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  • World Mental Health Day

    Today is World Mental Health Day with a focus on promoting positive mental health. Wellbeing in the East of England (perhaps not the catchiest of monikers.. ) have produced a series of short films that have been put out on television in.. yes, you guessed it, the east of England! I haven’t caught...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-10-2008

  • 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

  • Placements and Practice

    Last week, Community Care reported that a social worker, Ruth Hughes, was struck off the GSCC register after being found guilty of misconduct. There were a couple of details about the situation as reported that struck me. Firstly, in the hearing, one of the criticisms made of her her then manager Amanda...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-26-2008

  • 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

  • Good work, Evelyn

    After some of the knocking of social workers that I mentioned over the last few days, how about a positive spin? The Daily Record published a story about a 15 year old girl who suffers from leukaemia who has nominated her social worker for the Scottish Health Award prize run by the newspaper. The teenager...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-08-2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • Twelve for the Glorious Twelfth

    In recognition (note - not celebration) of the Glorious Twelfth which is traditionally the start of the grouse hunting season, I give you, twelve bloggers whose posts have caught my attention recently and that I haven’t been able to fit in anywhere else! I haven’t been very good at linking...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008

  • 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

  • Modern to Postmodern Social Work

    There doesn’t seem to be much getting away from the fact that social work is a vaguely paternalistic profession. I touched on this previously and  its something that I’ve been dwelling on for a while. Even if the systems and functions have changed today, its roots were in any case. Charity...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008
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