Health: working together to improve care

Care is a global issue, from the provision of medical attention to social and community care. Here we look at some examples of how individuals and organisations are...

Care is a global issue, from the provision of medical attention to social and community care. Here we look at some examples of how individuals and organisations are working together to improve care and healthcare both in the UK and further afield…

  • ">Health co-ops "create a peaceful and lively society"

    In a Q&A with the International Health Co-operative Organisation, Dr. Toshinori Ozeki, vice-president of the IHCO and the Japanese Health and Welfare Co-operative Federation (HeW Coop), talks about what the world can learn from Japan’s health co-ops. What is the origin of Hew Coop Japan and what are their activities and future projects? Three health co-operatives were established ...

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  • How can the UK make care fair?

    Co-operative social and community workers in the UK are set to form a guild to encourage dialogue, best practice and effective safeguarding in the co- operative care sector. The Co-operative Guild of Social and Community Workers is spearheaded by ChangeAGEnts, the older people’s participation co-operative that works towards a vision of contribution, opportunity and engagement. In ...

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  • UK forum explores co-op approaches to care

    Care practitioners from co-operatives and charities in the UK have initiated a forum to discuss and share best practice in care provision across the country. The forum for Co-operative Approaches in Care was established against a backdrop of care increasingly being seen as a commodity, to identify, support and champion co-operative innovations in the sector. "Ideally, [care] is ...

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  • Co-operating for the public benefit

    On 1 October 2015, three major health organisations in North East Lincolnshire covering community services, mental health and acute (hospital) services entered into a Co-operation Agreement. "So what', you might say. "What’s the news in that? Haven’t public service bodies been entering into partnership arrangements and collaboration agreements and co-operating with each other for years? ...

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  • Colorado pushes for universal health care that’s governed by the people

    In 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which aimed to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance in America, lower the uninsured rate and reduce costs. The scheme has been beset by problems, with 12 of 23 CO-OPs (consumer operated and oriented plans) set up under ‘Obamacare’ now set to close by the end of 2015, citing ...

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