£50 million of funding was announced this week for 13 councils to research “health inequalities”. The practical benefit has not been made clear.
Pay for medical staff is set centrally and restrained whilst boards give administrators generous awards.
Centralising power and imposing top-down reforms usually ends up backfiring on service users in the end.
The former Health Secretary fails to propose any way in which patients and their families can stop thinking of themselves as supplicants.
From vaccine take-up to underlying conditions, the pandemic showed how far we are from health equality.
Emergency measures to allow medical abortions to be self-administered at home have put women at risk.
We cannot be the tax cutters we were in the 1980s because we are now an older country than we were then.
The Health and Social Care Bill contains some important measures that you won’t see splashed broadly across the mainstream media.
Some surgeries are still refusing to see people in person. The Government is under huge pressure to change that.
When making the difficult decision to pursue an abortion, we must be sure that women are given a face-to-face consultation.
Spoiler alert. At the end of the movie, the space ship is saved, though only after an horrifically high number of those on board have died.
Our current legislation predates the state of the medical art on pregnancy, and makes it harder to secure early terminations.