Caring with Excellence, Care that Evolves: Filipinos in Care Anniversary Event 2026

Time & Location

17 Apr 2026, 14:00 – 23:00 BST

St Mary Abbots Centre, Vicarage Gate, London, W8 4HN

About the event

This engaging 2-panel session will delve into the inspiring journeys of Filipino nurses and nurse leaders who are making significant contributions in the social care sector. Participants will have the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts of challenges, triumphs, and the unique experiences that shape their careers. The session aims to highlight the vital role that Filipino nurses play in providing compassionate care and leadership in diverse settings.

Panel 1: Personal Journeys and Experiences of Award-Winning Filipinos

The first panel will feature a diverse group of nurses who will share their personal stories. Topics will include:

• Overcoming cultural and professional challenges
• Adapting to different healthcare environments
• Building resilience and community support

Panel 2: Transitioning to Social Care

The second panel will focus on the experiences of Filipino nurses who moved from the NHS to social care. Key discussions will revolve around:

• Developing skills in a care home setting
• Key tips for the career move
• Key learnings from the shift from acute to chronic care

Takeaways: A Practical Toolkit

Attendees will leave the session equipped with a practical toolkit designed to inspire and guide them in their own nursing careers. This toolkit will include:

• Resources for professional development
• Strategies for effective leadership in nursing
• Networking opportunities with fellow nurses and leaders

Join us for this enlightening session to celebrate the contributions of Filipino nurses in social care and to gain valuable insights that can enhance your own journey in the field. Sessions moderated by Filipinos in Care Founder Kier Dungo and Co-Founder Jay Trondillo.

Tickets and website: https://www.filipinosincare.org.uk/event-details/fic-anniversary-event

My source: RCN North West Multicultural Group

National Centre for Creative Health

Creative health is increasingly recognised as a driver of better care and better value in health and care systems. Integrating creative health into prevention, public and population health strategies, management of long-term conditions, treatment and recovery pathways contributes to:

• Reduced incidence of preventable illness
• Improved wellbeing of patients and service users
• Reduced demand on services

Many Integrated Care Systems and providers already incorporate creative health in physical and mental healthcare, social care, and public health, delivering measurable social and economic value.

Find out more about implementing creative health in your service, organisation or system from [our resources the resources ... 

NCCH has worked in partnership with NHS England to develop a Creative Health Toolkit. The Toolkit support systems to work with the assets in their communities and to develop their own approach.

NCCH publishes a monthly creative health newsletter created for professionals working across health and care.

Source: Email and National Centre for Creative Health 

New WHO Quality Toolkit - 'Take ii"

Further to last months post, I've worried at times about the axes of Hodges' model and their status and function. Can I let the axis stand for itself?

INDIVIDUAL

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GROUP

Do I expand (explode) the conceptual labels?

self - INDIVIDUAL - person

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relationship - family - GROUP - community - population

There seems to be an asymmetry, when you traverse the axis - and its horizontal counterpart; from wherever you start. Perhaps, I worry too much as if the axis was regular then the generic property of the model overall would be diminished. Is this an axis at all?

The website for the Quality Toolkit at: https://qualityhealthservices.who.int/quality-toolkit

- explains the toolkit's scope that includes:

"This new online resource is a user-friendly toolkit to support action on improving the quality of health services at every level of the health system, from national and district to facility and community levels."

I have only scratched the surface here and hope to revisit again - in more detail. Please see below for reflections on the levels by which the toolkit can support action to improve the quality of health services. I have tried to suggest proximity and distance between the SOCIOLOGICAL and POLITICAL (policy). Perhaps, what is a 'clinic' has a name, that it is known by - a key part of the community. The community is closer to the people - to the would-be users of the facility. You can appreciate(?) here the challenge of getting the local community involved in their services. What is 'NATIONAL' should not be remote. Can people compare and contrast with what they are offered? 

 

On the website I note there are video presentations also. The prospect of regular updates for the toolkit is also welcome.

INDIVIDUAL

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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

psychological access 'My' clinic Trust, I feel safe) (feeling safe) Tell others - my experience..	physical access clinic (appearance, facilities, safety) controlled environment (cleanliness, sterile.., or more social)
'the centre' COMMUNITY DISTRICT national	facility (policy translation / coherence?) community district NATIONAL

Original source: Jules Storr, Independent Consultant, S3 Global & working with WHO as part of the Quality Toolkit development team - via HIFA

Previously: New WHO Quality Toolkit

'Take II'? Quality means getting it right first time (even as you persist in what you are doing - your aspirations and quality improvement). Vitally, this means you, the team make a positive impression for the person, the individual, client .. carer, group. 

If they need to - they will recognise their own ability, knowledge, follow advice, they will come back, they leave not to return soon as they can now self-care and care for others in their home, community ...

 Please note: This post and that previous is not intended to denote endorsement of Hodges' model.

 

New WHO Quality Toolkit

"On Monday 20 June WHO launched the Quality Toolkit - a new interactive, online resource for anyone at any level of the health system interested in improving the quality of health services.

The Quality Toolkit provides users with tools to facilitate specific actions to enhance the quality of health services. It is a companion resource to WHO Quality Health Services: a planning guide which provides an outline of key actions to be taken across the health system. The Toolkit then supports these actions with numerous tools. It also enhances understanding of the key interlinkages across the health system when implementing any tool.

The Toolkit incorporates key WHO-published tools and other materials related to quality of health services. It will be updated periodically to reflect new and emerging information relevant to improving quality of health services, including WHO technical products currently under development.

The Quality Toolkit is available at: https://qualityhealthservices.who.int/quality-toolkit

HIFA members are invited to navigate the Toolkit and consider how they might use the tools as part of their improvement efforts. WHO welcomes feedback on the Toolkit qualitytoolkit AT who.int "

Via - HIFA - https://www.hifa.org/

I - IDENTIFY tools and resources relevant to quality of care
M - MAP those tools against improvement needs or identify gaps
P - PLAN implementation of activities for improving quality of care
R - RECOGNIZE interlinkages between technical areas and the process of change
O - OPTIMIZE multi-level action
V - VISUALIZE journeys for improving quality of care
E - ENGAGE stakeholders across the health system

INDIVIDUAL

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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

IDENTIFY (context) PLAN^ (mental health) RECOGNIZE* needs gaps	IDENTIFY (context) MAP / VISUALIZE PLAN^ (physical health) OPTIMIZE technical areas gaps needs
IDENTIFY (context) ENGAGE needs gaps	IDENTIFY (context) RECOGNIZE* needs gaps

Above rendering idealised and all embedded within spiritual and ethnocultural context.

*Recognition required politically to avoid individual frustration and facilitate (policy ...) coherence.

^Planning should (must) take into account need for parity of esteem between mental and physical health (with triage situations acknowledged).

Source: Jules Storr, Independent Consultant, S3 Global & working with WHO as part of the Quality Toolkit development team - via HIFA

A Toolbox from: BCS 2nd Sociotechnical Annual Symposium

On the 26th October 2018 I attended the Sociotechnical symposium in London as planned.

There was a sense of deja-vu in terms of speakers and some content but it was worthwhile.

Peter Bednar presented his SOCIO-TECHNICAL TOOLBOX v.13.2 and I like the inclusion on the hyphen as there still is a divide to bridge, or at the very least for people on IT and complex projects to acknowledge. Peter explained how he 'landed' within academia. He also brought some copies of the toolkit and I was able to pick up one.

As a toolkit and on this particular topic the text is helpfully concise at 130 pages. As readers here will know 'information' is a concept of great interest here. The cover (lid?) appeals instantly, referring to "Information Systems Analysis and Design" that eventually arrives at "Job-Crafting". Below this is the "Infological Equation":

I = i(D, S, t)

Of course, it is what's inside that counts. There is an introduction to information systems, the above equation and ten pages devoted to systems thinking. There then follows the main section comprised of templates with descriptions, elements explained were necessary, advice, and examples of paperwork (in many cases e-forms also no doubt). From p.109 the appendix provides a series of questionnaires. Peter's own approach is included 'Critical Systems Analysis'.

What stands out looking at the various tools listed is how h2cm operates at a more generic and yet  still very useful level.

You can use h2cm to reflect and consider projects socio-technically across (potentially) all contexts. You can also however deal with so many other crucial dichotomies:

bio-social
psycho-political
physico-political
socio-political
medico-legal
human-machine (humanistic-mechanistic)
one-to-many (individual-group)
demand-supply
...

There is no link but the toolkit 2nd edition 2018 is published by Craneswater Press Ltd

inquiries AT craneswaterpress.co.uk

I'll revisit the event and there is a related call for papers which I will post soon.

Charity song 'Change for the Better' for World Malaria Day

We [The Butterfly Tree] are launching a charity song, entitled 'Change for the Better' for World Malaria Day, April 25th, to raise funds and global awareness of malaria.

No less that 80% will be used to buy mosquito nets and malaria testing kits.

Your support could save a child's life:

http://www.thebutterflytree.org.uk/pages/2010/africa-malaria-2010/

My source:
LinkedIn Groups, Non Profit Network - MojaLink,
Jane Kaye-Bailey

L.A.S.E.R. - C.A.S.E.R

The LASER -

Light Amplification by the
Stimulated Emission of Radiation

In the Health Career Model, meet -

the CASER -

Care Awareness by the
Stimulated Emission of REFLECTION

Additional links:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/laser.htm

Original image source:

http://opticsclub.engineering.ucdavis.edu/home_files/laser.jpg

Drupal, Eclipse and Ruby - GUIs?

It was a long day yesterday. The wind (outside) woke me at 0500 so that was that. After collecting the recycling bins and the contents I set to work.

Last Thursday I attended the NW England Drupal meeting again, a great way to find inspiration and lessons on how to 'best proceed'. There is a training event organised for next month by Chris and James of menus & blocks, but being mid-week I can't make it (even with funds). After the meeting I started the server again and loaded the Drupal sites versions 5.2 and 6.0. The last time with 6.0 there was a problem with modules and memory limits. This is now resolved and tomorrow I'll explore some more. jQuery in Action should arrive this week. I should follow-up on the kind offer of free hosting by Chris Ward from last December.

Although missing the Drupal training event, I have managed to book for two days for Scotland On Rails. I'm really looking forward to this as already mentioned here.

Over the weekend Eclipse and Ruby have been a pre-occupation, especially GUI support for windows, buttons and graphical widgets. Before things go awry I watched a screencast on debugging in Eclipse and proving that this (basically!) works on my set-up and with require 'tk' in place I've run through several Tk tutorials and started to explore just what the GUI toolkits have to offer.

The experimentation in the Ruby GUI space continues. There are many old style bindings to GUI toolkits such as Qt or GTK, or embedded DSLs or APIs based on JRuby such as these three new ways of building GUIs with Swing. These libraries use different approaches for building and arranging GUI components.

Ruby Shoes is a GUI toolkit with a slightly different focus. Ruby Shoes is a creation of Why The Lucky Stiff, author of Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby and prolific programmer of libraries such as HPricot (HTML Parser), the web framework Camping and many others. Why's toolkit Ruby Shoes, is a GUI toolkit built on GTK technologies Cairo (drawing) and Pango (for text). The number of GUI controls it supports is limited by design, and the ones that do exist use OS GUI specific components. Currently MacOS X, Windows and GTK versions are available.

The entry goes on to describe the influences behind Shoes that includes Processing - 'an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.'