The latest Festa / EHFF podcast with Caroline Whyte and Sean Conlan. This podcast features Feasta’s summer intern, Nadia Hansen, interviewing Dundalk-based social worker Dr Washington Marovatsanga on cultural competence, enforced absence, the relationship between power and knowledge production, the problematic history and orientation of social work, and how a Global South philosophy of collectivism could…
Details‘The Wellbeing economy’ In this session the Chair of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), Stewart Wallis talks to David Somekh of EHFF about the origins, work and future plans for their organisation as well as what we understand by the concept of a ‘wellbeing economy’. Hear the full episode here :
DetailsIntroduction from David Somekh EHFF Network Director: We’re publishing this month’s bulletin a bit earlier, because of upcoming holidays. Again, we have four diverse contributions. 1. Dr Dan Alton’s blog from the UK’s NHS Confederation is reprinted with permission and deals with the benefits of implementing the NHS Population Health Management strategy to tackle COVID-19…
Details“Partnership based organisation” “Governments around the world are currently rethinking their approach to the economy and reflecting on their overall goals, and this is triggering many questions about how best to structure organisations, large and small, so as to improve our chances of achieving those goals. This podcast includes interviews with people at an international…
Details“The future of tourism and business travel.” “We interview Manuel Grebenjak of the Stay Grounded network, and Professor James Faulconbridge, head of the Organisation Work and Technology Department at Lancaster University, about the future of tourism and business travel in the wake of Corona virus – bearing in mind the need to urgently reduce travel’s…
DetailsIntroduction from David Somekh EHFF Network Director: For this edition, we again have four diverse contributions.1. Louise Marshall from the UK Health Foundation has kindly agreed for us to re-publish her article about emerging evidence of the relation between health inequalities and COVID. Her message relates to what ought to happen during the ‘recovery phase’ to…
DetailsTest, test and test With most European countries now opting for some degree of relaxation of their lock-down, inevitably there have been some localised outbreaks of fresh infections. To liken these to ‘second wave’ (which in 1918 killed more people than the first wave) is dubious because a) testing in many places has been variable,…
DetailsEHFF COVID-19 Bulletin for end of May Introduction from David Somekh, EHFF Network Director For our third COVID19 Bulletin we provide another four thought pieces, looking mostly at other aspects of the impact of the pandemic on society, one exception being the follow-up we sought from Dr Tobias Gantner from his ‘Faster than corona’ project.…
DetailsHere’s how some of our projects are progressing: CEMPaC : our European Center for Empowering Patients and Communities We’re now in the third year of our major three year project to develop a resource center for Europe on patient empowerment, funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation. It’s taken a while, but on our website www.cempac.org…
DetailsIntroduction from David Somekh, EHFF Network Director After our Newsletter n.6 last month which also doubled as our first COVID-19 bulletin, we offer here four thought pieces. The theme is different kinds of learning so far from the pandemic, which link to EHFF’s principal mission, that of supporting transformational change for health and healthcare in…
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