And so the health saga continues

June 29, 2011

I think saga is a fair word, here, considering the definition provided by one dictionary: ‘A story about what happens to a group of characters over a long period of time.’ One can’t help but wonder if the ‘characters’ of this particular episode are overshadowing the conclusion it is working towards. I recall Mike Farrar’s [...]

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To P or not to P. That really does seem to be the question.

June 14, 2011

In Louis de Bernieres’s book, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, one of the characters, Old Stamatis, has had a pea stuck in his ear since childhood causing him deafness. His relief at getting it removed turns quickly to dismay as he can now hear his wife’s constant remonstrations, to which he had been oblivious for all those [...]

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Love your eyes

June 13, 2011

Infographic by Ultralase

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Eye Eye

June 12, 2011

Delighted to be working closely with the optical sector to launch National Eye Health Week tomorrow. This is a collaborative venture with charities, professional bodies and commercial organisations coming together to organise and fund a public health campaign to raise awareness of the importance of regular sight tests. The campaign theme, I Care About Eye [...]

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Are you listening?

May 22, 2011

Salix attended The Guardian’s NHS Listening Event last week, organised in association with the Deparment of Health as part of the NHS listening exercise. The hundred or so Guardian readers who attended were staunchly and loudly against the reforms, often shouting at each other and The Guardian chairman, David Brindle. Although all seemingly on the [...]

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The NHS shake-up. What it means for PR.

May 7, 2011

Happy to have contributed comment and content for PR Week’s debate on the future of PR and communications in the proposed new look NHS.  

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NHS listening exercise a pause not a rewind

May 7, 2011

Those were the words of the former director of primary care improvement at the Department of Health at this week’s Managing Long Term Conditions Conference in Harrogate.  She made it clear that, while amendments will be made to the NHS reform proposals, the direction of travel won’t change. She also said that, despite the noise [...]

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Happiness, happiness…

April 16, 2011

Since working with Moodscope , happiness and emotional wellbeing have been high on our agenda. And now it seems they’re high on everyone else’s too. David Cameron wants a Happiness Index,  suggesting GWB (general wellbeing) is as important as GDP. And last week saw the launch of Action for Happiness, a new movement hoping to [...]

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Communications conundrum

April 3, 2011

Communications conundrum. What should we call the “situation” in Libya? The Liberation? The Regime change? The War? Pondering this with a growing sense of unease during the endless news coverage this weekend, a casual aside in the commentary suddenly caught our attention. We were told that each Tomahawk Cruise missile being fired from warships off [...]

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A remarkable insight into ‘losing it’

March 17, 2011

Recently saw Ruby Wax’s much feted Losing it. Ruby’s son interned with us briefly last summer working on our Kids Company Peace of Mind campaign and had the kind of high level mind that only someone studying something extraordinarily clever – I think it may have been astrophysics – could.  Peace of Mind is funding [...]

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