Dan Scorer of Mencap responds to a report on a survey in which NHS staff said they don’t have enough time for patients Courtesy The Guardian It’s deeply concerning to hear that frontline NHS staff are feeling “moral distress” from having too little time to spend with their patients worrying picture for people with a … Continue reading “Disabled people are receiving degrading treatment in an overstretched NHS”
Month: July 2023
Charities lament unfulfilled promise four years on from vow to ‘fix social care’
On July 24 2019, in his first speech as PM, Boris Johnson said the Conservatives would ‘fix the crisis in social care once and for all’. Courtesy the Guardian A pledge made in Downing Street four years ago today to fix the social care crisis has been left unfulfilled – with promises of support for … Continue reading “Charities lament unfulfilled promise four years on from vow to ‘fix social care’”
Failing Learning Disabled People: The Contradictions of 1945
By Stephen Unwin 24 July 2023 Two very different gatherings this month have got me thinking. The first was this year’s Byline Festival, which hosted a series of wide-ranging debates about the huge challenges facing the country today: above all, the future of the NHS, the reality of climate change, and Britain’s troubled relationship with … Continue reading “Failing Learning Disabled People: The Contradictions of 1945”