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  • Alton Centre, Active Care and Southern Cross - an update

    A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Alton Centre, a home in Northamptonshire run by Active Care - a subsidiary of Southern Cross Healthcare who were reported to be suffering from financial difficulties earlier in the year. Today the appeal against the loss of the registration is being appealed and Community...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-05-2008

  • Guardianship - or a journey into Section 7 of the Mental Health Act

    I was called into one of the CMHT (Community Mental Health Team) meetings last week. It was a bit of a surprise. We don’t tend to go into other peoples’ meetings. It is almost like entering an alternate universe. People have the same roles and even tend to sit in the same places around the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-01-2008

  • How to Complain About Me (or to the Local Authority generally)

    A brief guide to how to complain from someone who has been on the other side of complaints. Not many times, I hasten to add, and none that have actually gone very far -  but I know what ticks the boxes as far as official complaints procedures are concerned. Firstly, local authorities actually quite like...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2008

  • 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

  • The Missing Umbrella

    A few days ago there was some very heavy rain here. For 99% of the time I don’t bother with umbrellas. Showers are more common than full-on continuous rainfall through the day. I’m very good at leaving umbrellas places as well. Usually in people’s houses - but also on buses, trains...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-15-2008

  • 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

  • .. 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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