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Leeds Trades Union Council: Leeds TUC Budget Day Protest - City Square - 08 July 2015 - 5pm
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Leeds Trades Union Council. Leeds Trades Union Council bring together local affiliate trade union branches to campaign around issues affecting working people in their workplaces and local communities. Trades union councils generally aim to: Raise public awareness of rights at work and the union role in enforcing those rights; Promote organising and recruitment drives to build union membership; Support union and community campaigns for dignity and respect in the workplace and beyond. Saturday, 27 June 2015.
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Defend the Whittington Hospital Coalition » Minutes_20100607
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Defend the Whittington Hospital Coalition. Campaigning to save beds, jobs, services and buildings. Help stop the sell off. April day of action. All coverage since Feb 2013. Local press 2010-Feb 2013. National press 2010-Feb 2013. Camden New Journal Comment (12-Apr-2012). Shirley’s letter in the Gazette (2-sep-2010). What you can do to help. Write to your MP. June 27th, 2010. Minutes of DWHC Meeting 7th Jun 2010. Shirley Franklin, Rich Moth, Ian Shacklock, Jem Lindon. 3Mins of last Mtg. E-Mail (will not b...
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Got five minutes spare before 30th April? | Defend the NHS
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Gill’s Union Blog. About Gill George’s Blog. Got five minutes spare before 30th April? There’s an important leaflet here. From Keep Our NHS Public. This is about the ‘Co-operation and Competition Panel’ – a fancy name for a body that will allow the private sector to overturn local decisions to keep NHS services publicly provided and publicly accountable. The consultation documents are here. If you can’t access them from the KONP leaflet. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
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Trade Union Co-ordinating Group: A step in the right direction | Defend the NHS
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Gill’s Union Blog. About Gill George’s Blog. Trade Union Co-ordinating Group: A step in the right direction. I’m at the TUC this week. There have been some real highlights – the prospect for co-ordinated industrial action on public sector pay being one of them. I’ll do a fuller report on this another time. A few soundbites from a good meeting:. Bob Crow talked about the danger of unity in support of the Labour Government being the ‘unity of the graveyard’. He predicted a mass wipe out for Labou...Jeremy ...
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September | 2009 | Defend the NHS
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Gill’s Union Blog. About Gill George’s Blog. September 3, 2009. Apologies for a quiet few months. I’ve been seeing the NHS from another angle, having acquired myself a diagnosis of ‘syringomyelia’. This is a rather obscure spinal condition relatively common in spaniels, apparently, but quite rare in people. You know you’ve got something a bit unusual when you go and see your GP to discuss treatment options, and she says, ‘Now tell me what that is’. So how has the NHS been, so far? The latest bit of madne...
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Unite Executive Council | Defend the NHS
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Gill’s Union Blog. About Gill George’s Blog. Gill was elected to the Unite Executive Council, with another left activist, Frank Wood, in March 2008 to represent Health sector members. Gill regularly prepares and circulates reports on EC meetings for the Health membership. These are available below. Unite Executive Council Report, May 21-22, 2008. Unite Executive Council Report, July 7-8, 2008. Unite Executive Council Report, October 9, 2008. June 1, 2011 at 9:05 pm. 8] , free e-books australia.
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Simple Isn’t Easy – changing the way the NHS communicates with patients | A Better NHS
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Exploring the relationships between doctors and patients and health policy. What is a 7 day NHS and what will it cost? Simple Isn’t Easy – changing the way the NHS communicates with patients. January 14, 2016. This is a fantastic blog from David Gilbert – has made me very aware of how much better my own practice’s communications should be. I’ll post our new letters and guides to how we can make better use of GP appointments next. Future Patient - musings on patient-led healthcare. I recently got an almos...
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Shame and redemption | A Better NHS
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Exploring the relationships between doctors and patients and health policy. The hidden art of reassurance. Poverty medicine: General practice and vulnerable patients →. November 21, 2016. 8220;It was impossible to explain to the healthy the logic of the sick, and he didn’t have the energy to try”. Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life. There is a complexity to things that people who weren’t fucked as a kid just cannot understand. James Rhodes, Instrumental. Caring for adults, who were sexually abused as childr...
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Better continuity of care | A Better NHS
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Exploring the relationships between doctors and patients and health policy. First impressions →. Better continuity of care. October 1, 2015. We do not need any more research about the benefits of continuity of care. The evidence. Is associated with improved preventive and chronic care services, patient and clinician satisfaction, lower hospital utilization, lower costs, and for elderly patients, lower mortality. Shows how amazingly efficient continuity of care can be. Because getting to know a patient as...
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Empathy and shame. | A Better NHS
https://abetternhs.net/2015/12/24/empathy-and-shame
Exploring the relationships between doctors and patients and health policy. Simple Isn’t Easy – changing the way the NHS communicates with patients →. December 24, 2015. 8211; discussed in detail in a blog last year, is frequently a feature when patients consult. How we respond to patients who are feeling, or at risk of feeling shame can make or break a therapeutic relationship. This is about how I try to respond. Situations where patients blame themselves for their perceived failure to take responsibili...
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