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Audit Society and Corporate Care
David Morgan
The creeping business model in the NHS manifests in multiple ways, notably in the increasing use of corporate-style management techniques that prioritise efficiency, metrics, branding, and performative professionalism, over genuine care and clinical autonomy. My talk will explore the motivation behind this development and consider what we can do to reverse the decimation of Nye Bevan’s glorious dream. A dream that has shown the world that at its best a society can take care of the most vulnerable and sick. In this interregnum dominated by corporate greed, so ably illustrated by Elon Musks statement that “the biggest problem with the human race is empathy” the NHS stand as a beacon of humanity in an increasingly unfair world. The fact that Boris Johnson’s Brexit promise of £350,million pounds a week scrawled on his battle bus has never appeared or even apologised for
Marcus Evans
I'm beyond caring. The failure of social systems to care for staff
Lord Francis was commissioned to look at why the serious problems (between January 2005 and March 2009) at Mid Staffs Foundation Trust were not identified sooner and the appropriate action taken. Lord Francis was also asked to outline what lessons could be learned to enhance patient care. The report was delivered on 5 February 2013 and contained 290 recommendations. The key message was that the National Health Service needed to put the patient first and everything else should flow from that principle. Poor standards of care should not be tolerated and staff would be expected to speak out when they felt patient care was being compromised. Lord Francis also recommended that there should be one regulatory body and that the role of the Care Quality Commission was to be reviewed.
Rachel Gibbons
The 'Impossibility' of Working in the Current NHS: Sacrifice to a Primitive God"
Rachel draws on her psychoanalytic and group relations understanding to explore her experience of 20 years of working inside the NHS in frontline services as a psychiatrist and clinical leader.
She asks whether we are missing something obvious that would help us understand the current crisis in the NHS. If so, why are we missing it?
Are powerful destructive unconscious primitive processes accepted in everyday life in the NHS? She shares various everyday compelling and challenging situations to illustrate how there is a conscious task which is at odds with the unconscious task that makes working in the NHS ‘Impossible’.
