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Research Briefing
Healthcare for veterans
This note covers the current policies on healthcare services for ex-service personnel, including priority access to NHS services and the provision of dedicated mental health services for veterans. The note also provides a list of useful links and contacts.
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Research Briefing
Health expenditure: international comparisons
In the UK expenditure on health comes largely from public funds, with 82.6% of total expenditure on health coming from public expenditure. This is the fifth highest proportion among OECD countries and is similar to other northern European countries. In the United States less than half of total health expenditure comes from public funds.
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Research Briefing
Obesity
This note sets out the definition and causes of obesity, the health problems caused by obesity, recent government policy on the issue and related statistics.
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Research Briefing
Health and Social Care Bill: Committee Stage Report.
The Health and Social Care Bill had its Second Reading in the Commons on 31 January 2011. The Bill was considered in Public Bill Committee in 28 sittings, between 8 February and 31 March 2011. A large number of Government amendments were made, mainly minor and technical changes, although significant alterations were made to clauses 103 and 104 in Part 3 of the Bill, to prevent competition on price. No Opposition amendments were agreed. This Paper summarises the Commons Second Reading debate and Committee stages and supplements the House of Commons Library Research Paper Health and Social Care Bill (RP 11/11), which was produced for the Bill’s Second Reading.
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Research Briefing
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill Committee Stage Report [Bill 151 of 2010-11]
During the Committee stage, several Government amendments were made to the provisions on police reform. Some (for example, on police complaints, police and crime plans and disqualifying people convicted of imprisonable offences from becoming or being police and crime commissioners) were on matters of substance. By contrast, there were only minor amendments to the provisions of the misuse of drugs and no substantive amendments to the parts of the Bill covering licensing, protests in Parliament Square or universal jurisdiction.
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Research Briefing
Animal cloning
A number of commentators have raised concerns about the implications of animal cloning for food safety, food supply and animal welfare. Others stress that animal cloning has the potential to improve animal welfare and farming productivity. It may even be used in the conservation of endangered species. This note sets out background information on the different arguments and the regulatory controls on the use of this technology in food production.
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Research Briefing
Health and Social Care Bill
This briefing on the Health and Social Care Bill has been prepared for the Second Reading debate on the Bill in the House of Commons on 31 January 2011. The Bill is intended to give effect to the reforms requiring primary legislation that were proposed in the NHS White Paper Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS. This White Paper set out the Government’s aims to reduce central control of the NHS, to engage doctors in the commissioning of health services, and to give patients greater choice.
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Research Briefing
Pay in the NHS
This note gives details of pay bands and actual earnings of hospital doctors, GPs and other NHS staff in England
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Research Briefing
Epilepsy Statistics
A short note summarising prevalence, mortality and prescribing data on epilepsy. Gavin Thompson and Lorna Booth.
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Research Briefing
Cigarette packaging, labelling and health
This note summarises the legislation concerning health warnings on tobacco packaging.
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Research Briefing
Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill: Committee Stage Report
This note summarises the House of Commons Second Reading and Committee Stage proceedings of the Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill (Bill 19 2009-10).
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Research Briefing
Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill [Bill 19 of 2009-10]
The Bill seeks to create a duty on sunbed businesses to prevent use of sunbeds by under-18s, to provide for local authority enforcement of this duty, and to give Ministers powers to make regulations imposing further conditions on commercial sunbed use.
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