
Vaccinating our kids against Covid
COVID-19 has affected us all in different ways over the past two years. For most of us, our lives have…

Vaccine Mandates: A defining justice issue for our professions?
“I’ve worked for two years throughout this pandemic…with inadequate PPE…overtime…seeing many…

Vaccine passports – a 21st-century ‘apartheid’?
Vaccine passports are proof of COVID-19 vaccination status as a condition of participation in certain…

‘Don’t bother the midwife’: abortion as a parable for assisted suicide
The current series of Call the Midwife is set in 1966. We dispensed with World Cup fever in about half…

Assisted suicide debates are back yet again across the British Isles: it’s time for health professionals’ voices to be heard
Despite the backdrop of COVID-19 and the emphasis on caring for the most vulnerable in society, an old…

‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban: a review of the issues
You may be aware of current controversies around the issue of so-called 'conversion therapy'. But you…

It’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle: a Christian challenge to the NHS ‘COVID pay rise’
I was rather challenged by Georgie Coster’s heartfelt blog in August on the lack of a pay rise for…

Priceless but penniless: The ‘heroes’ denied a pay rise
On 21 July, the Treasury announced a pay rise for almost 900,000 public sector workers. Months into…

COVID-19 is exposing UK health inequalities
Recent figures from theDepartment of Health and Social Care (DHSC) show the UK death toll from COVID-19…

From the mouths of children…
In the old fairy tale of The Emperor's New Clothes, a tailor tells a king that he has invented a wonderful…