When Systems Fail: Covid-19, NHS acute hospitals and public health
| Dates: | 16 December 2020 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 16:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Alliance Manchester Business School |
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| Speaker: | Professor Julie Froud , Professor Karel Williams |
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Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 16th December.
Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/nKkHTAeNUXM
Abstract:
The seminar will introduce a recent report which outlines how fragility was built into the UK’s hospital and public laboratory systems so that the Covid- 19 crisis was an accident waiting to happen, a normal accident.
The hospital system did not have the buffer capacity needed to absorb a pandemic surge and the public health laboratory system lacked the organisational capacity to respond to unexpected circumstances. All this was unintentionally caused by a combination of long-term funding shortages and the hyper-innovation of organisational churn imposed on the NHS and public health in the name of public sector reform. Beyond this critique, the report addresses remedies and the question of how to rebuild so that we have more robust health systems and more generally can re-skill the state so that it does not default onto distress outsourcing whenever it wants quick results. Renewal requires much more funding and a new approach, the care-ful practice of policy, which recognises the limits of the control paradigm – the top-down approach to policymaking that has been dominant for three decades.
The full report and summary on pp.2-6 can be accessed from: https://foundationaleconomy.com/2020/08/18/covid-19-uk-nhs-report/
Presenter: Professor Julie Froud & Professor Karel Williams, People, Management & Organisations Division, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester
Speakers
Professor Julie Froud
Role: People, Management and Organisations Division
Organisation: Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Professor Karel Williams
Role: People, Management and Organisations Division
Organisation: Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
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