This is a summary of the findings of a rapid evidence review and economic analysis commissioned by The International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) to advise policymakers on how to improve NHS staff wellbeing.
What is clear in looking to the months and years ahead budgets will be exceptionally tight and many will fall in real terms.
The BMA has launched a review into the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic – from the impact on the medical profession to the NHS and social care systems and public health. This is the first of five BMA reports, each with a particular focus on the pandemic response. The report finds that the wider health and public health systems entered the pandemic under-resourced. Before the pandemic, health systems across the UK were operating in an environment of scarcity; general health spending was below that of comparable countries and there were chronic...
Matteo Besana is the COVID-19 Advocacy Project Lead for Doctors of the World UK Matteo Besana Earlier in the year, the government published the draft Terms of Reference for the forthcoming public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic which will examine the UK Government’s response to the pandemic with the hope of learning the lessons from the pandemic and informing the government’s preparations for the future. Here at Doctors of the World we believe that key to this exercise, and to the work of the Inquiry, is to consider the experiences and the...
