Person Centred Care

Covid – My blog is calling (Week one, through a doctor/dad/outsider’s lens)

Fear of doing the wrong thing is a fundamental of quality improvement. If you are afraid to act because people might call you out or think you stupid, you won’t do anything, and the quality won’t improve. It won’t necessarily deteriorate either, yet, in times of radical change, that is worse.

Delirium

Broken sleep & Coronavirus (Bruce Lee, the philosophy of time and space and this week)

Getting rid of the routine allows people to focus on what is important. (Bruce Lee said this in the 60's - 'Hack away the un-essential')

Drugs

This is black-belt medicine (areas of uncertainty in health and social care)

Ever been breathless at three in the morning? Do you have any strategies to sort yourself out, particularly when to begin you have a bad chest?

Effectiveness

Corridor Care – the state of the NHS in 2020

Sometimes eight or nine relatives would pack into these airless spaces to spend the last hours and minutes with their mum or dad;

Delirium

Why an ECHO focusing on human rights in relation to dementia and frailty?

...designed for maximum efficiency of staff and outcomes, not necessarily for the comfort or dignity of patients – we erect a thin curtain between beds and pretend it is sound-proof, for example.

Delirium

Metrodome Part 2 – agitation in Alzheimer’s disease. (Words and the complex nature of a problem)

You will note this is the opposite of ‘There is no bus to Upton, you are 93, you have dementia, you are in hospital’ approach, which is likely only to worsen the anxiety.

Delirium

Too negative, too positive, or should I just be quiet? (thoughts on the experiences of people living with dementia in the UK)

Ensure independence, autonomy and the right care and support for people living with dementia (and, yes, older people in general) and the NHS will be fine.

Effectiveness

Catch-22, doctors, leaders and the NHS (healthcare, military and other absurdities)

What struck me was the similarity between bad leadership as described in the 256th US Army Air Squadron and… you guessed it, the NHS. (Admittedly there are no bombing runs in most UK hospitals)

Effectiveness

Doctor, my husband will see you now. Home visits, and why we should fight for them.

For today, I hope to keep popping out, spending quality time with patients, understanding what is important to them, their preferences, hopes, fears and aspirations, and supporting them to stay outside acute care.

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almondemotion

My thoughts on creativity, imagination, health and social care and their relationship with human emotion

Person Centred Care

Broken sleep & Coronavirus (Bruce Lee, the philosophy of time and space and this week)

This is black-belt medicine (areas of uncertainty in health and social care)

Corridor Care – the state of the NHS in 2020

Why an ECHO focusing on human rights in relation to dementia and frailty?

Metrodome Part 2 – agitation in Alzheimer’s disease. (Words and the complex nature of a problem)

Too negative, too positive, or should I just be quiet? (thoughts on the experiences of people living with dementia in the UK)

Catch-22, doctors, leaders and the NHS (healthcare, military and other absurdities)