{"id":35279,"date":"2015-09-22T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T11:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=35279"},"modified":"2015-09-22T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T11:36:01","slug":"the-bmj-today-appraisals-carers-and-cognitive-enhancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/09\/22\/the-bmj-today-appraisals-carers-and-cognitive-enhancement\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Appraisals, carers, and cognitive enhancement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/appraisal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-35280 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/appraisal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"appraisal\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022 What is appraisal good for?<\/strong><br \/>\nAs big finance companies such as Accenture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personneltoday.com\/hr\/end-annual-appraisal-whats-next-performance-management\/\">are reported to be<\/a> scrapping formal appraisal systems for their employees, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4982\">Margaret McCartney, our Glasgow based weekly GP columnist, also takes aim<\/a>. \u201cAppraisal is a false god. It is a waste of time and a misuse of resources,\u201d she writes, slamming it for being \u201ctime wasting, navel gazing, and expensive\u201d and criticising the insufficient consideration that has been given to determining whether it even works.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/hospital_ward_older.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-35281 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/hospital_ward_older-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"hospital_ward_older\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022 How carers can help on the wards<\/strong><br \/>\nOur other weekly columnist, the Reading based geriatrician and hospital doctor David Oliver, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4959\">in his latest offering, has ruminated on how inpatients\u2019 carers can improve hospital care<\/a>. \u201cInvolving carers early and often is crucial. We learn more from them than they can from us. And they provide continuity in an often fragmented system.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnscampaign.org.uk\/\">John\u2019s Campaign<\/a> promotes carers staying on wards as partners in care. \u201cSince 2014 around 100 UK hospitals have signed up to it, scrapping visiting restrictions or issuing \u2018carers\u2019 passports,\u2019\u201d Oliver writes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/adderall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-35282 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/09\/adderall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"adderall\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022 How to be more smart<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd our occasional observations columnist, Krishna Chinthapalli, an advanced trainee in neurology in Sydney, Australia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4829\">reflects on the fortune to be made from \u201csmart drugs\u201d and other products marketed to improve cognition<\/a>. \u201cCrosswords are being replaced by brain training games, now a billion dollar industry,\u201d he writes. \u201cOverstated claims by software companies led to a consensus statement last year by more than 60 neuroscientists warning that evidence was sparse and of poor quality. They concluded, \u2018If an hour spent doing solo software drills is an hour not spent hiking, learning Italian, making a new recipe, or playing with your grandchildren, it may not be worth it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where do you stand on these issues? Let us know by sending a rapid response to any article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/thebmj\">thebmj.com<\/a>. We republish the most interesting and useful as formal letters to the editor.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Richard Hurley<\/strong>, features and debates editor, <\/em>The BMJ<em>. \u00a0<\/em><em>Follow on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rich_hurley\">@rich_hurley<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 What is appraisal good for? 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