Tag Archives: carers

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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Royal Caribbean Is Latest Entrant into Autism-Friendly Travel

February 28, 2014   autism, Carers

 

Autism-friendly travel

Feb. 25, 2014
ABC NEWS via Good Morning America

PHOTO: Royal Caribbeans "Serenade of the Seas" ship.

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.

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