The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Mental Health Taskforce, England, UK Date: February 2016, Number of pages: 82 Link: https://bit.ly/1Lp9kD3 Review by Carline Core, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Edmonton This report is a guide written by the independent Mental Health Taskforce for initiating change in England’s current mental health services… Read More »
It is with great sadness that I am writing this post to announce that Professor Scott Reeves (Editor-in-Chief), suddenly and sadly passed away a week ago. This has been devastating news for all those who knew him, particularly his family and our thoughts are with them at this time. I have been struggling to think… Read More »
Introduction The Journal of Interprofessional Care’s Baldwin Award is in recognition of DeWitt ‘Bud’ Baldwin Jr.’s lifelong and distinguished contribution to interprofessional care. It was first awarded in 2009 for the best article of the 2008 volume of the Journal of Interprofessional Care. Each year since, a panel of judges recruited from the Journal’s Editorial… Read More »
As we slowly start progressing into the New Year and the film awards season, we felt it would be appropriate to announce our own form of the Oscars, namely our ‘winning papers’ of 2017. These papers have been selected based on pure data with no influence from any judges, brown envelopes or reviewers! We… Read More »
The word ‘community’ gets used quite frequently. Now, so much to the point that any individual working for a business with social media expertise, if there is such a thing, can often be referred to as a ‘community manager’. Sometimes, this can take away from the importance of the word community, but also in learning… Read More »
If you happen to work in health care, you are bound to encounter a medical student at some point. You may have been one yourself, you may have been the nurse tutor that worked alongside one or you may have been that professor that tried your best but realized that one particular student was a… Read More »
Healthcare is full of debatable definitions, creating dilemmas across departments and across the globe. One definition that may differ in its wording but not in its meaning and implications is ‘Integrated Care’. One such definition from the NHS in the UK, is: For health, care and support to be ‘integrated’, it must be person-centred, coordinated,… Read More »
It’s the middle of summer, the sun is actually shining in the UK and in other parts of the world and for once, you’re reading something that is not related to presidential gaffes, politics or the most recent Instagram post from a b-list celebrity. You are currently readling line 4 of the most recent… Read More »