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Tag Archives: NHS
Platitudes, positions, policies and principles.
Platitudes, positions, policies and principles: what can we learn from Gorton’s selection meeting? I attended the selection meeting for the Labour Party’s Gorton by-election last week. There were five candidates, a short-list selected by a 5-person national Labour party panel. … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, economy, Labour Party, Manchester, NHS, politics, social policy, socialism
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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
This brutal Liberal government: reflections on the week of the Tory party conference.
We’ve just been subjected to the disturbing spectacle of a week of the Tory party conference and they still have the ability to surprise us with their brutality. On one level it is just a baying pack of bigots and … Continue reading
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Tagged André Gorz, capital, climate change, coloniality, fracking, ideology, inequality, Labour, Liberalism, Liberals, neoliberalism, NHS, the mess we're in, Tories, welfare reform
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Manchester’s NHS walk-in centres
Monitor, the NHS regulator is conducting a review of the closure of NHS walk-in centres in Manchester. Please respond via walkincentresreview@monitor.gov.uk I’ve just done so with this response. I write as a former community health and social care manager (NHS … Continue reading
Shropshire, more films and the Mid-Staffs Scandal
Yes, this post will go all over the place, like I did this week….. A short midweek break at Bishop’s Castle, a quaint but real town in Shropshire. The Border country where Saxon and Welsh place names mix (along with … Continue reading
Posted in coloniality, Disability, everyday life, Film, Latin America, NHS
Tagged Argentina, coloniality, dementia, Latin America, mexico, NHS, Shropshire, the mess we're in
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