Health and quality of life
The long hiatus is because I was doing a lecture in Portugal and then on holiday – the first time for fifteen months. December is Mauritius is a whole lot nicer than in Sydenham. To enthuse you for the season of goodwill, here is a pic of a blood donation service in Mauritius, which shows us that the Ministry of Health there is called the ‘Ministry of Health and Quality of Life’. If this is just spin, we could do more of it in Britain, because seeing the healthcare bit of the government taking explicit responsibility for quality of life might be a reminder of how to look at people’s needs more broadly than we currently achieve:
