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The funding crisis in end-of-care life
HOSPICE UK, which represents more than 200 hospices, raised the alarm in April last year about a £77-million deficit that the sector was facing.Since then, the situation has got only worse, says the charity’s policy and…
spaces where girls can be themselves
THERE is nothing like a significant milestone for prompting an organisation to reflect on where it has been and where it wants to go. For charities with a Christian foundation, there is always the question of keeping faith…
Sarah Mullally on the Government’s ten-year plan for the NHS
THE architect of the NHS, Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, famously said: “No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.” From this philosophy emerged a ground-breaking…
Helping hands in healing the sick
“JESUS asked us to do only two things: to make new disciples, and to heal the sick”, the chief executive of the Guild of Health and St Raphael (GoHealth), the Revd Dr Gillian Straine, says.The ecumenical charity has been…
How churches can become involved in social prescribing
THE recent report Creating a Neighbourhood Health Service: The role of churches and faith groups in social prescribing is a first-of-its-kind report by Theos and the Good Faith Partnership. It sets out how faith groups can…
The funding crisis in end-of-care life
HOSPICE UK, which represents more than 200 hospices, raised the alarm in April last year about a £77-million deficit that the sector was facing.Since then, the situation has got only worse, says the charity’s policy and…
Evil and the criminal justice system — an interview with Dr Gwen Adshead
THE word “evil” appears almost 600 times in the Bible (AV), where the human capacity for it is repeatedly set out. “The evil I will not to do, that I practise,” St Paul laments in Romans.Dr Gwen Adshead, a forensic…
lock it in the safe . . . or lose it
CHURCH crime is nothing new. Years before Morrissey sang of “lifting some lead off the roof of the Holy Name Church” (“Vicar in a Tutu”, 1986), the Bishop of Digne in Victor Hugo’s 1862 Les Misérables was letting the escaped…
Breast cancer awareness in Sierra Leone
WHEN John Clarkson was Governor of Sierra Leone in the late 18th century, he named a waterfront settlement in the centre of the country’s capital after his fiancée, Susan Lee. It was a lovely gesture then, but nothing about…
‘What I’ve witnessed in Gaza is unspeakably wrong, unspeakably evil’ — an interview with British surgeon Nick Maynard
NICK MAYNARD’s first journey to Gaza was, by his own account, “pure serendipity”. In 2010, he was invited to go out to train medical students, and he has returned there almost every year since. His connection has grown into a…
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