10 year plan and welcomes speeding up all sorts of treatment ideas etc

"We will work more closely with the MHRA to speed up evaluations and ensure patients get safe, effective treatments sooner. Through new enhanced collaboration we will streamline and simplify the approval journey through joint scientific advice and closely aligned timelines between teams across both organisations. This will help increase coordination and reduce duplication, ensuring MHRA and NICE decisions happen as close together as possible"

After reading TTE evidence of the harms due to rushed and inadequate checks/ trials/ safeguards of breast implants,vaginal mesh, influenza and avian flu vaccines let alone Wegovy, is what should be the LAST thing a body devoted to excellence should desire!

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This is very good; great to have an academic use critical thinking and clarity; no mention of climate change at all!! .. very refreshing

"the cycle of hype and hope"; wonderful phrase

"Mass genotyping is a technology in search of a purpose that it has failed to find."; great

"It has not taken off for three main reasons: it is scientifically illiterate, profoundly unethical and hopelessly uneconomic. " keep it coming

"It has long been a fundamental principle of public health ethics that mass screening is only justifiable when it gives a clear signal about risk,"

If only others could speak clearly like this; endless screening programmes; colon cancer screening where no change in all-cause mortality is seen;

"The day when the UK is a health service with a nation attached is brought ever closer. "

or as John McCabe might have paraphrased " a DysHealth service masquerading as a nation .."

many thanks for this excellent, incisive writing

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