The Birmingham Brief - intelligent thought on policy issues.
- Description
- A primary challenge for publicly funded health care is the distribution of resources and the setting of priorities. As the impacts of the recent economic slump are increasingly felt throughout government departments, the rationing of health care within the National Health Service is likely to become a matter of controversy and conflict. The basis by which we ration health care will come under increasing scrutiny.
- Date:
- Wednesday 17th November 2010
- Categories:
- Research
- Description
- The general election held on 6 May finally led to a new government for the UK. Eventually, because of course the election itself did not produce an outright winner and only when the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats were able to agree on the construction of a coalition could a new government be formed. The delays flowing from this have made it more difficult to predict at an early stage how the new government will act, in particular because third sector policy was not a high profile policy issue to be included in the initial coalition talks.
- Date:
- Wednesday 17th November 2010
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Volunteering at a Day Centre for people with head injuries, as part of my research, provides a different perspective on life. You get to hear comments such as "The general public don't understand what head injury is... they look at you and think you're perfectly normal".
- Date:
- Wednesday 17th November 2010
- Categories:
- Life and Environmental Sciences, Research
- Description
- Climate change is now widely accepted as one of the greatest challenges we all face. In our own region, Birmingham City Council has made a bold commitment to tackle this challenge with a target to reduce CO2 emissions by 60% by 2026. However, mitigating any change provides just part of the solution in combating the problem.
- Date:
- Wednesday 17th November 2010
- Categories:
- Life and Environmental Sciences, Research