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W elcome to our sixth edition of Spotlight , which looks at the subject of compassion, what good compassion looks like, and how as care givers and pastoral workers we can try to avoid burnout. Spotlight is a regular publication of CMF, written by and for Christian...
'The only reason you can do this is that you have never seen a miracle'. These are the dying words of Sapper Moreton moments before he is killed. His murderer is K, a Blade Runner charged with hunting down and killing (or 'retiring') rogue replicants. This encounter, at the very...
How do you change the world? One person at a time, goes the adage. According to a report published in October of last year by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health (APPGH), the answer is one nurse a time. 1 Actually, it is much more than one nurse at...
Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs) are the new, globally agreed targets for developing poor, middle income and rich nations between 2015 and 2030. 1 There are seventeen goals in total with the aim of significantly reducing poverty, inequality, injustice and environmental damage around the world. The international community (including the...
The media has been full of stories recently about the shortage of nurses and midwives faced in the UK. In November, the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) released a report showing that the number of EU nurses on the register has declined by 2,700 in the last year. This is...
Overshadowed by the coverage of the horrific terrorist attack in Manchester in May, the British media largely missed the election of the new General Secretary of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (or Dr Tedros as he now styles himself). The former Ethiopian health minister became the first...
Sex and politics have become mainstream,but death remains as the last subject which we do not talk about. That, according to the authors, 'simply will not do'. In reality, many people faced with life-limiting illnesses do want to talk, but are either afraid to or just do not know how...
About 15 minutes into Alexander Payne's 2011 film The Descendants, Matt King (played by George Clooney) walks calmly into the hospital room of his comatose wife, Elizabeth. He closes the door gently and then proceeds to excoriate her for controlling and messing up the lives of everyone around her. This...
In a beautifully decorous Victorian bedroom, a middle-aged woman sits propped up in bed, a portable writing desk on her lap. Surrounding her are piles of correspondence from nurses in Britain, America and Europe: letters from Members of Parliament,reports from hospitals across England, and table and after table of statistics...
How do you eat an elephant? One mouthful at a time, as the old riddle says. How do you change your workplace? One interaction at a time might be the answer. In this issue we look at what it means to be 'salt and light'. In Matthew 5:13-16, Jesus told his...
