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  • On Inspection

    The Commission for Social Care Inspection have a system of rating residential and nursing homes. I have written about it before. I possibly didn’t state obliquely how cynical I have become of this system even though the cynicism was always there implicitly. Last week, however, I had a more personal...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-11-2008

  • Revisiting

    I have been in my current team for a couple of years. I worked in the same local authority before that though for about three years. The geographical boundaries of the areas that I work in don’t strictly overlap so I haven’t had it happen very often that I see people that I used to [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008

  • A duty to die

    Sarah Wootton wrote a piece in the Guardian, a few days ago, considering Baroness Warnock’s comments in the Church of Scotland’s magazine, Life and Work, in which she stated that dementia suffers may have ‘a duty to die’. Uproar followed as it is a headline which is easy to write...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-01-2008

  • Reasons to the Cheerful - Part One

    I had, for one reason or another, a particularly difficult week last week. Partly due to work-related matters and issues - trying to cram in a five day workload into three days with a couple of days out training - partly just stuff happening at home that I wasn’t expecting - nothing particularly...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008

  • On the ward

    Image via Wikipedia I knew it wasn’t going to be a quiet day when I found a pink paper with a written recommendation for a Section 3 from one of our doctors sitting on my desk next to the ASW Duty Book - a book in which we note any Mental Health Act Assessments that [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008

  • 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 word) awakening. The Community Care (Delayed Discharge...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008

  • Picking up the pieces

    As I hope is evident, my work is very varied - and that’s one of the main reasons I enjoy it. But I was reminded by an article in The Guardian about what I, personally, find to be one of the saddest tasks that I undertake. And that is when I pack up someone’s belongings [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-19-2008

  • Active Care? Another tale of Southern Cross

    I write a few months ago about the difficulties faced by Southern Cross Healthcare but a quick recap a) They are the largest private operator of residential and nursing care in the UK b) Big financial problems c) Some disparate concerns about quality of care and treatment of staff in homes that they...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-16-2008

  • Social Inclusion online?

    This morning, I came across this interview in The Guardian with Tim Hunt, Mental Health Lead on the Patient Opinion site which is from a couple of weeks back now. I had never heard of Patient Opinion, but it is a site which, unsurprisingly, given the name,  allows patients to give opinions on the services...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008

  • .. I shall wear purple

    The BBC reported yesterday about a Care Home, Woodland House in St Austell, Cornwall that has a wonderful sounding ‘Make a Wish’ initiative. Residents of the home are asked about dreams and goals for the future and in a worthy endeavour the home seeks to carry them out. So… A 90-year...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-09-2008
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