by Kate Pym | 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...
by Kate Pym | 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...
by Kate Pym | Nov 2, 2016 | Business, Commercial, None
Throughout my career selling to the public sector, all negotiations come down to a relationship. Whether that is a relationship between a single sales representative and a procurement manager, or a commercial organisation and a hospital, or local council. A...
by Kate Pym | Nov 1, 2016 | Social Care
Patients should not be seen as people who have treatments given to them, or care provided for them. All patients have their own skills, likes, dislikes and preferences. A service which does not take the patient’s views into account is setting itself up to...
by Kate Pym | Oct 31, 2016 | Social Care
Kings Fund Integrated Care [vimeo]. Integrated care, centred around the patient, and focussed on outcomes specific to and agreed with the patient and their support network must be the way forward. Social Care has been delivered through joint care planning for...
