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* [http://www.healthwatch-uk.org HealthWatch official website]
 
* [http://www.healthwatch-uk.org HealthWatch official website]
*[[Campaign Against Health Fraud]], [www.healthwatch-uk.org/newsletterarchive/nlett01.pdf Newsletter], No. 1
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*[[Campaign Against Health Fraud]], [http://www.healthwatch-uk.org/newsletterarchive/nlett01.pdf Newsletter], No. 1
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*[[Caroline Richmond]] [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616497 The campaign against health fraud.] ''Practitioner''. 1989 Oct 8;233(1476):1329-30.
 
*Martin Walker [http://www.whale.to/b/campaign_against_health_fraud.html HealthWatch (formerly Campaign Against Health Fraud)].
 
*Martin Walker [http://www.whale.to/b/campaign_against_health_fraud.html HealthWatch (formerly Campaign Against Health Fraud)].
 
* Martin Walker [http://www.whale.to/b/walker_ch26.html Chapters 26, 27, 31 DIRTY MEDICINE]. 1993.
 
* Martin Walker [http://www.whale.to/b/walker_ch26.html Chapters 26, 27, 31 DIRTY MEDICINE]. 1993.

Revision as of 09:30, 8 March 2011

HealthWatch is a UK charity that says it promotes evidence-based medicine.


People

Patrons and Presidents

The Baroness Greenfield OBE, Professor Tom Kirkwood, Lord Dick Taverne and Lord Walton of Detchant

Our chairman is Dr James May; past chairmen have included Professor David Bender, Professor John Garrow, Malcolm Brahams, and the late Dr Thurstan Brewin, the oncologist and medical writer.[1]

HealthWatch Committee

  • President: Nick Ross is one of the UK's best known broadcasters. | Chairman: Dr James May graduated from Sheffield Medical School in 1997, and is now a GP principal in Kennington | Vice Chairman: Mr. Keith Isaacson is a Senior Consultant Orthodontist currently consulting at the North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke | Treasurer: Anne Raikes. Anne is an Oxford maths graduate who qualified as a Chartered Accountant | Newsletter Editor: Mandy Payne | Membership Secretary: Kenneth Bodman | Secretary Professor David A Bender BSc, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at University College London | Dr Susan Bewley is a consultant obstetrician in maternal-fetal medicine at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. | Walli Bounds trained in midwifery but has been involved in contraceptive research for 34 years, first at the Family Planning Association, subsequently as research co-ordinator at the Margaret Pyke Centre (University College London) | Diana Brahams, Barrister, called to the bar in 1972. Has been a tenant in Old Square Chambers, Gray's Inn since January 1991 | Malcolm Brahams, Solicitor, partner in David Wineman. Honorary Treasurer of Concern for the Mentally Ill, Council member of the Medico-Legal Society | Dr John Illman is a former editor of General Practioner |Dr Gillian Robinson | Les Rose[2]

Others

Vincent Marks, founder member[3]

External links

Notes

  1. HealthWatch HealthWatch, accessed 7 March 2011
  2. HealthWatch HealthWatch committee, accessed 7 March 2011
  3. From the back cover of Stanley Feldman and Vincent Marks, Global Warming and other Bollocks: the truth about all those science scare stories, London: John Blake, 2009.