To avoid unnecessary future deaths we must ensure that coroners’ warnings about the NHS are heeded
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A new report suggests that by 2020 5 million children in the UK will be living in poverty. Paediatrician Guddi Singh explains the devastating impact this will have on these children’s health and calls on the Government to act.
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Closing A&E departments has led to a deterioration in the performance of those that remain in North West London. This analysis warns of the risk to patients if further A&Es are closed.
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We must act on evidence that shows childhood trauma risks the development of disease in later life.
Read MoreThe government’s Green Paper on work, health and disability proposes a plan for helping disabled people into employment, an ambition that initially appeared in the Conservative Party manifesto in 2015.
Read More‘Nanny state’ accusations can function as powerful rhetorical weapons against interventions that are intended to benefit people. This blog, based on our recent academic paper, offers suggestions both to help public health advocates develop effective defences against nanny-state accusations and to ensure that public health interventions are well justified.
Read MoreIn this analysis, we set sensationalist headlines about the use of personal budgets aside and concentrate on the tension between two distinct aspects of personalisation – its claims to promote social justice and its commitment to marketisation.
Read MoreNick Taylor surveys the impact of outsourcing welfare programmes, and Marianna Fotaki considers the lessons for the NHS
Read MoreKat Smith looks at whether health inequalities really are still a policy concern.
Read MoreDr Malhotra looks at the role of sugar in the obesity epidemic and calls for urgent action to reduce its consumption based on the success of the salt reduction campaign.
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