This blog is the 1st of two linked blogs and was written on 17 June, 3 days after the Grenfell Tower fire The people of Grenfell Tower died because the people in power didn’t listen to them and didn’t care about them. This is the conclusion I am coming to as I listen to the […]
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A Manifesto For Health Creation
Health Creation Alliance _ A Manifesto for Health Creation May 2017 (1)
The young at heart
This is a challenge to conventional wisdom. Meet Rose Oldham, pictured here with her GP Dr Bhatti, and our Practice Manager Lynn at my surgery donneybrook Medical centre. I met Rose as her Practice nurse a few months ago, when up popped the dreaded tick box on the clinical records system Alert: ‘Frailty’ in front of […]
Creating employment to overcome inequalities – the role of the '#FreeRangeNurse'
What if public health nurses helped people facing disadvantage to get back into work? Is this a legitimate role? How would that happen? Why is it important? This week a mum I know from my social innovation work got a cleaning job. Big deal. Well yes actually. I’ve known her for about 2 years and […]
Collaborate and Primary Care Leadership
NHS Collaborate is delivered in partnership by the Health Creation Alliance, the National Association of Primary Care, The Nuffield Trust and Salix & Co, a specialist communications consultancy. The overall purpose of Collaborate is to develop leadership, especially clinical leadership in primary care provider organisations. The three main components of this are: Identification: of current […]
Jedis are basically nurses with light sabres
Ok, so if you have never seen Star Wars (firstly shame on you), then you may get a little lost. I can assure you though that as ‘protectors of the galaxy’ Jedis are basically nurses with light sabres. From being a small child I have connected deeply with Star Wars, so much so that I […]