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Communicating, Culture, Holidays and #nhsscot14

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Good Practice Exchange — Leave a comment

Listen to the Weekly Summary in Welsh below, or read on for the English! This is the first week I’ve covered Weekly Blog Club in quite some time, and what a week it was! We had 13 great blogs that are well…

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Co-Production in Action

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Good Practice Exchange — Leave a comment

Why isn’t co-production more widespread when so many people think it’s the way forward for public services? Is it that people aren’t seen as assets? Is it a reluctance to share power? Or simply a matter of trust? In this…

Tagged with: addiction, co-pro, co-production, engagement, participation, Participation Cymru, public engagement, recovery cymru
Posted in public sector, Third sector

Stress, a little grrrr, blue light and some other colours

Posted on March 2, 2014 by weeklyblogclub — 1 Comment

Stress, emergency services, healthcare, and art featured in Week 8’s posts but we will start with music. Carol Woolley’s post about a choral evening A Valentines musical treat (I’ve included a video of Thank You for the Music by Abba because it…

Tagged with: acrylics, ambulance service, Australia, Ayrshire Health Blog, barber shop singing, BlueLightCamp, bush fires, choirs, choral music, Dumfries and Galloway Health blog, Grampian, medication safety, National Health Service, NHS, NHSS, origami, paintings, Paramedics, patient safety, Scotland, scrutiny, stress, Texas, Wales, writing
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Love, love, love – and some leadership

Posted on February 16, 2014 by weeklyblogclub — 1 Comment

All together now… It was Valentine’s Day the day after Weekly Blog Club’s Week 6 ended, and the posts of the week anticipated it with lots of love in the air. Mark Wood wrote about his love of photography that…

Tagged with: Ayrshire Health Blog, clinical practice, Dumfries and Galloway Health blog, dyslexia, National Health Service, NHS, NHS Scotland, NHSS, River Severn, romance, valentine's day
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, beaches, blogging, charitable trusts, communicating, communities, construction industry, floods, health, humanity, leadership, literature, medical practice, mental health, natural environment, patient care, photography, public sector, relationship, schools, social media, storm, Third sector, working practices

Getting personal, explaining dementia, and paper in art

Posted on February 10, 2014 by weeklyblogclub — 2 Comments

We had 11 contributions for Week 5, with three themes emerging during the week: health issues, using social media in the public sector, and art. Gina Alexander returned to the @dghealth (Dumfries and Galloway Health) blog with Take a deep breath. I was…

Tagged with: #300seconds, #localgov, #NHSHD, artist books, Ayrshire Health Blog, comms, dementia, Dumfries and Galloway Health blog, local authorities, NHS, NHSS, paper, Patient Opinion Scotland
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Highlights, hopes, growing places & 2013 in review

Posted on January 2, 2014 by weeklyblogclub — Leave a comment

This is the #WeeklyBlogClub Week 52 summary. That means that we’ve been going for two whole years – which is not bad since I thought that the blog would trail off and end by March 2012. We have had over…

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A Bedlington Terrier, how to tell tales, and ethical issues

Posted on December 31, 2013 by weeklyblogclub — Leave a comment

Thank you to all who contributed to the wonderful variety of posts in Week 49 of Weekly Blog Club. It was lovely to see the return of some people whom we hadn’t seen for a while. Over in Australia, Samuel-James…

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A talking elk, a turtle, and powerful motivation

Posted on September 28, 2013 by weeklyblogclub — Leave a comment

Having been without my computer during Week 37, I got it back, mended with a new hard drive and fresh Operating System, and then I had days of getting all the other software I need back onto it during Week…

Tagged with: Artemis Leeds, Ayrshire, Book of Hours, horn books, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Scotland, organ donor, Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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Protecting Older People from Rogue Traders

Posted on May 16, 2013 by jayneholgate — Leave a comment

Jayne Holgate of Age UK Business Directory writes a guest blog about an issue that affects people throughout the UK, and Age UK Nottingham and Nottinghamshire’s initiative to help them find trustworthy tradespeople. Five years ago, Age UK Nottingham and…

Tagged with: Age UK, Business Directory, charity, Nottingham, Old age
Posted in Business, communities, society, Third sector, websites

A church app and a martyr to excessive sensibility

Posted on May 6, 2013 by weeklyblogclub — Leave a comment

Louise Brown comments in passing on an ecclesiastical app on her way to telling us the intriguing and tragic story of “a martyr to excessive sensibility.” I find myself wondering what happened to the villain in the story. A church…

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Posted in apps, cultural heritage, history, mental health, storytelling, Third sector, tourism, women