A `New Deal’ for GPs – 7 day working
June 30, 2015
by Professor Ian Shaw In my blog back in May I predicted that 7 day working for GPs would not happen and outlined the reasons why. The Government have since come up with its `New Deal’ for GPs who agree to 7 day working in which they offer some incentive payments for GPs who agree to …
Silencing Emotional Responses and Neglecting Social Justice: Ethical Dilemmas for Young Female Researchers
June 2, 2015
By Jodie Pennacchia and Rupal Patel I am sitting in an assembly. A female external speaker has come in to discuss post-16 options. In order to ‘sell’ certain options she highlights the money students will get, for example for doing an apprenticeship. She addresses the girls in particular; “imagine how many Primark outfits you …
Thoughts on the NHS Five Year Forward View
Professor Ian Shaw Back in March I blogged about how the Five Year Forward View (FYFW) introduced by NHS Chief Exec Simon Stevens was effectively `Reforming the 2012 NHS Reforms’ . This blueprint for the future of the NHS, to be delivered within one parliament, was signed up to by the Conservative Party and …
GPs and 7 day working
May 21, 2015
by Ian Shaw Cameron’s announcement of 7 day working 8am-8pm for the GPs by 2020 so soon after the Election may have been his way of reassuring the public that the NHS was safe in his hands, but it’s not really going to happen this parliament and there are a number of reasons for that: …
The most vulnerable are making the largest contribution to the public expenditure cuts
February 23, 2015
By Bruce Stafford Shortly after the Coalition Government was formed it introduced an Emergence Budget, and since then it has held 5 Budgets and 5 Autumn Statements. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has used these to announce a series of cuts to public expenditure. These announcements have affected a number of public services, notably social …
What is the impact of austerity on individual attitudes and ‘lived experience’?
February 16, 2015
By Ruth Read On 16 January 2015 the Social Policy Association ran a workshop at the University of Leeds entitled “Austerity, Welfare and Citizenship”. The workshop highlighted some complex, troublesome and neglected aspects of the austerity story. Ruth Patrick described findings from her qualitative research tracking 15 claimants from three groups (young, lone parents, disabled …
Welcome to the ‘Policy @ Nottingham’ blog!
Today is our first outing onto the web as a group. We are a collection of social scientists in various guises: lecturers, professors, PhD students, research fellows of all ages and from across the globe. We are based in the International Centre for Public and Social Policy (IcPSP) in the School of Sociology and Social …
