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Onkar Sahota Articles

No ‘one size fits all’ for London GPs from Whitehall

General practice is the core of the National Health Service and holds it together. As much as 90 per cent of all the consultations in the NHS are through GPs – our family doctors that we know and trust. Yet in London we are seeing cracks and fractures, which, if left...

Time to clamp down on unhealthy advergames

Advertising junk food and drink directed at children will continue online without any hindrance. It is hard to believe. The Committee for Advertising Practice has come to the decision that more research is required before restrictions are placed in the advertising...

Tackling smoking: time to nudge, shove or push?

The coalition’s U-turn on plain packaging for cigarettes is welcome, but it is a cynical move at the eleventh hour by an administration that has done little to truly tackle the long-term pressures that preventable ill health places on our National Health Service. When...

Re-evaluating the Heathrow debate’s electoral impact

Heathrow looms large over west London at election time, not least because we are under the flight path. The endless debate over the future of airport capacity is a debate well-rehearsed up and down the M4 and A40 and within every borough, constituency, ward and...