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- A focus on ‘ Always Events’
- A Matter of Time
- Message from Abhishek Bhartia
- Achieving Excellence – The Quality Delivery Plan for the NHS in Wales
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A focus on ‘ Always Events’
This article talks about how strategy ensures patient-centred care and a better patient experience. This article was written by Martha Hayward, Jo Ann Endo and Patricia Rutherford.
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A Matter of Time
A NOVEL “TIME EATING” CLOCK WAS RECENTLY UNVEILED at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England.
Sitting atop this clock is Chronophage, a large grasshopper escapement that “eats up every minute of your life,and as soon as one’s gone he’s salivating for the next.” Health care time is certainly not protected from the voracious appetite of Chronophage, but the passage of time in any medical
situation is perceived in different ways, depending on who is doing the watching. At many points in the delivery of health care, time seems to disappear altogether; in other situations, it moves slowly, lags a few beats, races ahead, or even lurches forward in a disconcertingly asynchronous manner. In this Commentary, a new perspective on time—improvement time—is discussed in the context of 3 traditional aspects of medical time: clinical research (knowledge) time, patient (illness) time, and clinical practice (disease) time.
Two fundamental concepts of time—one a structured, ordered, and linear entity (the Greek kronos); the other a personal and emotional perspective that embodies time in a “soul
satisfying and nourishing manner”1 (the Greek kairos)— provide good starting points for considering medical time. As Kern2 points out, “the very nature of scientific (kronos)
time conceals, or cannot supply a useful context for, essential realities of human experience.” However, all 3 aspects of medical time involve both kronos and kairos in important but fundamentally different ways.
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Message from Abhishek Bhartia
Abhishek Bhartia, the Chief Executive of a non-profit hospital in New Delhi (Sitaram Bhartia) and left us a message for our Annual QI Conference 2016.
Abhishek visited the Trust in January 2015 and you can read his blog here>>
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Achieving Excellence – The Quality Delivery Plan for the NHS in Wales
This article written between 2012 – 2016 with a foreword written by Lesley Griffiths AM Minister for Health and Social Services in May 2012 talks about all we want and expect from excellent health services – services that meet our needs, treat us with respect and provide the highest quality standards. This Quality Delivery Plan sets out the actions we will take to ensure this happens by 2016.
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