What is Think about Health?
Think About
Health is a group of philosophers, clinicians and managers who believe it is
important to do just that: think, really think, about health and its care.
We offer a
space for passionate , intelligent discussion, supported and provoked by rich
and rigorous ‘think pieces’, in which to
explore alternative ways of thinking about health care provision, and our
experience within the health care system, and our practices as health care
professionals. We are looking for ways
to articulate what is happening in health care,
for new ways to reflect upon and talk about who we are and what the NHS
is.
At the root of
our work are our conferences. These aim to stand out from all the rest in offering opportunities to go beyond the
usual simplistic prescriptions and unexamined assumptions. They are unashamedly
intelligent and passionately committed.
They have been
called ‘jewels’. They allow those concerned about the direction and destiny of
the NHS to discuss, openly and freely, in a reflective and friendly atmosphere
- and leave seeing the world slightly differently.
Typically
people talk of how enriching it is to feel
part of a community of people interested in ways of thinking, valid and
coherent ways of looking at the world
that lie beyond the mainstream
management world view.
Click here to
see papers presented and explored at recent conferences:
And here to book for our next one, Compassion Fatigue: What are we missing, what is not being said in the current diagnosis that the culture of
the NHS needs to be changed?
These
conferences are what we are about, they are different from what everyone else
is doing, if you want to be different, to have the opportunity to think
freshly then click here and come along ....
In between these conferences our website aims to keep the spirit alive. Have a look at our Luminous Words project and please feel free to submit a description of your own luminous word.
You may also like to browse these links to the thinking of some of our members:
You may also like to browse these links to the thinking of some of our members:
Members of the
network, such as Stephen Pattison and Andrew Edgar (writing on integrity
(here )), Val Iles (on health care reform
(here)),
and Andrew Edgar (on the political philosophy of health (here))
have begun to explore new ways of discussing health care.
