Asymptomatic Covid-19 screening in Liverpool
We are writing to you in response to the apparently hurried decision to begin population-wide testing in Liverpool, as part of the £100 + billion ‘Operation Moonshot’, in order to “find positive...
View ArticleOur NHS in Crisis
Issue: 111 – 10 November 2020 Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine This could be the only good Covid-19 news we have had in a very long time. Regulators have still not approved the vaccine though, but allegedly...
View ArticleTHE CONTINUED DENIAL OF COUNCIL AND POLITICAL LEADERS
Joint authors: Colin Slasberg Consultant in Social Care Peter Beresford visiting Professor University of East Anglia In September, while the Health and Care Select Committee Inquiry into funding for...
View ArticleNHS England pushes for “integration” … but not as we know it
John Lister (editor Health Campaigns Together, co-editor The Lowdown) This is an opinion piece – it is not SHA policy Despite all the other issues that might be expected to be priorities, it seems NHS...
View ArticleThe Marketisation and Privatisation of the NHS
by Esther Giles, Former Director of Finance (Specialised Services) South Region of England, SHA member” This article tracks the extent and nature of marketisation and privatisation in the NHS up to the...
View ArticleNHSE/I consultation
NHSE/I consultation on “Integrating care: Next steps to building strong and effective integrated care systems across England” Response to the consultation by Professor Allyson Pollock and Peter...
View ArticleRealistic hope for a Social Care system driven by Human Rights from Scotland
Joint Authors: Colin Slasberg Consultant in Social Care Peter Beresford visiting Professor University of East Anglia Last September, spurred into action by what the pandemic told her about the state of...
View ArticleWhy it matters if General Practice is run as a big business?
Something major happened in the NHS in February. No, not the new White Paper on rearranging the furniture; something else. This was the announcement, or lack of announcement, that a large number of GP...
View ArticleTHE FEELEY REVIEW OF SOCIAL CARE IN SCOTLAND
NINE TESTS OF THE AUTHENTICITY OF HOLYROOD’S COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS Joint authors: Colin Slasberg and Peter Beresford We have previously set out why we believe the Feeley review of Adult Social...
View ArticleDoctors in Unite call for a National Occupational Health Service.
Up to a third of UK social class differences in health was probably caused by work 50 years ago. Since then, many hazardous jobs have been exported but new types of unhealthy work have emerged. Work...
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