By John Tingle and Jen Minford All too often it seems that patient safety and health quality policy makers work in their own silos unaware of what is taking place in other countries, wasting valuable resources by trying to re-invent the wheel. There is a clear need to have a way of cascading the news…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Lots of news from the past week in housing equity and law. Check out the latest in the field from the week of April 10-17, 2017: In his first television interview as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson talked about the rich’s obligation to…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research The HUD budget was the big story the last week of March in housing law and equity. Here’s the week in review for March 27-April 2: The largest story in housing is still the looming HUD budget cuts. The New York Times ran a story of…
By John Tingle In the introduction to a new report on the state of acute hospitals in the NHS in England, the Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) controversially states: “The NHS stands on a burning platform — the model of acute care that worked well when…
By Brad Segal Manuel—not his real name—was admitted to the hospital with decompensated heart failure. As a child he had scarlet fever which, left untreated, had caused the valves of his heart to calcify and stiffen. Over time, pumping against increased resistance, his heart’s contractions began to weaken until finally, they lost all synchrony and…
By John Tingle PACAC, the House of Commons, (Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee) has just published its analysis of the PHSO’s, (Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman ) second report into the tragic death of Sam Morrish, a three year old child whose death from sepsis was found to have been avoidable. PACAC is composed…
By John Tingle In the UK, the Department of Health (DH) have just published a consultation paper on introducing fixed recoverable costs in lower value clinical negligence claims. The document contains some controversial proposals which many claimant, patient lawyers are very concerned about. They feel the proposals will make it much harder for patients with…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Last week, January 23-29, 2017, saw a mix of national and local-level housing news. Here’s our round-up for the past week: Surprising some on the “Warren-wing” of the Democratic Party, Elizabeth Warren came out in support of Dr. Ben Carson as the 17th Secretary of Housing…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Here’s the latest in housing equity and law for the week of January 16-22, 2017: Although housing policy was absent from Trump’s campaign, and the 2016 election cycle in general, one of the first actions of the new administration was to suspend the FHA mortgage insurance…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research We’ve rounded up the latest news from the past week, January 9-15, 2017, for housing law and equity. The HUD confirmation hearing was, of course, the biggest news, but a few other items of note: Statement of Diane Yentel of the National Low Income Housing Coalition…
