My admiration for this extraordinary woman grows every day. She makes @DavidLammy & @Keir_Starmer, and most other W politicians, look like equivocating moral pygmies with their slipping & sliding while the livestreamed liquidation of the Palestinian people continues unabated.
Great to see publication of
our TAPER pilot. Leading to further iterations with system partners. @deependgp@DeepEndGP_YH@CPC156 Realities of opioid and gabapentinoid deprescribing in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities: qualitative evaluation https://t.co/v8SMOD0q4s
Our new poverty awareness training webinars are now available to sign up to by clicking on the link below and registering!
https://t.co/Z0DJY6VpoO
Dates for next week: 05/08/2024 & 06/08/2024 🟢
Lack of understanding that regulators have on the impact of working in areas of blanket high socioeconomic deprivation has been raised by our members. If they could improve this it would help morale within teams as well as help them shape targeted outcomes.
Deep End International Bulletin No 11 - introducing Deep End Canada (our 18th Deep End Project) plus lots from the recent Deep End conference in Glasgow. https://t.co/tdv9LYrM10
"We must have equal partnerships: among policy makers and patients, and among health professionals and communities"
Fantastic to see this editorial and support for embedding genuine partnership working with patients and the public in all we do @NIHR_ARC_NENC@deependNENC
Consultations With Muslims From Minoritised Ethnic Communities Living in Deprived Areas: Identifying Inequities in Mental Health Care and Support
4 themes
*broken trust
*overmedicalised care model
*MH prevention initiatives
*culturally conscious education
https://t.co/h98LUu5oY3
“Stability is change,” said Sir Keir at the manifesto launch. Perhaps his love for George Orwell’s 1984 explains why there is so little in it apart from Big Brother-style pictures. After all, “Ignorance is Strength.”
Orwell wrote 1984 around the same time as the 1942 Beveridge Report, in which William Beveridge, an economist and Liberal politician, identified five giant societal evils: idleness, disease, ignorance, squalor, and want. Their 21st century counterparts plague Britain today.
We are in need of a new Beveridge Report, and Act Now: A vision for a better future and a new social contract aspires to fill that void. It’s written by a coalition of seventeen academics, campaigners and politicians, including me, under the moniker the Common Sense Policy Group. Backed up by some heavyweight number-crunching to model the costs and benefits, and extensive polling, it shows it’s not just possible, but popular, to do things differently.
Act Now: A vision for a better future and a new social contract is on sale from 24th June.
You can read the full article online. https://t.co/876F8EMyvx
Great view on system change… the Deep End networks form a movement and hopefully are “system activists” @JonQuine @DrSameenaH @SarahLSowden@deependgp@DeepEndGP_YH
Making change happen across a system of different organisations & groups is different to managing change within a single organisation. @CollaborateCIC is a great source for approaches to system change. They use the term "system activist" rather than "system leader", as mobilising for change in a system doesn't always need formal power. They say that becoming a system activist requires a fundamental change in the way we think & feel about our work & our own role in it. They suggest seven shifts that system activists make:
1) From Organisations to Outcomes: They know that collaboration beyond the boundaries of their role/organisation is needed to improve outcomes.
2) From Management to Mobilisation: They recognise that they can't rely only on the formal authority of their role & need to build informal authority to influence & generate action by others.
3) From Me to We: They know that their perspective on the challenge & its possible solutions, is partial & limited.
4) From Expert to Explorer: They navigate through uncertainty & adopt a learning approach, guiding others through that.
5) From Delivery to Co-creation: They recognise that disagreement is inevitable & have the ability to harness it productively; they distribute power & put people with lived experience at the heart of decision-making.
6) From Expectations to Agency: They recognise that the patterns, rules & behaviours that have sustained the systems’ old ways of functioning may also need to change.
7) From Head to Heart: System activists recognise that they are a part of the system they are trying to change & they need to change as much as everyone else.
https://t.co/MCL0mcSPjj. Via @annarandle
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We are determined to advocate for proportionate universalism and adequate funding for primary care according to need… totally agree, the Carr-Hill formula is outdated.
The carr-hill formula (way of distributing funds to GP practices) is outdated. There is no allocation for health inequalities or poverty.
GPs in the most deprived areas have more patients, more complexity, less staff and less funding.
https://t.co/OSgs6OT7iF