Beliefs, capacity, and best interests
Two recent judgements from the Court of Protection have concerned...
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Two recent judgements from the Court of Protection have concerned...
The World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Impairment, Disability and...
What theory underlies the delivery of healthcare? The design of...
The biopsychosocial model of illness was born in 1977, with...
What is the unique contribution of a speech and language...
“But what do doctors do in rehabilitation? “I have been...
What type of long-term rehabilitation goals should we set with...
A patient’s father recently asked me, “What is the usual...
The Community Rehabilitation Alliance recently published some Best Practice Standards...
Rehabilitation networks are the central theme of the recently published...
At a recent meeting in Genoa of RIMS (Rehabilitation in...
Over the years, I have heard people advocating strongly for...
Rehabilitation services should pay attention to loneliness. It is common,...
In 1978, I submitted my first paper to the British...
What is slow-stream rehabilitation? Dr John Burn is leading a...
Hospitals are a part of the healthcare system, but is...
At 02.00 hrs on November 29th, I had an epiphany,...
In May 2021, Dr Sabena Yasmin Jameel published her University...
The new, significantly changed, and improved 2021 Rehabilitation Curriculum for...
“Rehabilitation is a way of thinking, not a way of...
In 2007 Peter Halligan and I asked, “Is it time...
In 1980 I started a three-year project, a large (n...
Is frailty a helpful concept within the rehabilitation context? I...
What is a person’s ‘Rehabilitation Potential’? Often this question is...
Disease, illness, sickness, and disability are dangerous and difficult words...
Thinking about prolonged disorders of consciousness Consciousness implies awareness: subjective,...
This blog post is based on an extensive systematic review...
The diagnosis and management of patients with prolonged disorders of...
Tamar Makin, in 2021, prefaced her Essay with, “It has...
Is this patient ready for discharge? This question must be...
Trust is central to all healthcare. A patient trusts the...
Rehabilitation usually promotes itself as holistic, considering the patient as...
Teams use many different words to describe themselves. A group...
Clinical Rehabilitation, the journal I have edited from 1994 to...
Rehabilitation is not therapy, and therapy is not rehabilitation. Rehabilitation...
The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is a well-designed, helpful piece...
PDOC stands for Prolonged Disorder of Consciousness; the term covers...
Today, 18th July 2021, the UK National Institute for Health...
Doctors make decisions and are mainly used to making difficult...
On Friday, 2nd July 2021 (at 05.00 hrs), I participated...
Most professions initially developed based on trust. Examinations were rare....
The role of an Advanced Clinical Practitioner could be characterised...
I have learned much about making decisions on people in...
Today (May 26th 2021), I attended a Zoom-based seminar on...
I was asked, on Twitter by Jacqui Wheatcroft: “I wondered...
This post concerns training in and education about empathy, “the...
“Helping the Public Understand Adverse Events Associated With COVID-19 Vaccinations....
On 7 April 2021, the National Institute for Health and...
One December 18th 2020 the UK National Institute for Health...
This post was precipitated by reading two papers and following...
Teamwork is central to rehabilitation. A team is comprised of...
The published paper featured in this post illustrates many features...
Two incidents precipitated this blog. During discussion after a talk...
Can you predict who will benefit from rehabilitation? When I...
Competency as a concept used within training and education was...
In March 2020 (pre-Covid lockdown), NHS England and NHS Improvement...
Most people feel rehabilitation services in the UK could be...
I am writing a syllabus for doctors training in Rehabilitation...
Team members face an uneasy tension between being a member...
Medical services responded rapidly to the very obvious, severe acute...
The word, specialist, when preceding rehabilitation concerns me for many...
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