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A Day with Mental Health Professionals

Hi all,

I would like to warmly recommend a feature from today’s Gaurdian. Deborah Orr, the former ‘Independent’ columnist, has produced an excellent account of the daily reality for mental health professionals and the clients they are caring for in the community. Well informed, sympathetic to the subject and well researched, this is an excellent piece of [...]

Managing Uncertainty.

So the Department of Health released the second annual report of its Cancer Reform Strategy. Entitled ‘Achieving local implementation’, it highlights the stark variation in cancer detection and survival across England.  Without fail, the GP bashing started immediately. The Sun quoted  Katherine Murphy, director of the Patients’ Association:

“Patients will sometimes tell us that they had been going [...]