I am getting ready for the publication
of the analyses of the Robert Francis
QC report, commissioned by the Health Innovation
Education Cluster (HIEC) North East, to identify
areas where education and training can play a key role in ensuring
high quality patient care. Whilst all the dust of
political change at the centre settles, and the frantic
activity of making appointments within the NHS Commissioning Board
continue, I believe that as professionals we could do
far worse than to focus down on the likely content of this report
which is due to be published in mid-October.
This I am sure will ground all of us from across
the UK, whatever the tornadoes surrounding us, in what we are
there for as professionals: to deliver safe, effective,
patient-centred assessment, care and treatment. We need to be
confident in exercising our duty of care to speak out when things
are going wrong. This is something that we can
work on constructively with our mental health and social
care colleagues.
Speaking of which, an excellent example of multidisciplinary team
working is the National Association of Psychiatric
Intensive Care and Low Secure Units (NAPICU). I was privileged
to attend their Conference Dinner in Manchester last night.
There was a vibrant group of over 2OO delegates there
developing and shaping the services where we know the task is
challenging They had guests from Iceland and Belgium who are
joining the network and developing their own services.
Today I am interviewing for a new Specialist Advisor for
Workforce which is a key College role. And yes it
was too good to be true despite the "guarantee ". The roof
continues to leak but I have been promised they have a
solution!
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