healthcare
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It’s Airborne! Response to Minister for Public Health
Update 9 February 2025. The Minister for Public Health was sacked yesterday and also suspended from the Labour Party. This was not for his stance on the airborne transmission of Covid, but for a series of offensive WhatsApp messages written in 2019. It is a remarkable coincidence, or perhaps something slightly sinister, that on Friday Continue reading
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The Covid Inquiry: Reflections on the Healthcare Module
The final hearing of the longest module of the Covid Inquiry, module 3, took place on 28 November 2024. This part of the Inquiry covering healthcare in England, Scotland, Wales and Norther Ireland, heard from 96 witnesses in total, and considered nearly quarter of a million pages of evidence. It has been a rollercoaster ten Continue reading
GILLIAN SMITH About Me
I am a semi retired social researcher and have previously held a number of senior social research positions in Whitehall Departments. See an interview with me here. I live in a London suburb with my husband who has suffered multiple serious illnesses over the last few years. I myself am living with MND.
This series of blogs represent a personal, evidence based perspective based on living in the UK at a time when we are all meant to be ‘living with COVID’. Although I am a social scientist by training, I have worked closely with people from different disciplines throughout my career in order to present a complete picture of the evidence on specific policy issues. I am therefore scientifically literate but where I quote evidence based on research beyond my particular expertise it is always validated with relevant experts. I am a member of the Clinically Vulnerable Families group, though please note that the information presented here and any views expressed are my own. We are a friendly, supportive group and can be found via Facebook in private mode or in public mode via X (formerly twitter) Or BlueSky.Social
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Living on Plague Island 