Cost of Living Blog

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The BSA-funded blog about the politics, economics & sociology of health, medicine, and healthcare
The title of the blog ‘the cost of living’ is intended to reflect the changing social and political (as well as economic) costs that are associated with health, health care provision and welfare in the 21st century
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Cost of Living BlogMar 8, 2023
New Cost of Living blog - "The Last of Us - Review" - Simon Carter reviews the television series #TheLastOfUs about a pandemic of the Cordyceps fungus https://www.cost-ofliving.net/the-last-of-us-review/
Cost of Living BlogFeb 8, 2023
New blog out now - "Understanding Health Inequalities in Scotland – Getting Beyond Death & Despair in (Quantified) Data" - Ellen Stewart
& Kat Smith make a case for using qualitative & participatory data to explore health inequalities #inequalities #Scotland https://www.cost-ofliving.net/understanding-health-inequalities-in-scotland-getting-beyond-death-and-despair-in-quantified-data/
Understanding Health Inequalities in Scotland

Understanding Health Inequalities in Scotland - Getting Beyond Death and Despair in (Quantified) Data

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Cost of Living BlogJan 25, 2023
New Blog out today - "Lucky Strike" - Jen Remnant looks back at the 1888 Bryant of May strike by match girls and asks what it can tell us about our current series of union strikes
Cost of Living BlogJan 12, 2023
New Blog - "Break a leg! Observations on continuity of care" - Hannah Bradby considers how good quality continuous care could improve outcomes for patients #ContinuityofCare https://www.cost-ofliving.net/break-a-leg-observations-on-continuity-of-care/
Break a leg! Observations on continuity of care - Cost Of Living

Break a leg! Observations on continuity of care

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Cost of Living BlogJan 5, 2023

Iqbal Rahman died aged 58 on Christmas Eve after falling seriously ill. His daughter Minnie said Iqbal said that nobody was coming to help him in his final hours as the NHS battles a severe crisis.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lovely-dad-58-died-after-28877357

https://twitter.com/minnierahman

‘Lovely’ dad, 58, died after family phoned three times for ambulance on Xmas Eve

Iqbal Rahman died aged 58 on Christmas Eve after falling seriously ill. His daughter Minnie said Iqbal said that nobody was coming to help him in his final hours as the NHS battles a severe crisis

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Cost of Living BlogJan 5, 2023
Best for BritainJan 5, 2023

Rishi Sunak mentioned 'change' 24 times in his 25-minute 'people's priorities' speech yesterday. Almost one a minute.

But he can't change the fact that THIS is his party's record on the NHS in England since 2010.

Cost of Living BlogDec 26, 2022
Ross BrightDec 23, 2022
Staggering charts in the FT by John Burn-Murdoch show that after 12 years of Tory rule we are poorer, sicker and will die sooner than our peers. Utterly disgraceful.
Cost of Living BlogDec 23, 2022
Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity - https://on.ft.com/3jtoG6A via @FT
Cost of Living BlogDec 23, 2022
Paul MusgraveDec 23, 2022
Sociologically inclined folks: what's the best sociology review / paper about the concept of "affordances" as you folks seem to be using the term? (I know of it from the actual design literature.)
Cost of Living BlogDec 21, 2022
Shaun LinternDec 20, 2022

It is pretty clear the #NHS urgent and emergency care system is falling over tonight. Just hours before #AmbulanceStrikes are set to start.

This will be deadly for some. A reminder of what is happening without strikes: