Health – Wessex Regionalists

Get Back To Where You Once Belonged

In our previous posts on our response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we wrote about how devolution has allowed the Scottish and Welsh governments to respond flexibly in a way that the English regions, hamstrung by London dominance, cannot. The results of this have manifested themselves in a recent Somerset Live report about how the endContinueContinue reading “Get Back To Where You Once Belonged”

The NHS was founded on 5th July 1948. Let’s make it NHS Day every year.

The NHS was launched on 5th July 1948, bringing together a disparate mix of municipally run and charity hospitals – often poorly funded with inadequate services – private voluntary hospitals, and private GP practices, access to whose services largely depended on one’s wealth. The chief architect of the modern NHS was Aneurin Bevan, as MinisterContinueContinue reading “The NHS was founded on 5th July 1948. Let’s make it NHS Day every year.”

Isolation and Community (part 2)

In the first part of this blog post, we looked at how a Wessex regional government might have helped the response to the COVID19 pandemic so far. In this concluding part, we will examine options for the future. While much that is now in train must take its course, our eye is on the longContinueContinue reading “Isolation and Community (part 2)”

Isolation and Community (part 1)

A crisis such as the present COVID-19 pandemic demands a response from us. Readers of this blog will be curious to know what a Wessex regional parliament, with the Wessex Regionalists as the dominant party, would have done differently in this situation. Such a question is almost impossible to answer, as hindsight is always 20/20,ContinueContinue reading “Isolation and Community (part 1)”

Wanted: an NHS

“The power which causes the several portions of the plant to help each other, we call life… intensity of life is also intensity of helpfulness — completeness of depending of each part on all the rest. The ceasing of this help is what we call corruption.” John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Volume 5 (1860)Cornish academic BernardContinueContinue reading “Wanted: an NHS”