Cumberland Infirmary emergency department access change
Work on the £12m facility, which is aimed at reducing pressure on the Accident and Emergency Department, began in February.When complete it will provide 12 consultation rooms, ancillary staff areas, clinical storage space and patient waiting areas.
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Kenneth Calman obituary: former chief medical officer for Scotland
In 1977 Kenneth Calman installed a table-tennis table at his office in the Kelvinside area of Glasgow, hoping that it would encourage more talking among his staff. 'It was vital that we met in a semi-informal manner just so we could talk, communicate about what we are doing,' he told the Daily Record. They were discussing cancer and Calman was leading a 25-strong team undertaking research into the disease. At the time, 60 per cent of patients were dying within a month of diagnosis. 'That one statistic was a challenge to everything I wanted the new department of oncology to be,' he wrote in his memoir, It Started in a Cupboard (2019). Calman pioneered a holistic approach to cancer treatment in Scotland, pointing out that patients' needs were not only physical but also encompassed the social, emotional and spiritual. 'Healing can be a much broader concept,' he told The Herald. These thoughts led him to start Cancer Support Scotland, inviting patients into his home to hear what was most important to them during their illness. 'What this allowed me to do was to understand cancer in a way I hadn't understood before. Not in the kind of treatment, or the research, but about the people, patients, families and what they could cope with,' he said. He described how the drug Cisplatin induced vomiting in every patient whenever they took it, so much so that some would be sick merely at the sight of him. 'You get used to it,' he noted drily. He also introduced the Golden Pisspot award, a gold-painted chamber pot awarded to the doctor whose research work most disrupted clinical care. He was the final recipient. Calman's public service extended beyond tackling cancer. He was chief medical officer for Scotland at the time when Edinburgh had a reputation as 'Europe's Aids capital'; held the same position in England during the BSE crisis; and was vice-chancellor of the University of Durham, hitting a £175 million fundraising target for the university's 175th anniversary in 2007. Returning to Scotland he was appointed chairman of the Calman Commission, given the task of examining ways to make devolution work better. The commission's report, Serving Scotland Better, was delivered in June 2009 with input from the three main unionist parties but not the SNP. It formed the basis of the Scotland Act 2012 and included proposals for devolving election administration, drink-driving limits and tax-raising powers to Holyrood. • The Calman Commission: the main recommendations Although the commission might have seemed distant from his medical background, Calman insisted that they were related. 'First of all, we had to diagnose what was wrong, all the time keeping an open mind and checking all the other symptoms we could discern, constantly communicating with the patient as openly as possible,' he wrote. 'Gradually, though, we started to focus on the key issues and call on specialist knowledge, just as a clinician might want to do.' Kenneth Charles Calman was born in the Knightswood area of Glasgow in 1941, the elder of two sons of Arthur Calman, a mechanic at MacKinnon's, a textile manufacturer, who died from a heart attack when Kenneth was nine and his brother, Norman, was five. His mother, Grace (née Don), was a secretary who later typed his PhD thesis. He recalled how rationing lasted until 1954, claiming that in both his chief medical officer posts he told his political masters that 'if they really wanted a healthy population, they should bring it back'. The church was central to his childhood with Sunday school, Scripture Union camps, membership of the Boys' Brigade and Billy Graham's rallies; he was later ordained an elder in the Kirk. At Allan Glen's School, Glasgow, he occasionally helped out in an uncle's chip shop. He then studied medicine and biochemistry at the University of Glasgow, returning in 1970 to complete a PhD in dermatology. He also found time to play rugby and hockey, and during one summer vacation he worked as a hospital porter. He met Ann Wilkie during a student charity parade in 1960 and they were married in 1967. Ann, who became deputy headmistress of a primary school, survives him with their children Andrew, an IT professional, Lynn, a medical academic, and Susan, a stand-up comedian. During a series of house jobs Calman wrote his first book, Basic Skills for the Surgical Houseman (1971). 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Manx patients warned of England resident doctor strike impact
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2 days ago
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Hospitals should BAN all attention seeking selfies
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