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The Million Women Study

Overview

The Million Women Study is a study of women’s health analyzing data from more than one million women aged 50 and over conducted by UK researchers. It is a collaborative project between Cancer Research UK and the National Health Service

National Health Service

The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...

(NHS), with additional funding from the Medical Research Council (UK)

Medical Research Council (UK)

The Medical Research Council is a publicly-funded agency responsible for co-ordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is one of seven Research Councils in the UK and is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...

. The study has abundantly fulfilled its aims of illuminating the answers to crucial questions about factors affecting the health of women in this age group, as its collaborators continue their frequent contribution to prestigious medical journals of what has become an impressive series of landmark medical papers.

Quotations

You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.

Statement to the South London Press in 1977 on moving constituencies away from Norwood in the 1977 GLC election. Quoted in Citizen Ken (1984) by John Carvel, p. 61

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

As quoted in Socialist Organiser, the newspaper of the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory (March 1979)

I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'Abolish the GLC', because I think it would be a major saving and would have released massive resources for more productive use.

In a Greater London Council|GLC debate on the Marshall Report into GLC powers, 1979, quoted in "Beyond Our Ken" (1985) by Andrew Forrester, Stewart Lansley and Robin Pauley, p. 43

The H-block protest is part of the struggle to bring about a free, united Ireland. They have my support, and they have the support of the majority of the Labour Party rank and file. I have been consistently in favour of withdrawal from Ireland and to get away from the idea that it is some sort of campaign against terrorism. It is in fact the last colonial war.

Evening Standard (21 July 1981)

I can't think of a more appalling contrast between this wedding beanfeast and what is happening in Ireland.

Referring to the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, in Daily Mail (29 July 1981).

Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.

Speech to Harrow Gay Unity Group (18 August 1981)

He asked to see me again. I think he wants me for my body.

Remarks to the press after meeting Secretary of State for Transport Norman Fowler|Norman Fowler (18 June 1981), quoted in Citizen Ken (1984) by John Carvel, p. 107.

The next election will bring an influx of over 120 new MPs who will be overwhelmingly on the Left.

The Guardian (23 September 1985)

I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

Ham and High (21 February, 1986)

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