Blog posts December 2011
M(ums)power workshops round two: what do clinicians think could improve maternity care?
Father Christmas: Doctor, Doctor I feel so unfit
Doctor: You need to go to an elf farm
With Christmas upon us, it is all too easy for us (well, me at least) to forget that there are people who will not be stuffing themselves with turkey and sharing hilariously bad Christmas cracker jokes on Christmas Day. Instead, all over the country, hundreds of public service workers will be on duty as usual, putting out fires, breaking up fights, arresting criminals, saving people’s lives, and delivering babies.
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The Crisis of New Year's Resolutions
As we approach the end of the year, it is not uncommon for us to start thinking about framing our personal and professional resolutions for the New Year, in the hope of achieving the gratifying goal of self-improvement, at a perceived dawn of a ‘new era.’ Whether you subscribe to the notion and logic of making New Year’s resolutions or not (it’s not difficult to discern my attitude to this from the tone of my opening!), it is undoubtedly clear that senior public officials occupying the boardrooms of Brussels, Strasbourg and Frankfurt are making a unified New Year’s resolution: to make a...
M(ums)power workshops round one: what do mums think could improve maternity care?
At first glance it might seem that a project which seeks to improve antenatal care and the tools it relies on has little to do with a fictional story about the after-effects of a US high school massacre. But just as the M(ums)power team is seeking to understand the full range of pregnant women’s...
