Monthly Archives: March 2014

Why social care professionals should pledge for NHS Change Day

March 3, 2014   Carers, hospital, Social care
Social care is essential to effective health services, we need to see more pledges about integration

 

Time for change! Pledges range from improving patient outcomes to being punctual for meetings.

NHS Change Day started with a single tweet in 2012. A small group of healthcare staff decided they wanted to work together to do something better for patients.

In 2013, more than 189,000 people made their own personal pledge to do something different to improve care. Last week, the 2014 total was already 280,000.

The mission of the day is to inspire and mobilise people everywhere to take action by making a personal public pledge to make a difference – no matter how big or small. Everyone counts and every pledge matters.

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'My legacy will be a celebration of NHS care'

March 3, 2014   Cancer, Carers

Dr Kate Granger, a hospital registrar with an incurable cancer and months to live, will today present nursing awards in her honour

 

Terminally ill Kate Granger with her husband Chris

By Victoria Lambert

6:05AM GMT 03 Mar 2014

When Dr Kate Granger, a 32-year-old junior doctor specialising in elderly medicine, found herself on a gurney with a kidney infection in a Leeds NHS hospital last August, she couldn’t help noticing that, professional though the staff were, not all of them seemed to remember they were dealing with real people rather than anonymous patients.

“As I looked around the emergency department,” she explains in her soft Yorkshire accent, “I was struck how, for the most part, not one of the doctors or nurses or support staff introduced themselves. But when they did, it made such a difference to the person who was there to receive care.”

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Online talking therapy service trial launched in Norfolk

March 1, 2014   Uncategorized

 An online therapy pilot has been launched by the Norfolk Wellbeing Service.

An online therapy pilot has been launched by the Norfolk Wellbeing Service. 

Saturday, March 1, 2014

6:30 AM

A new online service has been launched in Norfolk to help people going through mild and moderate mental health challenges.

Officials from Norfolk’s Wellbeing Service have teamed up with PsychologyOnline to offer talking therapies to patients from their home, using the internet.

A pilot has been launched by the service, which is run by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver cognitive behavioural therapy sessions to patients via an online chat service.

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