Joanna Slater chronicles her mother Kay’s agonising six-month decline after a routine hip op – at the hands of an NHS where many have simply forgotten how to care…
Filed under: Uncategorized, Elderly care, Hospital, NHS
17/05/2016 • 6:53 am
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
Strength in Numbers dedicated to my late mother Kay
Pages
- A link to My mothers story in The Mail on Sunday 5th June 2011 by Joanna Slater
- ALL YOUR STORIES – STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
- CAN YOU HELP? A page where you can post your questions. Email me your question and I will post for you
- Contact Me
- Getting your message across. There are lots of ways to get your message across and all for free
- Good News
- Grief and Loss – How to cope
- Helping you through life’s pressures and stress
- Hidden filming in care homes – Download guidance on using hidden camera’s
- Medical Records Request – Template Letter DOC version
- NURSING HOME ASSESSMENT FORM for RESIDENTS FRIENDS AND FAMILY
- Poem – About dementia – “YOU SEE ME” , “AND YET, YOU DON’T KNOW ME?
- Poem – Heart rendering poem about old age – Take a few minutes to read, it says it all
- Poem: To Love a Diabetic – By Katherine Marple
- Robbie Powell, died 25 years ago aged 10. Difficult to believe that this 4 part ‘Wales This Week’ documentary was aired 11 years ago and yet the NHS cover up continues 25 years after Robbie’s needles death!
- Six Things to Never Say to a Bereaved Parent – By Angela Miller
- Special Needs Parents: 6 Ways To Stop Worrying And Start Living
- Video – Alzheimer’s- Most People Don’t Know How To Reach Someone With Alzheimer’s But This Angel Sure Does
- Video – Cancer awareness – Check yourself, don’t wreck yourself
- Video – Cancer Patient Does This To Show The World What Being Sick Really Means
- Video – Died, The man that sent this video clip to me lost his daughter from mishaps that happened in the NHS – Mad As Hell
- Video – Miracle of life – From conception to birth
- Video – One mans desperate fight for his son to get to the truth
- Video – People With Down Syndrome Dance To ‘Happy’ To Celebrate World Down Syndrome Day
- Video: Being ignored, neglected and forgotten
- Whistleblower: Download The Freedom to Speak up Report – February 2015
- Whistleblowers, Victims of Abuse Protest at Parliament Sq 10th September 2014
- Your comments – Thank you
A - Z of Helpful Links
Blogs/websites
- Bad Medicine
- Blog – A life too short by Helga Warzecha
- Blog on law, politics, and health policy mainly, by Dr Shibley Rahman
- Blog: Diary of a Benefit Scrounger
- Dr Phil Hammond
- End Elder abuse and Neglect
- Grandma B – The story of a little old lady in a wheelchair
- Justice 4 U Michael Gavin
- Justice for Mary Poulter
- Justice For Nino
- Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Lucy does a blog – Thyroid Cancer
- Mama Lewis – And the amazing adventures of The Half-Brained Baby
- Medical law expert calls on NHS to use ‘CARE’ to aid patient welfare
- Mental Health Today
- Relatives that Care
- The Commodity of Care – Politics and Poor Nursing Care with up-dates
- The Mighty. Facing disability, disease and mental illness together.
- Your Voice Matters
Campaigns
- Better Care For Young Cancer Patients Campaign
- Campaign for Safer Births
- Cure the NHS – North East
- END OF LIFE CARE UK
- Freedom To Speak Up
- Harrys Law – Justice for Harry
- Little Heart Beats – PPROM Awareness
- Max's Foundation – bringing an awareness for a heart condition known as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
- NHS Campaigners Map
- NHS Justice Group
- Put patients First – Back General Practice
- Robbie’s Law – A legal Duty of Candour in healthcare within the UK
- The Krista Ocloo campaign for justice
Cancer
Charities / Patients Help
- (RNIB) Supporting People with sight loss
- Carers UK
- Counselling Directory
- Diabetes UK
- Drug Recall Center
- Fifepatients.com
- Inquest – Working for truth, justice, and accountability
- Parkinson's UK
- Patients First
- Psychiatric Patients Speak Out
- Search for How your GP practice is performing. Enter in your postcode
- Search for Your consultant. How many operations – Mortality Rate
- Swan UK. (Syndromes Without A Name)
- Syncope Trust and Reflex Anoxic Seizures – Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS).
- The Patients Association
- The UK Sepsis Trust
Complaints/ Legal Help
Dementia
Disabilities
Elderly Care
- Age UK Blog
- Care To Be Different
- Caron Cares – Caring for the elderly
- Challenging Social Care UK
- Compassion In Care
- Compassion in Dying
- Depression, Dementia and Delirium – Let's Respect
- Dignity In Care
- Elderly help line. The Silver Line. Need help? Call us ANYTIME
- Friends of the Elderly
- Your Voice Matters Promoting Care with Dignity and Respect
