Articles and Features

Social Values and Health

With colleagues from the joint University College London/King’s College London Social Values and Health Priority Setting Group:

The ethics and practice of disinvestment: on knowing what not to do in health and social care Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, May 2019

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, social values and healthcare priority setting Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2 April 2019

Cost effective but unaffordable: an emerging challenge for health systems BMJ Editorial, 22 March 2017

Challenges for the new Cancer Drugs Fund The Lancet Oncology, March 2016

Cost-effectiveness and social values recommendations for revising NICE’s social value judgements: an open letter to NICE December 2014

With participants at a Brocher Foundation workshop on participation and accountability in health prioritisation:

Slutsky J. et al Patterns of public participation: Opportunity structures and mobilization from a cross-national perspective Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol. 30 Issue: 5 (2016)

Guest Blogs

Putting the 5 Ways to Wellbeing in place Landscape, Gardens and Health Network, March 2019

A sense of place: what’s health got to do with it? Housing LIN, May 2017

Rationing in the NHS: high quality care for all, now and for future generations? Faculty of Public Health, May 2015

Adaptation the key to community resilience: lessons from research and local practice LGiU, December 2015

Fuel poverty can keep climate change on the agenda for health Public Health Today, March 2013

Leaner and greener health and social care LGiU, February 2013

Climate harm reduction Defra, January 2013

First do no harm? The ethics of sustainable health and social care Defra, January 2012

Think global, act… personal: A sustainable future for social care Age UK, March 2012

Worth a Look

Richard Sved’s thoughts on charity fundraising and strategy.

Sheffield’s Director of Public Health, Greg Fell, reflecting on public health evidence and practice.

Mark Gamsu’s Local democracy and health blog on reducing health inequalities, citizen action and the wider determinants of health.

Jim McManus, Director of Public Health, Hertfordshire, The Commonplace Book on public health, ethics, books, theology and more.

Richard and Catherine provided us with expert guidance and personal support along a journey of improvement and cultural change. By bringing together operational staff, managers, trustees and volunteers they have shown us how we can work better together at setting direction, delivering our priorities and measuring the quality, effectiveness and impact of everything we do.

Robert Ball
Chief Executive
Catherine and Matt are a pleasure to collaborate with. They combine expertise, creativity and pragmatism to deliver high quality work which provides a sound basis for future action.

Chief Executive
Care City
Catherine impressed us straight away with her quick grasp of the essentials and the ferocious energy she displayed in coming to grips not just with the immediate problem but with the underlying issues which had left us in a very weak position.

Executive Member for Culture
London Borough of Camden
Working with Catherine is so easy. Her knowledge, skill and determination are balanced with common sense. There is never a feeling that she is just recycling material off the shelf. It is always fresh, relevant and challenging. And it’s always on time.

Deputy Regional Director (Social Care)
Department of Health
Catherine ran two creative and inspiring sessions for the Citizen’s Council which enabled members to grapple with the concept of ‘societal value’. Council members with different backgrounds and perspectives were encouraged to challenge their own and others’ ideas constructively, and this helped set the tone for the sessions which followed.

Associate Director, Research and Development
NICE
Catherine has worked with SCIE to deliver an innovative and unique programme of work that has placed sustainability as a key consideration in the provision of social care. Her skill has been to work successfully with all of the stakeholders in health and social care, including people who use services, to ensure that our research and guidance is genially co-produced.

Director
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Catherine has generated excellent consultancy work for NHS Tower Hamlets. She is good with stakeholders, joins things up and produces reports of high quality. I like the fact that she follows up on the work and is obviously genuinely committed to getting results.

Associate Director (Employment)
NHS Tower Hamlets
Catherine delivered a tough project on an unrealistic timescale to a demanding client group on budget. I would unhesitatingly recommend her.

Policy and Programmes Manager
GLA
The complications seemed endless but Catherine brought a focus and a clarity in her reporting which enabled us to see there was a possible way forward.

Executive Member for Culture
London Borough of Camden

Catherine Max Consulting

Social Values and Health

Guest Blogs

Worth a Look

This bus is about to move

Improving wellbeing through urban nature and civic connection

Connecting, learning and giving at Tufnell Park Film Club