Wales NHS returns to Bevanite collectivism (maybe!)

[Ruth Dineen]

The Welsh Government have just launched their Prudent Healthcare strategy – intended to save the NHS in Wales. http://www.prudenthealthcare.org.uk/ph/

And here’s an interesting thing…fresh from his appearance in our radical new Social Services & Well-being Act (Wales), the glorious Edgar Cahn pops up again in our Health Minister’s introduction:

“The idea of co-production is today one which is widely and approvingly quoted. That is not to say that everyone uses the term in an identical way. Here in Wales, the dominant strand is that which draws on the highly-influential work of Edgar Cahn. At its ethical core lies the notion of reciprocity – the give and take which creates the social bonds that hold us together in a common life and which relies, for its vitality, on the innumerable individual encounters in the services we use. The purpose of those encounters has to be emancipatory – always aiming at fostering and promoting the autonomy and capacity of the individual, rather than undermining it.”

My contribution is ‘Co-producing the NHS: putting people in the picture’.http://www.prudenthealthcare.org.uk/coproduction/

If we collectively pull this particular rabbit out of the hat, it will be entirely glorious. But it's a big ask...