Showing posts with label accountability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accountability. Show all posts

Saturday, 13 September 2014

In political hands person-centred care is a quantum phenomena (entanglement)

individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
group
Acute mental health needs
RISK
Self-harm

Local care?
Empowering the individual?
Accessibility
Cognitive distance
Let therapy commence
Continuity
(dist-ress)
Remote policy touch
Organisational (distance) dementia?

threshold  
↘
RISK
 Self-neglect
personal hygiene
domestic environment


local-regional-national? 

metrics: Km or Miles or time?
Gallons or Litres?
Cost?
Illusory savings?

threshold
↓
RISK 
 Harm to others


to integrated care 
multidisciplinary care




     threshold →
Beds

Lintern, S. (2014) Mental health patients sent hundreds of miles for a bed, HSJ, 14 August.

Beds shortage = Gathered Sobs
Mental Health = Lethal Anthem?
Mental health = Lean Halt Them

Bed image:
By kieran jones (http://www.clker.com/clipart-bed-icon.html) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Monday, 8 September 2014

Interviews: In the political melee don't forget the green corner...!

individual
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
group

Therapeutic
alliance



"Sir Robin cited research conducted by two psychologists on interviews during the 1987 general election campaign. Dr Peter Bull and Kate Mayer found that Kinnock and Thatcher avoided more than half the questions put to them. They concluded the party leaders used 31 different forms of evasion, among them ignoring the question, acknowledging the question without answering, questioning the question, attacking the question, attacking the interviewer, declining to answer, giving an incomplete answer, repeating a previous answer and claiming already to have answered the question." FT Weekend. p.1


Source:
Katz, Ian, (2014) The death of the political interview. FT Weekend, Life & Arts, September 6-7th. p.1.

Thursday, 4 September 2014

Saturday, 4 January 2014

Ballets of corporate, Governmental, Social and Individual conscience

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual
c ons cien ce
Health services and services infrastructure



Why do we pay taxes as a society?


2012
Apple UK turnover £1,178m
Corporation tax paid on UK profits £1.7m
(2011: £1,013m £15.7m)
group - population


Q. Does the current state of corporate taxation globally influence the scope, efficacy and ability of governments and WHO to recommend and direct global public health and positive health promoting policies?

My source: Houlder, V., Pickard, J. (2014) Tech giants' £54m bill fuels tax row, Financial Times, FT Weekend, 4-5th January, 2014. p.1.

Monday, 26 August 2013

An International Bill of the Rights of Man (reissued)

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual
How do we address the mental
health status of our leaders?
How can science and technology work positively to assure the Rights of All, to secure evidence of war crimes?
Where does the biosphere stand
(side-by-side : hand-in-hand)?
Should war crimes once perpetrated be relegated to cultural memory:
baggage carried forward for generations anew to avenge? How must they do this other than learning (remembering) how to hate?
What are the important lessons; of what must be remembered and what we should forget? 
An International Bill of the Rights of Man
group - population

Friday, 23 August 2013

HIFA publishes paper in The Lancet Global Health: Governments are legally obliged to ensure adequate access to health information

The Lancet Global Health published a paper on 2nd August 2013 that we can all use in our advocacy to increase the availability and use of healthcare information in low- and middle-income countries. The paper was written by three HIFA Country Representatives for India – Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Tamoghna Biswas, Pranab Chetterjee – together with the HIFA Coordinator, Neil Pakenham-Walsh. The full text is freely available, open-access, here.

Here is a brief extract: ‘Should governments be held responsible for ensuring that every citizen and every health professional has access to the information they need to protect their own health and the health of those they care for? Should governments be held to account for, and to stop, any action that denies the availability of health information, or that misinforms the public or health professionals contrary to scientific evidence? The answers to these questions are yes and yes, as clearly stated in international human rights law.’
My source - above text: HIFA2015

Thursday, 21 March 2013

"How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery" BBC TV Horizon 21/03/2013 2100 UT

On 03/18/13 9:45 AM, Martin Bromiley wrote:
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About two years ago I approached Dr Kevin Fong with an idea for a BBC scientific programme, and at last it’s happened. Since September I’ve been working with Kevin and the BBC Horizon team to pull together a programme about human factors in healthcare. It looks at how learning about the human in the system and the system itself can bring about enormous improvements in safety and outcomes that technology and medical science can only aspire to.

Kevin and the Horizon team have produced something inspirational yet scientific, and - just as importantly - is by a clinician, for clinicians. It's written in a way that will appeal to both those in healthcare and the public. It uses a tragic death to highlight human factors that all of us are prone to, and looks at how we can learn from others both in and outside healthcare to make a real difference in the future.

Although the BBC Management chose a surgery based title for the programme to gain mass public appeal the lessons of this programme are for everyone in healthcare.

It would wonderful if you could pass on details of the programme to anyone you know who works in healthcare. My goal is that by the end of this week, every one of the 1 million or so people who work in healthcare in the UK will be able to watch it (whether on Thursday or on iPlayer). BBC 2 Thursday 21 March 2100 UK

Cheers

Martin Bromiley


My source: Joy Whitlock via LinkedIn