Give and Take: How timebanking is transforming healthcare
About this ebook
In Give and Take, David Boyle and Sarah Bird share the positive findings of a two-year research project to test out time banks in the NHS. With clarity and insight, they show how some of the UK’s 289 time banks and 35,000 members are using their time and their skills for the health and social benefit of each other.
With a bold vision to see a time bank attached to every UK GP’s surgery, the authors make a persuasive and powerful case that it is patients themselves who have the power to transform our stressed and financially squeezed NHS – and patients themselves who will provide the answer to some of healthcare’s most pressing problems.
About the author
David Boyle is the author of a range of books about social
change, history, politics and he regularly writes about the
future of volunteering, cities and business. Co-founder
of Time Banking UK, David Boyle also helped found
the London Time Bank and has been instrumental in
developing co-production in Britain as a critical element
of public service reform. He is a fellow of the New
Economics Foundation (NEF), has been a candidate
for Parliament and currently sits on the federal policy
committee of the Liberal Democrats.
Sarah Bird is the CEO of Timebanking UK and has over
10 years of experience within the timebanking field, from
having originally set up and run a time bank, to becoming
a consultant and project manager within Timebanking
UK. Sarah continues to develop partnerships and networks
across the country with the vision of co-produced
timebanking being present in every town and city in the
country.
