I think things could be run better
"One of the things that worries me about health and social care is how it's owned. It seems to me there are fewer care homes that are owned by the old sort of owner occupier, who would look after them. A lot of them are pretty big companies that own...read more
"The idea that you can have access to private healthcare as a kind of a way out of that is just pretty wrong."
"If you look at the positive side of coronavirus, it's highlighted how much stuff you can do within the community, that is based on health and social care, but actually doesn't need to be done by the NHS. It can be done by people helping each other. And that's the...read more
"Since the 1990s, the number of people going into training has been cut, nurses numbers have been cut, medical students numbers have been cut. And we have shortages right across the board. In every specialty from anaesthetists to everything. There's a shortage of people with the skills we need right...read more
"If at the base provision of a service you pay the lowest available rates, you're willing to underpay people, you start off on the wrong footing from the get-go. The whole pyramid of care and health is based upon the premise that people like ourselves are altruistic in nature and...read more