
The Nightingale Legacy
With the news just over a week ago that the London Nightingale Hospital was to be 'mothballed' as no…

Social care and COVID-19: crisis or opportunity?
If a week is a long time in politics in normal times, then at the moment two years can feel like a geological…

Coronavirus – responding like Jesus
It is hard to have missed the news that coronavirus is a big thing. Government guidance and press conferences…

Transgender: two pivotal points for the UK
Should it be possible for any person to change their legal sex based on their gender identity? And if…

Surrogacy: Isn’t there a better way?
A major consultation on surrogacy is proposing significant – and concerning - changes to the law and…

Surrogacy: asking the questions no-one wants to ask (or answer)
In June, the Law Commission published a consultation document on surrogacy, which is still open for…

Organ donation opt out plans in England – not nearly as clear cut as it might seem
All adults in England will be presumed to be organ donors unless they have explicitly opted out, the…

Happy Birthday NHS: Let’s not let a national good become a national god
Today (5 July 2018) marks seventy years since the world's first, free-at-the-point of delivery, universal…

Stifling Dissent
Behind the statue of George Orwell, author of Animal Farm, outside Broadcasting House in London, are…

NHS crisis – the role of the extended family
Discontent with the current state of the NHS, and in particular with its funding, has rumbled on with…