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Papers by Sally Sheard
medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Jun 19, 2024
Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the twentieth century in shap... more Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the twentieth century in shaping social welfare. He was a modern-day Thomas Paine, driven by a strong socialist mission to improve the lives of the poorest. This valuable and accessible book is the first biography of Abel-Smith. It takes a historical perspective to analyse the development of health and social welfare systems since the 1950s, exposing the critical impact of long-running debates on poverty and state responsibility, especially in Britain. This book also provides the first comparative study of how developing countries sought better health and social welfare, enabled by the World Health Organisation and other agencies for whom Abel-Smith regularly worked. ,,This book offers an engaging and useful study for students and researchers in health and social policy, history, politics and economics. It will also be essential reading for professionals working in those government ministries and institutions that Brian Abel-Smith helped to shape. LSE Pioneers in Social Policy, This the first book in the LSE Pioneers in Social Policy series. Brian Abel-Smith Richard Titmuss and Peter Townsend were based at the London School of Economics and Political Science and made major contributions to the development of policies on the elderly, health care, law, poverty and welfare in the 20th century. This series of biographies tells the stories of these outstanding individuals: their backgrounds, ideas and work.
Medical History, Oct 1, 2007
Routledge eBooks, Aug 1, 2022
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, 2004
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, 2004
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, 2004
Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, Nov 1, 2019
Economics is now central to health policy decision making, within government departments and the ... more Economics is now central to health policy decision making, within government departments and the National Health Service. We examine how and why a health economics academic unit-the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York, England-was created in 1983, funded and commissioned to provide research evidence to the British government, specifically the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and its successors. Building on the knowledge transfer literature, we document the origins of this relationship and the different strategies deployed by successive governments and researchers. This paper demonstrates the value of historical methodologies such as oral history and textual analysis that highlight the limitations of existing knowledge transfer theories, by foregrounding the role of politics via the construction of individual relationships between academics and policy-makers. key words knowledge transfer • health economics • history • health policy key messages • Critically analyses the development of knowledge transfer between British health economics academic units and government health policy-makers. • Develops knowledge transfer theory by demonstrating a greater role for politics and individual relationships. • Provides a first detailed case study of how a British academic unit for health economics developed a relationship with a government department. To cite this article: MacKillop, E and Sheard, S. (2019) The politics of health policy knowledge transfer: the evolution of the role of British health economics academic units,
(DH), have collaborated to review the evolution and development of the role of the Chief Medical ... more (DH), have collaborated to review the evolution and development of the role of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Their book is not organised chronologically or biographically (although at the end there are vignettes of all holders of the office) but rather by themes. Their account closes in 1998, a year after the return of the Labour government, with the retirement of Donaldson's immediate predecessor, Sir Kenneth Calman. Their story of the last decades of the century, which would be of most interest to those working in the NHS today, is vague. For the goingson in the DH they hide behind the '30-year rule' , resort to unattributed anecdote, and only selectively divulge information by quoting from the evidence given by Sir Donald Acheson and Calman to the extraordinarily wide-ranging Phillips BSE Inquiry. The office of CMO was created with the establishment of the Ministry of Health in 1919. It has been the convention, however, to start the dynasty with the remarkable Sir John Simon who was appointed to the new position of medical officer to the General Board of Health of the Privy Council in 1855. Simon exploited his novel situation to the full, not least by his use of the press. But this independence only lasted until 1871 when Simon's department was subsumed, along with the Poor Law administration, into the newly created Local Government Board (LGB). The dead hand of the Victorian civil service descended on Simon, who resigned frustrated in 1876, and upon all his successors. The principal medical officer was downgraded and confined to public health surveillance and, like Acheson and Calman a century later, had to battle for even a minimum establishment of supporting medical officers. The last holder of the post, Sir Arthur Newsholme, appointed in 1908, wrote that he was not informed 'beforehand when important public health measures were under discussion [and had no say] in the final decision'. 1 At the beginning of the twentieth century, the LGB was held by many to be irredeemably bad and fit only for deconstruction. Innovation in health services came not from the LGB but from the Board of Education, where the brilliant and unorthodox Sir Robert Morant introduced systematic medical inspection of all school children in 1908 and established a new cadre of school medical officers under Sir George Newman. Morant correctly anticipated that inspection would 'reveal such a mass of disease … that no government … would be able to resist the demand' to provide treatment. 2 The second blast of innovation came from the Treasury under Lloyd George whose 1911 National Insurance Act provided medical care
Routledge eBooks, Aug 1, 2022
Peter Lang eBooks, Jul 11, 2016
Social history of medicine, Aug 1, 2002
CRC Press eBooks, Jul 27, 2018
Manchester University Press eBooks, Apr 20, 2021
Transcript of a Witness Seminar held online on 18 June 2020 Acknowledgements: The convenors would... more Transcript of a Witness Seminar held online on 18 June 2020 Acknowledgements: The convenors would like to thank the witnesses for their contributions.
medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Jun 19, 2024
Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the twentieth century in shap... more Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the twentieth century in shaping social welfare. He was a modern-day Thomas Paine, driven by a strong socialist mission to improve the lives of the poorest. This valuable and accessible book is the first biography of Abel-Smith. It takes a historical perspective to analyse the development of health and social welfare systems since the 1950s, exposing the critical impact of long-running debates on poverty and state responsibility, especially in Britain. This book also provides the first comparative study of how developing countries sought better health and social welfare, enabled by the World Health Organisation and other agencies for whom Abel-Smith regularly worked. ,,This book offers an engaging and useful study for students and researchers in health and social policy, history, politics and economics. It will also be essential reading for professionals working in those government ministries and institutions that Brian Abel-Smith helped to shape. LSE Pioneers in Social Policy, This the first book in the LSE Pioneers in Social Policy series. Brian Abel-Smith Richard Titmuss and Peter Townsend were based at the London School of Economics and Political Science and made major contributions to the development of policies on the elderly, health care, law, poverty and welfare in the 20th century. This series of biographies tells the stories of these outstanding individuals: their backgrounds, ideas and work.
Medical History, Oct 1, 2007
Routledge eBooks, Aug 1, 2022
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, 2004
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, 2004
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, 2004
Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, Nov 1, 2019
Economics is now central to health policy decision making, within government departments and the ... more Economics is now central to health policy decision making, within government departments and the National Health Service. We examine how and why a health economics academic unit-the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York, England-was created in 1983, funded and commissioned to provide research evidence to the British government, specifically the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and its successors. Building on the knowledge transfer literature, we document the origins of this relationship and the different strategies deployed by successive governments and researchers. This paper demonstrates the value of historical methodologies such as oral history and textual analysis that highlight the limitations of existing knowledge transfer theories, by foregrounding the role of politics via the construction of individual relationships between academics and policy-makers. key words knowledge transfer • health economics • history • health policy key messages • Critically analyses the development of knowledge transfer between British health economics academic units and government health policy-makers. • Develops knowledge transfer theory by demonstrating a greater role for politics and individual relationships. • Provides a first detailed case study of how a British academic unit for health economics developed a relationship with a government department. To cite this article: MacKillop, E and Sheard, S. (2019) The politics of health policy knowledge transfer: the evolution of the role of British health economics academic units,
(DH), have collaborated to review the evolution and development of the role of the Chief Medical ... more (DH), have collaborated to review the evolution and development of the role of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Their book is not organised chronologically or biographically (although at the end there are vignettes of all holders of the office) but rather by themes. Their account closes in 1998, a year after the return of the Labour government, with the retirement of Donaldson's immediate predecessor, Sir Kenneth Calman. Their story of the last decades of the century, which would be of most interest to those working in the NHS today, is vague. For the goingson in the DH they hide behind the '30-year rule' , resort to unattributed anecdote, and only selectively divulge information by quoting from the evidence given by Sir Donald Acheson and Calman to the extraordinarily wide-ranging Phillips BSE Inquiry. The office of CMO was created with the establishment of the Ministry of Health in 1919. It has been the convention, however, to start the dynasty with the remarkable Sir John Simon who was appointed to the new position of medical officer to the General Board of Health of the Privy Council in 1855. Simon exploited his novel situation to the full, not least by his use of the press. But this independence only lasted until 1871 when Simon's department was subsumed, along with the Poor Law administration, into the newly created Local Government Board (LGB). The dead hand of the Victorian civil service descended on Simon, who resigned frustrated in 1876, and upon all his successors. The principal medical officer was downgraded and confined to public health surveillance and, like Acheson and Calman a century later, had to battle for even a minimum establishment of supporting medical officers. The last holder of the post, Sir Arthur Newsholme, appointed in 1908, wrote that he was not informed 'beforehand when important public health measures were under discussion [and had no say] in the final decision'. 1 At the beginning of the twentieth century, the LGB was held by many to be irredeemably bad and fit only for deconstruction. Innovation in health services came not from the LGB but from the Board of Education, where the brilliant and unorthodox Sir Robert Morant introduced systematic medical inspection of all school children in 1908 and established a new cadre of school medical officers under Sir George Newman. Morant correctly anticipated that inspection would 'reveal such a mass of disease … that no government … would be able to resist the demand' to provide treatment. 2 The second blast of innovation came from the Treasury under Lloyd George whose 1911 National Insurance Act provided medical care
Routledge eBooks, Aug 1, 2022
Peter Lang eBooks, Jul 11, 2016
Social history of medicine, Aug 1, 2002
CRC Press eBooks, Jul 27, 2018
Manchester University Press eBooks, Apr 20, 2021
Transcript of a Witness Seminar held online on 18 June 2020 Acknowledgements: The convenors would... more Transcript of a Witness Seminar held online on 18 June 2020 Acknowledgements: The convenors would like to thank the witnesses for their contributions.