Carl Walker

Dr Carl Walker leads a European Community Psychology Association Task Force on Austerity and Mental health and is a member of the National Health Action Party.

David Cameron’s brave new world of private mental health care

The crisis in mental health care is no accident.

By Carl Walker

/ 5 Apr 2016

Jeremy Hunt launches doctor morale inquiry - here's a sneak preview of its findings...

On the day he imposed a morale-busting contract on junior doctors, the health secretary also announced... an urgent inquiry into the state of doctor's morale. Beyond satire?

By Carl Walker

/ 15 Feb 2016

The Department of Health Christmas party

Join Jeremy and colleagues down at the bowling alley for some festive fun...

By Carl Walker

/ 21 Dec 2015

The emergency budget - is it time to chain up 11 Downing Street to stop it poisoning us with 'austerity'?

'Austerity' is as discredited an approach to twenty-first century ills, as the 'miasma' theory was to nineteenth century ones. But where are our modern John Snows?

By Carl Walker

/ 7 Jul 2015

A dance of destitution - psychology's clash over coercion

Job centres are becoming gladiatorial arenas where unemployed people and professionals slug it out, whilst the ethical battle rages.

By Carl Walker

/ 16 Jun 2015

The George Osborne drinking game - the new way to enjoy 'austerity'

Once again this weekend we've heard that £13bn of cuts to social security and £22bn of NHS cuts are imminent. Osborne says "we all know" that early cuts give a "smoother ride". But do we?

By Carl Walker

/ 1 Jun 2015

NHS pledges - do even the politicians making them, believe them anymore?

Recent history suggests NHS pledges are there to be broken - or subverted. Perhaps voters would prefer less manifesto, and more information on the financial interests driving policy making.

By Carl Walker

/ 15 Apr 2015

David Cameron, England's NHS, and the tiger in the bathroom

As it becomes impossible to deny the devastation being wreaked on the National Health Service by 2012's Health & Social Care Act, who is really pledging to fix it?

By Carl Walker

/ 9 Feb 2015

Carnival of incompetence - or, how nobody knows how to privatise a health service well

Recent experiences show no-one knows how to privatise bits of the English Health Service without damaging the parts - like A&E - that are left behind.

By Carl Walker

/ 23 Jan 2015

Life, the universe, and the NHS crisis

The NHS is in crisis like never before - but the political game ignores the real causes of the problem.

By Carl Walker

/ 8 Jan 2015

Four reasons Nick Clegg is no mental health saviour

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has some nerve to appoint himself the champion of the mentally ill.

By Carl Walker

/ 14 Oct 2014