This week’s guest blog is from Brendan Burchell, a Reader in the Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge.As social scientists have found repeatedly, in different countries and different demographic groups, the loss of the wage only explains a small fraction of…
Responding to the latest COVID-19 mortality figures for England and Wales from the ONS, Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across the healthcare sector, said: “There is a downward trend in the NHS, in care homes and…
“Complex social, political, economic and ecological forces not only drive infectious disease emergence, but increase our susceptibility to epidemics when they occur,” says Freya Jephcott. Her interdisciplinary approach considers the science of disease outbreaks alongside the beliefs and practices of public…
● A ‘virtual VMIC’ will be created to rapidly expand the UK capacity to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine ● VMIC’s permanent facility, currently being built, will be fast tracked to come online in Summer 2021 – a year ahead of…
Comment from Ed Bradley, Director of Virtualstock, marketplace platform working with 139 trusts to supply them with PPE The UK’s watchdog for monitoring how the government spends public money said that the NHS has largely failed in its attempts to…
View this email in your browser Responding to the health unions’ blueprint for the safe opening up of the NHS, Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, which is part of the NHS Confederation, said: “The last two months have…
Conclusion We are at a critical point in the pandemic where we are still suffering from a comparatively high level of new cases being identified, with the social care sector suffering from epidemic spread risking the lives of thousands of very…
Doctors and nurses in the United Kingdom and worldwide are the heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study ranks the 36 countries in the OECD according to how much they pay their frontline healthcare workers. The UK ranks 13th highest in the OECD for salaries of healthcare…
A Cambridgeshire care community is calling for a change in perception of the social care sector, as it expresses concern about the narrative in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, which fails to do justice to the variety of care…
The coronavirus pandemic has brought great change across our society, including in health and social care. There are of course terrible consequences – loss of life, illness and bereaved families, as well as the closing down of normal social discourse.…