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Dementia Care: Life History & Life Story
March 14, 2014
The first building block for good care for those living with a dementia is to know their story, preserve it and when the time arises, use this privileged knowledge to…
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A Shift of Perspective
March 14, 2014
Last week, I had the good fortune to be struck down with an acute dental problem. For several days I was in pain which could not be fully controlled and…
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GP Out-of-Hours Services to be Inspected and Regulated
March 13, 2014
What changed? Over 10 years ago most Practices were part of a local on-call doctors’ service which enabled patients to get through to a GP when their surgery was closed…
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Open to Criticism
March 12, 2014
I could dodge it no longer. At the end of the corridor, the meeting room door was ajar and I knew that the occupant of the room was a relative…
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Sitting Comfortably?
March 10, 2014
Anyone who has worked for any length of time with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) will be acquainted with the beanbag. These items of soft furniture have…
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Dementia Care: Providing ‘Good’ Dementia Care
March 7, 2014
Fundamental elements – basic tools Clearly there are a number of elements that are essentials for the provision of good, person centred dementia care. When we refer to ‘good’ we…
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Are you of “Good Character”?
March 7, 2014
The Department of Health’s Fundamental Standards for CQC Regulation, now out for consultation, make three significant points relevant to the Human Resources arena: systems and processes must be established to…
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Should GP Practices Consider Forming Alliances or Federations?
March 7, 2014
Federated Working As part of group of Practice Managers in our local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) we are looking at working federately. There is an acceptance in General Practice that…
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