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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

  • Some things for the (long) weekend..

    By the time this is published, I’ll be sitting on a train on my way to beautiful Northumbria - ready to sun myself over the weekend - ok, maybe ’sunning myself’ is a bit hopeful…. I had a positive response to my last round-up post - well , three people said they liked it and no...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-22-2008

  • 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

  • Do Something Different

    Today the A level results are published in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. I remember vividly when I found about my A level results. ccarlstead at flickr I was working in a summer camp with a friend of mine. It was a day camp and the kids were from about five upwards. I was helping with [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008

  • 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

  • Ageism and Justice

    Community Care reports on a proposal by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to recommend more severe sentences to those who commit crimes against older people The policy is the last to be published on six “equality strands” and brings victimisation due to ageism in line with crimes driven by racism,...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-19-2008

  • Bringing work home

    Earlier this week, during one of our monthly meetings that include all the teams that work in our office (there are four sub-teams that cover the borough), we discussed Lone Working Policies. Nothing particularly exciting - they are formulating some new policies around staff safety. Just as I was dozing...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-12-2008

  • 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
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