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JULIA MANNING: We need a high level response to raise the status of the elderly
…At the end of the week we will all be sharing in a time of reflection for what previous generations have sacrificed for us to ensure our freedom. Let’s use that freedom now to insist that the respect we show once a year for veterans is extended year round to all elderly people. Then we can call ourselves civilised again… more
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About Julia Manning
Julia studied visual science at City University and became a member of the College of Optometrists in 1991. Her career has included being visiting lecturer in clinical practice at City University, visiting clinician at the Royal
Free Hospital, being a founder member of the British Association of Behavioural Optometrists and working with Primary Care Trusts in south east London. She was a Director of the UK Institute of Optometry for 6 years, took post-graduate studies in diabetes and founded Julia Manning Eyecare, a specialist optometry practice for people with mental and physical disabilities which was bought by HealthcallOptical Ltd in August 2009.
Julia is a founder and Chief Executive of 2020health.org which she launched at the end of 2006 as the first web based, clinician-led, independent Think Tank for Health and Technology. It uniquely focuses on bottom-up policy development by front line professionals focusing on the themes of technology and management. Publications include Not Immune: vaccination policy in the 21st century; Practice-based commissioning: not what it says on the tin; Responsibility in healthcare: changing the culture; NHS IT: A plan of action for a new government; Implementing value-based pricing in the UK; Cutting the costs without cutting the services and Health, disease and unemployment: The Bermuda Triangle of Society. She has blogged on many health and technology issues and wrote on the history of her profession in ‘60 years of the NHS’ (St. James’s House, 2008).
Well said!