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2. More than words can say: Why health and social care policy makers should reconsider their position on informal interpreters.
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Pollock, Sarah
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HEALTH services accessibility ,HEALTH status indicators ,HEALTH policy ,POLICY sciences ,SELF-efficacy ,SOCIAL case work ,HEALTH facility translating services ,COMMUNICATION barriers - Abstract
In the UK, individuals with limited English-language proficiency (LEP) self-report poorer health and face challenges accessing health and social care support. Health and social care policies in English speaking countries provide practitioners with guidance that ensures access to public service interpreters for individuals who require them. The guidance simultaneously discourages the use of informal language brokers, including family and friends, suggesting that they are not educated or objective enough to conduct this role, and that they present unmanageable risks. This poses a challenge, as research exploring patient and service user choices, finds that individuals consistently prefer an informal language broker. The paper explores the contradiction between a legislative shift towards empowerment and choice within social work and the policies that restrict these rights in relation to interpretation. Exploring these challenges with a focus on policy and practice, leads to the suggestion that individuals should be empowered to choose who provides their language support. In contrast, existing policies increase the power imbalance between professionals and users of services, significantly affecting the life chances of those with LEP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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3. Divergence or convergence? Health inequalities and policy in a devolved Britain.
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Smith, Katherine E., Hunter, David J., Blackman, Tim, Elliott, Eva, Greene, Alexandra, Harrington, Barbara E., Marks, Linda, Mckee, Lorna, and Williams, Gareth H.
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HEALTH policy ,EQUALITY ,DIFFERENCES - Abstract
Since the advent of political devolution in the UK, it has been widely reported that markedly different health policies have emerged. However, most of these analyses are based on a comparison of health care policies and, as such, only tell part of a complex and evolving story. This paper considers official responses to a shared public health policy aim, the reduction of health inequalities, through an examination of national policy statements produced in England, Scotland and Wales respectively since 1997. The analysis suggests that the relatively consistent manner in which the `policy problem' of health inequalities has been framed combined with the dominance of a medical model of health have constrained policy responses. Our findings differ from existing analyses, raising some important questions about the actuality of, and scope for, policy divergence since devolution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2009
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4. Sharing 'hostile' stories: Exploring the UK's 'hostile environment' through participatory arts-based methods.
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STAVROPOULOU, NELLI
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RESEARCH funding ,PSYCHOLOGY of refugees ,HEALTH policy ,EXPERIENCE ,INTERSECTIONALITY ,STUDY skills ,STORYTELLING ,ART therapy - Abstract
This article presents personal stories from a participatory biographical arts-based study with a specific category of racialised migrants: individuals seeking asylum in the North East of England. Responding to the important questions posed by this special issue, the article explores individual experiences of navigating the UK's hostile environment with a focus on the threefold punitive 'threat' of dispersal, detention, and destitution (Bloch and Schuster, 2005). Adopting an intersectional lens, the discussion highlights the impact of such policies and their compound effect of creating (un)safe and exclusionary everyday spaces, while also outlining the potential for resistance as illustrated by participants' actions and their creative (re)actions as part of the study's arts-based approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. Migrant narratives of health and well-being: Challenging ‘othering’ processes through photo-elicitation interviews.
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Ortega-Alcázar, Iliana and Dyck, Isabel
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BEHAVIOR modification ,HEALTH behavior ,HEALTH promotion ,INTERVIEWING ,HEALTH policy ,NATURE ,PHOTOGRAPHY ,STEREOTYPES ,QUALITATIVE research ,HEALTH of indigenous peoples ,RESIDENTIAL patterns ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,WELL-being ,NARRATIVES ,NOMADS ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
This paper concerns the use of photo-elicitation interviews in constructing migrant narratives of health and well-being. It argues that photo-elicitation can be particularly effective in producing nuanced understandings about relationships among culture, place and health. It explores how, through this method, subject-centred understandings of health and well-being are able to challenge dominant discursive constructions that tend to ‘other’ and potentially stereotype minority groups in explanations of health behaviour. The paper includes discussion of issues of power and representation in research with marginalized populations, which further elaborates the value of photo-elicitation in developing a non-essentializing view of minority groups. The paper concludes with comment on the potential value of this method in the formulation of health and social policies aiming to incorporate the views and needs of marginalized or minority groups. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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6. Duty of candour and the disclosure of adverse events to patients and families.
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Birks, Yvonne
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HEALTH policy ,COMMUNICATION ,PATIENT safety ,DISCLOSURE ,ADVERSE health care events - Abstract
The disclosure of adverse events to patients or their families who have been affected is considered to be a central feature of high quality and safer patient care, but despite this, as few as 30% of harmful errors may currently be disclosed to patients. Advocates of open disclosure propose that failing to communicate effectively with patients following adverse events may have negative repercussions for all stakeholders. The disclosure of adverse events and errors to patients and their families is partly fulfilling the duty of candour advocated in the numerous recent reports into the quality and safety within the NHS. This paper considers why disclosure remains challenging for organisations and professionals alike, despite guidance and in a clear moral imperative and commitment from stakeholders to transparency in healthcare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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7. Architectures of Genetic Medicine: Comparing Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer in the USA and the UK.
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Parthasarathy, Shobita
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HUMAN chromosome abnormality diagnosis ,BREAST cancer ,CHROMOSOMES - Abstract
This paper compares the development of genetic testing for breast cancer (BRCA testing) in the USA and the UK. It argues that national political cultures played an important role in how these genetic testing technologies were shaped, and that the shapes of these technologies had important implications for the users of these systems. In order to demonstrate the roles of national social and political elements in the development of new genetic testing technologies, I introduce the concept of a technology's architecture, which is made up of component and the specific ways in which these components are assembled to fulfill particular functions. In the USA, four very different BRCA testing systems initially emerged. However, one biotechnology company, Myriad Genetics, eventually used its legal and economic position to become the sole provider of testing. It offered BRCA testing the way many other laboratory tests were provided in the USA, available to anyone through any physician. The shape of this testing service had important implications for its participants, defining the client as a consumer who could demand access to any of Myriad's laboratory services, but could not choose among testing systems. In the UK, the government-run National Health Service provided testing through regional genetics clinics, using family history information to assess risks and triage care. Clients in the UK were defined as citizens and patients, who had the right to equal access to the testing system but could not demand any specific services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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8. Policy paradoxes and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme: How welfare policies impact resettlement support.
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Haycox, Hannah
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HEALTH policy ,SOCIAL support ,WAR ,PUBLIC administration ,INTERVIEWING ,FAMILIES ,HEALTH care reform ,AT-risk people ,GOVERNMENT policy ,REFUGEES ,RELOCATION ,PUBLIC welfare ,GOVERNMENT aid ,SOCIAL integration - Abstract
The Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) comprised the UK government's primary response to persons forcibly displaced by the Syrian civil war. Recipients were granted immediate recourse to public funds and a locally-based 12-month integration support plan, designed at the discretion of practitioners. Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with refugees and practitioners in two areas with contrasting local approaches, this article explores the tensions that emerged when broader central government policies (distinct from the VPRS), intersected with resettlement support in recipients' lives. Two current welfare reforms are identified and evaluated as having impacted resettled families' housing experiences: firstly; the Two-Child Limit and secondly; the Benefit Cap. The article demonstrates how the financial precarity produced by both policies undermined local practitioners' resettlement support. In doing so, the article challenges dominant policy narratives of exceptionality, locating those resettled within the routinised systems of precarity and conditionality embedded in the welfare system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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9. Political communication, press coverage and public interpretation of public health statistics during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK.
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Lawson, B.T. and Lugo-Ocando, Jairo
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POLITICIANS ,PRESS ,HEALTH policy ,POLITICAL communication - Abstract
This article examines the way numbers, often concerning risk, were communicated by politicians, covered by the news media and interpreted by the public during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis in the United Kingdom. To explore this topic, we adopted a mixed-methods approach that included content analysis, comparative thematic analysis and a series of focus groups. Whilst coherency and consistency are touted as essentials in public health messaging, our textual analysis highlighted the disconnect between political communication and news media coverage. Whereas the UK government relied on vague references to curves and peaks to underpin a narrative of consistency and certainty in public health policy, the UK news media referred to specific numbers from within and outside the UK to criticise the government's approach as haphazard and lacking. This disconnect gained even more significance during our focus groups. When discussing numbers, participants referred to news media coverage rather than political messaging, using these figures to challenge the timing and nature of the UK lockdown. These findings present a significant critique of the UK government's communication during this health crisis. Instead of putting forward a coherent, homogenous and clear message to the public, the discourse around numbers and risk was diffracted, disconnected and opaque. This was largely due to the competing narratives presented by the news media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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10. Hospital standardised mortality ratios – their use and misuse.
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Jarman, Professor Sir Brian
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HEALTH policy ,CORPORATE culture ,MEDICAL quality control ,WHISTLEBLOWING ,ADVERSE health care events ,HOSPITAL mortality - Published
- 2015
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11. The Clinical Disputes Forum code to candour.
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Thomas, Elizabeth and Leigh, Bertie
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DECISION making ,LEGAL liability ,MANAGEMENT ,HEALTH policy ,HISTORY of medicine ,PHYSICIAN-patient relations ,PATIENTS' rights ,DISCLOSURE - Abstract
Medical authorities have historically either been silent or circumspect about the role of candour in clinical relationships. Hippocrates told doctors to abstain from doing harm, not entertaining the possibility that they might be negligent, while in 1847 the American Medical Association declared that doctors have: ‘a sacred duty … to avoid all things which have a tendency to discourage the patient and depress his spirits’. Being candid about an injurious mistake in the course of treatment would no doubt discourage even the worldliest of 19th century patients. However, in recent years, the focus has shifted: doctors in 21st century have an obligation to disclose even the most depressing of mistakes. This modern ‘duty of candour’ is found in a mish-mash of moral principles, regulatory guidelines and contractual agreements but following the Francis Report it will be buttressed by statute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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12. Clinical commissioning - the ethical implications.
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Cox, Dennis
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HEALTH care reform ,HEALTH policy ,HEALTH services accessibility ,CONFLICT of interests ,HEALTH status indicators ,MEDICAL care use ,MEDICAL care costs ,MEDICAL ethics ,ORGANIZATIONAL change ,PRIMARY health care ,PUBLIC health ,RESPONSIBILITY ,ORGANIZATIONAL structure ,OCCUPATIONAL roles ,ECONOMIC competition ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICAL care laws - Abstract
The Health and Social Care Bill proposes clinically led commissioning. The new Clinical Commissioning Groups will become statutory bodies and replace the old primary care trusts. This primary legislation will transfer accountability for health care spending to clinicians who will have a duty to meet the health needs of a population as well as balance a budget. This change gives rise to a number of ethical issues which are explored in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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13. Critical assessment of new devices.
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Hamilton, Carole
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PRODUCT liability -- Medical instruments & apparatus ,MEDICAL equipment testing ,MEDICAL supplies ,PRODUCT safety ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
The article presents information related to the assessment of safety standards of medical devices. Medical devices are grouped into four product classes on the basis of potential risks associated with the use of them. The Medical Device Directives (MDD) of Great Britain analyze safety and risk associated with the medical products.
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- 2007
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14. An interview with Sir Liam Donaldson.
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MEDICAL care ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
The article presents an interview with Liam Donaldson, chief medical officer of the British Department of Health, about patient safety. The interview begins with an assessment of the report "An Organisation With a Memory" which stimulated a lot of awareness about patient safety. Donaldson then discusses the approach to cover ups or failure to comply with the being open policy. In addition, Donaldson talks about the role of the National Health Service Litigation Authority.
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- 2006
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15. The Implications of the Human Tissue Act 2004.
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Davies, James Lawford
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MEDICAL laws ,HEALTH policy ,CODES of ethics ,MEDICAL practice - Abstract
The article discusses the implications of the Human Tissue Act (HTA) 2004 of Great Britain. The law creates a legal framework intended to address the shortcomings which emerged during the inquiries into tissue retention at Alder Hey and the Bristol Royal Infirmary in England. The scope of the HTA is further limited by excluding certain categories of tissue. The act will also monitor compliance with its Codes of Practice.
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- 2006
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16. Editorial.
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Walsh, Peter
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FAMILY medicine ,HEALTH care reform ,MEDICAL quality control ,HEALTH policy ,MEDICAL practice ,NATIONAL health services - Abstract
The author reflects on the new plans of the British government related to health. He is critical on the implications of the plans in patient safety and regulation of healthcare. He mentions that the loss of the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) will affect the Actions for the Victims of Medical Accidents (AvMA) and (NHS) National Health Service Commissioning Board. Moreover, he argues that putting general practitioners (GPs) in charge can improve quality or safety.
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- 2010
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