Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th February, 2021) Jama is a driver who, before the pandemic, ferried people but he now delivers parcels. He is a Somali […]
Health / Policy / Social care
My prescription for a healthier NHS
Published by The i paper (8th February, 2021) Matt Hancock overseen a string of fatal failures and one big success since the arrival of Covid-19. Now this ambitious […]
Health / Policy / Social care
Care does not need private equity
Published by The i paper (4th January, 2021) We can, thankfully, talk about 2020 in the past tense. It was a year of death and despair, of tragedy […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
Fix the care system and end these inhumane detentions
Published by The i paper (30th November, 2020) Susie* is 16 years old. She has autism and special needs. And like so many others with similar conditions, both […]
Health / Policy
Incompetence, conspiracy – and how our culture of NHS worship is costing lives
Published by The Daily Mail (25th August, 2020) Today Harry Richford should be a bundle of energy, full of curiosity and mischief like any other toddler approaching his […]
Disability / Health / Policy
‘They are making people worse’
Published by The i paper (13th July, 2020) It is almost two years since I spoke to the distraught father of Beth. She was a 17-year-old who loved […]
Health / Policy
If we only ever sanctify the NHS, its harrowing failures will never be cured
Published by The Daily Mail (9th July, 2020) Daniel Mason was born half a century ago without hands, with missing toes, a malformed mouth and impaired vision. From […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy
A very deadly inequality
Published by The i paper (6th July, 2020) The investment guru Warren Buffet famously said that only when the tide goes out do you see who has been […]