Here’s to a second year of connecting!
It has now been a year since we prepared our first set of civil servants to go out on the frontline. As I look back over that year, not only do I have a lot of memories, but most of …
Connecting reminds me why I joined the Department
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Siobhan Jones, Posted on:
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A&E, Acute, Community care, Mental health, Secondary care
Connecting has been a fantastic opportunity to remind me why I joined the Department of Health, having recently come back after several years working in other parts of Government. It’s also given me a very useful snapshot of the reality …
A demystifying experience for all
From the outset, our aim at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust was to provide genuine, real life experiences of our mental health services to staff from the Department of Health (DH). So far, we have had the pleasure …
First hand learning is extremely powerful
Returning from my second week out connecting has provided me with a point on which to reflect on my experiences to date, and consider how they are changing the way that I am doing my job. From ward to ward …
Five days felt like five weeks
Five days connecting felt like five weeks – such was the pace and variety of experiences during my time at Guy’s and St Thomas’s. My contact with the service was essentially two parts of a care pathway – stretching from …