Opinion
Inside: Bristol's Private Mental Health Services
Opinion: ‘The NHS sends too many mental health patients to hospital for expensive, ineffective care’
People are being sent away to private mental health providers for specialist treatment, but this often means poorer outcomes at higher costs, says occupational therapist Keir Harding.
'Coronavirus means it’s never been more important to deal with the scandal of killer cold homes in Bristol'
Spring is bringing warmer temperatures now, but the COVID-19 pandemic has added an extra reason to act on living conditions that cause thousands of preventable deaths each winter, says Sarah Becker
‘We need better data and more testing to avoid coronavirus deaths in our care homes’
New data reveals that nearly one in three of Bristol’s coronavirus deaths have taken place in care homes. Nick Lawrence, a Cable member who used to work in public health, is baffled by the lack of up-to-date data and the government’s testing strategy.
'The contagion of misinformation and a Bristol Facebook page linking 5G and coronavirus'
There’s another contagion doing the rounds, it’s not coronavirus, but disinformation. And one Bristol Facebook page with thousands of likes is spreading claims that 5G is connected to the pandemic, says Alon Aviram.
"Privatising non-emergency ambulance services is bad for patients"
Across the south west, patient transport services have been transferred to private firms. But, a former NHS employee argues, the process has raised serious questions about their ability to do the job – and about wider fragmentation of our health system.
