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Concerns over patient safety in NHS ambulance services are growing
Keegan Shepard, Edge Hill University Even with all the wonders that modern medicine has to offer, it is clear that patients remain at significant risk while receiving care. And no more so than when in the care of the ambulance service. Patient safety has been a principle in healthcare ever since the 1950s but has…
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What about the issues that don’t figure in the election campaign, but matter ?
The ways in which the formal election campaign and its associated conversations miss out the issues that touch most people, are ones I will come back to over the coming weeks. It’s important to start though by recognising that the shared conversations between the politicians and the media rule out a whole series of voices…
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Why changing how public services are run and financed is off the agenda
How public services are funded and how they are run have been two central questions to dominate news and political conversations. The scale of problems associated with the NHS, from the crisis in A&E to the scandals revealed in the Francis Report in Staffordshire, have all been about money and staffing. And yet, as the…
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Why policy matters and why we need to talk about it more
The General Election campaign, not formally announced but underway,is being dominated by the personalities (or lack of). So it matters that the Green Leader had a difficult interview or that senior MPs can offer to trade their services for £5,000 a day but that other (potentially more significant things) issues can be ignored or missed altogether.…
