Category Archives: Passing Connection To Work

Iris Robinson MP

July 23, 2008 – 8:49 am

Here is something we can all get into a self righteous lather over. I am not sure if Iris Robinson is a British MP or a member of the Northern Ireland assembly her husband, Peter Robinson, is the leader of the DUP and First Minister, but Iris is reported by Hansard as saying;
“There can [...]

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Site rules

July 21, 2008 – 10:04 pm

Okay, the tone of debates seems to have, shall we say, lowered a bit lately, so I’m going to make a little statement about rules of the site.
First off, I have made the decision that quotes from or links to BNP websites are not permitted on this site. I know that some of you object [...]

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Encephalomyelitis and Incapacity Benefit

July 21, 2008 – 5:13 pm

Listening to “You and Yours’” Radio 4’s consumer affairs programme, on the way into work today I was following the debate on the proposed government changes to the benefits system. The government plans to shake up the benefits system by encouraging some of the long term unemployed to do voluntary work in return for [...]

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Nurse biscuits

July 20, 2008 – 11:38 am

In today’s news, surgeons at Imperial College Healthcare Trust will get bonuses for not killing their patients.
My response to this is the same as my view of the compassion index and the Productive Ward scheme. Which is that by and large doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals don’t need an endless slew of top-down schemes [...]

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This Week in Mentalists (38)

July 19, 2008 – 3:07 pm

It seems The Shrink has been shouting since 2.10am for a round-up. Therefore I need to do two things.
1. Arrange some zopiclone for The Shrink
2. Put together This Week in Mentalists.

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Meanwhile

July 16, 2008 – 8:53 am

…as the assembled company of Mental Nurse examines the contents of its collective navel button, out in the real world, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health has reported the results of its survey, showing that almost a fifth of MPs have experienced mental health problems.

[They] also found that 86% thought being an MP was [...]

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The science of the art of madness

July 15, 2008 – 6:42 pm

Even though I know many celebrate the difference of ‘madness’ I make no apology for the use of the term that others might find offensive.
I guess we have to call it something - and to be honest - I’m using it in belligerence to those who choose to call it by the names of the [...]

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Society is dead: Long live society

July 15, 2008 – 8:43 am

An epitaph for the eighties? “There is no such thing as society”
“I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it.’I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ [...]

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Self awareness or self doubt?

July 14, 2008 – 9:20 pm

I thought it was well past due that I write a post for Mental Nurse, what will all the intellectual discussions going on, it was about time for a pile of waffle from myself. *ahem*
As you may or may not be aware, I am in my final year as a student and will be a [...]

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One in Four Magazine

July 13, 2008 – 12:28 pm

I’ve just received a complimentary copy of the first issue of One in Four magazine, which describes itself as an “aspirational lifestyle magazine for people with mental health difficulties”. There’s a review of our website in there.
They’ve given us a very positive review, praising the “wide range of ideas and approaches” discussed, and the fact [...]

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Mendacity, stupidity or illiteracy? Which is it, mental nurse?

July 12, 2008 – 8:37 pm

(Guest post by Dr Crippen)
Your recent post is both fraudulent and dishonest. Whatever my view may be on “nurse specialists” I have consistently over the last three years campaigned for better pay for nurses.
In the post you so fraudulently misquote, I was saying that I did not know what a qualified nurse should earn, [...]

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This Week in Mentalists (37)

July 12, 2008 – 9:10 am

I think I’m now past my post-holiday blues. How I miss my week away in Scarborough. The twinkling lights of the uranium factory. The pretty colours of the pollution against the night sky. The screams of political dissidents being “re-educated” with clubs.
Anyway, on with This Week in Mentalists.

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No sympathy?

July 12, 2008 – 8:28 am

As regards nurses, this scenario is of course too silly for words. A house, car and family? What nurse at the start of her/his career expects to have a house, a car and a family to support? Nurses at this stage have none of that and frequently are helped out financially by parents or better-paid [...]

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Emos against suicide

July 11, 2008 – 8:30 pm

We’ve previously covered the subject of emo, and the various attempts to blame emo culture for adolescent self-harm and suicide. As I’ve said before, I think such criticism is entirely hysterical and wrong-headed.
And now I’m pleased to hear that an emo band has performed a gig in Bridgend in the wake of the suicides [...]

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The NHS at 60

July 9, 2008 – 10:39 am

Patients were being urged by the government to go ape shit crazy as the NHS finally went tits up aged sixty this month.

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