A healthcare infection, a lifetime legacy 'hearts and minds

A Healthcare InfectionA Lifetime Legacy “Hearts and Minds”

Derek Butler

Registered Charity No. 1115672

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How did I personally become involved?

My stepfather and dearest friend John

He collapsed and his heart stopped on a summer evening in 2003

He died 15 weeks later at Christmas

MRSA entry in John’s notes

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Were we let down?

John’s story is one of Neglect A Wall of Silence Of Denial And a failure to recognise either John’s

needs or the needs of John’s family

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The ultimate price

John’s wife, my mother has never missed a day since John’s death from visiting his grave

She says only one word at John’s grave……

SORRY

Dad at 18

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Aristotle

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle 384-322 BCE

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Bombay Hospital motto which has been adapted from a quotation made by Mahatma Gandhi. It reminds us that:

“A patient is the most important person in our hospital. They are not an interruption to our work, they are the purpose of it. They are not an outsider in our hospital, they are an integral part of it. We are not doing a favour by serving them, they are doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so”.

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Alexander Fleming

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NO ACTION TODAY

RESISTANCENO CURE TOMORROW

ANTIBIOTICS

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Tomorrow’s generation

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One final thought

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Remember, nothing matters until it become personal, and …………

All that is necessary for the triumph of failure and harm is that good people do nothing