At the HSRN Symposium last week (#HSRN15) I got so wrapped up in a dozen different questions boiling inside me, I ended up asking a long rambling and completely unintelligible question to the final panel discussion. What did I really…
At the HSRN Symposium last week (#HSRN15) I got so wrapped up in a dozen different questions boiling inside me, I ended up asking a long rambling and completely unintelligible question to the final panel discussion. What did I really…
Recently I got ‘the look’ from a friend & colleague @franhusson, patient leader extraordinaire. “I looked at your blog the other day,” she said. “There’s nothing new.” The look came with a pause of significance. Sheepishly, I could only agree. …
This week’s proposal that the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient be withdrawn due to variable and sometimes poor implementation is frankly shocking.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…
My first blog for the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization called ‘Lost in the Mist?: Focus for Knowledge Mobilisation’
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…
When I accepted an NIHR Knowledge Moblisation Fellowship I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting into. 3 years (0.7WTE) to undertake a knowledge mobilisation research and implementation project seemed daunting. I felt I’d been given permission to sail to America based…
Looking forward to finally catching up with some coverage on the long awaited and much anticipated Francis report, after a day of back to back meetings I grabbed an Evening Standard yesterday on my commute home from London to North Wales.…
Sometimes I see even the most eminent and prestigious people taking time out from their healthcare priorities to tell us on twitter what they think of what’s on at the cinema at the moment. So, why not… I indulged in 3…
“Apparently if you hold ice to parts of your arm where you’d normally stub out your fag, it sends a similar message to your brain without making you smell like a barbcue.” I came across the above line in ‘The…
A personal professional website seems to me to be highly narcissistic on one level, and on another an absolute necessity. However, I’ve decided that my NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Fellowship provides me with a reasonably strong excuse to attempt to overcome…
