One of the best fringe events at the Labour Party conference is "Top
of the Manifesto Policies" organised by Pragmatic Radicalism. Quick fire pitches that could end up as Labour Party Policy! More here...........
My manifesto pitch for 2013 conference............
Community
Life Centres – Whole Person Care for “One Nation” Health
Integrated
Health and Social Care |
| At TOTP 2012 |
These needs have to be offered at a local level within the heart of communities across the country and will support people, in difficult times, to continue to live at home and reverse the current momentum that draws people towards hospitals and away from their families and friends. A local health and community centre approach that support wellness, and encourages improvements in leisure, fitness, social activity and diet.
The spirit of ’45 re-invented for the 21st Century.
Many of the answers to the problems we face in health and social care today were created almost a century ago. The answers were found during the years that surrounded the Second World War in “The Peckham Experiment” based at The Pioneer Health Centre in Southwark.
How do we provide Whole Person Care?
Community Life Centres, like the Pioneer Health Centre, will support the role of clinical medicine by integrating it with the life of the community and focusing on health promotion by various means rather than simply the cure of disease using medicines.
The original “Pioneer Health Centre”, from 1934, was organised as a club that families joined, with dances, swimming pool, library and farm grown food. For a small fee and compulsory health checks at regular intervals, families living within “pram-pushing distance” of the centre could make use of all the facilities with the belief that, left to themselves, people would spontaneously begin to organise in a creative way. When people are given resources in a community to enable them to grow they will be active in their community for the benefit of that community.
Andy
Burnham: “The exclusion of the social side of care from the NHS settlement
explains why it has never been able to break out of a ‘treatment service’
mentality and truly embrace prevention. For most of the 20th century, we
just about managed to make it work for most people. When people had chronic or
terminal illness at a younger age, they could still cope with daily living even
towards the end of life. Families lived closer to each other and, with a bit of
council support, could cope. Now, in the century of the ageing society, the gaps
between our three services are getting dangerous. The 21st century is asking
questions of our 20th century health and care system that, in its current
position, will never be able to answer to the public’s
satisfaction."
Community
Life Centres provide self-sustaining, cost-effective and preventative solutions
for “One Nation” Health
Socialist
Health Foundation:
http://www.sochealth.co.uk/public-health-and-wellbeing/peckham-experiment/peckham-experiment-5-health-overhaul/
The
Pioneer Health Foundation: The Peckham Experiment in the 21st
Century.
http://www.thephf.org/
Research
The Peckham Experiment:
http://www.marylangmanprize.org.uk/books-about-the-peckham-experiment
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