Textbooks, monographs and policy-focused books on our Health and Social Care list push forward the boundaries of teaching, theory, policy and practice. The list covers areas including global health, health inequalities and research into policy and practice.
Key series include Transforming Care which provides a crucial platform for scholars researching early childhood care, care for adults with disabilities and long-term care for frail older people, and the Sociology of Health Professions, offering high-quality, original work in the sociology of health professions with an innovative focus on their likely future direction. Our leading journal in the area is the International Journal of Care and Caring.
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This book focuses on the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic currently dominating the agenda of global, national and local policymakers, from the perspective of the UK. This major public health crisis presents a threat which is impacting adversely on global economic structures, and exacerbating a number of pre-existing wicked issues. These interlinked issues include climate change, racial justice, austerity, housing and homelessness, employment, domestic abuse, human trafficking and modern slavery.
In the North East there have been encouraging signs of new partnerships spurred on by the COVID-19 crisis in bringing both local government and the National Health Service closer together and producing local responses to the pandemic. However, there is a frustration that central government is too far removed from understanding both regional and local needs. The Levelling Up Funds and the new UK Shared Prosperity Fund all seem too vague and uncoordinated. This chapter argues that it is not surprising that in this fragmented governance region, health inequalities are rising and worsening, even as the pandemic eases. People are still asking what levelling up means and how it will make a real difference in the region in the period to 2030.
This book focuses on the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic currently dominating the agenda of global, national and local policymakers, from the perspective of the UK. This major public health crisis presents a threat which is impacting adversely on global economic structures, and exacerbating a number of pre-existing wicked issues. These interlinked issues include climate change, racial justice, austerity, housing and homelessness, employment, domestic abuse, human trafficking and modern slavery.
This book focuses on the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic currently dominating the agenda of global, national and local policymakers, from the perspective of the UK. This major public health crisis presents a threat which is impacting adversely on global economic structures, and exacerbating a number of pre-existing wicked issues. These interlinked issues include climate change, racial justice, austerity, housing and homelessness, employment, domestic abuse, human trafficking and modern slavery.
The concept of food insecurity represents an example of partnership and collaboration across all sectors. Using social innovation approaches, this chapter explores how this takes place using examples from a range of contexts. A framework is offered to illustrate innovation and collaboration which assists in understanding and mapping examples of this.
Decades of experience with delivering large-scale infrastructure projects through a partnering approach provides valuable lessons to be learned about the antecedents, processes, outcomes and possibilities associated with public–private partnering. However, that rich experience has also provided considerable insight into the challenges of developing and embedding relational contracting in practice. Drawing upon established research on partnering in major infrastructure projects, this chapter elaborates on and explores those challenges and examines how they may unfold in the context of public–private collaboration designed to address wicked social and cultural issues. Emphasis is placed upon understanding the organisational cultural antecedents of partnering and how these may evolve as collaborative relationships are established and develop between organisations that straddle the public–private divide.
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided the stark reality of a world without relationships, experienced by people and communities in lockdown. Relationalism contributes to cultural changes in business practice, procurement and commissioning, and it has the potential to contribute to long-standing and contemporary wicked issues. References to relationalism and climate change give an insight into opportunities to promote the international aims agreed in the Paris agreement by shared values and trust across the developed and developing countries, as demonstrated via the need for equity in access to vaccines between developed and less well developed countries.
It is impossible to understand the devastating impact of the COVID-19 virus across the UK involving significant loss of life, and the government’s much criticised response to it, without applying the lens of a sociopolitical perspective.
A substantial body of evidence exists to show that the virus has had a disproportionate impact on poor communities, and on care homes, reflecting widening health inequalities and the effects of deep public spending cuts since 2010.
This chapter explores many of the core cleavages in health policy, reflecting political and ethical tensions over the balance to be struck, and negotiated, across personal and collective responsibility, across public and private interests, and between the rights of the community and personal freedoms.
Adopting a sociopolitical perspective allows us to identify and explore a range of factors which, taken together, help explain where the government’s handling of COVID-19 has been found wanting.
Three particular policy failures, and the political choices leading up to them, are explored. These comprise the persistence of a command and control approach to handling the crisis, the policy of austerity introduced by the Coalition government in 2010, and the heavy reliance on outsourcing activities to the private sector and management consultants. An agenda for reform going forward is presented to conclude this chapter.
This chapter addresses:
• how a full understanding of social value can unlock better
value and meet actual need in public services;
• how creating partnering and collaborative relationships can help to meet the well-being of communities – and why a good governance framework is essential to each of the participants in any such relationship but also to the vehicle for that relationship itself;
• what can be done to move from a binary commissioning contracting framework that yields a decreasing cycle of outcomes to a multistakeholder approach that negotiates an upward rachet of benefits generated through collaboration.
These issues are explored with reference to future changes in the regulation of public procurement in the UK and the evolution of HM Treasury’s Green Book to recognise the importance of government policy changes to enable a complementary change in economic drivers.
This book focuses on the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic currently dominating the agenda of global, national and local policymakers, from the perspective of the UK. This major public health crisis presents a threat which is impacting adversely on global economic structures, and exacerbating a number of pre-existing wicked issues. These interlinked issues include climate change, racial justice, austerity, housing and homelessness, employment, domestic abuse, human trafficking and modern slavery.
