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  • Burnout in Healthcare Workers: A Crisis in Need of Policy Action

    Burnout among healthcare workers has reached alarming levels across the globe, with devastating consequences for individuals, health systems, and patient care. As the world continues to grapple with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the strain on healthcare professionals has only intensified, exposing systemic flaws and raising urgent questions about the sustainability of our healthcare…

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  • Beyond Hospital Walls: The UK’s Shift to Community-Based Healthcare

    For decades, the National Health Service (NHS) has been synonymous with hospital-based care, with acute settings serving as the central hub for diagnosis, treatment, and specialist intervention. But as the system strains under the weight of staff shortages, bed crises, and an ageing population, a quiet yet profound transformation is underway: the move towards local,…

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  • Is The Four-Day Week a Prescription for Better Health?

    A shorter workweek has long hovered in the realm of utopian workplace reform, a policy dream tethered more to speculative think pieces than to real political will. But in recent years, the four-day week has gained remarkable momentum, not just as a productivity initiative but increasingly as a public health intervention. Across the UK and…

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  • The Rise of AI in Healthcare: Revolution or Ethical Nightmare?

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the healthcare landscape, promising unprecedented advances in diagnostics, treatment, and patient care. From AI-powered imaging that detects cancers with greater accuracy than human radiologists to predictive analytics that anticipate disease outbreaks, the technology holds the potential to revolutionise medicine. However, the rapid adoption of AI in healthcare raises serious…

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  • Health Systems on the Brink: Navigating Universal Health Coverage Amid Economic Turbulence

    The vision of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) — where all individuals and communities receive essential health services without financial hardship — has been a central pillar of global health policy for the past decade. However, as economies around the world experience slowdowns and debt crises escalate, the dream of UHC faces an existential threat. Nowhere…

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  • The Lingering Toll of Austerity on UK Health Outcomes

    Fifteen years on from the dawn of austerity in the UK, the consequences of prolonged and aggressive cuts to public spending are written, not just in balance sheets, but in the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands. Framed in the wake of the 2008 financial crash as a necessary belt-tightening exercise, austerity was sold…

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  • Weight-Loss Drugs in an Unhealthy System. Are GLP-1s a Dream Solution in Public Health?

    The new politics of obesity is being written in milligrams. Within a few short years, drugs like semaglutide and tirzepatide, better known by their brand names Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro, have gone from niche diabetes treatments to cultural phenomena, reshaping everything from celebrity bodies to stock markets. They are now beginning to reshape health policy…

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  • Can the NHS Go Green? The Carbon Cost of Healthcare and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

    The climate crisis is no longer an abstract or distant problem, it is a health emergency that affects every facet of human life. From deadly heatwaves to the spread of infectious diseases and the displacement of populations, the health consequences of a rapidly warming planet are profound. Yet, the very institutions designed to protect public…

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  • Tightening the Belt on Work and Wellbeing

    On a rainy, grey Tuesday in Leeds, Maya is hunched over a spreadsheet, surrounded by the sounds of milk steamers and mid-morning chatter. A café owner, she is doing the new maths of employing people in Britain: adding up hours, subtracting sickness, and now, since April, multiplying by a bigger number. The employer National Insurance…

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  • Does Social Division Make Us Sick? How Political Polarisation Became a Public Health Risk

    Political polarisation has quietly joined the list of things that determine whether we live long, healthy lives. For decades, public health focused on the familiar culprits: tobacco, polluted air, overcrowded housing, hollowed-out welfare systems and diets built on ultra-processed food. Yet in country after country, the way we line up against one another politically is…

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