Poor housing and dark satanic mills

Articles in The BMJ this week featuring mills and housing may seem like a throwback, but the problems they raise, from science to social welfare, are very contemporary. The impact of the cost of living crisis is clear for health professionals to see, and, where once poor laws offered relief to people who were disadvantaged, recent law making and spending plans will not do enough for people feeling the “consequences of creaking public services in a nation getting poorer” (doi:10.1136/bmj.o2837).1Housing and heating are matters of direct concern to health professionals, given their effect on the population’s health and wellbeing (doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-06967) and the pressures that are then placed on health and social care (doi:10.1136/bmj.o2863).23 Cold, draughty homes promote ill health (doi:10.1136/bmj.o2480).4 Anny Cullum argues that the housing crisis is an emergency that requires urgent government action (doi:10.1136/bmj.o2600).5 An innovative pilot for GPs to prescribe heating to vulnerable people is being implemented…
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