Health resources

What about GP commissioning? COVER’s recent research shows how many VCS organisations felt that GPs did not understand the links between their work and positive health outcomes. But there are plenty of examples around how employment, benefits advice and unemployment relate to health issues. For example, check out the Bromley by Bow centre.

I don't see psychiatrists speaking openly on British videos. Take a look at a Community Health Centre’s videos in Ontario. This provides fantastic examples of people being enabled to become really involved in thinking about their own illnesses.  As one lady comments 'It's more than about doctors....'

Some American websites thinking aloud about various forms of emotional ill-health seem streets ahead of work 'over here' in terms of visual descriptions and knowledge.

Try healthy place.com for down-to-earth knowledge ranging from Alzheimer's through to depression and bi-polar disorder.

There are some good examples available from over here:

Few videos provide such a detailed account of exploitation, mistreatment and abuse of people who are ageing as on You Tube's Protecting the Dignity of our Older People.

cutmovie.co.uk is a Women's Aid video which can only shock us all as it details ways in which women are abused by men....

We should be especially proud of pioneering work in Cambridge: MakingMentalNotes is a user-led media thinking about mental and emotional health which includes more than relevant videos from Frank and Rachel Bruno and many others.