Ironically, just as Ed Miliband gave his Hugo Young 2014 lecture on “an unresponsive State”, many people in the SW England saw their sandbags being delivered to a different location. The floods have revealed what many of us have suspected all along. The response to the floods has revealed a painful fault line in our narrative of ‘The State’. There’s no COBRA meeting when fourteen Trusts run into difficulties with patient safety, because of the common thread that they don’t have a safe minimum level of safe staffing. The acute general medical take for many health professionals is a ‘firefighting [...]
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