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RippleFind

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Author: RippleFind

RippleFind offers investigative journalism, reportage and opinion, focusing on public health policy, healthcare, the environment and consumer affairs. (The odd splash of something different too.) Underlying it all is a commitment to the public good, as well as a passion for life and for human values - hence that something different: from nature, the arts or philosophy... wholly different, but equally meaningful. A ripple is what a stone makes in a pond... a diver in the sea... a thinker in the facts... the facts in the thinker. It is also an olden-day tool, a special comb for harvesting cereal seeds from their stems; for separating the wheat from the chaff, you might say... So the finding is about causes and effects, and the seeds of both of these... Dan Ripplefind
Written by RippleFind03/06/201805/06/2018

El amianto en el Metro de Madrid: pruebas espurias (aunque lógicas)

ANALISIS/OPINION – Las pruebas médicas que Metro de Madrid piensa efectuar a sus trabajadores por posible exposición a amianto, serán, en una palabra, espurias. Este artículo analiza por qué. Y, más importante, propone las razones más lógicas que puede tener Metro para hacerlas…

Written by RippleFind01/12/201702/06/2018

Spain: health tech assessment gets extra €3.6m

NEWS – Spain’s eight health technology assessment (HTA) agencies are to get almost €3.6m as an annual top-up of their current budgets.

Written by RippleFind13/09/201705/12/2017

The tail of two scandals: Common causes, different aftermaths

COMMENT – The UK’s handling of the case involving ‘rogue surgeon’ Dr Ian Paterson is in stark contrast with the response to the PIP breast implants scandal. Yet both feature the common denominators of a growing catalogue of public harm situations involving basic procedural and/or regulatory shortcomings.

Written by RippleFind07/09/201705/12/2017

Held to ransom: NHS clinical negligence costs “out of control”

NEWS – The UK’s already pressured National Health Service is effectively being held to ransom by the legal industry, as efforts to contain soaring clinical negligence costs are proving ineffective, the NAO has warned.

Written by RippleFind12/05/201705/12/2017

PIP implants fraud: TÜV loses €60m liability appeal

NEWS – The overturning of an appeal by German product certification giant TÜV against a €60m PIP implants fraud liability judgment marks a significant milestone for the many thousands of women in several countries — from the UK to Colombia — who continue to suffer from the largely unresolved healthcare scandal.

Written by RippleFind12/05/201714/09/2017

Legal wrangling takes time, welfare should never

COMMENT – Behind the legal and regulatory wrangling surrounding the PIP implants scandal, major welfare concerns persist: many thousands of women worldwide have been abandoned to their fate and not had the dangerous implants identified and removed.

Written by RippleFind01/04/201714/09/2017

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