Compassion isn’t the property of Labour or the Conservatives, but when both parties embrace it does it mean anything at all?
You hear a lot of bad things about the NHS, much of which from the Tories, the gutter press and those with a vested interest in the privatisation of health. I was braced for the worse, but what I got actually made me feel proud. We need to hold onto this.
Jeremy Hunt's claim that cruelty by NHS staff has become 'normal' is a politically motivated insult to the nurses trying to look after patients and hampered by destructive government 'reforms'.
Proposals to crimalise NHS staff for 'wilful neglect' will be ineffective at best, and may actually make our health service less safe.
Legally binding ratios of nurses to patients are essential to improving patient care, according to a wealth of evidence and the recommendations of those investigating failures at mid-Staffordshire. So why is Jeremy Hunt dragging his heels?
A doctor who listens, who cares, who knows what to do. That's what patients want and need.
Channel 4's 'exclusive' that the NHS is 'failing' compared to the US system doesn't stand up to scrutiny or even common sense.
Is compassion being crowded out of the NHS by the language and values of consumer capitalism?
Roger Taylor's book has a welcome emphasis on quality and culture but lacks political context - and reads too much into data.
Dorothy Johnson-Speight is the Executive Director of Mother's in Charge, a Philadelphia-based charity made up of Mothers, Grandmothers, Aunts & Sisters who have all lost a loved one to violence. The organization was founded in 2003 after the murder of Dorothy's son, Kalik. He was shot seven times
