For several weeks, it has been clear that the UK is entering a second wave of Covid-19 infections. Across all relevant measures – estimated and confirmed current infections; hospital admissions; positivity (or ‘percent positive’) rate […]
Serco gets everywhere. Since 2009 it has been involved in providing pathology services to two big London hospital trusts.Pathology services are mostly out of the sight of patients and the public but absolutely central to the […]
A total of 15,487 residential care and nursing homes are registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and have around 410 000 residents. Almost half of newly admitted residents come from hospitals. With the UK […]
Social care in this country is broken. 26% fewer people are supported in 2020 than in 2010, and local authority spending on social care has fallen by 49% in real terms despite soaring population and […]
Chaand Nagpaul, BMA council chair slammed the Government’s response to Covid in his speech to the BMA ARM 2020. https://youtu.be/8VmPBdSX9Nc
This article was written by Dr Minh Alexander, NHS whistleblower and former consultant psychiatrist.Whistleblowing is a vital, everyday activity that is part of good governance in all sectors. It is invaluable in safety critical areas […]
Book review: Richard Horton – ‘The COVID-19 Catastrophe’. Polity Press; Cambridge, 2020 Richard Horton is Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, first published in 1823. In the preface to issue one, the founding […]
As government incompetence becomes more obvious by the day, so does the importance of the NHS and its workers. In July, the government announced a 3.1% public sector pay rise. After months of hyper-focus on […]
This article was written by the two founder members of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK Jo Goodman and Matt Fowler. Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK was formed at the end of April by […]
This article was written by our co-chair John Puntis, who is a retired NHS paediatrician, and member of Leeds Keep Our NHS Public. Policy failure Richard Horton, editor of the prestigious medical journal ‘The Lancet’, […]
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