Being there: public health needs a public face.

I am writing this just nine months after the Royal Bank of Scotland went bust and Gordon Brown wrote out a cheque for £37 billion to bail out the UK financial sector. That’s enough money to keep our MPs in dubious expenses for nigh on 40,000 years. And yet a new survey by Nottingham Business School shows that people still trust the banks more than the NHS – far more. As the Nottingham report (1) points out, the NHS “receives lower ratings than all financial services institutions across all trust measures.” (p. 4)