When paediatrician Guddi Singh started a hip hop dance class in the children's ward at Barnet hospital, it wasn't just the patients who benefited.
Things are not going well in the NHS right now. It is under sustained attack day after day; the media bad-mouths it, while the people who work for it are being asked to do more and more with fewer and fewer resources.
In my 15 years of study and training, I have watched cuts immiserate the services we can offer children and their parents all over the country. Fewer funded paediatric nurse training spots; local closures leading to clogged emergency departments; and £80bn slashed from mental health services resulting in ever more troubled young people occupying acute hospital beds, because there’s simply nowhere else for them to go.
Working in a health service under pressure – one that is low in finances, low in staff and low in morale – is hard. And things are only going to get worse... Keep reading on The Guardian
Things are not going well in the NHS right now. It is under sustained attack day after day; the media bad-mouths it, while the people who work for it are being asked to do more and more with fewer and fewer resources.
In my 15 years of study and training, I have watched cuts immiserate the services we can offer children and their parents all over the country. Fewer funded paediatric nurse training spots; local closures leading to clogged emergency departments; and £80bn slashed from mental health services resulting in ever more troubled young people occupying acute hospital beds, because there’s simply nowhere else for them to go.
Working in a health service under pressure – one that is low in finances, low in staff and low in morale – is hard. And things are only going to get worse... Keep reading on The Guardian