RCS and specialist associations respond to concerns over PIP breast implant

2012 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-40
Author(s):  
Matt Worrall ◽  
Matthew Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Breast Implant ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Expert Group ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
French Government ◽  
Surgical Devices ◽  
The Uk

In January heightened public concern over the safety of a brand of breast implant prompted much public debate about the regulation of surgical devices. The issue began with a decision from the French government to remove all implants for women who had concerns. This put pressure on the UK who established an expert group to look at the evidence, at which the RCS and specialty associations were represented.

Conclusion

A Child's Day ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 165-178
Author(s):  
Killian Mullan
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

This concluding chapter surveys the key findings and issues raised in the previous chapters. This study of a child's day provides the most extensive picture currently available in the UK, and elsewhere in the world, into how children's time use has changed over the past several decades. It identifies areas of expected change as well as other areas of surprising stability. It reveals how change and stability in children's time use blend together to comprise a child's day, uncovering also the multi-layered contexts of a child's day. Aspects of children's time use, and how this may have changed, will no doubt continue to surface in public debate in connection with their well-being. While welcoming this, it is necessary to always question and seek to understand how supposed changes actually fit within a child's day, the types of days where these changes are concentrated, among whom, and to seek out evidence on how such changes relate to other activities and the social contexts of daily life.

Recent Progress in Weather Routeing for Merchant Vessels

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Ocean Surface ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Very High ◽  
Present Ability ◽  
Made In

The weather is rarely out of the news. Weather can be hazardous at times almost anywhere on Earth, and the media are always keen to report dramatic events. On the global scene, weather, climate and the environment are issues of great international public concern at present because of the likely implications of increases of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The contributions of the meteorologist to the understanding of this global problem are increasingly recognized, as is the progress which has been made in the accuracy of day-to-day forecasts. This paper provides a brief résumé of our present ability to model and forecast the behaviour of the global atmosphere and the ocean surface, and also demonstrates how these models are applied to the practical problems of operational ship-routeing by the UK Meteorological Office. It is worth remembering that it was the very high incidence of losses at sea in the 1850s which brought about the establishment of the UK's first meteorological service.

Political engagement of Latin Americans in the UK

Focaal ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (51) ◽  
pp. 73-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Però
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
The Public ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Collective Engagement

This article examines the political engagement of Latin Americans in the UK in the context of a mounting neo-assimilationist and anti-multicultural offensive in the public debate on integration. Assuming that migrants should have a say about their own integration in society, the article explores the extent to which the public debate is sensitive to migrants' own collective concerns. It is from this empirically informed perspective that the article criticizes assimilationist and multi-culturalist attitudes for their disregard of the exploitation and lack of social and cultural recognition that afflicts newly arrived migrants. The article helps to rebalance the prevailing trend in policy and academic circles to treat migrants as objects of policies and ignore their political agency and active collective engagement in the improvement of their conditions. It also offers a corrective to emerging alternative approaches that tend to reduce migrants' politics to their role in sustaining long-distance diasporic communities.

scholarly journals Happy Hens or Healthy Eggs – A Summative Content Analysis Of How Hens Are Represented In Supermarket Egg Boxes Narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 70-94
Author(s):  
Kristine Hill
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Nutritional Value ◽  
Egg Laying ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Direct Response ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Whole Egg

How a species is represented by marketers of animal-based products both reflects and shapes how consumers think about that animal. By examining the explicit statements, and implicit messages encoded in the imagery on supermarket egg boxes, this paper explores how hens are represented by whole egg retailers. Samples were collected from supermarket chain websites in the US, the UK, and Germany during March 2017. A summative content analysis reveals two prominent narratives purveyed through eggbox imagery (textual and visual), namely those pertaining to hen welfare and human health. The latter disenfranchises hens from their products by focusing on the nutritional value of eggs, whereas the former reflects a public concern for the welfare of egg-laying hens. Although claims of improvements in welfare practices are undoubtedly exploited as marketing tools, they nevertheless serve to raise awareness and drive competitors to adopt similar practices. Welfare claims are a direct response to public concerns about the plight of hens, and may positively influence industry welfare standards. However, idyllic depictions displayed on eggboxes also lull consumers into the belief that those eggs are an ethically sound food choice, regardless of the actual standard of living experienced by the hens.

Brytyjskie i węgierskie referenda z 2016 r. Uwagi o roli instytucji demokracji bezpośredniej w procesie integracji europejskiej

2016 ◽  
pp. 78-97
Author(s):  
Magdalena Musiał-Karg
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Popular Subject ◽  
The Uk

The practice of using direct democracy in the European Union’s countries shows that the so called “European” issues have become increasingly popular subject of public debate and then of referendum voting. The motivation to analyse the British and Hungarian referendums of 2016 was the popularity and importance of the issues both for the UK and for Hungary, as well as for the whole European Union. The main thesis posed in the article is that in recent years referendums have become very popular as instruments of making decisions on the European crises (Grexit, Brexit, migration crisis). The main objective of this paper is to answer the question about the use of a referendum on issues of European integration and on the course and consequences of the British and Hungarian referendum in 2016.

17. Air Quality Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 561-598
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fisher ◽  
Bettina Lange ◽  
Eloise Scotford
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Public Interest Litigation ◽  
Coordination Problems ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Local Levels

This chapter examines legal regimes relating to air quality, considering developments at the international, EU, UK and local levels. International and EU law is particularly important in this regulatory sphere since air pollution is a transboundary issue. There is also increasing public concern about air quality, which is reflected in high profile public interest litigation being brought against the UK government to ensure lawful levels of air quality are being met, or at least properly planned for. There are also implementation and coordination problems that make compliance with air quality law a considerable challenge. Regulating air quality ultimately requires coordinating the actions and efforts of actors in many industries, sectors, and geographical areas. At present, not all of those actors are within the scope of UK air quality law.

scholarly journals ‘I’d like to report a suspicious looking tree’: Public concern, public attention and the nature of reporting about ash dieback in the United Kingdom

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Fellenor ◽  
Julie Barnett ◽  
Clive Potter ◽  
Julie Urquhart ◽  
J. D. Mumford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Ash Dieback ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Policy Attention

‘Public concern’, a ubiquitous notion used in descriptive and explanatory modes by policy makers, academics and the media, is often presented as axiomatic. However, the variability with which it is deployed in different contexts, for example, as justification for policy attention or having equivalence with what is considered ‘newsworthy’, belies this status. This article presents an empirical analysis of emails and phone calls from the UK public to UK government agencies, reporting suspected cases of ash dieback disease – a tree health issue which attracted intense media and policy attention in the United Kingdom in 2012. We challenge the view that public attentiveness is necessarily indicative of public concern, or that media attention can be taken as its proxy. Examination of concern at macro and micro levels reveals heterogeneous processes with multiple dimensions. Understanding the nature of public concern is crucial in enabling more effective policy development and operational responses to risk-related issues.

scholarly journals Politics of Exception and Unease: Immigration, Asylum and Terrorism in Parliamentary Debates in the UK

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 766-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jef Huysmans ◽  
Alessandra Buonfino
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
The Public ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
The Uk

This article analyses how the British political elite has securitised migration and asylum since 9/11 by looking at when and how parliamentary debates linked counter-terrorism to immigration and/or asylum. The findings suggest that there is considerable reluctance within the political elite to introduce or especially sustain the connection between migration and terrorism too intensely in public debate. The parliamentary debates also show that for understanding the securitising of migration and asylum one cannot focus exclusively on the main security framing that is found in counter-terrorism debates, which we name ‘the politics of exception’. There is at least one other format, which we call ‘the politics of unease’, that is central to how the British political elite securitises migration and asylum, and contests it, in the public realm.

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