What about the patients that don't get better?: Health justice and chronic conditions 

The NHS was established to provide health care for people suffering from conditions that were largely untreatable. Over time it has abrogated responsibility for them, concentrating instead on those conditions that have a technological solution. In this lecture I explore what the consequences of relabelling long term health care ‘social care’ have been, the way that this meets neoliberal imperatives that see health care as mainly concerned with profit and the public health and social justice consequences for those who suffer most illness and distress. I examine what successful treatment means where outcomes are hard to measure in numerical terms.

Speakers

Professor Rob Poole, Centre For Mental Health And Society, Bangor University

Availability

This webinar is part of the Congress webinar 2025 package. If you attended all four days of Congress, you will have access to these as part of your Congress package. Otherwise the Congress webinar 2025 package can be purchased below.