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Category Archives: social policy
Things I’ve written lately, mostly elsewhere.
I’m rather aware that I’ve been neglecting this blog lately. It’s not because I’ve been inactive, the opposite, in fact. So here is a list of the most important things I’ve written over the last year and a bit. “Properly” … Continue reading
Democracy, planning and a socialist health service.
Further to my piece on Manchester’s “Health Devolution”, I thought it worth returning to something I wrote over 4 years ago, in rather different times. The question that I didn’t try to answer in last week’s piece was “what’s the … Continue reading
Posted in NHS, politics, social policy
Tagged Cuba, democracy, Devolution, DevoManc, Latin America, NHS, planning, politics, socialism
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DevoManc, DevoMancHealth and the perils of techno-fixes.
Now syndicated on the Socialist Health Association blog This week’s big news in Manchester is that the devolution of direct responsibility for significant areas public spending to the city-region will now be augmented by the devolution … Continue reading
Posted in Manchester, NHS, politics, social policy
Tagged Devolution, DevoManc, NHS, policy
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What do we already know about Integrating Health and Social Care?
The Socialist Health Association has just published this piece on their blog. It is a response to recent discussions on the integration of health and social care based on my long term experience of developing and managing such integration. Read … Continue reading
What is most important? Reflections on support arrangements for people who are intellectually disabled.
Today, 26th November, 2014, something unusual has happened. The national news of the day includes quite a lot of coverage of the abject failure of the health and social care system, and the government, to do what it was supposed … Continue reading
Convivial Social Policy?
updated 21 November, 2014 As part of the Steady State Manchester project, I’ve been trying to do some work on the implications of a post-growth society and economy for social policy. This is a real cross-over question for me having … Continue reading
Posted in social policy
Tagged conviviality, neoliberalism, politics, social policy, steady state economics, Steady State Manchester, welfare
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