Monthly Archives: July 2013

What does the internet think of power in healthcare?

In order to assess how known the concept of power in healthcare was, a search was conducted to see if the key terms “Power” and “Healthcare” turned up results to do with the power struggle between doctors and patients. Three

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Throwing the baby out with the Liverpool Care Pathway

This week’s proposal that the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient be withdrawn due to variable and sometimes poor implementation is frankly shocking.  See the full report here. On that logic surely most of the standards and pathways that

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Lost in the Mist? IKMb Blog

  My first blog for the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization called ‘Lost in the Mist?: Focus for Knowledge Mobilisation’

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My NHS@65: ours to destroy?

I joined the NHS on a nice round number, in the year 2000.  At least that makes it easy to remember how long I’ve “been in”. That was the year of the NHS Plan.  “The NHS Plan outlines the vision of

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CLAHRC NWL bid news

  At 10:30 am on Wednesday 3rd July the CLAHRC for Northwest London panel stepped into the jaws of the NIHR interview room – would they come out with a favourable verdict and £10m to continue research into closing the

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