The Birmingham Brief - intelligent thought on policy issues.
- Description
- From the Empire State Building to the pyramids, members of the global autism community shone a lens on autism this week by lighting many iconic landmarks in blue. This was in celebration of World Autism Day, which is a global initiative instigated by the United Nations to help raise awareness. It marks the start of autism awareness month.
- Date:
- Friday 5th April 2013
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Many years ago a British politician, on learning that he was about to be appointed Minister for Transport, exclaimed: 'Some enemy hath done this!' It is not hard to see why he might have said this. The transport portfolio is often brimming over with some extremely difficult issues; and the HS2 (High Speed Rail 2) proposal is certainly no exception.
- Date:
- Thursday 31st January 2013
- Categories:
- Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Since the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, health services in the UK have been funded primarily through general taxation and delivered free at the point of access to individuals. However, recent decades have witnessed an expansion in the global market for health services. This has been manifest in various ways, including an unprecedented increase in the volume of patients willing to traverse national borders for the purposes of receiving medical care.
- Date:
- Friday 10th February 2012
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences