Salvador Macip has written an accessible survey of pandemics during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, charting warnings and lessons for future pandemic...
As the immediate threat to the health service from the pandemic recedes, attention is turning to long-term care. Anyone wanting to be heard in the debate on ho...
While we decipher early signals on what the new government will bring, Dominic Cummings’ blog has become a must-read. Not because of the deliciously toxic anec...
Public inquiries sometimes feel
like a version of Groundhog Day where it is repeatedly stated
that ‘lessons will be learned’. One of the key reasons ...
With numerous
delays to the publication of the social care green paper, everyone in the
health and social care industry has had ample time to truly consider wh...
With one in four adults now affected by mental illness, mental health problems are the largest single cause of disability in the UK. It is time for mental healt...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, is the most significant US social policy reform in half a century. It is also t...
Following the landslide vote in the Republic of Ireland on 25 May to repeal the eighth amendment in its constitution and effectively end its abortion ban, the f...
Dementia has been identified as the biggest health and social care challenge facing UK society, due to an ageing population. At the 2011 census, 16 per cent of ...
On the 4th July, the National Health Service will celebrate its 70th birthday and there will be much fanfare and celebration. The NHS has been described as one ...
Abortion law is being politicised in the broader debate about devolution in Scotland, with serious implications for women’s rights.
In recent years, several de...
At the end of May, the Irish people will vote in a referendum which will ask whether they want to remove the 8th Amendment from the constitution. But the questi...
