Date Change for NHS Market Access MPD

by | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog

Hi Everyone Really looking forward to our day of training working, with Medilink East Midlands.  Thursday 23rd April, Thistle Hotel, East Midlands Airport. After submitting another bid today, it will be great to get back to the basics of how to make the NHS and Social...

Mental Health – experiences of NHS care in the 1970s

by | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog

My first experience of mental health care was when I was 11 years old. As a boarder at Caistor Grammar School, Saturdays mornings were spent doing “Social Services”, the choices being: potato peeling at the WRVS; litter picking or odd-jobs around the school; or...

What has a Caveman got to do with Healthcare?

by | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog

Throughout my career in health and social care, there has been a constant (not always) unsaid friction between the public and private sector. The perception seemed to be that the private sector needs to make a profit in order to survive and as such must in some way...

What drives you to live a healthier lifestyle?

by | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog

  This is Nick and me in 1984, we hadn’t been seeing each long, I was 17 and Nick was 20.  Nick was sailing the yacht, single handed, and we were on a brief trip to the Lake District. It was shortly before Nick was due to leave the Royal Marines and I was...