Tag Archive for: care

Calls for action on care need to be heeded

When I wrote last July about how the findings of the Dilnot Commission into the funding of social care…
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Is ‘faith healing’ costing lives?

As we approach yet another World AIDS day, it is worth stopping to reflect where we have got to this…

Practising compassion and justice

Having just got back from a two day conference in the Netherlands on researching and teaching spiritual…

Changing attitudes, changing hearts – reflections on the Care Quality Commission report

I know what it is to not to give elderly patients the time and care they deserve. On the ward round…

VIDEO: Is ‘care’ the missing component in the NHS?

Today another damning report on nursing care standards has come out of the newly re-invigorated Care…
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A politically incorrect final solution for Britain’s growing elderly population

The BBC has reminded us this week that today's 20-year-olds are three times more likely to live to…

Medical Defence Union finally publishes full version of new guidance on praying for patients

I recently blogged about new guidance from the Medical Defence Union which endorses tactful prayer with…
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A life precious to God – how to cope when you find your unborn baby has special needs

There is a deeply heart-warming story in the Daily Mail today (July 18 2011) titled, ‘Doctors told…

Martin Pistorius: a story about faith, hope and love through ‘locked in syndrome’

The Sunday Times today tells the story of Martin Pistorius, a South African man who ended up paralysed…

Dilnot lays some tentative foundations

Monday saw the publication of the Dilnot Report – the latest in a long line of reports and studies…

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