I’m very grateful to Kate Bentham for looking after Weekly Blog Club for Week 5. She clearly did a brilliant job since the number of posts has tripled this week (even though I didn’t get round to doing one myself)! This week’s posts…
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Blue stars, seagull-proofing, waste and change
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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, Birds, communicating, digital technology, finance, fine art, health, health services, humanity, humour, journalism, management, media, mental health, patient care, public relations, public sector, research, social care, working practices
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, Birds, communicating, digital technology, finance, fine art, health, health services, humanity, humour, journalism, management, media, mental health, patient care, public relations, public sector, research, social care, working practices
Considering collections, communicating, clutter
I can’t resist a little alliteration. This week’s title comes from Louise Atkinson’s post about considering her work for her PhD and describing her practice as an artist collector; Kevin McGinley’s contribution to the new Taysidehealth blog on communication between members…
Tagged with: Ayrshire Health Blog, books, foxes, good practice exchange, libraries, Ministry of Justice, NHS Scotland, TaysideHealth
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, animals, charitable trusts, communicating, digital technology, family, fine art, health, health services, libraries, literature, patient care, photography, public sector, research, working practices
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, animals, charitable trusts, communicating, digital technology, family, fine art, health, health services, libraries, literature, patient care, photography, public sector, research, working practices
Something old, something new
It’s been a while since we had a blog from Scottish Health Monthly so we were very pleased to see them return this week with a summary of health related posts captured during June. This post highlights blogs from an…
Tagged with: blogs, dementia, healthcare, leadership, NHS Scotland
Posted in conferences, health, health services, leadership, medical practice, mental health, patient care, setting goals, therapy, working practices
Posted in conferences, health, health services, leadership, medical practice, mental health, patient care, setting goals, therapy, working practices
NHS Scotland Event Day 2 by @PAG1962 & @craigwhitephd
Day 2 of NHS Scotland was so jam packed that one perspective on the day just wasn’t enough. In the first part of the blog, Paul Gray, reflects on how the day re-affirms the importance of patient-centred care, and also the…
Tagged with: Health, NHS, NHS Scotland, NHS Scotland 2014, patient centred care, smoking, staff engagement
Posted in health, health services, public sector
Posted in health, health services, public sector
We’re On Our Way…
In this blog, Susan Munro reflects on the NHS Scotland conference, the first time that she has attended. Susan looks at the key themes of the conference, which include person-centred care. The blog also features some great videos of the…
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Posted in health, patient care, public sector
Posted in health, patient care, public sector
The importance of communicating (and more drones)
Thank you very much to all who contributed the 10 posts in week 17. I am going to start this summary by mentioning the post that I think must have been the toughest to write. Kirsty Bowie wrote about the…
Tagged with: NHS, NHS Scotland, NHSS, spring
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, communicating, digital technology, disability, emergency services, family, health, medical practice, mental health, music, patient care, public sector, relationship, unconferences, weather, working practices
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, communicating, digital technology, disability, emergency services, family, health, medical practice, mental health, music, patient care, public sector, relationship, unconferences, weather, working practices
First impressions count
When preparing for a new job, as Chief Executive of NHS Scotland, Paul Gray visited a number of NHS Boards to meet staff and patients. He was inspired by what he found. Then a few days before starting, tragedy hit so many when…
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Posted in communicating, emergency services, health, health services, leadership, patient care, public relations, public sector, working practices
Posted in communicating, emergency services, health, health services, leadership, patient care, public relations, public sector, working practices
Love, love, love – and some leadership
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
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The future, revealing selves, and the NHS Hack Day
Thanks very much to the fabulous Kate Bentham for looking after Weekly Blog Club in Week 3 and writing a great summary for it. Thank goodness she covered Week 3 and not Week 4. I would have felt a bit…
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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, conferences, digital technology, disability, health, health services, ideas/innovation, medical practice, music, patient care, public relations, social media, unconferences, working practices
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, conferences, digital technology, disability, health, health services, ideas/innovation, medical practice, music, patient care, public relations, social media, unconferences, working practices
Highlights, hopes, growing places & 2013 in review
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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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, childcare, communicating, communities, education, family, fine art, health, health services, leadership, learning, literature, local government, management, photography, public sector, setting goals, social media, society, storm, Third sector, training, working practices, workplace
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