Dementia strategy too late for dad
Posted on Wed 18 Jun 2008, 14:48 in NHS
When my dad was in his '60s and watching his mother slowly disintegrate through dementia, he would tell us we should shoot him if he “ever went like that”.
Saturday 22 November 2008
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Negligence
Posted on Mon 30 Jul 2007, 18:59 in NHS
They put me in a room for four hours bleeding heavily on a drip with no buzzer, they hardly checked on me to see if I was ok.
Local health data on the web
Posted on Fri 22 Jun 2007, 12:11 in NHS
Want to know how healthy (or not) the area you live in is? The government has published local data on key health indicators for each English council area.
Dirty needles and disaffected nurses
Posted on Fri 1 Jun 2007, 13:15 in NHS
North Staffs University Hospital has the highest MRSA rates in the country - during my father's recent stay for a hip replacement op it was easy to see why.
Hand washing isn't enough to clear bugs
Posted on Tue 28 Nov 2006, 14:00 in NHS
With another report showing poor hand washing in hospitals, isn't it time we started assuming patients are carrying MRSA, rather than wait to see if symptoms show up?
£100m to tell us how to be healthy
Posted on Thu 21 Sep 2006, 13:12 in NHS
Did you know the Department of Health’s advertising costs bill for health campaigns between 2000 and 2004 was over £100 million?
Keeping patients safe in hospital
Posted on Fri 7 Jul 2006, 12:28 in NHS
Apparently a new report says the NHS has no idea how many patients have been harmed or killed because of mistakes by doctors and nurses – what a surprise, not.