Being truly open and honest with bereaved families
Failure to answer legitimate questions can often prevent families cope and recover from their loss. It can leave them psychologically stuck, still grieving, unable to move on.
making families count
The importance of meaningful family engagement following a patient safety incident
Commentary over many years has described the importance of meaningful family engagement following a patient safety incident. Failing to effectively involve patients and families excludes their experiences from investigations and perpetuates feelings that their voices are not heard.
Suicide as a result of domestic abuse
Between four and ten women take their own lives each week in the UK because of domestic abuse. For families this is a dark, lonely and challenging place.
What can one person do to achieve change?
Many years ago, as a young woman, I also wanted to change the world. I wanted the inequalities within and between countries to be reduced.
Why and how I set up the Adam Bojelian Foundation CIC (#AdsFoundation)
He also spent half his life in hospitals in seven different NHS regions of the United Kingdom. Adam experienced the absolute best and the very worst of NHS care.
Using positive engagement to fill in the gaps
Last week I met a lovely young woman whose brother had died from a brain tumour 10 months earlier. She felt that she could tell me about this because I met her in a work capacity and she had already listened to me talking about grief and my own struggles …