I originally published a post on the LCP in November 2012 before the independant review was announced
[Guest post by Connor Kinsella] At great risk to the reputation what has always been one of the more respected organs of the health and social care blogosphere, I’ve been invited to contribute to the Not So Big Society blog. This may turn out to be about as welcome as a knighthood for Piers Morgan, […]
[Guest post by Sharon Levisohn] Mother came home from hospital on Friday, having been in over Christmas and New Year. She has advanced COPD (emphysema) and had a respiratory virus that resulted in pneumonia. However, her lengthy stay was not due to her illness – a week of steroids and antibiotics settled that insofar as […]
Forgive me for the slightly self-absorbed post. Blogging by its nature can be the epitome of self-absorption but I attempted to write with a look to the wider world, particularly in the sector I know best, social care. I put this in the past tense as this will be the last post I write. When […]
Yesterday, the Department of Health published ‘Transforming Care : A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital’ (PDF) the ‘final report’ about learning and developments following the case which highlighted, via a BBC Panorama documentary, the systematic abuse which was embedded in the running of a private hospital for people with learning disabilities ‘with a stated […]
On the Andrew Marr show today Ann Clwyd MP was speaking angrily about the poor care her husband received while at the University Hospital of Wales. She argued that nurses no longer display compassion, and one of the reasons for this was because, “since they made nursing a degree course the wrong kind of people […]
Today the Patients Association published a report ‘Patient Stories’ (PDF). It focuses on thirteen different stories. These are stories directly about the experiences of patients through hospital systems and discharges. Some are told by family members when the person involved and some are told directly. Some are anonymised and one is from a doctor who […]
In a couple of weeks I will be leaving social work. Or will I? I am moving into a job where my social work qualification is not an essential requirement. I am moving away from ‘frontline’ practice in the way that I have always understood and defined it. Being diligent, I remain registered as a […]
The Department of Health has, today, launched the Dementia Friends scheme. It’s a lovely scheme to promote greater awareness of Dementia by recruiting an army of volunteers. These volunteers will be trained to have an ‘understanding of dementia’ As the website itself says, if you become a ‘Dementia Friend’ We’ll equip you with an understanding […]
We all knew it would come in time. This wonderful government idea to slash all that awful ‘red tape’ that stops people doing what the government otherwise would stop them doing finally arrives at Health and Social Care. I had a brief look at some of the provisions detailed as ‘red tape’ for which the […]
February 5, 2013 by Dave
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