Simon Duffy
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.[1] In 2008, he won the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for social innovation.[2][3] 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.[4]
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20, 2016 that:"the therapies recommended by the PACE trial are so harmful that, if they were medicines, they would be withdrawn from the market."[5]
Open letter[edit | edit source]
Dr. Duffy was one of the signatories of an open letter to Psychological Medicine about “recovery” and the PACE trial.
Online presence[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/dr-simon-duffy
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Medal_(Royal_Society_of_Arts)
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110608193010/http://www.thersa.org/about-us/history-and-archive/medals/albert-medal
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/dr-simon-duffy
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-simon-duffy/the-misleading-research-a_b_9726490.html
