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• Delayed Discharges

  Since moving from a generic Community Care team into a specialist Mental Health team a few years ago, I haven’t had as much contact with the vagaries of the delayed discharge system as I did back then. Yesterday was a rude (in every sense of the... Posted Aug 27 2008, 06:25 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, mental health, old age, elderly, long-term care, uk, health care, health, social services, nurse, hospital, robert burns, delayed discharge, section 5, section 2, community care (delayed discharge) act 2003, bed blocking, to a mouse, discharge

• Talking shop

  Last night at an event which had nothing to do with work by any stretch of the imagination, I met the neighbour of the daughter of a woman that I visit. She recognised me because I had visited the flat next to her and she’d  have seen me coming... Posted Jun 10 2008, 05:19 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social work, work, professional, sandwich, nurse, reception, mistaken identity