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  • 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 access to the health system to much polemic and debate...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2008

  • Re: NHS review

    It's hard to see at a glance what it will mean for social care. For instance, how will the health personal budgets relate to social care personal budgets? Will people be able to integrate the two and if so how? Also, Darzi appears to be mooting these new creatures called integrated care organisations...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 07-01-2008

  • Multi-disciplinary working.. or not.

    I read in on the Times website that a letter has been written to the British Journal of Psychiatry,  in which 36 signatories complain that ‘patients with serious problems are often referred to psychologists and social workers rather than clinicians and do not receive the medical therapies...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2008

  • Ageism - the ‘acceptable’ face of prejudice

    Social workers are supposed to be a liberal group. We are trained extensively in anti-discriminatory practice. I can’t imagine there are any social work courses in the country that don’t, at least explore, the implications of discrimination, power and oppression even at the interview level...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-26-2008

  • Channel 4's The Doctor Who Hears Voices

    by Adam McCulloch Extraordinary Channel 4 drama-documentary last night – The Doctor Who Hears Voices – about a doctor diagnosed with schizophrenia who wants to continue practising despite voices in her head telling her to kill herself.
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-22-2008

  • Lancashire social worker stabbed to death

    A Lancashire social worker has been stabbed to death while on a house visit. Read the story here . The cabinet member for adult and community services has said there will be an internal investigation with health partners Lancashire Care NHS trust. Does anyone know the man who died? So sad. It has been...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Muriel on 04-07-2008

  • Re: Are unqualified staff dangerous?

    No they are not, what is dangerous is an individual persons unwillingness to learn and move on, we are all unqualified to start with and we are taught by the people who know best the service user and their informal support. By listening and hearing what a person wants we can learn alot. The only reason...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by sonyaw331 on 04-04-2008

  • Re: Computer Systems

    That's a real problem given it's the DH who is calling on social workers to implement the electronic social care record etc. We've run several stories about the problems caused by the lack of integration between developments with the ESCR and equivalent records in health and children's...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 03-14-2008

  • Re: Continuing Care

    Hopefully the new guidance has made things better but continuing care is one area where the division of responsibilities between health and social care makes no sense whatsoever. The NHS will always have an incentive to find assess borderline cases as ineligible and councils will not have any directive...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 03-04-2008

  • Re: Have you ever had to take a second job?

    I'm sure it's a mixed picture. Some practitioners will have done well as a result of councils responding to market conditions, perhaps especially in London, by upping wages and introducing golden hellos etc. But figures published today by Skills for Care (see page 89 of this report ), taken from...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 02-29-2008
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