by Kate Pym | 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...
by Kate Pym | Nov 5, 2016 | Blog
From 1st April 2015 Commissioning of Renal Services will move from NHS England Specialist Commissioning, to Clinical Commissioning Groups. The National Kidney Foundation lobbied against the move, as I am sure, did other groups and commercial organisations. This is...
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...
