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I thought you might be interested to see my second wave version of top 10 tips for better health and health care - which is particularly relevant given the likely implications of the US electoral disaster for North America and for the UK Alex 1. Aspire to an NHS which provides all people with comprehensive, high quality local health care, devoid of all charges at the time of use. Don't confuse yourself or the public by marketing spurious 'choices'. 2. No-one should profit from other people's ill health – resist the attractions of private finance and keep business away from the NHS. 3. In the context of relations between health care providers and service users, it is inaccurate to describe anyone as a consumer, and demeaning to describe them as a customer. 4. Income inequality is bad for health – eliminate all NHS six-figure salaries. If you find it hard to give them up, try phasing them out gradually. 5. The biggest contribution Government could make to improving future health and reducing inequalities would be to make gender-equitable parenting and socialisation the top national political priority. There is abundant evidence that masculine gender roles damage both women and men. 6. Practise safer macroeconomics – avoid free markets or fiscal policies that exploit poorer nations or disadvantaged groups. 7. Values matter – what counts is not 'what works' but 'what promotes and sustains our nationally agreed values of equity and mutual welfare'. Evaluate all policy against this criterion. 8. Violence is unhealthy and inequitable – don't permit arms dealing or engage in war. 9. Social (including health) and economic rights are as important as civil and political rights – steer clear of 'democracies' that deny social and economic rights to their citizens. 10. Practise safer politics – never appoint to Cabinet posts people of either sex who display excessive masculine gender roles.