Laws, Rules, Promises & Campaigns
They are not all represented on W2tQ, but many have been posted over the years. Campaigns launched in the aftermath of avoidable deaths within NHS delivered care. The initiatives seek to translate grief into positive affirmative action by making a difference to patient safety, the quality of professional care, policy and funding in some instances. At least drawing attention to the latter.
It is staggering that staff need to be 'reminded' of what should be professional, practice-based, and philosophical (personal - team, ethics and ethos, and values integral to nursing, and healthcare interaction that should be integral and ingrained.
I thought "What's my motivation?" was a theatrical cliché?
Poppy's Promise is a commitment to making every healthcare experience more compassionate, respectful and person-centred. It supports staff to work in partnership with patients, families and carers, ensuring every voice is heard and every person feels valued.
Oliver's Campaign: The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism is named after Oliver McGowan, whose death shone a light on the need for health and social care staff to have better training. The Health and Care Act 2022 introduced a statutory requirement that CQC-registered providers must ensure their staff receive learning disability and autism training appropriate to their role.
Jess’s Rule makes sure GPs take a ‘fresh eyes’ approach with patients, making them think again to diagnose and catch serious illnesses earlier. Jess’s Rule – Three Strikes and we Rethink - was launched in England on the 23rd September 2025 by Department of Health and NHS England and in The Isle of Man on the 31st March 2026 by Manx Care. It is endorsed by the Royal College of General Practitioners.Martha’s Rule helps us notice early signs that someone may be deteriorating and gives you the right to request a rapid review if you’re worried that your or your loved one’s condition is getting worse. This may include a review by the Critical Care Team. Sometimes small changes happen before they show in tests. These can be early warning signs. Martha’s Rule makes sure we listen to concerns and act on them.
Nobody should be separated from the people they love and who care for them. John's Campaign works for the right of people with dementia (and other disabilities or individual needs) to be supported by their family carers — in hospitals, in care homes, and wherever care happens.
Dáithí's Law: Dáithí Mac Gabhann was born in October 2016 with a condition called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, which basically means that Dáithí was born with half a working heart with the left side not forming correctly in the womb. More information on HLHS can be found here. Dáithí has now been waiting for the gift of a new heart for over 7 years.
Activism is not restricted to patients, parents or guardians but key campaigns have followed through staff efforts:
A message from Kate about the campaign…
“Hello, my name is Dr Kate Granger MBE and I’m the wife of Chris and the co-founder of the #hellomynameis campaign”
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The initial website for Hodges' model 1998-2015 and now archived, featured four pages of links to resources associated with the domain they represented. The SOCIOLOGY links included:
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
Patient - Nurse ... | Patient - Nurse ...
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In Hodges' model, if neglect, accidents, untoward - serious - never incidents, what is complex, complicated, preventable signify anything; it is the collapse of a situation to the individual-group axis.
For the people involved they will simultaneously hear and feel a catastrophe.
Armed with Hodges' model, plus early insights into informatics, the oscillation between the person on your caseload, and not just beyond the spouse, partner and family but out to the political-zone of aggregation that is your caseload, the local and national population and statistical reports has always been fascinating.
Viewed theoretically, or practically the vertical axis of Hodges' model appears simple, and yet holds great power. A gift of abstraction and dramatic effect - for actor and audience alike. As an 'actor' we can see our practice and its character humanistic - mechanistic played-out literally through the horizontal axis. Before we act, we can reflect upon the quality and humanity of our care. The audience, peers, families, managers, community, commissioners can also follow the 'narrative', (or lack of it!). Is there a paradox here in these virtual-digital times that the what is really material in care and caring is missing? We must hope the coroner does not need to attend [the play], being able to concentrate on other matters.
Previously: 'compassion' : 'communication' : 'safety' : 'listen' : 'motivation'
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