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Reconnecting

Last week, while trying to organise a hospital discharge, I was called into a hospital MDT (multi-disciplinary team) meeting to try and gauge/update the status of a particular service user. This particular hospital and this particular ward hold a few...

Published 13 Oct 2010 7:56 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: health, hospital, hospital social worker, london, Medicine, multi-disciplinary meeting, old age, older people, personal, social work, ward round, work

Father’s Day

Image by Denis Collette…!!! via Flickr Yesterday, I , with my siblings, went to see my father. I’m sure that is nothing remarkable. I have been to hospices a few times for work-related matters. I know how they work. What kind of work they do and...

Published 22 Jun 2009 6:03 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: carer, carers, elderly, father, father's day, health, help the hospices, Hospice, hospital, london, long-term care, Medicine, old age, older people, personal, uk

Angles on Stigma

A couple of unrelated articles that I turfed out today that both refer to stigma attached to those with mental illnesses in vastly different settings. Firstly, an article in the Times Higher Educational Supplement by an Australian lecturer, Caron Dunn...

Published 5 Mar 2009 6:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: discrimination, health, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental health, Policy and Advocacy, shidduch, shidduch with mental illness, social issues, students with mental illness, work, Yeshiva University

Bed Blocking

I hate the term ‘bed blocking’ but it’s something that came up a lot when I was working in the Adult Community team. It seems to imply some kind of intent or purposeful wish to disrupt the smooth-running (or not) of hospitals. The term...

Published 15 Jan 2009 4:51 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: AMHP, ASW, bed blocking, community care (delayed discharge) act 2003, delayed discharge, elderly, health, hospital, Medicine, mental health, mental health act, old age, psychiatric hospital, social work, work

Method in her Madness

Over the weekend, the Guardian printed an excerpt from a book which is about to be published by an author called Nora Vincent titled ‘Voluntary Madness : My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin’. Apart from squirming at the title for a number...

Published 5 Jan 2009 7:20 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: book extract, book review, health, hospital, Medicine, Norah Vincent, patient, poppy shakespeare, psychiatric hospital, voluntary madness, work

Happy Birthday, NHS

Today is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service. There has been a lot of coverage over the last week in every kind of media source to commemorate this. From finding people born on the same day to relive their lives through...

Published 5 Jul 2008 5:43 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: health, health care, medication, Medicine, National Health Service, nhs, social issues, social work, social worker, work

Looking for beds

The new president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Dinesh Bhugra, will according to the Guardian use his inaugural speech to lament the problems caused by the shortage of acute psychiatric beds in the system. This is something we hear...

Published 29 Jun 2008 6:49 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Dinesh Bhugra, health, hospital, Medicine, mental health, Mental Health Act Commission, psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists, work

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