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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
21 October 2013
After the FMLM conference - what now?
Judging by the Twitter feeds (trending on Tuesday!) we were not the only ones inspired and motivated by the FMLM conference in Edinburgh this week. It is rare to enjoy such informed and interested debate and to be surrounded by so many from all levels of the medical profession and from outside it, coming together to examine and encourage change, in action and approach, to improve the lives and experience of patients and staff within the National Health Service.
2 October 2013
NHS: Changing culture (from B to A from blame to accountability)
Good management is doing things right, good leadership is doing the right thing. I was therefore heartened by Lesley Curwen’s two Radio 4 programmes NHS: Changing Culture spotlighting the leadership needed to turn culture around in the NHS.
7 August 2013
Are busy nurses being forced to ration patient care?
Nurses were under the spotlight again last week with an article in the Times reporting on a recent study carried out by the Florence Nightingale Institute of Nursing and Midwifery, which found that nurses are so busy that they are forced to ration care. Alexander Chan discusses a need for a shift away from management by numbers and cost saving in the health service.
10 July 2013
Serious questions raised about “causal” links between acne treatment and suicide
It is tragic to read about the death of Jack Bowlby, at just 16 years old. He was reportedly found, with a belt around his neck last October, at his room at Cheltenham College. The Coroner recorded an open verdict and found the evidence insufficient to rule that Jack had taken his own life or that his death was caused by a drug that he had been taking.
28 June 2013
A response to The Times' article "Trying to cure cancer could land you in court"
Kate Rohde argues that clinical negligence is a key mechanism for achieving accountability for mistakes or negligent care.