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Image description: a dark hospital room. Morality has played a key role in the coronavirus crisis. Doctors were forced to choose who to save, public health officials were forced to weigh freedom against safety, whole societies were put on halt. All in the name of morality. After all, it would be criminal to stand aside […]
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Image description: two men wearing masks, walking along a street Read Maddy’s column from last week: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/10/16/what-about-the-fish/ At the beginning of the first lockdown (do you remember that? How wonderfully naïve we all were), I was added to a Facebook group for Lockdown Sceptics. Their posts were a little wacky, often linking COVID-19 to 5G […]
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Image description: The John Radcliffe Maternity Hospital For many, the NHS is the jewel in the British crown. ‘Envy of the world’, ‘the national religion’, it is difficult to overstate its importance. For decades, the health service has been used as a particularly poignant political football. Recent years have perfectly exemplified this. Who could the […]
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Image Credit: ceridwen (CC BY-SA 2.0) Oxford University Hospitals NHS, which runs the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals in Oxford, has lost more than £2.5 million this year as a consequence of thousands of patients not turning up to their appointments. According to data released by NHS England, between January and June of this year, […]
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The BMA’s reasons for promising to take industrial action on 13th and 28th January, as well as 10th February, betray the crux of the conflict between itself and the Government. It’s really about pay and working conditions; patients are of secondary concern. In the BMA’s summary of its position as of 4th January, the ‘areas […]
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