Dying of a broken heart: the pain of care home deaths. A personal reflection.
I interrupted one of my many Zoom meetings this week to go outside briefly and stand with others as the hearse carrying the remains of a neighbour left his home […]
The essence of hope: the dangers of Covid19 optimism.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. – Seamus Heaney […]
Care Home Day blog from our CEO
Blog from our CEO for Care Home Day 2020.
Care Home Day blog from our Workforce Lead
Care Home Day Workforce Blog
Autonomy and choice in pandemic times: the importance of empowerment in care decisions.
Recently I happened to be discussing being a parent with someone who had become a father for the first time. One of the comments I made to him was that […]
We need a National Day of Mourning and Remembrance – a personal reflection
Today is the 4th July and memories of a few years ago when I was in Boston where events changed the history of the United States of America live on […]
Who cares for the carers? – new nursing blog for June
Latest nursing blog for June 2020.
Let care flourish… reflections on primary and social care
I read probably more than my fair share of reports and official research and if truth be told I often struggle to get beyond the Executive Summary for most of […]
Being the midwives of care in a pandemic: reflections on authentic leadership
The history of any battle is often the narrative of those who are victorious and those who are the powerful. As a result, most of the history which has been […]
The need for a Human Rights Inquiry: coronavirus and older people
Yesterday saw the publication of sad statistics illustrating the level of hatred in Scotland. We read in the Crown Office data that all categories of hate crime in Scotland are […]
The pain of isolation – thoughts for Dementia Awareness Week
This has been Dementia Awareness Week and it has been another unusual week in lockdown. Normally every year I would have been attending events, conferences or meetings learning and exploring […]
Balancing the scales: Covid19 discrimination and future promise
In early March at the beginning of the Covid19 pandemic I wrote an opinion piece for The National which I concluded with the words: ‘Coronavirus will be a test not […]
A New Taboo – latest nursing blog
Nursing blog for May 2020.
Coronavirus exhaustion – upholding the mental health of the care sector.
We are on the penultimate day of Mental Health Awareness Week. It has been a week when there has been a great deal of focus on the mental health […]
“Emptiness I have never felt.” – the trauma of caring in the pandemic.
We are now eight weeks into the Covid19 pandemic in Scotland’s care homes and the extent of distress and trauma being felt by many residents, staff and families is really […]
Finding a way through – achieving a balance between risk and protection
Finding a way through – achieving a balance between risk and protection. It is now over eight weeks since Scotland’s care homes went into lockdown. Overnight they changed from […]
The Forgotten Frontline: homecare during the pandemic
The Forgotten Frontline As I sit here writing this I am looking out of my window and seeing two workers who have become a familiar sight as I work from […]
New nursing blog – ‘With change comes new beginnings’
With change comes new beginnings is our latest Nursing blog for April.
The ‘new care normal’
The new care normal The First Minister published the Scottish Government’s strategy for coming out of lockdown on Thursday and encouraged a public debate on the issues which the document […]