Seminar Friday 11th May 10am -3pm Toynbee Hall London
With Cllr Catherine West, Labour Health Policy Commission and
representative of the Labour Health Team
Labour left a legacy of a highly effective, popular and improving health
service which will soon be wrecked by the Coalition reforms which have
united virtually every key health organisation against them. One reason
for the public’s ambiguity about Labour and the health deforms is that
there appears no alternative vision from the party. Indeed, some
clinicians and academics see Labour as not only opening the door to
these changes, but planning for them itself.
We have reached the stage in the political cycle where we must start to
produce an alternative vision.
The aim of this event is to consider how we candevelop effective radical
policies for health in the UK
* influence Labour Party health policy
* build a coalition of support for a rational evidence based health
policy
* support camapigns on health over the next few years.
The issues our members think we should concentrate on are:
* Democratic accountability and patient involvement (both individual
and collective), role of local authorities, Community Development,
central and local decision making
* Social care — the boundary between health and social care, the
personalisation agenda, supported housing andresidential care, and
our response to the Dilnot Commission
* The balance between central and local health care and the future of
the District General Hospital. Developing community services,
telecare etc.
* Integrated care, continuity and primary care
* Quality standards, transparency, safety, dignity, whistle blowing,
mortality rates, Hospital acquired infections — and consideration of
the factors which hamper the spread of innovation. This area is
going to be dominated bythe fall-out from the Stafford enquiry.
* Rationing, and the comprehensiveness of health services
* Competition, markets and choice, the role of the private sector,
social enterprises, planning commissioning and the internal market
* Wellbeing and mental health and the impact of Government policies on
benefits, crime, housing and employment
* Abuse of drugs, smoking and alcohol
* Family support, health visiting and dysfunctional families
* Food policy, especially in relation to children
* Transport and exercise
This list is not intended to be comprehensive, but is intended to
support the work programme of the Labour Party Health Policy Commission.
It’s now clear that campaigning around the Government’s reform of the
NHS is likely to continue, and that campaigning may help us to clarify
the principles which we regard as important and differentiate our
approach from that of the Government.
We don't plan to formulate policies on all these areas at this meeting.
The idea is to decide on priorities, devise a process and plan a
progamme of events in conjunction with other organisations.
Please book a place
Costs (includes lunch) £50 for statutory or commercial organisations,
£20 for voluntary organisations and individuals, £10 for members of the
Socialist Health Association and affiliated organisations. Unfunded
organisations or individuals please contact us.
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Martin Rathfelder
Director
Socialist Health Association
22 Blair Road
Manchester
M16 8NS
0161 286 1926
www.sochealth.co.uk
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