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My practice has changed for the better!
The crisis has made us all think differently about key workers especially, but not exclusively, in health and social care. But so many have reflected on the way people work in these areas but also the way we all exist in our daily lives. Never have we had to use Zoom, or Webex, FaceTime, Skype, and so on to carry out our work or social contact and we have examples in this email. But also ways of working have changed, rules have been bent or abandoned to get things done as safely and as effectively in the circumstances.
We would like to hear from you what thing ( or things) have changed for the better in your practice in the last few months? What do you do now that you wish you could have done before? What will never been done the same way again?
Please send us a brief ( a short paragraph or two ) by email info@nescha.org and we will ( anonymously if you wish) publish the best in our next newsletter and on our website. We will award a £10 voucher of your choice or donate to a charity of your choice, for the most thoughtful five emails we receive by 14th July.
We will also insert all ideas and thoughts into our Best Practice Online Resource. Please circulate to colleagues.
Interviewed by Matt Bailey at 7.10am on 29th July about NESCHA views on imminent Andy Burnham announcement later that morning. I was greatly encouraged by his feedback ( he said it was interesting and ran over time!) and wrote the paper attached.
I never dreamt that one day I would be living the system!.
Sadly Robert my co-author , died when I was in hospital some years ago but my wife visited daily and then she lived with a diagnosois mixed dementia for over four years, was admitted to hospital last October and, following a rapid discharge to a care home, died peacefully in December .
Despite a professional background in social work and years spent working on improving health and care systems, nothing fully prepares you for living that experience. It brought into sharp focus both the compassion of frontline staff and the frustrations families can face when services are not as joined-up or consistent as they should be.
NHS de-frazzle new book and brilliant review