I'm sure there is a planet out there - extrasolar - with the physical make-up such that be it an incredible water fall, tidal surge, or rolling polished mega-rocks - the noise, could we hear it, would do far more than make your ears bleed.
Today, here in England there is a legal, health and political media event of very serious import. The ruckus in health and political circles might also make for more than bleeding noses and definitely thousands of continuing broken hearts.
The Francis report will be published today. Further insights and findings will be revealed c/o the
Public Inquiry with recommendations on the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust health care debacle.
In
Philosophy Now Jan/Feb 2013 Tibor Fischer's editorial mentions the need for marketing within philosophy and literature, with the suggestion of placing
x-phi on a T-shirt.
'X-phi' of course reads as
experimental philosophy.
In health care, nursing and social care evidence counts for everything (and for h2cm too). Evidence based practice that is founded upon research is essential. Experiments are needed that can be reproduced, extended, validated. ...
Today is a profoundly sad day for everyone in the NHS, as many commentators have already predicted. The future constantly beckons, but today reflect we must that in the clamour for evidence based care, does this mean we must don T-shirts?:
x-care
Have we forgotten the principles of what it is to care: compassion - our duty of care?
No, but amid the cacophony of technology, technical care, the targets, statistics, budget cuts, the challenges to morale and nursing's values we need to be ever more vigilant.
We must learn how to x-listen and x-shout in the 21st century health care environment(s).But experiments in how to listen, how to blow a whistle? Surely not.
Well yes: as clearly here basic care systems did not work they failed terribly: individually, organisationally and across the FIVE
care domains of h2cm.
