Prof Christina Pagel
Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal.
- Again, regardless of the actual policy (and I do think there's value in thinking on how you can have most impact on a constrained budget), the rhetoric is horrible and goes against everything I voted for www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- 100% this
- My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues. Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3
- I have no issue with trying to increase % of care workers born in Britain and to increase pay and improve working conditions. But we must ALSO acknowledge the tremendous contribution that care workers from overseas have made and are making to our country and our most vulnerable citizens. 2/3
- AND acknowledge that a large pool of British potential care workers is not readily apparent (~130K vacancies in care sector). As the daughter of UK migrants, as someone who works with 1st & 2nd gen immigrants across health & academia, I am also v offended at language of "incalculable harm". 3/3
- This is so awful and sad - and where they feel silenced, we who have less to lose must speak up for our US scientific colleagues “The lived experience of a scientist [in the US] right now is terrifying” www.science.org/content/arti...
- So many people I know are facing waits of years for serious issues
