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{{NeedsImage}} '''Simon John Duffy''', PhD, (in moral philosophy) is the director of the [[Citizen Network]] in Sheffield, UK, which is a network of researchers who focus on matters of social justice. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham’s Health Service Management Centre.<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/dr-simon-duffy</ref> In 2008, he won the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for social innovation.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Medal_(Royal_Society_of_Arts)</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110608193010/http://www.thersa.org/about-us/history-and-archive/medals/albert-medal</ref> He has championed deinstitutionalisation in order to reform mental hospitals and opposes the [[Department for Work and Pensions]] in an effort to improve the welfare system.<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/dr-simon-duffy</ref> Dr. Duffy has become a vocal critic of the [[PACE trial]], writing in his Huffington Post blog on April 20, 2016 that:"the therapies recommended by the [[PACE trial]] are so harmful that, if they were medicines, they would be withdrawn from the market."<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-simon-duffy/the-misleading-research-a_b_9726490.html</ref> ==Open letter== Dr. Duffy was one of the signatories of [[an open letter to Psychological Medicine about “recovery” and the PACE trial]]. ==Online presence== *[http://simonduffy.blogspot.com// Online writings and Blog] *[https://twitter.com/simonjduffy?lang=en Twitter] ==See also== *[[Centre for Welfare Reform]] ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Advocates or allies]][[Category:PACE trial critics]]
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