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#MatExp featured prominently in ‘The State of Maternity Services in England’ policy document
How much can be achieved in two years?
The answer is a phenomenal amount if you set your mind to it! Continue reading
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Posted in Blogs, co-production, communication, community engagement, compassion, education, health, in my shoes, leadership, maternity, personalisation, well-being
Tagged choice, choice and control, co-production, Compassion, empathy, make a difference, mat, outcomes, personalisation, Quality of life, relationships, respect, Twitter, Whose Shoes?
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In the shoes of Elizabeth Meatyard… | Founder of Dining Companions at Kingston Hospital
I first heard about ‘Dining Companions’ through the work I am currently doing with Florence Wilcock and colleagues at Kingston Hospital, building on our #MatExp project and starting to use Whose Shoes? to explore and improve other areas of patient … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, co-production, community engagement, compassion, dementia, education, end of life, Guest blog, health, leadership, mental health, personalisation, safeguarding, well-being
Tagged Alzheimer's, carers, Compassion, dementiachallengers, dining companions, elderly, empathy, health, Kingston Hospital, make a difference, older people, outcomes, person-centred, Quality of life, relationships, respect, social care, Twitter, Whose Shoes?
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In the shoes of Rachel Dutta Choudhury… | Raising awareness of dementia at Midland Heart
And so another ‘Dementia Awareness Week’ comes and goes. It is hard to believe that it is three years since I first started to collect and publish ‘in my shoes’ blogs as part of Dementia Awareness Week, 2012. But to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, community engagement, compassion, dementia, education, Guest blog, health, housing, mental health, personalisation, well-being
Tagged Alzheimer's, choice and control, community, Compassion, dementia, dementia awareness week, dementiachallengers, empathy, Health and Social Care, independence, make a difference, older people, outcomes, person-centred, personalisation, Quality of life, relationships, Twitter, Whose Shoes?
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In the shoes of … | Helen Calvert: Mother, Campaigner, Parent Advocate and Facebook Group Lead
Are you following #MatExp? – the Twitter hashtag for our fabulous campaign to improve maternity experience? Are you following our #MatExp alphabet, initiated by my #MatExp partner in crime, consultant obstetrician Florence Wilcock, known affectionately in our community as ‘FabObs … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, co-production, community engagement, compassion, education, Guest blog, maternity, mental health, personalisation, safeguarding, well-being
Tagged #MatExp, childbirth, choice, choice and control, Compassion, dignity, empathy, lithotomy, make a difference, maternity, outcomes, respect, social media, stirrups, Twitter
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NHS Change day #MatExp Lithotomy Challenge – A blog for Mother’s Day
A Mother’s Day special ! Florence Wilcock, my ‘partner in crime’ on the #MatExp project has already written a very popular blog, writing as a mother who happens also to be an obstetrician – or perhaps vice versa. Who knows? … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, education, Guest blog, health, maternity, personalisation, well-being
Tagged #MatExp, childbirth, choice, choice and control, Compassion, dignity, empathy, lithotomy, make a difference, maternity, Mother's Day, outcomes, respect, social media, stirrups, Twitter
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#MatExp on #NHSChangeDay – working together to improve maternity care!
Today is NHS Change Day! 11 March 2015 I will be spending the day with Florence Wilcock, my #MatExp ‘partner in crime’ at Kingston Hospital with a great programme of activities planned. Helen Bevan and the NHS Change Day film … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, co-production, community engagement, compassion, education, health, in my shoes, maternity, personalisation, well-being
Tagged choice, choice and control, Compassion, make a difference, maternity, outcomes, personalisation, Quality of life, relationships, social media, Twitter, Whose Shoes?
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In the shoes of … | Ellie Milner, a West Midlands #NHSChangeDay Hubbie :)
Every so often – and sometimes more frantically – my phone pings with a WhatsApp message. I am not really into WhatApp so I know it is likely to be another message from one of the fab group of West … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, co-production, community engagement, dementia, education, Guest blog, health, maternity, personalisation, social media, well-being
Tagged "NHS Change Day", #NHSChangeDay, dementiachallengers, empathy, health, Health and Social Care, make a difference, NHS, outcomes, personalisation, social media, Twitter, Whose Shoes?
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In my own (beach) shoes… at the Dementia Congress, Brighton
“The UK Dementia Congress is the largest annual multi‐disciplinary dementia‐focused event and exhibition in the UK” The largest event is a quantitative measure. But for many of us the Dementia Congress is also a wonderful gathering of friends and new friends – people coming together fired by a common purpose. It was lovely to see … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, compassion, dementia, education, Gill's Mum, in my shoes, personalisation, safeguarding, social care, social media, well-being
Tagged Alzheimer's, carers, choice and control, Compassion, creativity, dementia, empathy, independence, innovative, older people, person-centred, Quality of life, relationships, Whose Shoes?
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Co-producing inclusive, vibrant #dementiachallengers events in Scotland
Well the invisible hordes are coming out of the shadows and becoming real people… very supportive, creative passionate people. And they are bringing their own ‘invisible hordes’ in their wake… I would like to include here a lovely film made … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, co-production, community engagement, compassion, dementia, education, in my shoes, personalisation, social care, well-being
Tagged Alzheimer's, carers, choice, choice and control, community, Compassion, dementia, dementiachallengers, Dundee, Dundee United, elderly, empathy, football, Glasgow, older people, Quality of life, relationships, reminiscence, Scotland, social care, social media, Twitter, Whose Shoes?
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