The Heart of Health: Putting the Heart Back into Healthcare
The project aims to use the Church’s practical and theoretical resources to shift both the debate and shared practices around healthcare.
A group of Catholics involved in healthcare policy and practice, local politics, and theology has begun a project entitled ‘The Heart of Health: Putting the Heart Back into Healthcare.’
The project aims to use the Church’s practical and theoretical resources to shift both the debate and shared practices around healthcare. Specifically, it seeks to help people care for their physical, emotional, and spiritual health and resilience by fostering, extending, and linking existing church, healthcare, and other local communities. This effort is focused on building networks for personal mutual support, with an emphasis on the inclusion of those living in material and social poverty.
The project is inspired by various existing examples and is illuminated by the Church’s rich understanding of human beings as spiritual persons in community, endowed with dignity, freedom, and agency. It is grounded in the belief that people are made for mutual loving relationships and lives of purpose and hope.
The political benefits of this project and approach are seen in the following ways:
Nearly all the ways of staying healthy and happy are cheap or free, yet health services are in constant financial need.
People need support to follow these healthy ways of living.
Building supportive local communities can unite people across political divides, avoiding polarization by honouring the left’s concern for solidarity and care for those in need, and the right’s concern for freedom, creativity, and independence.
This is a positive and inspiring vision that can help address not only the healthcare crisis but also the ecological, financial, and social crises facing society. It offers a ready-made philosophy and language rooted in the Christian tradition, yet accessible to people of all faiths and none.
For more information, individuals are invited to join the following webinar: The Heart of Good Health: Supporting the Whole Person in Local Communities, hosted by the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford, on Thursday, April 3rd, from 18:30–19:45.
For more details, visit https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-heart-of-healthcare/.
To register, please email lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
As the personal, social, and economic costs of current healthcare approaches rise, causing distress to both patients and healthcare professionals, this webinar brings together experts and concerned individuals from the health service, the churches, and public life. It will explore what a Catholic vision of the human person in society offers as an alternative in terms of public policy and local initiatives.
Speakers include:
Sr. Margaret Atkins CRSA, “The Heart of Health – A Vision for the Church and Society”
Professor James McManus, Director of Public Health, Wales, “Theology Meets Health Policy: A Catholic Contribution to Health Policy Starts Theologically and Proceeds Practically”
Thomas Horton, Head of Community Justice at His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service in Wales, “Theology in Action: Probation and Community”
Workforce Shortages and Obtaining a Sponsorship Licence
Join Julie Moktadir, Partner and Head of Immigration, in this session to discuss workforce shortages and how to obtain a sponsorship licence.
Stone King LLP Free Webinar
Workforce shortages and obtaining a sponsorship licence
Thursday 18 July 2024, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Online via Zoom
Workforce shortages are impacting a number of sectors in the UK. Many organisations are therefore looking to recruit from outside the UK and sponsor overseas nationals in order to fill essential roles.
Join Julie Moktadir, Partner and Head of Immigration, in this session to discuss workforce shortages and how to obtain a sponsorship licence. Julie will look at the requirements set out by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) to obtain a licence, as well as the ongoing compliance duties for sponsors once a licence is in place.
This will be an interactive session, so there will be opportunities to ask questions throughout.
Speakers
Julie Moktadir, Partner and Head of Immigration, Stone King
Cost
Free to attend
Date
Thursday 18 July 2024
Timings
Start: 3:00 pm
Finish: 4:00 pm