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

  • 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

  • Personal view of Personalisation

    I have to admit, before I start, that I have a somewhat brief view of personalisation which the Department of Health explains:- This means that every person who receives support, whether provided by statutory services or funded by themselves, will have choice and control over the shape of that support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008

  • Prevention before cure

    It is all very well for the government to call for better preventative care for older people. It is a noble aim - and a cost effective policy too. But I can’t help but be a little bit cynical. As long as the Fair Access to Care bands exist and restrict care provision to Critical [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-23-2008
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