Future of the House of Lords
THE CASE FOR A SECOND CHAMBER WHICH WOULD ADD SOMETHING TO PARLIAMENT AND PROMOTE EMPOWERMENT …
Public Health policy review
We’ve been discussing health policies for 85 years now. When we start thinking about …
Safer, Healthier Communities
First draft of a section of Labour’s Manifesto for London. The challenge Londoners deserve to live …
Commission on Health Inequalities
Persistent health inequalities in Scotland is a scandal and our foremost national shame. We are …
We cannot let them turn Bevan’s dream into a nightmare
Jeremy Hunt told the 2015 Conservative Party Conference that, from next May, he will publish …
Patients Know Best
I went to an LCC event on resilience. The Council are encouraging people to create …
Primary care could open door to insurance-based NHS
No doubt your Clinical Commissioning Group has been as preoccupied as mine with creating a …
Who is looking forward to their first day in residential care?
In particular I want to talk about Residential Care Homes and Domiciliary Care (care in …
The need for a ‘sugar tax’
Public Health England’s report ‘Sugar Reduction: the Evidence for Action‘ has, rather unexpectedly been released. …
Social inequalities in the leading causes of early death
This evidence review analyses data from the World Health Organisation’s Detailed Mortality Database, and summarises …
Prevention is better than cure
Today – Friday, 23rd October 2015 – a coalition of medical Royal Colleges, local government …
Campaigning for the NHS?
For many years there have been local campaigns against closures and reconfigurations, some of which …