by Kate Pym | May 2, 2019 | Blog, Financial, Power of Attorney, Social Care
Financial Lasting Power of Attorney, Self-funding Care and Taxation Holding Financial Lasting Power of Attorney for someone needing care is a big responsibility and not something to be undertaken lightly. It means more than making sure Mum or Dad is running their bank...
by Kate Pym | Mar 21, 2019 | Blog, NHS, Social Care
Why is Social Care so far ahead of the NHS when it comes to digital records and mobile working? This is a question I was asked recently at meeting about implementing digital health technologies in the NHS. The question arose as a result of me being the only person in...
by Kate Pym | Oct 26, 2018 | Blog, NHS, Social Care
Health Literacy, Rural Inequality and Living with Dementia. I have decided to post more regular blogs, with less specific focus, as each working week is different, and raises varying issues across health and care. Over the last few days I have been doing the usual,...
by Kate Pym | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog, Social Care
The social care sector provides an invaluable support network to older and vulnerable people. It has become increasingly integrated into the healthcare sector and is recognised as being an important aspect of general health and well-being. However, the financial...
by Kate Pym | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog, Business, NHS, Social Care
We all know that the NHS is a huge, complex, unwieldy organisation, and if we were to design a social healthcare system from scratch today, it would not look like the modern NHS. We would not have to take into account embedded working practices, expensive,...
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...
