Interconnections at the end of 2020

Interconnections, TAC and TAC Bulletin

Interconnections argues for teamwork around babies, children and young adults who are disabled, vulnerable or marginalised. There is more to do than we can achieve on our own. We need to take power with others.

This covid world that we have spent most of

Euthanasia of the elderly! It is already here in England. You can get a DO NOT RESUSCITATE order against your will. Could this happen in your country?

NHS in England is compiling a national frailty index to go on elderly people’s medical records - BEWARE!

(NHS = National Health Service)

Editorial: This all has the taste of fascism. The Daily Mail on 28/11/20 cries out to wake us all up to what England’s government is doing. The brave article by Su

Art might not cure disease, but it helps make life worth living

‘governments hope we will all increasingly keep our noses stuck in small screens for our work, our leisure and, increasingly, our sex life

Editorial: My government, and perhaps yours, has been panicked by Covid into incompetence and confusion. It began by making health a single and exclusive priorit

Being very apprehensive of any rushed ‘outside-the-law’ vaccine

I see three great dangers: viruses and bacteria (as always), chaotic and cruel lockdowns, outside-the-law vaccines

Editorial: Every medicine and surgical procedure comes with risks of disease or death. We have to take this as a fact of life whether we are taking anti-depressants or having an appende

Will you, in your country, be institutionalised in 2021? If so, will we need more coffins for babies?

Being institutionalised means you put the needs of yourself and your family before the rights of your clients and patients

Editorial: From Guardian website -

“Maternity scandal report calls for urgent changes in England's hospitals”

It uncovers a pattern of grim failures at Shrewsbury and Telford ho

Covid: Moving from government-inspired hysteria to a common sense approach

'contrary to what the Government experts would have you think...that hospitals were close to overflowing...at least half didn’t have a single Covid-19 patient'

UK’s Daily Mail has been a loan voice in questioning the government response to the Covid virus. I applaud its bravery.

These extracts

Editorial: What does ‘health’ mean? How can a person be ‘healthy’?

We are learning from the pandemic that it is very dangerous to define ‘health’ narrowly

The world is slowly waking up to the fact that ‘health’ is a composite that includes:

Physical health
Mental health
Social health
Sufficient income to support self and loved ones in a healthy life style
A home
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Negative hospital environments: Is it appropriate to de-medicalise early child and family support? A summary so far

This support for disability and development disorders is not a medical issue

Peter Limbrick writes: In my serialised essay (starting here) I have been looking critically at the support offered when babies and young children have disabilities and special needs that will impact on their development an