Allyson Pollock

Sep 5, 2023 | bmj.com | Petra Brhlikova |Nav Persaud |Allyson Pollock

Petra Brhlikova, honorary researcher, Nav Persaud, assistant professor2, Claudia Garcia Serpa Osorio-de-Castro, professor3, Allyson M Pollock, clinical professor of public health1 1Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3Departamento de Política de Medicamentos e Assistência Farmacêutica, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo...

Mar 17, 2023 | nytimes.com | Allyson Pollock |Peter Roderick

On Dec. 15, nurses walked out and began the largest nurses’ strike in the history of Britain’s National Health Service. They were protesting working conditions that have left them burned out and stretched thin — and compromised patient safety — and wages that fell in the last decade in real terms. Ambulance workers joined them. This week, thousands of junior doctors went on strike for three consecutive days. “I come to work and can see that there’s a patient waiting eight hours to see a doctor.

Mar 17, 2023 | hotair.com | Allyson Pollock

“I come to work and can see that there’s a patient waiting eight hours to see a doctor. There are some days where I finish my shift, come back the next day and then I see the same patient still sat waiting in A&E” — the emergency room — “the next day,” Dr. Kiara Vincent, one of the doctors striking, told the BBC on Monday. But you don’t have to work in a hospital to know that Britain’s N.H.S. is in the most serious crisis of its history; you just have to be injured, or ill.