scholarly journals The Work of the Uffculme Clinic

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (09) ◽  
pp. 165-166
Author(s):  
John A. Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Intensive Treatment ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Relaxation Therapy ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
West Midlands ◽  
Projective Art ◽  
Community Meeting ◽  
Group Experience

The Uffculme Clinic opened 25 years ago as an early psychiatric treatment and research centre and has for the past 15 years functioned as a regional centre for psychotherapy in the West Midlands. Day and in-patients participate in a psychotherapeutic regime which includes a daily analytic psychotherapy group, relaxation therapy, projective art, psychodrama and more traditional occupational and recreational therapies. A weekly community meeting has recently been extended to give staff and patients a large group experience. Patients in intensive treatment are severely affected by neurotic or personality difficulties and are only admitted if they are incapable of functioning at work or at home.

‘B.M.G. … “Baldwin (this time) must go!”’: The frustrations of Opposition, June 1929 – July 1931

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 331-375
Keyword(s):  
House Of Commons ◽  
The West ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
General Decline ◽  
West Midlands ◽  
Electoral Defeat ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Safety First

Although electoral defeat and loss of office can never be a welcome experience, in June 1929 the pain of Ansten Chamberlain's transition to the Opposition benches was temporarily alleviated by a sense of personal relief at his continued presence in the House of Commons at all. After the 1924 election he had confessed that the position in his West Birmingham constituency made him ‘very anxious’. Predicting that ‘it will be a suffer fight next time’ he had thus resolved to ‘try somehow to see more of them’. Four and a half years at the Foreign Office did nothing to help him redeem that pledge. By 1929 Chamberlain confronted not only an increasingly difficult situation in West Birmingham where the slums and poverty had given him cause to wonder at a Conservative victory in the past, but also the general electoral disillusion with the Baldwin's government's promise of ‘Safety First’ and their failure to revive the economy. Although never an active or particularly diligent constituency MP, in 1929 Chamberlain almost fell victim to a more general decline in Conservative support within the West Midlands. Since 1886 the Conservatives had never lost more than one Birmingham seat. In 1929 Labour were in confident mood and took no less than six of the twelve seats. After the canvass returns, Chamberlain had warned his family to expect defeat and during the two counts he confessed himself to be ‘in a very philosophic mood’. In the event, he scraped in by just 43 votes in a seat held continuously by a Chamberlain for almost half a century.

scholarly journals Recruiting psychiatrists – a Sisyphean task?

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (10) ◽  
pp. 390-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Brown ◽  
Christopher A. Vassilas ◽  
Clare Oakley
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Psychiatric Training ◽  
First Year ◽  
The West ◽  
Medical Graduates ◽  
The Past ◽  
West Midlands

SummaryIn 2009, the Royal College of Psychiatrists piloted a system for national recruitment to the first year of training (CT1) in England. This paper reviews the changes in recruitment of UK medical graduates to psychiatry over the past 20 years, both within the West Midlands and nationally. Fewer UK graduates are entering psychiatric training in the West Midlands despite the introduction of pre-registration training in psychiatry and the expansion of medical schools in the region; this picture is reflected nationally. Reasons for the continuing problems in recruitment are discussed and suggestions made for improving the attractiveness of psychiatry as a medical specialty. the latter include: engaging more closely with medical students, continuing to lobby politically with regard to overseas recruitment and presenting a unified vision of the profession.

Managing rivers for conservation and ecotourism in the Kruger National Park

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 227-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Venter ◽  
A. R. Deacon
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Good Condition ◽  
Kruger National Park ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Three Rivers

Six major rivers flow through the Kruger National Park (KNP). All these rivers originate outside and to the west of the KNP and are highly utilized. They are crucially important for the conservation of the unique natural environments of the KNP. The human population growth in the Lowveld during the past two decades brought with it the rapid expansion of irrigation farming, exotic afforestation and land grazed by domestic stock, as well as the establishment of large towns, mines, dams and industries. Along with these developments came overgrazing, erosion, over-utilization and pollution of rivers, as well as clearing of indigenous forests from large areas outside the borders of the KNP. Over-utilization of the rivers which ultimately flow through the KNP poses one of the most serious challenges to the KNP's management. This paper gives the background to the development in the catchments and highlights the problems which these have caused for the KNP. Management actions which have been taken as well as their results are discussed and solutions to certain problems proposed. Three rivers, namely the Letaba, Olifants and Sabie are respectively described as examples of an over-utilized river, a polluted river and a river which is still in a fairly good condition.

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