Recruitment crisis at the NHS frontline? Why we should be concerned for deprived areas.

Breannon Babbel, Health, Inequalities, Urban Studies, Glasgow University

By Breannon Babbel Findings from a recent British Medical Association (BMA) poll [1] have alarm bells ringing for general practice as a whole in the UK, and particularly for general practice in deprived areas. While the poll of 15,560 GPs doesn’t warn of a mass exodus out of general practice, it does indicate that over…

Podcast: Professor Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, on the financial crisis in Europe

Austerity, Commentary, Democracy, EU and Brexit, Governance, Human rights, Professor Sylvia Walby

Professor Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, University of Lancaster This podcast was recorded at the 2015 David Frisby Memorial Lecture held at the University of Glasgow. In this lecture, hosted by the Department of Sociology, Professor Walby, UNESCO Chair of Gender Research, University of Lancaster, discusses the financial crisis in Europe and its democratic,…

Thursday Video: Breannon Babbel – The role of GPs in Health Inequality

Breannon Babbel, Glasgow, Health, Inequalities, Urban Studies, Glasgow University, Wellbeing1 Comment

This week’s Policy Scotland Friday Video features Breannon Babbel, Urban Studies researcher at the University of Glasgow. Breannon talks to us about her research and fieldwork with General Practitioners in deprived areas of Glasgow, and how their experiences can help shape policies that address health inequality across Scotland and the UK.