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Five Things to Learn from Panorama’s Dementia Exposé
OK, this is a longer blog than usual, but Monday night’s Panorama programme about an elderly lady with dementia being abused and neglected in a care home made me angry – and when I’m angry I get...
A Personal Tribute to Jim Mansell
Professor Jim Mansell, architect of significant elements of learning disability policy in England, founder of the Tizard Centre at Kent University and champion of individualised, evidence based...
Remploy, Politicians and Images of Pity
The proposal to remove the Government subsidy from Remploy’s sheltered factories has once again hit the news headlines. The decision, which will probably result in the closure of the Remploy...
Why You Cannot Put Doctors in Charge of Life
Something different has happened recently in the debate on health and social care integration – something that makes the Government’s wider NHS reforms even less logical and coherent than many have...
Maslow and the Health Select Committee
The Health Select Committee has created headlines today by pronouncing that the energy, attention and demands of the Health Bill (and the associated changes that are already being implemented prior...
When Tendering Just Doesn’t Work
It’s amazing that when there is a perceived wisdom about how something is done, then no matter how obvious the evidence is that there is a problem – we can enter collective denial. I am...
