Senior fellow @IPPR thinking about democracy, politics and public services. Doctor swimming upstream
Mar 31, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Some thoughts on the #SewellReport reflecting broadly but using health an example
Throughout the report, the role of racism is 'explained away'. For example, Covid-19 disparities are merely about where you live with, what job you do and how poor you are
Ignoring the elephant in the room that shapes each of those factors: racism
That's despite study after study demonstrating how structural and institutional racism determines where you live, what job you do and how poor you are
Mar 31, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Building back better in the NHS relies, first and foremost, on a bigger and better looked after workforce
But a new @IPPR survey finds 1 in 4 NHS staff are "more likely" to quit their jobs because of the pandemic theguardian.com/society/2021/m…
Most of those 330,000 NHS workers will not actually quit. But that so many are thinking about leaving is bad news for productivity, and bad news for patients
It determines how quickly waiting lists come down, if access to mental health services improves, etc
Ignoring the elephant in the room that shapes each of those factors: racism
