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I have sent the following as a Freedom of Information request to 14 NHS Boards in Scotland. All the responses, including tables of statistics, can be read here. 7 November … Continue reading Hospital prescribing of Haloperidol in your NHS Health Board area
In May 2014 the Executive Clinical Director for Healthcare Improvement Scotland [HIS] sent a letter to my employers NHS Forth Valley setting out formally a range of concerns about my … Continue reading Scientific progress requires open-minded enquiry
A number of people have asked me to try and summarise my considerations on delirium assessment. In what follows I will also try and outline an alternative approach to the … Continue reading Delirium Screening
This short closing section on “delirium” has taken as a title a few words from Love in the time of Cholera. I have read this book several times and the … Continue reading Infusion of worldwide teas
INTRODUCTION: “Sensitive to the faltering steps of age”[1] In what follows I will attempt to explore many of the issues around the experience of confusion in those people 65 years … Continue reading The faltering, unfaltering steps