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Article: 07.03.24 Democratic Healthcare The NHS and other public services need to be accountable to citizens and communities.
Article: 13.02.24 Living Well with Dementia Liz Leach Murphy has written two guides to living well with Dementia and shares key findings from her research.
Paper: 11.12.23 Personalised Support in Cancer Care Health professionals in Lithuania are trying to improve the personalisation of their support to cancer patients.
Article: 07.12.23 Remembering Terry Lynch Terry Lynch was a wonderful man who showed how the principles of independent living apply to everyone.
Article: 06.12.23 Third-Party Personal Health Budgets Third-Party Personal Health Budgets or Individual Service Funds (ISFs) are a key tool for personalising care.
Film: 26.08.23 The Value of Peer Support Peer support is one of the best ways to liberate the potential for citizens to change the world for the better.
Article: 11.08.23 Care vs Work Care offers a hopeful alternative to the destructive concept of productive work that is dominant today.
Paper: 14.04.23 Health Care Services in Crisis Three senior NHS consultants explain that the NHS crisis is about its culture and organisation not just money.
Article: 01.03.23 The End of Family Doctors Commissioning bodies cannot provide the kind of doctors we want and need.
Review: 18.01.23 The Spirited Disaffection of a Vocational Doctor What can one man’s personal reminiscences tell us about our community’s assets and losses?
Paper: 08.11.22 Biopsychosocial Model or Bio-political Ideology? Will people with Long-COVID escape the prejudices directed towards people with ME/CFS.
Article: 07.11.22 You Can't Manufacture Doctors Political talk of solving the NHS recruitment crisis reflects decades of bad policy-making.
Article: 04.11.22 Building the Right Support... Why we are failing to provide the right support to people and what we can do to fix it.
Article: 17.10.22 The Failure of NHS Leadership Have recent leaders of the NHS been wilfully blind or deliberately neglectful of their duties?
Paper: 14.10.22 The Politics of Fear How the UK government has created an effective hostile environment for sick and disabled people.
Article: 13.04.22 The Troubling Health and Care Bill The Health and Care Bill is a means to undermine the NHS, this is a constitutional crisis.
Map: 04.04.22 Local Spending in England A map of Local Spending and the impact of austerity in England.
Paper: 17.02.22 Personalising Commissioning An overview of Individual Service Funds and how to personalise commissioning in health and social care.
Graphic: 16.02.22 Individual Service Fund Route Map Self Directed Futures show how to shift control of health and social care into neighbourhoods.
Film: 16.02.22 Humanity's Conundrum David Zigmond on his new book and the importance of our search for meaning and community.
Article: 24.01.22 On Social Prescribing Social prescribing can become used in ways that are insensitive to what people really need.
Paper: 18.09.21 The Quiet Progress of the New Eugenics Eugenics is now being legitimised through a mixture of policies including euthanasia, genetic testing and the…
Paper: 14.07.21 Growing Peer Support A report on peer-led crisis support in mental health services focusing on the work of PFG Doncaster.
Article: 14.05.21 Improve Health by Growing Community Our health is damaged by isolation, inequality and powerlessness, so we must reconnect people by conscious community…
Article: 12.04.21 The Macroeconomic Case Against NHS Privatisation The economic case for privatisation of the NHS and other public services is false, in fact privatisation is…
Paper: 02.03.21 Pregnant in An Age of Compliance An exploration of pregnancy amidst the myths of medical technology and power.
Webinar: 11.02.21 The Power of Language This webinar examines the language that helps and encourages us to leave behind the language that harms.
Article: 08.01.21 Behind the NHS Logo The Covid pandemic has challenged and stretched the NHS as never before. What kind of service is likely to emerge and…
Webinar: 06.12.20 Killed By The State? Social Policy Abused Mo Stewart describes the outcome of 10 years of independent disability studies research into the social policies and…
Review: 09.11.20 Sorry We Missed You Ken Loach's film reveals the brutal reality of the modern gig economy.
Article: 28.09.20 Do We Need Human Contact In Medical Practice? Have rapid recent advances in IT rendered traditional face-to-face medical consultations largely redundant?
Paper: 08.07.20 The Pathology of Control Management of the NHS and other public services often produces harm by misunderstanding people's basic motivations.
Article: 25.06.20 How Have We Misconceived the NHS? David Zigmond argues that government is forcing the NHS to adopt the worst features of neoliberalism and communism.
Article: 01.06.20 Social Care's Response to COVID-19 Chris Watson shares his observations on how commissioners in health and social care have responsed to the COVID-19…
Article: 27.05.20 A Two-Tier Pandemic The COVID-19 crisis and subsequent coronavirus legislation demonstrates that Government does not value disabled or…
Paper: 19.05.20 I Feel Forgotten The Chronic Illness Inclusion Project's submission to the Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into the impact of…
Webinar: 13.05.20 SDS Network: COVID-19 and Overview The first webinar from the SDS network covered the issues of how countries were responding to the COVID-19 crisis, what…
Article: 12.05.20 Confused Discharge in COVID-19 Alex Leeder argues that the NHS discharge policy was rushed through in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis and will…
Article: 12.05.20 COVID-19 and Cleaning the Thames David Zigmond explores the historical parallels between today and the public health crises of the…
Article: 04.05.20 Who's Counting Carers? Robert Kay expresses his anger at the constant failure to respect or even remember the existence of 7 million unpaid…
Article: 18.04.20 Scientists Inform, Leaders Lead Alain Catzeflis argues that the UK Government's behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis looks worryingly like…
Article: 07.04.20 Myths About Work and Mental Health Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl shows how dangerous myths have evolved that protect government and business from…
Article: 06.04.20 Does COVID-19 mark the end for markets in the NHS? UK Government response to the COVID-19 is an implicit acknowledgement of the limitations and dangers of a marketised…
Article: 02.04.20 The Upstream Response to COVID-19 Dr Simon Duffy sets out some key principles to guide local communities as they develop their response to the COVID-19…
Article: 24.02.20 Buurtzorg and Self-Management Buurtzorg is a powerful social innovation, started in the Netherlands, which enables self-management and…
Paper: 29.11.19 Dissent from Consensus Bureaucracies and regulatory control systems undermine important social innovations such as person-centred…
Article: 29.11.19 NHS Reform: Money Can't Buy Love David Zigmond argues that more money alone won't restore the NHS to the values of its birth. The NHS needs more trust,…
Paper: 19.08.19 The Perils of Industrialised Healthcare David Zigmond argues that the NHS needs to be built on a human scale.
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