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Facebook fanpage, blogs and Twitter In the accompanying Triple Helix Giles Cattermole explains these, and convincingly defends the reasons for CMF getting into social networking (though in a briefing paper for Senior Staff Team discussion he did use the subheading: 'Communication and collaboration or time-wasting triviality and retarded relationships?') We are already...
We never consciously set out to have a theme for this edition of Triple Helix, much less one about relationships. But that's how the material – commissioned and contributed spontaneously – came in. We've considered whether QOF's box-ticking damages the doctor-patient relationship, what really matters in parentprofessional relationships when a baby...
In 2006 Triple Helix asked whether single Christian doctors should embrace twenty first century dating techniques. (1) Stephanie (2) is a consultant physician in her forties who read the article and subsequently registered with a couple of the introduction agencies featured. Through one she met James (2), an engineer a...
On 24 May Marie Stopes International (MSI) broadcast for the first time on British TV an advertisement for its abortion services. However 'sensitive' Are you late? may or may not have been, British women surely are sufficiently aware of how to access abortion services. Television is a powerful medium for...
Communication is a two-way business and we are always glad to hear from members at any time about anything appropriate. And if you're not sure whether it is appropriate or not, please feel free to be in touch. We are here to serve you and genuinely enjoy member contact! Tell us:...
Over the years Triple Helix has considered the vexed question for GPs of handling abortion requests. In 2003 Liz Walker and Huw Morgan discussed 1 the following real life case: 'Jenny is 15 and thinks she may be pregnant. After talking and examining her you establish that she is around...
The rising costs of health and social care are an ever present but rarely acknowledged background to the end-of-life debate raging at the moment, and with the General Election expected on 6 May, the debate about social care funding has become particularly heated. Eighteen charities including Carers UK, Age Concern and...
At a resumed inquest in October, the Coroner ruled that doctors at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital had acted correctly in not giving any lifesaving treatment to 26 year old Kerrie Wooltorton when she was admitted in 2007 having suicidally ingested antifreeze. (1) It appears that she had done...
