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Please welcome back Afni who is sharing her story of her two pregnancies and her experiences both good and bad as part of a series of blogs related to maternity safety. Over to Afni…. If it doesn’t rain it pours. It was around the 5th month when I developed something called Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction (SPD)…
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Please welcome back Afni who is sharing her story of her two pregnancies and her experiences both good and bad as part of a series of blogs related to maternity safety. Over to Afni…. Dear reader, you will recall that I was sharing the early days of my first pregnancy where I was diagnosed with…
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Guest Blog – Afni Shah-Hamilton Please welcome our guest blogger, Afni Shah-Hamilton. Afni graduated from University College London in Podiatry BSC (Hons) and completed her master´s degree at Kings College London. She has years of experience in biomechanical problems of the lower leg, specialist knowledge on how diabetes and cancer treatments affect the feet and how to…
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The campaign just recently attended Patient First conference where we held a Campaign Kitchen. We had hundreds of visitors to our kitchen, enticed by cake but also enticed by the ability just to sit down and have a conversation with someone about their work, the highs and the lows and what we might be able…
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Thanks to Richard Taunt of the UKIA (http://www.ukimprovement.co.uk/) I am reading Team of Teams: New rules of engagement for a complex world. There are so many similarities with our own learning at Sign up to Safety that I will share as the weeks go by. However I was struck by a section on intelligence that…
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I have been re-reading the Kings Fund report The chief executive’s tale and was really struck again by what an astonishing insight it is into how a chief executive in the NHS feels and thinks and the aspects that are so very relevant to our work at Sign up to Safety. Firstly, we have focused on…
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There is a lot of talk about social movements at the moment. Social movements are not created they emerge and they are dynamic. They often arise as a response to intolerable conditions or societal behaviours. The leaders of social movements create the conditions for others to achieve a shared purpose (Ganz 2010). They facilitate trust, motivation and…
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When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. Dalai Lama Everything we do should be about keeping patients as safe as we can and the vast majority of healthcare is provided safely and effectively, however, just like any high risk industry, things can…
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Guest Blogger David Naylor A few years ago I interviewed six people who had a reputation for being ‘constructively awkward’. They worked in a variety of community and NHS settings and told stories that seemed to inform the attention now being paid to speaking up and the duty of candour. They told stories, for example,…
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I will learn from this (well maybe…) – David Naylor The emphasis on learning has never been greater in public services. It can sound like a stock response after something has gone wrong (we are sorry; we have learnt important lessons…). When I listen to the complexity of the issues leading up to the mistake…
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