A Swedish healthcare reform more than a decade ago allowing patients to choose their own doctor has unexpectedly led to widespread discrimination against medics with foreign-sounding names. “When I was working in psychiatry, a patient cancelled his appointment with me three times because he didn’t want to be treated by a ‘foreign doctor’,” 30-year-old practitioner […]
For more than a decade, drug-related deaths (DRD) in Scotland have been rising – alongside evidence which suggests that the country has had much less success in treating and supporting people who use drugs compared to the rest of the UK and Europe. The figures for 2019, which were released in December 2020, recorded 1,264 […]
Given the climate crisis, you’d think that the government would be moving heaven and earth to make the greenest option the easiest and cheapest one too. Not so – at least when it comes to menstruation. Tax may have been dropped for tampons and pads (from 2021) but sustainable period products like period pants still […]
