Just to follow up on this previously-circulated call for papers with a brief update: we have extended the deadline for submission of abstracts until Friday 10th May 2024. Please see https://more.bham.ac.uk/border-crossings/future-project-events/
While the conference originates in a programme of work focussed on the UK, we're very keen to have contributions from other societies in which charitable contributions to public service provision have been or have become an issue for public policy. I'd be very happy to respond to queries about potential contributions to the conference.
We are also delighted to announce our keynote speaker, Nora Kenworthy (see https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalhealth.washington.edu%2Ffaculty%2Fnora-kenworthy&data=05%7C02%7Cbernard.harris%40strath.ac.uk%7Cce033cd85f4a4ab87dfd08dc65e8a81b%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638497297146971822%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KDN8V19DqKk9SCMXIr%2B3PE8Xpus%2F%2BK0aQZmU0oDM2Y0%3D&reserved=0), the author of Crowded out: the true costs of crowdfunding health care (https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmitpress.mit.edu%2F9780262548038%2Fcrowded-out%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cbernard.harris%40strath.ac.uk%7Cce033cd85f4a4ab87dfd08dc65e8a81b%7C631e0763153347eba5cd0457bee5944e%7C0%7C0%7C638497297146983197%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zGoDmZxyKEhRSyZMcGxHuGJspjUzAAQqDv%2FtFpCrxmg%3D&reserved=0), described as an "eye-opening investigation into charitable crowdfunding for health care in the United States--and the consequences of allowing health care access to be decided by the digital crowd".
Best wishes
John Mohan
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Dear colleagues,
We warmly welcome submissions to a two-day conference in association with our Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award on charity and voluntarism in Britain’s mixed economy of healthcare since 1948. The conference will take place in central London, on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th October 2024.
In 1946, the Minister of Health for England and Wales, Aneurin Bevan, condemned the extent to which a significant part of the UK’s hospital system was dependent on the ‘caprice of private charity’. However, charity – and voluntarism more generally – have continued to play a significant role in the development of healthcare within the UK’s National Health Service. During the pandemic, the remarkable impact of NHS Charities Together’s Urgent COVID-19 Appeal demonstrated the continuing relevance of charitable money in the NHS today.
We invite abstract submissions for papers from academic researchers, policy-makers and practitioners which actively engage with questions about the role of charity in healthcare systems. Although our own project has focused on developments within the UK, we also welcome papers which address these issues from a more international perspective. Papers might address questions including (but not limited to):
1. What ethical issues are generated by charitable finance in health-care, and how might organisations respond to the dilemmas these pose?
2. Who defines the aspects of healthcare provision that are ‘essential’, or are ‘nice-to-have’?
3. To what extent has charity played a particular role either in pioneering the development of new services or directing attention to the needs of so-called ‘Cinderella' services?
4. How have attitudes to fundraising, and fundraising practices in healthcare, changed over the years?
5. What role has charity played in ‘embedding’ hospitals and other healthcare facilities within their communities, and what role does it continue to play?
6. What roles have businesses and corporations played in relation to charitable income in the NHS?
7. What impact has charitable funding had within broader patterns of healthcare expenditure?
8. What can debates about the role of charity within healthcare reveal about the attitudes of different political parties towards the role of voluntarism more broadly?
More details and full call for papers available on our project website: https://more.bham.ac.uk/border-crossings/future-project-events/.
Best wishes, Bernard.
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