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Sundar Thavapalasundaram

Sundar Thavapalasundaram is a GP, a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners Health Inequalities Standing Group, a member of the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges Health Inequalities Forum and a member of the Fabian Executive.

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The gulf between politician and practitioner

Sundar Thavapalasundaram

The NHS is arguably the greatest gift that the Labour movement gave the British people and its destruction is a betrayal of the English nation. Since 1945 the United Kingdom has enjoyed a national health system free for all at the point of access. Irrespective of one’s class or station in life, the National Health…

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Thinking beyond incarceration – justice and mental health

Sundar Thavapalasundaram

In Britain today mental illness significantly increases one’s chances of imprisonment and impacts disproportionately on the most vulnerable. A paradigm shift in Labour justice policy is needed, moving away from policies of containment to preventing citizens with mental health problems drifting into this lifestyle to begin with. As over 90 per cent of the UK…