Public Health Policy

3 articles

Sep 29, 2025 • via Telegraph

When Medical Evidence Takes a Back Seat to Cultural Politics

NHS guidance on cousin marriage prioritizes cultural sensitivity over genetic risk

Instead of providing clear medical advice, the NHS has issued guidance that downplays the genetic risks of first-cousin marriage by emphasizing its cultural and economic "benefits." This reflects a troubling trend where political correctness overrides scientific evidence in public health policy.

Jul 27, 2025 • via Financial Times

The End of the Social Contract: IMF Tells Britain to Start Charging for the NHS

When You Can't Afford Your Own Founding Principles, You're in Collapse

The IMF's recommendation to charge higher-income Britons for NHS access marks a fundamental shift in Britain's social contract. After decades of underfunding and mismanagement, the UK's founding principle of free healthcare is now deemed unaffordable. This isn't reform; it's surrender.

Jun 23, 2025 • via Telegraph

The NHS Exodus: When Poland Outperforms Britain

British patients now flee to Eastern Europe for procedures their own system can't provide

While politicians continue proclaiming the NHS as the "envy of the world," British patients are now fleeing to Poland, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic for basic medical care their own healthcare system cannot provide. This isn't medical tourism—it's medical refuge, funded by a health service so broken that paying foreign hospitals has become cheaper than fixing domestic capacity.