by Kate Pym | Jul 18, 2019 | Blog, Business, Healthcare, NHS
What it means to be a patient in a rural community. I have been asked to speak at a meeting for the Rural Service Network about my experience of working in health and care in rural environments and this has got me thinking. My experience is founded upon the...
by Kate Pym | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog, Dementia, Healthcare
Dementia, Long Nights and Wandering As dementia progresses, progressive loss of cognitive function becomes more apparent. With long, dark nights over winter difficulties in understanding time increase. Readers of my blog will know that I am supporting my mother to...
by Kate Pym | Jul 18, 2018 | Healthcare
Preparing for a diagnosis of dementia – we prepare for so many life changes, why not this? We anticipate and prepare for so many things in life, such as birth, growing-up, going to school, university, joining the workforce, hormonal changes associated with growing up...
by Kate Pym | Dec 16, 2017 | Blog, Healthcare, NHS structures
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were created by the Health and Social Care Act 2012, they are comprised of GP practices, usually covering a close geographical area.In April 2013, they replaced primary care trusts as the commissioners of most services funded by...
by Kate Pym | Dec 12, 2017 | Blog, Healthcare
Healthcare has long been a tricky sector to navigate; for organisations trying to break into the market for the first time, the issues it presents are multiplied. The sector in its entirety is so vast and so complex that there is never going to be a quick-fix solution...
by Kate Pym | Dec 8, 2017 | Blog, Healthcare
Recessions happen. Companies and organisations either have a strategy to get through them effectively or they fail. This should mean that any organisation has access to guidance from someone who has been through it before, that the lessons of the past have been...
