NHS management accountability

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NURSING ACCOUNTABILITY	NURSING ACCOUNTABILITY
NURSING ACCOUNTABILITY^	Managers accountable? It's about time!* Nurses have been here for a long time. You're still not listening though ...

An insightful meeting without the insight of the largest safety critical profession seems more of an echo chamber
Assume #nursing not required to deliver the winter plan. https://t.co/8fHSACVLtf

— Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse (@alisonleary1) September 13, 2023

*Assuming NHS managers become subject to regulation and can also be held to account.

^Yes, spiritual too.

Many nurses may not want to acknowledge or contemplate the 'politics' of health. They respond quickly: It is not why they came into the profession. But, in practice and theory you / we cannot avoid it. In nurse-patient encounters, it is ever-present; it is the other / shadow encounter.

"Imagine dumping nearly 400,000 paper documents -

- into a dead drop
located discretely on the hard shoulder of a road."

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"Third is the rise of new actors, 'super-empowered' individuals, capable of intervening in historical developments at a systemic level."	"First is a change in the materiality of communication. Communication becomes more extensive, more recorded and the records become more mobile."
"Finally, fourth is a structural transformation of the public sphere (through media consolidation at one pole, and the explosion of non-institutional publishers at the other), to an extent that rivals the one described by Habermas with the rise of mass media at the turn of the 20th century." p.31.	"Second is a crisis of institutions, particularly in western democracies, where moralistic rhetoric and the ugliness of daily practice are further diverging at the very moment when institutional personnel are being encouraged to think for themselves."

Image: Amazon

"In the wake of Wikileaks' recent headline-busting exposés, a very different news and informational landscape is emerging. Whilst acknowledgeing the structural leakiness of networked organisations. Felix Stadler finds deep-rooted reasons for the crisis of information security and the new distribution of investigative journalism." p.31.

Source: Stalder, F. (2011) Double Negative Feedback: CONTAIN THIS! LEAKS, WHISTLE-BLOWERS AND THE NETWORKED NEWS ECOLOGY. MUTE. Spring/Summer, Vol. 3, #1, pp.30-37.





https://www.metamute.org/editorial/magazine/mute-vol.-3-no.-1-double-negative-feedback

PayWALL

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'Who' profits?	The Sciences Qualitative - RESEARCH - Quantitative
The Public [Locus of the 'public purse']

My source:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2181744-paywall-the-business-of-scholarship-review-analysis-of-a-scandal/

Community & Future: 2nd Workshop Conceptual Spaces at Work

There is a blog for the Conceptual Spaces community:

CS360

This includes an introduction describing synergies, videocasts when available, upcoming events, a bibliography, background to CS and links to sources. You can also subscribe to a mail list.

Yesterday, the close included the almost obligatory reflection on the future.

There are tentative plans for related meetings (Paris, Berlin, Palermo) and while 4 years is a long time, I can see what is meant by giving time for people to develop work. That point is not lost on me.

 What also stands out is the theoretical emphasis to date within CS, so there is a need to open the work to a wider audience and practical applications.

In the media there's a lot about 'public interest technology' and 'public interest law'. For example, as well as commercial enterprises, Drupal is playing a key part in leveraging the public interest through its work with not-for-profit organisations.

There is an ongoing call for papers for the next 8 months, obviously for the speakers and for those attending. Do contact people through the email leads at CS360 if interested.

CS is one possible tool I might use at some point, perhaps it also has relevance for you?

For me, presently it's departure gate F62!