Is Europe good for us?

IS AN expanded EU a threat or an opportunity for UK healthcare? Some commentators have predicted catastrophe for the UK, but health policymakers think the new member states can solve shortages of healthcare professionals.

The conference on 10 March, at the Royal College of Physicians, will attempt to discover "the reality behind the rhetoric". RCM Conference office, 020 7935 1174 (ext 300).

www.rcplondon.ac.uk

Unhealthy obsessions

THE Government is nurturing an unhealthy attitude to health and the body, medics warned at the weekend.

At the "Health: an unhealthy obsession?"

conference, East End GP and author Dr Mike Fitzpatrick said health promotion policies implicitly replaced "the relationship between state and citizen with that between parent and child".

For the full programme: www.instituteofideas.co m/events

Helping the homeless

Delivering adequate healthcare to some of the most marginalised in society is one of the greatest challenges facing the medical profession.

The Epidemiology and Public Health section of the Royal Society of Medicine will explore the health issues of the homeless at a conference on 31 March. Contact Rebecca Gleed 020 7290 2988; www.rsm.ac.uk/epidemiology.

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