David Zigmond talks to Simon Duffy about the importance of scale on the NHS if we want to nurture human understanding and a more caring approach.
Dr David Zigmond served in the NHS from 1969 as a GP and psychiatrist. His long career as a practitioner, writer and teacher was consistently highly regarded. Yet in the last decade he found many healthcare reforms to be problematic: in particular systems to industrialise and corporatise that become increasingly inimical to our best personal care.
Here David describes the benefits of pastoral healthcare and the importance of offering a more human approach to healthcare:
Watch the full series of films, from which these film clips have been taken, in the playlist below:
The publisher is the Centre for Welfare Reform.
Films produced by Ruskin Kyle of Rivers Rush.
Zigmond on the Human Scale © David Zigmond & the Centre for Welfare Reform 2018.
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