Author Archives: wendy
'My legacy will be a celebration of NHS care'
Dr Kate Granger, a hospital registrar with an incurable cancer and months to live, will today present nursing awards in her honour
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.”
Online talking therapy service trial launched in Norfolk
An online therapy pilot has been launched by the Norfolk Wellbeing Service.
Adam Gretton Health correspondent 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.
Royal Caribbean Is Latest Entrant into Autism-Friendly Travel
Autism-friendly travel
Royal Caribbean is riding high on the waves after a leading travel organization distinguished it as the first official autism-friendly cruise line. The announcement is the latest acknowledgement of a growing number of autism-friendly travel offerings industry wide.
“When you think about accessibility on a cruise line, you often think about physical, visual and hearing disabilities,” said Ron Pettit, manager of ADA and Accessibility Compliance for Royal Caribbean International. “But we want to make sure we are offering services to all of our guests. When we noticed a trend a while back with land-based hotels and movie theaters offering more autism-friendly programs, we immediately wondered, ‘well, what can we do about this here?'”
Since then the company has been working to incorporate programs and amenities that follow guidelines provided by Autism on the Seas, the leading travel organization catering to vacationers with autism and other developmental disabilities.
