Phil’s Australian Travelblog, part two of two: in which our nomadic researcher makes sweeping generalisations about an entire continent and the 23 million people who live there. I am not about to move to Sydney, or anywhere else in Australia for that matter: amongst other things the largest island in Oceania succeeded in confirming how … Continue reading Man walks into a column, no.34: Australia
I recently applauded the US for lifting its ban on people with HIV travelling to the States. But for every gain, there are plenty of examples of discriminatory, backward and short-sighted thinking. Take this from Australia: Under the Migration Act, people with impairments have their disability taken into consideration in meeting the health criteria as … Continue reading Disabled people not welcome in Australia
The Social Care Institute for Excellence is working with the Health Foundation and Institute for Government on a fascinating project about how “constructive conversations” can help with “wicked issues” in health and social care. I was lucky enough to be invited to a discussion about the project and hear a wonderful summary of the literature … Continue reading Wicked issues and constructive conversations in health and social care
This post is one in a series on Payment by Results in mental health, written for both professional and personal reasons. The full series is introduced and linked to here, including a post with all references in it. England is at one of the most advanced stages for introducing Payment by Results in mental health … Continue reading What is the international evidence for Payment by Results in mental health?
This post is one in a series on Payment by Results in mental health, written for both professional and personal reasons. The full series is introduced and linked to here, including a post with all references in it. It is clear that a significant amount of effort has gone into introducing Payment by Results in … Continue reading The impacts of Payment by Results in health
Judging myself with appropriate strictness against the criterion I established exactly a year ago, I have failed. A quick glance at the big fat fifty embedded within the title of this post tells the whole tale: this man may’ve walked into a weekly column but, well before the end, this man fell short. Crumbs of … Continue reading Man walks into a column, no.50: End
The Social Animal by New York Times columnist David Brooks was, by some measure, the best book I read on my recent Antipodean excursion, and certainly the most thought-provoking. It merits several blog posts all on its own, such is its range, but for now I wanted to expand briefly on just one of the … Continue reading Man walks into a column, no.35: Cognition
Phil’s Australian Travelblog, part one of two: Phil’s week in Sydney, in which our hero falls foul of light fingers in an Abu Dhabi toilet cubicle. The few of you who pay close attention to this column will remember that in last week’s post I was wedged between the horns of a quandary: how to … Continue reading Man walks into a column, no.33: Sydney
It feels a little self-indulgent and dare I say smug to be writing this whilst chaos, anger and sadness reigns over my beloved home city (and elsewhere besides), but the simple fact remains that if I’m to stick to my New Year’s resolution of posting weekly then for this and the next two or three … Continue reading Man walks into a column, no.32: Travel
I said in a previous post that it’s impossible to capture the feeling of being at a gig in all of it’s sweaty, noisy glory, but just now and then you can’t help but want to convey an experience, howevermuch a poor approximation; in this case Grinderman at the Coronet on New Kent Road. Watching … Continue reading Heathen children: Grinderman at the Coronet, 2nd October 2010
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