Clare Harvey

Oct 28, 2024 | medium.com | Clare Harvey

Clare Harvey·Follow4 min read·--IMAGE FROM ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT. USED WITH PERMISSIONAlzheimer’s disease most commonly affects the retired population. But more than 33,000 in England are of working age, and many have not been officially diagnosed. Diagnosis figures reached a new high in July; half a million patients are recorded in the data. Around 7000 families receive a diagnosis every month. Younger adults are in the minority.

Jun 21, 2024 | birminghameastside.com | Clare Harvey

What do political parties’ manifestos say about their priorities in this year’s general election — and how have those changed since 2019? In a special analysis for Birmingham Eastside, Clare Harvey identifies the top six themes in the manifestos of the Conservatives, Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK, including shared interests, and new entries. With just two weeks now left until the election, Labour continues to lead in the polls, 21 percentage points ahead of its nearest rivals.

Dec 10, 2023 | birminghameastside.com | Clare Harvey

The number of people dying in care homes has decreased between 2019 and 2022. Across England and Wales 133,332 deaths were reported in 2022, roughly 5000 less than in 2019. Annual data for 2022, released by the Office for National Statistics in November, highlighted fewer deaths of care home residents in all regions, including 44 fewer in the West Midlands. Over the same period, the number of people living in care homes has also decreased.

Aug 15, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Amy-Louise Byrne |Clare Harvey |Adele Baldwin

1 INTRODUCTION How might Foucault have described the medical institution during the global COVID-19 pandemic? What might he say about the models that have formed, the changing landscape of care within the neo-liberal epoch and how the global pandemic has remoulded the power relations across the social orders? In 1983, Foucault stated, ‘In a given society, there is no general type of equilibrium between finalised activities, systems of communication and power relations.