Action checklist 1. Meet and discuss with colleagues, nurses and resuscitation trainers. Nurses are most important as they are the staff who make the most of these calls. 2. Use the attached 2222 PowerPoint presentation at meetings if you wish. 3. Discuss with patients groups / representatives if available 4. Discuss with / Send letter to Hospital Medical Director / Management (see Draft letter...

BACKGROUND Improving safety in care homes is becoming increasingly important. Care home residents typically have multiple physical and/or cognitive impairments, and adverse events like falls often lead to hospital attendance or admission. Developing a safety culture is associated with beneficial impacts on safety outcomes, but the complex needs of care home residents, coupled with staffing pres...

The research and practice literature was examined to determine whether community support programs are responsive to ethnocultural issues and to derive strategies for developing culturally relevant programming. Great variation exists across cultures in family practices, conceptions of mental illness, stigma attributed to mental illness, and expectations of the provider system. Ethnic minority cu...

"RED light on " . '" . the Dakota vibrated as it lost speed for its run in and, with the sandbanks, receding beneath us, ,the dropping zone came in,to view through the open door. The ground chosen for the landing was a narrow tongue caught between the icy waters of the Kabul River and the Indus where they converged just above the fort at Attock. It was January and the night was cold, but a half...