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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

HIT: Health Information Technology? Wanna bet...?

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group

HIT on Vulnerable individuals


What do these words mean to you -
'Fixed'
'Odds'
'Betting'
'Terminals' ?

'Cognitive access'
Children
Gambling advertising in football


FIXED ODDS BETTING TERMINALS

Stakes £50 or £30 or £20 or £2

£300 per minute

Physical access

HIT - the button yet again...

"... not a single fixed odds betting terminal
among the 35,000 or so in Britain which
has ever had a losing week" Guardian
HIT on Relationships and Families

Breakdown

Loss of Social Capital:

Crime

Job-loss

'Civil Society'

"A Government gets the 
citizenry it legislates for"?




12-Week Public consultation

HIT to the gambling industry
60,000 jobs

Staff training & awareness

£1.8 billion market

HIT on Tax £700 million

Tracey Crouch MP Gambling Minister 




Source: Various