Industrialised humanity: how may we best care for one another?
An exploratory interview

Most healthcare workers are uncomfortably aware of a sickness now deeply rooted in our governing organisations. Many will rightly identify increasing demands and stresses struggling with relatively inadequate funds as being a major cause.

But though certainly important, such explanations do not adequately account for equally destructive and erosive problems within our current NHS – the loss of morale, therapeutic camaraderie and wholesome trust and satisfaction in our work. Previous decades challenged us with equally hard work, but without such unsustainable and toxic institutional alienation.

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Since my coerced decommissioning in 2016, by NHS England and the Care Quality Commission, I have spent much time trying to understand these problems in a way that avoids narrow attribution of blame. To do this I have interviewed hundreds of people in a kind of informal and very broad field study. The attached transcripted interview with The Centre for Welfare Reform (CfWR) crystallises and summarises much of what I have gleaned, adding some remedial suggestions.

If you are interested in further historical interpretation then you may also wish to read Collectivising the Personal. Seminal lessons from Bolshevism – Article 100 on my Home Page (http://www.marco-learningsystems.com/pages/david-zigmond/david-zigmond.htm) –  also related articles - please see below this letter

I write to broaden and stimulate essential debate. I am sending this transcript to you prior to wider publication by CfWR in script and video form. Your feedback and propagation would help fuel essential remedial debate.

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Industrialised humanity: how may we best care for one another?

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