St Christopher's Blog: Malcolm Payne » social work http://blogs.stchristophers.org.uk/one Malcolm Payne's blog for St Christopher's Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:58:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 More hopes dashed http://blogs.stchristophers.org.uk/one/2010/12/14/more-hopes-dashed/ http://blogs.stchristophers.org.uk/one/2010/12/14/more-hopes-dashed/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:31:21 +0000 Malcolm Payne http://blogs.stchristophers.org.uk/one/2010/12/14/more-hopes-dashed/ Another later Christmas present tweet: Panorama cancelled: presumably the BBC Panorama programme on Baby Peter, recycling the videoed interview with a senior Haringay official with Baby Peter’s mother.

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I now feel a duty to comply (you didn’t know that about me did you?) So: Except to say that good pain and symptom management is an essential part of pallaitiev care, but mainly so that people can continue to lead interesting lives that allow them to complete the social tasks they need to achieve in the life that remains to them.

The listing at: http://nursesassistant.org/2010/top-50-hospice-care-blogs/

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