In a Better Off Out report this week, Lee Rotherham explains how, in a world of increasingly globalised markets, the source of much of our legislation is no longer national governments or the EU. It is international organisations that bring together officials and representatives from around the world to suggest improvements and design regulations, standards… [Read More]
Antibiotic resistance poses an immediate threat. In the near future developed health systems around the world could well be devastated by such resistance, causing a regression in infection control towards standards similar to those of the late 1800s; before the benefits of penicillin and other antibiotics became taken for granted. The process by which drugs… [Read More]
Following the first of the planned British Medical Association led junior doctors’ strikes, and as talks are resumed with the conciliation service Acas, it seems that junior doctors can claim a victory of sorts. Public opinion will be a key force in determining the government’s response to the strike, and at present, it seems to… [Read More]
Unlike for other professions, where there are far more employment opportunities in London than elsewhere, nurses are almost always in demand regardless of geographical location as people get ill every day across the country. So why choose to work in London if vacancies exist nationwide and living costs in the capital remain astronomical? According to… [Read More]