NHS manifesto : the missing piece of the puzzle
Stewart, Ellen and Young, Ingrid and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah (2017) NHS manifesto : the missing piece of the puzzle. The Lancet, 390. ISSN 0140-6736 (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31446-0)
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Abstract
The NHS Manifesto published in The Lancet by Nigel Crisp and colleagues (Dec 10, 2016, e24)1 is a broadly compelling one, and yet it mirrors an error made by National Health Service (NHS) England's Five Year Forward View2 in calling for a major transformation of the UK's largest public service without acknowledging the importance of public engagement in those plans. To be sure, Crisp and colleagues1 call for services to be made patient-centred, and for patients and carers to be engaged "in decision making and care". But the overwhelming role outlined for the wider public and communities is as a provider of the informal care required to shrink NHS services. The absence of an empowered public role in this manifesto is problematic because the continued "great national coming together" of the NHS depends upon public support. This support should be nurtured through careful, genuine public engagement to build collective ownership of the future shape of the NHS. Instead, Crisp and colleagues present a ready-made blueprint for a future NHS, with transformation to be accelerated and improvement to be driven forward by central government "plan[ning] at scale", rather than a plan developed in partnership with the very public the NHS serves.
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Stewart, Ellen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Young, Ingrid and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 78789 Dates: DateEvent22 July 2017Published20 July 2017Published Online1 July 2017AcceptedSubjects: Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Social SciencesDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 03 Dec 2021 12:08 Last modified: 12 Sep 2024 00:58 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/78789