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This Scottish report “Adding Life to Years” is now rather old. It once asked about ageism: This week the UK National Screening Committee has expressed significant concerns about screening tests for … Continue reading “Two-thirds of diagnoses would be given to healthy people”
The following words appear frequently in the language of Health Improvement: It is my view that Healthcare Improvement needs to consider the potential consequences of the widespread use of such … Continue reading The mechanical language of Health Improvement
The Chair of Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Dr Denise Coia, has confirmed that the Care of Older People in Hospital Standards are scheduled to be published at the end of March 2015. … Continue reading Care of Older People in Hospital Standards
This paper was published in the Lancet in late last year. It is a two page article that is worth reading in full. All screenshots below are from this paper: … Continue reading “Doing damage in delirium the hazards of antipsychotic treatment in elderly people”
A BMJ Open study has found that less than half the prescriptions for antipsychotic drugs issued in primary care in the United Kingdom are for the serious mental illnesses for … Continue reading Antipsychotic prescribing
A Scottish citizen, over the age of 65 years, recently wrote to a Parliamentarian with concerns about mandatory cognitive screening in Scotland’s acute hospitals. Following this a helpful letter was … Continue reading “At Liberty” (cognitive screening)
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