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Abuse Should Not Be Tolerated
February 7, 2014
Should this be expected? I was shocked and appalled to hear that a man had attacked and stabbed a GP in the neck this week. Fortunately the GP has been…
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Patient Partnerships
February 6, 2014
At last there is a growing movement in healthcare, in general, to rely less on goals and targets as a way of measuring success and to start asking about the…
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That Awkward Moment………….
February 6, 2014
A story from the archives As a young and keen community nurse, one of my favourite jobs was assisting people with learning disability to cope with independent living in the…
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Will You Listen???
February 4, 2014
Because you should! The Business Case Typically information flow in an organisation is downwards, but more recent thinking challenges the value of that approach. Those at the “coal face”, to…
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Protection for All: The Key to Delivering Safe Services
February 3, 2014
Ensuring the safety and welfare of our Service Users is at the heart of everything we do each day. Protecting and safeguarding their welfare whilst encouraging a level of independence…
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Clinical Governance
January 31, 2014
What is Clinical Governance? Clinical governance can be defined as a framework through which UK National Health Service (NHS) organisations and their staff are accountable for continuously improving the quality…
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Starved in the Midst of Plenty
January 31, 2014
In 1859 Florence Nightingale suggested that thousands of patients were ‘annually starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention.’ Sadly, 150 years later, it is still being suggested…
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Numbers or Skill Mix?
January 30, 2014
What are the risks of a cut back on skilled manpower? Recent reports suggest more scrutiny is needed of social care services’ staffing ratios, but is it all about numbers?…
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