Is about to come in to circulation but at what cost to businesses . Good morning. Its monday, 27th march, im joanna gosling. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Theresa may will meet scotlands first minister Nicola Sturgeon later today for the First Time Since she rejected calls for a second referendum on Scottish Independence. The visit is part of a tour of all four nations of the uk before the process of leaving the European Union formally begins on wednesday. Its an important time for brexit negotiations with a number of key discussions across the week. Later today, the Prime Minister is expected to give a speech on unity, saying uks union will become even more important as britain leaves the eu. Tomorrow, msps in the Scottish Parliament are to vote on a whether scotland should have a second independence referendum following the brexit negotiations. On wednesday, the Prime Minister will officially begin britains two year exit from the European Union in which shell write a letter to the Eu
Host hello. Its a pleasure to be here today to talk about your new book the health gap. Youve written extensively around the social determinants of health for a long time, and i wanted to start by reading a quick quote from the end of the book but i think it gets us off to a good place. The different power, material, health and creates health and equity. They take different forms of local monopoly and high income country but the general approach to promoting the just distribution of health is similar. Its similarly about health. Can you tell us a little bit about what this means and why you decided to write this book now . Guest when you run the two words health and care together. I spend little time talking about health care in the book because what i say it is when people get sick they need access to highquality health care but its not a lack of healthcare that caused the illness in the first place. Its the lack of access and insults to the injury of getting sick. So i very much push
Similar. Your book is about health. Its not specifically about health care. And its about equity. Can you tell us a little bit about what this means and why you decided to write this book now . Guest they run the two words health and care together. I spend very little time talking about health care in the book because what i say it is when people get sick they need access to highquality health care. But its not a lack of healthcare that caused the illness in the first place. A lack of access adds insult to the injury of getting sick in those places. So, im very much pushing the idea that although healthcare is a vital issue and the worlds discovered universal healthcare coverage which is great, and the u. S. Is trying to do something about serving the under terms in terms of access to healthcare, i am talking about the way we organize our affairs in society which impact on health and the unFair Distribution judged by reasonable means to be avoidable. The reason i read the book now is i
The ayes have it as uk mps vote overwhelmingly for borisjohnsons brexit trade deal, the Prime Minister says britain will now have its cake and eat it. In yemen, a rocket attack kills at least 20 people at an airport, shortly after a plane carrying government officials touches down. And 15 people are missing after a landslide sweeps through a village in norway. Welcome to bbc news with the latest from here in the uk and around the world. The uk has become the first country in europe to approve the use of two covid 19 vaccines. Today, the uk medicines regulator gave the go ahead for the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine, signaling a landmark moment in the fight against coronavirus. But, as the news of the vaccine was received, it was also announced that roughly 20 million more people across england are set to join the toughest tier 4 covid restrictions from tomorrow morning. The midlands, north east, parts of the north west and parts of the south west are among those escalated to tier 4, with p
Roundup, this week its a grande with extra shot, lets focus of big event of next week, President Trumps state of the union address, he will set out the incredible progress we are seeing, lowest unemployment in half century, best manufacturing performance in quarter century, wages rising strongly. The last 2 years have been crystal case study of the difference it makes when you have a proenterprise president and a taxcuttingderegulation agenda and fixing americas immigration system, a problem thats been affected by both parties for you and we will soon see if democrats are capable of being reasonable and constructive, dont hold your breath, in fact, the democrats are are racing off to the left but that gives President Trump a big strategic opportunity in this state of the union, however crazy new policies may be, the democrats go to left a response of anxiety. The leftwing populism is not the answer but frankly the old establishment conservatism isnt the answer either, thats why donald