MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'cps'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:00:30 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4036719&cid=t_169790_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F10%2F06%2Fchild-protective-services-ineffective%2F How effective is your local child protective services department? You know, that agency which is charged in protecting the health and well-being of children in your community. Child protective services are not very effective at all, at least when it comes to specific risk factors that could improve a child’s well-being and mental health. In a nationwide study that examined children in 595 families over a period of 9 years, researchers discovered that in the households where child abuse was substantiated by evidence, risk factors remained unchanged during followup interviews with the families. The risk factors are considered “modifiable” risk factors — those things which could be changed to enhance the health and well-being of the child. They include things such a... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4036719 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:05:56 +0100 4036719 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1512113&cid=t_169790_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fchoose-and-book-barrister-and-cowpat.html We have a good ENT department locally. I send nearly all my ENT referrals to David, who is one of the older consultants. I have grown up with him, I suppose. He took out my daughter’s tonsils. I am very choosy about who operates on my children. I trust him. "Doctor, would you let this surgeon operate on your children?" you should ask. Make sure your doctor answers without hesitation.A few weeks ago, I suggested to Mary that I should refer her to David to sort out her problems with obstructive nasal polyps. I’ve known Mary for twenty years. When I first met her she was in remission from a childhood leukaemia. She has been in remission ever since and so she is deemed to be cured. It still concentrates the mind, and she comes to see me from time to time about this that and the other. She ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1512113 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:28:00 +0100 1512113 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1356041&cid=t_169790_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fdestroying-independence-of-english.html Nigel Rumfitt QCSuccessive Labour governments have destroyed the English secondary education system. They are in the process of destroying the university education system by compelling the universities to admit under qualified students from sink comprehensives. They are destroying the NHS by undermining the medical profession so that they can be replaced with poorly trained but cheaper HCPs. It is only right and fair, therefore, that they should also destroy the English legal system. And when you see what a thorn in the side of government an independent lawyer can be, is it any wonder that Gordon Brown wants to bring these turbulent professionals to heel?The government has made a start by trying to impose a contract on barristers who work in the legal aid system. So far the barristers ar... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1356041 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:41:00 +0100 1356041 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1353093&cid=t_169790_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F06%2Fgood-touchbad-touch%2F Friday I learned something serious in a CPS hearing about the leading CSA (child sexual abuse) prevention program known as Good Touch/Bad Touch. I was grateful when this program came out 25 years ago, thought it would have helped me if it was around when I was growing up, I’ve used the teaching [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1353093 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:24:06 +0100 1353093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1245027&cid=t_169790_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fcrown-prosecution-service-legal.html Crown Prosecution ServiceThe beleaguered Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has become the public embodiment of the disasters inherent in dumbing down. In medicine we often say that there is no such thing as minor surgery, only minor surgeons. The drafting of legal charges, the decisions as to who or who not to prosecute and the conduct of the prosecution may seem minor matters. They are not. All these tasks need the skills of trained lawyers.You do not find Russell group university law graduates beating a path to the CPS. The CPS is not the place for high fliers.Dumbing down the prosecution service and handing it over to a salaried state enterprise means means that independent barristers are often not involved until it is too late. And now, it seems, for many cases they will not be involved ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1245027 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:57:00 +0100 1245027 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1233238&cid=t_169790_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fabuse-of-judicial-process-political.html Paul Schofield & Leo McKern : A Man for All SeasonsALICE (Exasperated, pointing after RICH) While you talk, he's gone!MORE And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!ROPER So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!MORE Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?ROPER I'd cut down every law in England to do that!MORE (Roused and excited) Oh? (Advances on ROPER) And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? (He leaves him) This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? (Quietly) Yes, ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1233238 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:08:00 +0100 1233238