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Improving childhood nutrition and wellness in South Africa: involving mothers/caregivers of malnourished or HIV positive children and health care workers as co-designers to enhance a local quality improvement intervention
Claire van Deventer1,
Glenn Robert2 &
Anne Wright3
A significant proportion of children admitted to a hospital in a South African sub-district in 2010 were severely malnourished and - when concurrently HIV positive - were not correctly initiated on antiretroviral therapy. Audit data over a subsequent four year period revealed that 60 % of malnourished children admitted to the hospital were HIV positive. To supplement an ongoing local quality improvement (QI) intervention addressing poor nutritional outcomes in children in this setting, Experience-based Co-design (EBCD) was used to enhance previously low levels of mother, carer and staff engagement.
EBCD was implemented over an 8 month period. Non-participant observation was conducted comprising a total of 10 h in 5 different clinical locations. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 14 purposively selected staff members as well as 10 mothers/caregivers. The staff interviews were audio-taped whilst the mothers/caregiver interviews were filmed; both sets of experiences were analysed for key 'touchpoints'. Mothers/caregivers and staff participated in separate feedback events and then came together to identify their shared priorities for improving the service. Participants worked together in 3 smaller co-design teams to implement improvements.
There was overlap in staff and mother/carer views as to their priorities for QI. However, whilst staff typically highlighted pragmatic issues, mothers/caregivers were more likely to identify experiential and relational issues. A total of 38 QI interventions were proposed after the priorities had been discussed and delegated to the 3 co-design teams; 25 of these changes had been implemented or were being planned for by the end of the study period. Examples included: a point of care blood machine being bought to shorten the time in the emergency department whilst waiting for laboratory results; a play area being organised for children attending the HIV clinic; the development of three standard operating procedures to improve clinical handover and waiting times; and privacy screens installed to improve privacy in reception.
The impact of EBCD was noted both in practical improvements focused on a better experience for mothers/caregivers and children within the system and in reflections from stakeholders as to the value added to the ongoing QI intervention by the co-design process.
Concerns about the wellbeing of children have increased over the last few decades and these are reflected in United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) [1] and World Health Organisation (WHO) [2] guidelines as well as the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) [3] where Goal 4 was specific to the reduction of child mortality. The newest global strategic document, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also captured the importance of child health and nutrition in Goal 3 (Good health and wellbeing) [4]. A large contributor towards child morbidity and mortality, especially in developing countries, is malnutrition. Coupled with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunosuppressive Disease Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), this has become a crippling burden to these populations.[5] South Africa has been unable to attain MDG goal4 set for 2015, regarding child health indicators [6].
Routine health data in a district in the North West province, South Africa, indicated that it was performing relatively poorly in 2010 in relation to severe malnutrition admissions for children [3]. The district comprises four sub-districts with the research subdistrict containing 9 primary health care (PHC) clinics (plus two mobile clinics for farms and outlying areas), all of which refer patients to a secondary hospital in this subdistrict. The hospital is in a large university town comprised of suburbs and surrounding townships. Most of the children admitted to the hospital come from an adjoining township which comprises formal (bricks and cement) and informal housing (tin shacks). In the hospital there is a general paediatric ward and a general paediatric outpatient clinic (OPD). In addition to the general outpatient clinic, there is a special Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) clinic serving adults and children who are HIV positive. All the PHC clinics also manage malnourished and HIV positive children.
In the period October to December 2010, 14 % of children under 5 years old admitted to the hospital were severely malnourished. In the district as a whole 6 per 1000 children were diagnosed with severe malnutrition (compared to a national average of 4.8 per 1000 children [3]), placing the district in the bottom quartile of all districts in South Africa. Additionally only 50 % of HIV positive under one year olds admitted to the hospital were initiated on Antiretroviral therapy (ART), contravening National ART guidelines [7].
In response, a multi-disciplinary quality improvement (QI) project involving a 'QI task team' was initiated in 2011 by the district family physician who is a primary care specialist concerned with clinical governance and patient centred care.. To begin, a range of audits were conducted to provide a baseline relating to various points in the service where children were seen; for example, the paediatric ward, the children's HIV clinic and the PHCs within the sub-district. The audits involved collating and analysing information from hospital files and handheld child booklets; nutrition students from a local university also examined breastfeeding practices and costed the different milk alternatives available to mothers/caregivers.
One ongoing audit - based on the admission register of the paediatric ward - was designed to monitor any changing patterns of malnutrition in the period from the start of the QI intervention in 2011 until June 2015. Common reasons for admission were bronchopneumonia (BPN), gastroenteritis (GE) and HIV related illnesses. There was however a large number of children admitted for malnutrition only (855 out of 1511 children over this period). For example, in 2011 60 % of the children in the audit were admitted with a sole diagnosis of malnutrition although this had decreased by 2014 to 45 % with the remainder of the admitted children having co-morbidities. Although BPN, GE and malnutrition alone had increased over the 4 year period as reasons for admission, HIV and TB had slightly decreased (Fig. 1).
Trends in the most common admission diagnoses associated with malnutrition (2011–14)
A further concern raised by this audit was that in this period, 30 % of children who had been admitted primarily for a surgical procedure were found at the admission audit to have concurrent malnutrition and in 50 % of these cases the diagnosis of malnutrition was not made and managed by the clinical team but only identified retrospectively from the ward register by the researcher conducting the audit.
The audit of the ward register also revealed that from 2011 to 2014 60 % of all malnourished children admitted had HIV/AIDS (although not all were admitted for reasons relating to this). There has been a significant decrease in the numbers of children diagnosed with HIV in South Africa over recent years - reflecting the nation-wide success of the Eradication of Mother to Child Transmission (EMTCT) programme [8]. The following illustrates the diminishing prevalence of HIV in the lower age groups as a practical wxample; of the 105 children still being seen at the HIV clinic at the study hospital in January 2015, 49 were in the 10–14 year old group, 25 were in the 5–9 year old group, 27 comprised the 1–4 year old group and only 4 were under one. It was perhaps initially surprising to find that there was a high level of malnutrition (stunting in particular) in the older groups of children with HIV, up to the age of 14 years with 67.3 % of them having inadequate growth. However, older children are often not cared for by their mothers (most of whom have died) and are known to frequently default their medication. Blood results at the hospital indicate that more than half of these children (of all ages) are not virologically suppressed (although they have good CD4 counts). Unsatisfactory levels of suppressed viral loads were found for all except the under one year olds, who seem to have benefited the most from PMTCT.. This small cohort of children have remained at the hospital HIV clinic and not been down referred to PHC clinics, due to either complications or poor patterns of adherence and are thus the most vulnerable group.
A majority (57.5 %) of the malnourished children were from a relatively small area in an adjoining township; knowing this was useful in targeting, firstly, support to the relevant PHC clinics and, secondly, community information sharing. The work of the QI task team from 2011 included health information material being created and distributed widely to PHCs and incorporated the concept of a child identity document (the 'Road-to-Health' card) which was intended to accompany parents wherever they went (see Fig. 2).
Poster encouraging parents to carry their child's health booklet with them
A hospital-community discharge link was created enabling patients to be identified and followed at the PHCs by dieticians; this new pathway included support for patients with identity documents and food parcels. A patient tracing system was also initiated. On the paediatric ward, HIV counsellors joined ward rounds to ensure that all HIV positive children were initiated on treatment as soon as possible; this led very rapidly to 100 % of HIV positive children being started on ART.
However, ongoing audit results showed that 881 children whose weight was unsatisfactory had been admitted between 2011 (when the QI intervention began) and 2014; the year-on-year results showed that 14.4 % of all admitted children in 2011 were malnourished, in 2012 this figure was 11.6 %, in 2013 16.1 % and in 2014 15.1 % suggesting no overall improvement in malnutrition rates during the first 4 years of the QI intervention. And so in spite of the efforts described above, there seemed to be no decrease in admissions of malnourished children to the paediatric ward. There was also no decrease in readmissions of children with malnutrition (7 readmissions in 2011; 4 in 2012; 9 in 2013 and 9 in 2014). On reviewing these results in late 2014 there was a concern by the QI team that parents of children had never been directly involved in the QI work; it was felt that they might be a useful additional resource in improving childhood malnutrition rates in the sub-district.
There is an increasing evidence base that greater patient engagement leads to improved outcomes [9–13]. A systematic review of the evidence by the author found:
''There are barriers to patients' participation in QI in health and in spite of policy support for user involvement in QI, it is a difficult strategy to implement … there are enablers to patients' involvement in QI: when patients are involved in QI efforts in health care, there are innovative, often unexpected outcomes at different levels of the process and sustaining these efforts is possible with ongoing individual or group support" [14].
One of the most authentic approaches to client engagement appeared, based on the systematic review, to be Experience-based Co-design (EBCD) where quality improvements are co-created - and jointly implemented - by staff and their patients [15–20]. The EBCD approach - based on a combination of Participatory Action Research, user centred design, narrative approaches and learning theory [21] - explicitly recognises that the experience and feelings of patients regarding their interactions with health care services and staff is an important - but often neglected - component of health care quality. For example, a letter written in the local newspaper in the research sub-district by a mother in June 2015 reads (translated from Afrikaans) as follows:
''I went to the emergency department (with a sick 5 year old) … I was chased out by a female doctor. I went to open a file and the person who helped me was also not the friendliest, didn't greet me, was just plain rude … The doctor told my child to vomit in a medical waste holder. There was no silver container for him. While the child waited for test results he started vomiting again and one (nurse) shouted to the doctor, 'doctor the child is throwing up again'. The doctor simply said:'There is nothing wrong with him, give him the medicine'. They just sat there while my child had to throw up in a dustbin" [22].
This child survived and was not at risk at any time. Nonetheless, according to the mother this was, unsurprisingly, '' a very traumatic experience for us", succinctly illustrating the impact of the lack of an aesthetic element in healthcare interactions that needs to be recognised and incorporated into QI activities.
Whilst it is acknowledged that - in the short term - EBCD largely brings about incremental QI changes rather than transformational or dramatic improvements, '' … the individual and collaborative work underpinning these small changes lies at the root of deeper changes in attitudes and behaviours as well as other valuable legacies from EBCD projects" [13]. The approach has been used in healthcare QI work since 2005 and more than 50 projects have been identified internationally [20–25]. Having read extensively about patient involvement in healthcare and in QI in particular and having completed a systematic review on this topic, EBCD therefore appeared to the researcher to be an appropriate method for increasing the involvement of mothers/caregivers in the ongoing QI work and so the approach began to be implemented in January 2015 alongside the ongoing local QI intervention (Fig. 3). For the purposes of clarity, the combination mothers/caregivers will be used throughout as children are frequently cared for by other family members due to the death of the mother or for other social reasons.
The inclusion of EBCD in the ongoing QI intervention
As illustrated above, a quality cycle usually includes the identification of a problem; the setting of standards; collection of baseline data; a comparison of actual practice with these standards and then planning and implementing change in order to meet the standards that were set. The original QIP had utilised this model and interventions have been briefly discussed above. EBCD was seen as a second round of interventions to add value to the first cycle.
The aim therefore of incorporating EBCD into the QI intervention in this way was to enhance childhood nutrition and wellness in the sub-district by increasing patient inclusivity in the ongoing improvement work which had begun in 2011. The objectives towards this aim included exploring the:
understanding and perceptions of mothers/caregivers of their experiences of health care services for their children;
providers' experiences with the care they provide towards mothers/caregivers with children with malnutrition and/or HIV;
the collaborative planning and implementation of solutions by mothers/caregivers and staff.
The methods to achieve these objectives are described in detail in the following section.
The implementation of the EBCD approach was undertaken with a group of mothers/caregivers from the paediatric ward and the child HIV/wellness clinic sited in the most vulnerable geographic areas as identified in the audit data, as well as with staff from all of the relevant service provision areas. There were hospital matrons (2) and professional nurses (3), medical officers (2), paediatricians (2), dieticians (2), a social worker, an HIV counsellor and a clinical associate involved and the project leader was a family physician. Most of these personnel members had been part of the original QI. However, in terms strategic involvement, other roleplayers eg the screening nurse at the reception area, were purposively included as well. A core team of 4 health professionals co-ordinated and facilitated all stages of the EBCD process including the feedback and co-design meetings. The core team comprised a nutritionist, a paediatric nurse, a family physician and a paediatric doctor. Regular bi-monthly written reports were submitted to the hospital management on the progress of the project.
Mothers/caregivers and staff members were invited to participate in the EBCD process through purposive sampling. Participating staff included a range of professionals involved with caring for the children, as described in the previous paragraph. Mothers/caregivers were recruited through both the HIV wellness clinic and the paediatric ward, both found within the previously described secondary hospital. The inclusion criteria were all mothers/caregivers with a child either (a) having being diagnosed with malnutrition and/or any other relevant condition - for example, gastroenteritis, pneumonia or HIV - from the township or (b) with children from the same area who were HIV positive and were being managed at the HIV clinic. All participants had to be able communicate in English or Afrikaans as the researcher is fluent in both. Written consent was obtained from all participants.
Process of EBCD [16]
The core project team oversaw the EBCD process after formal agreement was granted from the hospital management. Ethics approval for the study had also been granted from the University of the Witwatersrand and the provincial research committee. Written signed consent was obtained from each participant, (mothers/caregivers and staff members) after an information letter was read to each one of them explaining the project. Non-participant observations were undertaken by the researcher along the patient journey through the health care system and included 5 key service areas where the patients come into contact with the health care system in order to provide initial insights into the subtleties of patient experiences [26, 27]. The areas chosen for observation were the reception area, two rooms within the children's ward, the HIV clinic on the paediatric outpatient day and the general paediatric clinic. Field notes were taken using a template from the EBCD workbook (Additional file 1) [28] and kept as narrative evidence.
The next step was to interview staff (14) and gain an understanding of their perception of the service in which they worked and their views on how it could be improved. The staff cohort purposively chosen for interviews encompassed a range of professionals involved with caring for the children: four doctors (including medical officers and paediatricians), two paediatric nurses, two dieticians, one social worker, a clinical associate, a counsellor, two matrons and a triage nurse at reception. The interviews were audio-taped. They were then analysed by transcribing the information and colour coding the different themes (7) which emerged. This was fed back to a meeting with staff where facilitated discussion about all the issues led to a set of priorities for improvement being identified and documented.
Concurrently, videotaped semi-structured interviews were conducted with mothers/caregivers. According to ethical prescripts from the University Ethics committee, all these tapes are being kept in a secure environment for 5 years. The mothers/caregivers responded to open-ended questions relating to their experiences within the health care system. Questions were asked regarding the mother's experience at each contact point in her journey as well as her ideas in relation to possible improvements that should be made.
The interview concentrated on ideas and emotions that were elicited and not on a set of rigid questions. Each mother/caregiver was individually shown the sections of her own interview that had been edited into a shortened compilation film. This film was structured around the common themes which had emerged in the interviews. This preview of the film by each mother/caregiver was in order both to validate what was to be shared and to allow each woman the choice to remove any material with which she felt uncomfortable.
The mothers/caregivers were then invited to a feedback meeting where the film was shown and attendees shared their positive and negative experiences. A facilitated emotional mapping exercise [29, 30] (see Figs. 4 and 5 in results section below) was used as part of the reflective group process to enable the participants to develop their own set of improvement priorities. Emotional mapping involved the mothers/caregivers applying emotion words (positive or negative) to the key points in their experience of interacting with any part of the health care system.
Emotional mapping done with mothers of chronically ill children
Part of the emotional mapping pathway done by mothers
Twenty five mothers or caregivers were contacted and invited to be part of the research. Two declined outright and thirteen others did not respond to the request. However the 10 mothers/caregivers who agreed to be interviewed were willing to be transparent about both strengths and weaknesses in the health care system as they perceived them. All of the mothers/caregivers except one were relatively fluent in either English or Afrikaans. A video recording was made of each mother during the open ended interview format. One interview was excluded due to the poor quality of communication, resulting in 9 videotaped interviews. These videos were then watched a number of times by the researcher (CvD) and key themes from each recording identified. Clips from each video illustrating the themes were then tagged and organising according to each theme. The total video time of 208 min was reduced to 40 min and presented as a short film which could be played back to patients and staff.
A combined staff-patient event was the forum where the emerging improvement priorities from the staff and patient feedback events described above were shared and 3 mixed patient-staff co-design groups were then formed to work on specific improvement priorities as part of the QI process. These groups then sought to identify and implement practical solutions for change over a period of two and a half months.
Finally, a 'celebration' event was held to which all staff and mothers/caregivers were invited to showcase the changes and assess what further work needed to be done.
Observational fieldwork
The pathway a mother with an ill child entering the hospital was expected to take, was observed at five points (total observation time was 10 h across the 5 areas) and the findings were incorporated into the report that was fed back at the staff meeting (see below). A number of disturbing practices were noted as well as other very good processes and high quality care.
For example, in the reception area a mother was informed by the screening nurse - with a patronising and arrogant attitude - that the fact that her child had a fever had nothing to do with the child's epilepsy medication (the mother's illness narrative) but rather because the child was overdressed. In the same observation period, an adult patient was asked why she had come to hospital and - with twenty or more fellow patients watching - said she had a chest pain and started pulling up her shirt to indicate the area. She was immediately stopped and severely reprimanded by the same nurse, to the general astonishment of everyone in the waiting room. A common complaint in the patient interviews (see below) was that of extended waiting times and this was confirmed during an observation at the HIV clinic where patients waited for many hours for a doctor to arrive. Children were irritable and running around in the clinic, as there was no activity area available for them.
In contrast to these negative experiences, in the children's ward a nurse entering the 6-bedded ward early in the morning made a point of introducing himself to each mother individually, greeted them with a handshake and cheerfully asked about their children. On this same ward, there were bright pictures on the walls and all the staff members gave attention to the mothers, including the cleaners and clerks. However, two safety issues were noted: a baby was observed crawling in the corridor whilst the polisher with a long electric cord was being used on the floors and a lumbar puncture on a child - who had been admitted the previous night in a stuporose condition - had not yet been performed due to poor handover procedures.
Staff interviews and feedback event
The 14 consenting professionals participated in open-ended, audio taped interviews lasting between 20 and 60 min. Analysis of the staff interviews was reflected back at the staff meeting and focused on 7 themes:
logistics (waiting; triage; space; clinical protocols)
patient factors
staff attitudes
continuity of care
An unanticipated theme was that of 'emotion'; it was evident that all the interviewees had been significantly affected at some point by either anger, sorrow, guilt, memories of patients, enthusiasm etc. Many of these responses were very self-reflective and sometimes painfully honest. The themes are summarised in Table 1 with illustrative excerpts from the interviews for each.
Table 1 Staff themes
At the staff feedback meeting where 24 members attended, 9 areas for improvement were identified. These were practical interventions that could be dealt with immediately, such as buying mobile screens for the reception area in order to increase privacy and budgeting for a point of care blood machine to reduce laboratory waiting time for sick children in the emergency department.
Mother and caregiver interviews and feedback event
Overall, the mothers/caregivers' stories contained positive and negative elements. A common positive phrase in respect of the OPD, HIV clinic and ward was 'they took me good', meaning they 'treated me well'. A number of individual staff were cited by name as being particularly helpful or supportive. For example, one doctor was praised for calling a child 'her chocolate baby' and giving the child a chocolate every time they visited her; another staff member for encouraging a mother that her child would get better. Whilst 3 of the mothers - despite the rough conditions - found the inpatient experience tolerable, other mothers referred to it as hell, and the staff as 'rude, really rude'. A number of mothers said they were persevering with the service for the lives of their children and seemed not to mind the sacrifice of their personal discomfort. Other mothers said health workers should leave their personal issues at home as it seemed as if they brought them to work with them. There were also allegations of rough handling of children and a lack of assistance with feeding of younger, helpless patients. It was clear that some mothers/caregivers expected much more from the service than they had received.
Generally - with two exceptions - there was heavy criticism of the clinics: 'they drag their feet','they tell us just go and sit there we will call you'. A repetitive refrain was: 'We sit!' This was the representation of the waiting experience which emerged in every discussion with both staff and mothers/caregivers (in both the individual interviews and the feedback meetings). The three QI priority areas that were identified at the mothers/caregivers' meeting were logistics, attitude and communication (see Table 2).
Table 2 Mothers'priorities
The mothers/caregivers feedback meeting was attended by 5 mothers, 2 of their children and the core team members. Mothers had agreed that the hospital was the most central venue and the meeting was held there, with refreshments and toys for the children. The meeting took two hours, with the film being presented and then the emotional mapping exercise being done. Everyone was asked to write down their thoughts while the film was being played, which they did. In the emotional mapping exercise (see Figs. 4 and 5) the service area which appeared to raise the most concern was the children's ward with words like 'stressed', 'rude', 'disrespected' and 'powerless' being used; this contrasted strongly with staff members mostly positive impression of the same ward. Other services like the OPD, dietician, social worker and X-rays were mostly perceived by mothers as positive experiences with words like 'confident', 'hopeful' and 'valued' being chosen to describe their experiences at these points.
Thereafter in the meeting, from these two exercises, a prioritised list was drawn up for discussion at the combined patient/staff meeting which included attitudes of staff, waiting time and communication.
The joint feedback event
A third, combined feedback meeting with staff and mothers was held where the 40 min compilation film was presented, as well as the synopsis of the staff and mothers' QI priorities. The core team together with 16 staff members and 5 mothers (with 3 children) attended this event. After discussion of all the issues which had already emerged, three mixed co-design groups were formed which brainstormed the most important combined priorities resulting in 3 thematic areas:
attitudes and communication
practical issues.
Everyone was then allocated to a co-design team with at least one mother in each of the teams.
There was a vibrant experience of engagement in this meeting with a patient saying that the value of this process was that, 'we will all understand each other's feelings, behaviours, and attitudes, and another indicating, 'I was very happy to be contributing in the meeting'. Staff, likewise reported it was helpful to hear 'their concerns rather than thinking you know what they are' and from a patient who complained that 'doctors have very bad attitude'. Each individual attendee at the meeting articulated what they had experienced, contributing to a tapestry of 'aesthetics'.
Co-design teams
After 2 further meetings of each of the 3 co-design teams that were formed at the joint feed back meeting, a total of 38 concrete, practical QI interventions were suggested (see Table 3 which is based on a format devised by Locock et al. [26]). Of these, 25 were implemented in the research study timeframe (January to August 2015) and 5 others were being discussed or were temporarily put aside due to financial constraints eg reorganising the filing registry department to have a paediatric component and colour coding paediatric files.. The remainder were considered to be inappropriate for the time being due to lack of management support. These included moving the paediatric ward from the 3rd floor to the ground floor in order for the children to have an outside play area and integrating the general paediatric outpatients department with the HIV children's clinic.
Table 3 Interventions suggested and implemented by co-design teams [26]
A final celebration event was held in September 2015 to give feedback on progress - the achievements and difficulties encountered in the project - to the managers of the services, staff and mothers. This was attended by 16 people. The EBCD process includes the following: '' ..Holding a celebratory event for everyone involved six to nine months after the joint patient–staff event is a simple but important way of thanking participants, reporting back on what has been achieved, and providing a clear ending point to this part of the project. This may also act as a catalyst for future projects" [28].
Based on this combined group's input, a small task team including healthcare workers from primary care and the hospital was chosen to continue with the work and to keep the importance of remaining aware of patient experience alive in the ongoing wider QI work. Whilst EBCD became part of the still ongoing QI project – placing it within a stable, improvement milieu with some continuity - it is not possible to predict to what extent change will continue. The most recent malnutrition death rate at this hospital has been 0 over the last 3 months. One would hope that the QI project incorporating EBCD has made some contribution towards this,. A separate but related ongoing QI project on child antiretroviral therapy (ART) in primary care commenced in 2014, as most of the children from the hospital HIV clinic have been down referred to primary care clinics. This was initiated as a standard QIP but may be considered for an EBCD intervention, with the experience gained in the current research.
EBCD is a clearly defined process which allows patient perceptions and emotions to emerge as part of a planned change or improvement process. The approach also acknowledges the importance of staff contributions and - crucially - the important contribution that co-design (staff and patients working together as partners) can make to QI 'work'. In longer term evaluations of the approach it has been reported that EBCD engendered positive working relationships whilst acknowledging issues like the locus of control and the challenge of implementing change processes in complex environments (including the discrepancy between patients' expectations of the speed of improvement and the reality) [21].
Achievements in this particular EBCD project were the ability to explore authentic feelings and experiences of patients and staff regarding their exposure to the paediatric health care services in this subdistrict, the acknowledgement of a paternalistic system and the potential to change this by co-creating solutions, innovations with practical outcomes that were a synergy between previously disparate groups (providers and clients), a number of small sustained changes to improve the ''aesthetics" of the system and a measure of debriefing regarding staff and mothers/caregivers.
Emotions and motives for working in healthcare services were unexpected findings amongst the staff. It was interesting that passion characterised many of the staff stories as well as awareness of feelings of guilt and blame; often private family stories were shared as reasons for working with HIV patients or children. The level of engagement from staff in discussing improvement was similarly unpredicted and humbling. Whereas the health care workers contributed more to the pragmatic solutions, patients made more emotive judgments based on their personal experiences. Such experiences were both positive and negative and were captured both in the emotional mapping and also at all the feedback meetings. There were similarities in the themes from staff and patients and solutions were sought, often being generated in the collaborative discussions.
Challenges. As with the project described here, Bowen et al. – service designers who have worked with EBCD in an English hospital – have highlighted that conflict and/or disagreements between staff and patients cannot be completely removed [27]. The process of recruiting patients and retaining them also proved challenging. Studies using EBCD in Emergency Departments in Australia also found the recruitment and retention of patient participants to be difficult [13]. Language was a problem in some cases as English was not the first language for most of the staff and parents. The emotional value of the films is acknowledged but at the same this may act as a constraint for future projects; duplicating this method in the future would be time consuming and costly. It may be necessary to emulate the route followed in the United Kingdom, where previously filmed patient interviews could be used as 'trigger' films in improvement work [26, 31]. The lack of financial resources to implement some structural suggestions was acknowledged; these were not discarded entirely and were either 'parked' as future possibilities or donors were sought. In spite of the barriers, the attitude of co-operation from most of the hospital management was humbling, as was the enthusiasm of the patients that remained involved.
In line with discourses of 'customer/client care' in other industries, the importance of engaging patients to improve the quality of the healthcare services provided to them has proven to be valuable and productive. In this research project, the integration of mothers/caregivers and staff into co-design teams has led to concrete practical improvements in a paediatric service, and also spanning the boundaries of hospital and primary health clinic care.
As QI practices have not yet become routine in healthcare organisations in South Africa, staff members were almost as much of an untapped source of ideas and perceptions as patients. The energy generated between the two groups, based largely on feelings about being 'together' as part of the same service, lead to 38 possible solutions, all based on discomfort or negative feelings about certain aspects of care.
ART, Antiretroviral therapy; BPN, Bronchopneumonia; EMTCT, Eradication of Mother to child transmission; GE, Gastroenteritis; OPD, Outpatients department; PHC, Primary Health Care; QI, Quality Improvement; UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund; WHO, World Health Organisation.
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The Point of Care Foundation, London, for ongoing support throughout the project. The core project team: Dr Erica du Plessis, Mrs Motlalepule Dlamini and Mrs Ellen Koena. All the mothers/caregivers and staff involved in the project.
The Discovery Foundation for providing funding to enable CvD to attend an EBCD training workshop in Birmingham, United Kingdom that was led by The Point of Care Foundation.
Raw material for this research includes audio and video material which is being kept by the author in a secure site for 5 years after the research was completed. The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due to confidentiality issues and logistics but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
CvD. The bulk of the research. The first draft of the article and edited versions. GR This author advised on implementing EBCD, contributed to first draft of the article and edited the second and third drafts. AW. Supervisor of researcher's overall PhD study. All the authors of this paper have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
CvD is a Family physician in Dr Kenneth Kaunda district, North West province. Involved in many quality improvement projects as part of clinical governance within the district.
GR is one of the original developers of EBCD and has been involved in the evolution and adaptation of the approach since the initial pilot project in 2005 which was funded by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
AW Medical anthropologist and lecturer Family Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
The Point of Care Foundation in London provides training in the Experience-based Co-design approach; GR contributes to this training.
Consent and approval for this study was granted by the University of the Witwatersrand Human Research Ethics Committee with the clearance certificate number: M120701. Written signed consent was obtained from each participant, (mothers/caregivers and staff members) after an information letter was read to each one of them explaining the project.
Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Phillip Tobias Building, York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa
Claire van Deventer
Health Care Quality & Innovation, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, King's College London, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8WA, UK
Glenn Robert
University of the Witwatersrand, Phillip Tobias Building, York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa
Correspondence to Claire van Deventer.
Interviews from EBCD toolkit. (DOCX 16 kb)
van Deventer, C., Robert, G. & Wright, A. Improving childhood nutrition and wellness in South Africa: involving mothers/caregivers of malnourished or HIV positive children and health care workers as co-designers to enhance a local quality improvement intervention. BMC Health Serv Res 16, 358 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1574-4
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St. Thomas' magic number is seven as Tommies…
St. Thomas' magic number is seven as Tommies finish first D-I season with rout
St. Thomas running back Nick Rice (25) powers his way into the end zone despite Presbyterian defensive back Colby Smith's (7) attempt to slow him down in the first quarter of an NCAA football game at O'Shaugnessy Stadium in St. Paul on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas defensive back Luke Glenna (23) disrupts a pass to Presbyterian wide receiver Dylan Boone (87) in the first quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas running back Shawn Shipman (26) picks up yardage against Presbyterian in the first quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas running back Nick Rice (25) tries to leap away from the tackle from Presbyterian defensive back Mack Simmons (10) in the second quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas defensive back Joe Hird (11) intercepts the Presbyterian pass in the second quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas head coach Glenn Caruso congratulates defensive back Joe Hird (11) on his interception. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas running back Nick Rice (25) fights through the attempted tackle by Presbyterian's Mack Simmons (10) for the touchdown in the second quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas running back Nick Rice (25) gets congratulated on his touchdown against Presbyterian in the second quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas linebacker Nick Flaskamp (36) tackles Presbyterian wide receiver Kiaran Turner (3) in the second quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas defensive back Luke Glenna (23) returns his interception into the end zone against Presbyterian in the second quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas defensive back Joe Hird (11) is tackled by a Presbyterian defender after an interception in the second quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas defensive back Joe Hird (11) celebrates his second interception against Presbyterian in the second quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas running back Hope Adebayo (4) scores a touchdown against Presbyterian in the second quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas head coach Glenn Caruso on the sidelines. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas running back Tom Loeffler (7) dives forward into the end zone for the touchdown over Presbyterian in the third quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas quarterback Branden Smith (15) rushes for a touchdown against Presbyterian in the third quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas quarterback Branden Smith (15) is congratulated on his touchdown against Presbyterian in the third quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
An emotional St. Thomas offensive lineman Jared St. Arnauld (75) hugs fellow lineman Mike Ruggeri (79) after the seniors were pulled for the game at the end in the third quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
In what is their last game for St. Thomas, seniors offensive lineman Jared St. Arnauld (75) and running back Tom Loeffler (7) hug after getting pulled at the start of the fourth quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas wide receiver Isaiah Hall (1) picks up yards after a catch against Presbyterian in the fourth quarter. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
St. Thomas head coach Glenn Caruso congratulates wide receiver Isaiah Hall (1) after Hall's big play against Presbyterian in the fourth quarter of an NCAA football game at O'Shaugnessy Stadium in St. Paul on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021. St. Thomas beat Presbyterian, 54-15. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
Caruso Crew, a fan club, celebrates the Tommies' 54-15 win over Presbyterian in an NCAA football game at O'Shaugnessy Stadium in St. Paul on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
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St. Thomas football coach Glenn Caruso talked from the start of this being a season of the unknown, particularly since no team has ever made the move from Division III to Division I.
Asked after the Tommies' season-ending game on Saturday if he had a number of wins in mind for the season, he said, "I was hoping for one."
"And I know myself well enough to know that if there's one, that's not good enough," he added. "I don't know what the number was, but it wasn't seven."
But seven it is, as the Tommies rolled over Presbyterian, 54-15 on Senior Day at O'Shaughnessy Stadium, to finish with a 7-3 record, including 6-2 in the Pioneer Football League.
Playing with a roster primarily made up of Division III recruits, The Tommies took their lumps in one-sided losses to Northern Iowa and Davidson, but proved their formula for success, that worked so well in the MIAC that led to them being asked to leave, gives them a foundation to build on.
The Tommies' roster includes 23 seniors, and Caruso said he was able to get them all into the game.
"We got all the offensive guys in at one time." Caruso said. "We let them have a whole drive, and it finished with a touchdown. We let them have one more play, then we banged a time out and let them come out.
"We did the same on defense. And to see their authentic emotion after the game, that tells you that you're doing something right."
Senior quarterback Tommy Dolan, who began the season as the starting quarterback but lost the job to senior Cade Sexauer, got the start on Saturday. He completed 7 of 14 passes for 126 yards.
"Cade wasn't playing well; Tommy was playing well," Caruso said of the change. "Tommy came in in the Drake game (the previous week) and moved the ball."
Presbyterian (2-9, 0-8) led 15-14 in the second quarter before the Tommies' defense took over. Three interceptions, including one returned 27 yards for a touchdown by Luke Glenna, led a 21-0 blitz that put the Tommies up 35-15 at halftime.
"We had a little meeting the drive before that, and I wasn't really happy," Caruso said. I went down this list — two dropped interceptions, two fumbles by the other team that were recovered by them, two miss-hits and sacks on the quarterback, a missed sub and two face mask penalties.
"That's not us. So we talked about being us at the highest level, and the flood gates opened."
Senior cornerback Joe Hird, who had two of the interceptions, said the defense was out of sync in the early going.
"That second quarter, we locked in a little bit and found our rhythm," he said. "Coach (Kuchinski) dialed up some good pressures, and it was just making plays that came to you at that point. Luke Glenna and I got to be the benefactors of some of that pressure."
Sophomore Hope Adebayo, the Tommies' leading rusher, basically had the afternoon off, with seniors Nick Rice and Tom Loeffler getting extended playing time. Rice scored on runs of 16 and 40 yards. Loeffler also had a rushing touchdown.
Adebayo did see some action in the red zone, and he scored a pair of touchdowns.
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2020 America's Strongest Man and Woman Results and Highlights
Athletes pulled trucks, tossed sandbags, and pressed dumbbells to find out who is the strongest in the U.S.
Written by Roger Lockridge
Last updated on November 13th, 2020
Some of the strongest men and women in the world have won the American's Strongest Man and Woman contest — Karl Gillingham, Brian Shaw, Jerry Pritchett, and Kristin Rhodes. This year, from Nov. 6-8, 2020, in Savannah, GA, five more men and women were added to that list.
Over the course of two days, the strongest men and women in the country battled through six events (with a possible seventh tiebreaker, which wasn't needed). Here are the events and the men's and women's results.
The events for these contests were as follows.
Circus Dumbbell for Reps
Sandbag Toss Over Bar
Basket Deadlift for Reps
Arm Over Arm Truck Pull
Hussafell Stone Carry for Max Distance
Sandbag Load Medley
Iron Stein Hold*
*This was only in the event of a tie.
Men's Heavyweight Winner: Marcus Crowder
Men's U105 Winner: Anthony Diehl
In the heavyweight division, Marcus Crowder took the title of America's Strongest Man by winning two of the first three events on Saturday and finishing with a three and a half point lead on Tyler Cotton. Among the key lifts on that day were his five reps on the 240 pounds (108.8-kilogram) Circus Dumbbell press. He would maintain that lead throughout Sunday to take the victory. Cotton would have to settle for second place while Jose Baez found himself on the podium in third place. As the men's professional heavyweight champion, Crowder has also earned a qualification position for the 2021 Arnold Strongman Santa Monica contest.
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The U105 division had 13 competitors pushing each other from start to finish. Anthony Diehl would finish day one with a slim one-and-a-half point lead over Nicholas Cambi. Diehl would maintain that position and eventually leave Savannah, GA, with the title in his possession. One highlight of Diehl's weekend was his 12 reps on the Basket Deadlift with 675 pounds (306.1 kilograms) total weight. Cambi would maintain his second-place spot and would stand in the silver position on the podium. Jesse Nelson was in fifth after Saturday but surged up on Sunday to finish in the third-place spot.
Women's Heavyweight Winner: Jessica Fithen
Women's Middleweight Winner: Gabrielle Burgholzer
Women's Lightweight Winner: Rebecca Lorch
In the women's contest, there were three divisions — heavyweight, middleweight, and lightweight. The heavyweight division had four athletes, and Jessica Fithen won it. Going in as the favorite, she took the first two events, the Circus Dumbbell for Reps and Basket Deadlift for Reps, where she pulled 475 pounds (215.4 kilograms) for eight reps. Cori Butler stayed on Fithen's heels throughout the two-day contest by winning the following two events: the Hussafell Stone Carry for Distance and the Arm over Arm Truck Pull. Fithen would win the Sand Bag toss and finish third in the Sand Bag Load Medley to secure the victory by four points over Butler. Amanda Kelly finished third, and Melissa Edwards placed fourth.
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There were two other divisions on the women's side. Gabrielle Burgholzer won the middleweight class by a point and a half over second-place finisher Abigail Deal. As for the third division, Rebecca Lorch is the 2020 lightweight champion, having won by three points over runner-up Laura Anderson.
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Admissible information
7. For the purposes of subsection 6(1), the judge may, subject to section 8, admit any relevant information, whether or not the information is or would be admissible in a court of law, and base the determination under paragraph 6(1)(d) on that information.
Foreign information obtained in confidence
8. (1) For the purposes of subsection 6(1), in private and in the absence of the applicant or registered charity or any counsel representing it,
(a) the Minister or the Minister of National Revenue may make an application to the judge for the admission of information obtained in confidence from a government, an institution or an agency of a foreign state, from an international organization of states or from an institution or an agency of an international organization of states; and
(b) the judge shall examine the information and provide counsel representing the Minister or the Minister of National Revenue with a reasonable opportunity to be heard as to whether the information is relevant but should not be disclosed to the applicant or registered charity or any counsel representing it because the disclosure would injure national security or endanger the safety of any person.
Return of information
(2) The information shall be returned to counsel representing the minister who made the application and shall not be considered by the judge in making the determination under paragraph 6(1)(d) if
(a) the judge determines that the information is not relevant;
(b) the judge determines that the information is relevant but should be summarized in the statement to be provided under paragraph 6(1)(b); or
(c) the minister withdraws the application.
(3) If the judge decides that the information is relevant but that its disclosure would injure national security or endanger the safety of any person, the information shall not be disclosed in the statement mentioned in paragraph 6(1)(b), but the judge may base the determination under paragraph 6(1)(d) on it.
Ineligibility or revocation
9. (1) A certificate that is determined to be reasonable under paragraph 6(1)(d) is conclusive proof, in the case of an applicant, that it is ineligible to become a registered charity or, in the case of a registered charity, that it does not comply with the requirements to continue to be a registered charity.
(2) The Minister shall, without delay after a certificate is determined to be reasonable, cause the certificate to be published in the Canada Gazette.
REVIEW OF CERTIFICATE
10. (1) An applicant or former registered charity in relation to which a certificate was determined to be reasonable under paragraph 6(1)(d) and that believes that there has been a material change in circumstances since that determination was made may apply in writing to the Minister for a review of the certificate by the Minister and the Minister of National Revenue.
Notice to Minister of National Revenue
(2) The Minister shall, without delay, notify the Minister of National Revenue of an application for review.
Information for review
(3) For the purpose of a review, the Ministers may consider any submission made by the applicant or former registered charity that applied for the review and any security or criminal intelligence reports that are made available to the Ministers.
Time for decision
(4) The Ministers shall make their decision on an application for review within 120 days after receipt of the application by the Minister.
Decision on review
(5) The Ministers may decide that, since the time the certificate was determined to be reasonable,
(a) there has not been a material change in circumstances, in which case the Ministers shall deny the application; or
(b) there has been a material change in circumstances, in which case the Ministers shall determine whether there are reasonable grounds as provided in subsection 4(1) and, accordingly,
(i) continue the certificate in effect, or
(ii) cancel the certificate as of the date of the decision.
Automatic cancellation
(6) If no decision is made within a period of 120 days after receipt of the application, the certificate is cancelled on the expiration of that period.
Notice to applicant or charity
(7) As soon as a decision is made or the certificate is cancelled under subsection (6), the Minister or a person authorized by the Minister shall cause the applicant or former registered charity that applied for the review to be served, personally or by registered letter sent to its last known address, with notice of the decision or cancellation.
11. (1) An applicant or former registered charity that applied for a review under subsection 10(1) may, after giving written notice to the Minister who in turn shall notify the Minister of National Revenue, apply to the Federal Court for a review of a decision made under paragraph 10(5)(a) or subparagraph 10(5)(b)(i).
Review by Court
(2) The Court shall carry out the review in accordance with section 6, with any adaptations that may be required.
Referral to Ministers
(3) If the Court quashes a decision of the Ministers made under paragraph 10(5)(a), it shall refer the application to the Ministers for a decision under paragraph 10(5)(b).
Cancellation of certificate
(4) If the Court quashes a decision of the Ministers made under subparagraph 10(5)(b)(i), the certificate is cancelled as of the date the decision is quashed.
No appeal
(5) The determination of the Court is not subject to appeal or judicial review.
Publication of spent certificate
12. The Minister shall, in a manner that mentions the original publication of the certificate, cause to be published in the Canada Gazette notice of the cancellation of a certificate by reason of
(a) a decision made under subparagraph 10(5)(b)(ii);
(b) the operation of subsection 10(6); or
(c) a determination of the Federal Court referred to in subsection 11(4).
Term of a certificate
13. Unless it is cancelled earlier, a certificate is effective for a period of seven years beginning on the day it is first determined to be reasonable under paragraph 6(1)(d).
14. The Governor in Council may make any regulations that the Governor in Council considers necessary for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.
R.S., c. 1 (5th Supp.)
AMENDMENTS TO THE INCOME TAX ACT
114. Section 168 of the Income Tax Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):
Charities Registration (Security Information) Act
(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), if a registered charity is the subject of a certificate that is determined to be reasonable under paragraph 6(1)(d) of the Charities Registration (Security Information) Act, the registration of the charity is revoked as of the making of that determination.
115. (1) Section 172 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (3):
Exception - Charities Registration (Security Information) Act
(3.1) Paragraphs (3)(a) and (a.1) do not apply to an applicant or a registered charity that is the subject of a certificate that has been determined to be reasonable under paragraph 6(1)(d) of the Charities Registration (Security Information) Act.
(2) The portion of subsection 172(4) of the Act after paragraph (f) is replaced by the following:
where the Minister has not notified the applicant of the disposition of the application within 180 days after the filing of the application with the Minister, and, in any such case, subject to subsection (3.1) , an appeal from the refusal to the Federal Court of Appeal pursuant to subsection (3) may, notwithstanding subsection 180(1), be instituted under section 180 at any time by filing a notice of appeal in the Court.
(3) Section 172 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (4):
(4.1) An appeal referred to in subsection (3) or (4) is suspended when an applicant or a registered charity is, under subsection 5(1) of the Charities Registration (Security Information) Act, served with a copy of a certificate that has been signed under that Act, whether the appeal was instituted before or after the certificate was so signed, and the appeal is
(a) discontinued on the determination that the certificate is reasonable under paragraph 6(1)(d) of that Act; or
(b) reinstated as of the date the certificate is quashed under paragraph 6(1)(d) of that Act.
116. The description of A in paragraph 188(1)(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:
A	is the total of all amounts each of which is the fair market value of an asset of the charity on the day (in this section referred to as the ``valuation day'') that is 120 days before the day on which
(i) the notice of the Minister's intention to revoke the charity's registration is mailed, if the registration is revoked under subsection 168(2), or
(ii) the charity is, under subsection 5(1) of the Charities Registration (Security Information) Act, served with a copy of a certificate, if the registration is revoked under subsection 168(3).
117. Paragraph 239(2.21)(b) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(b) who is an official to whom taxpayer information has been provided for a particular purpose under paragraph 241(4)(a), (d), (f), (f.1) , (i) or (j.1)
118. Subsection 241(4) of the Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (f):
(f.1) provide taxpayer information to an official solely for the purposes of the administration and enforcement of the Charities Registration (Security Information) Act;
COORDINATING, REVIEW AND COMMENCEMENT PROVISIONS
Coordinating Amendments
Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act
119. If section 95 of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (the ``other Act'') comes into force before section 110 of this Act, then, on the later of the coming into force of section 95 of the other Act and this section, section 110 of this Act is replaced by the following:
110. Paragraph 10(1)(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(a) the forfeiture to Her Majesty of property pursuant to section 83.14, subsection 462.37(1) or (2) or 462.38(2), subparagraph 462.43(c)(iii) or subsection 490.1(1) or 490.2(2) of the Criminal Code or subsection 16(1) or 17(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act;
120. (1) If this Act receives royal assent before section 96 of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (the ``other Act'') comes into force, then, on the day of that assent, section 96 of the other Act is replaced by the following:
1997, c. 23, s. 24
96. Section 11 of the Act is replaced by the following:
Sharing outside Canada
11. The Attorney General may, with the approval of the Governor in Council and in accordance with the regulations, enter into an agreement with the government of any foreign state respecting the reciprocal sharing of
(a) the proceeds of disposition of
(i) property forfeited to Her Majesty under subsection 462.37(1) or (2) or 462.38(2) or subparagraph 462.43(c)(iii) of the Criminal Code, subsection 16(1) or 17(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act or the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, or
(ii) property that is or was the subject of a management order and that was forfeited under subsection 490(9) of the Criminal Code
and the proceeds arising from the disposition of property by that foreign state, and
(b) amounts paid or recovered on account of fines imposed under subsection 462.37(3) of the Criminal Code in relation to proceedings commenced at the instance of the Government of Canada, penalties paid under subsection 18(2) of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act and amounts paid or recovered on account of fines imposed in lieu of forfeiture under the laws of that foreign state,
if law enforcement agencies of that foreign state, or of Canada, as the case may be, have participated in the investigation of the offence or offences that led to the forfeiture of the property or the imposition of the fine or if the law enforcement agencies' participation led to the forfeiture of the property or the payment of the penalty under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act.
(2) If section 96 of the other Act comes into force before the day on which this Act receives royal assent, then, on the day of that assent, section 11 of the Seized Property Management Act is replaced by the following:
Bill S-23
121. (1) If Bill S-23, introduced in the 1st Session of the 37th Parliament and entitled An Act to amend the Customs Act and to make related amendments to other Acts (the ``other Act''), receives royal assent, then the references to the ``Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) Act'' in subsection 107(3) and paragraphs 107(4)(b), (c) and (f) and 107(5)(k) of the Customs Act, as enacted by section 61 of the other Act, are replaced by references to the ``Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act''.
(2) Subsection (1) comes into force on the later of the day on which the other Act receives royal assent and the day on which this Act receives royal assent.
122. If Bill C-11, introduced in the 1st Session of the 37th Parliament and entitled the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (the ``other Act''), receives royal assent and paragraph 274(a) of the other Act comes into force before this Act receives royal assent, then, on the day on which this Act receives royal assent, section 46 of this Act is repealed.
123. (1) If Bill C-11, introduced in the 1st Session of the 37th Parliament and entitled the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (the ``other Act''), receives royal assent, then section 270 of the other Act and the heading before it are replaced by the following:
270. Paragraph 55(3)(d) of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act is replaced by the following:


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French Collaboration on Display, 1940-1944
By Robert S. Coale
Seventy years after the liberation of Paris from German occupation, the National Archives of Paris opened "La Collaboration, 1940-1945," an exhibition exploring multiple facets of French collaboration with the enemy.
In a thematic rather than a chronological approach, the show includes a great variety of original documents and artifacts, many of which have been out of public view since the end of World War II. Together they paint an effective and nuanced picture of a still controversial episode.
French collaboration with the Nazi regime following the Armistice of 1940 has generally been studied through a political perspective, but this exhibit ventures into military, cultural, and economic dimensions as well. Among the items on display is the well-known poster "Affiche Rouge," depicting French anti-Semitism, as well as photographs of detainees, lists of deported persons, political memorabilia (such as pins from the many French extreme right-wing parties), Marshal Philippe Pétain's ink blotter and personal stamp, and Jacques Doriot's SS uniform and trunk.
While Resistance and collaboration were both significant, they were minority movements.
The Affiche Rouge, a propaganda poster distributed by Vichy French and German authorities in the spring of 1944 in occupied Paris, to discredit 23 French Resistance fighters.
But the exhibit reveals more than artifacts and documents. In a video interview, curators Denis Peschanski and Thomas Fontaine debunk two historical myths, one "pink" and one "gray." The pink myth claims that everyone in France was in the Resistance; the gray, that everyone was a collaborator. The truth is that while Resistance and collaboration were both significant, they were minority movements. The large majority of French public opinion during the German occupation, despite continued Nazi and Vichy propaganda efforts, favored an Allied victory.
The exhibit also features extracts from French feature-length films produced in the postwar period that deal with collaboration.
This somewhat surprising wealth of films contradicts the oft-held view that France long avoided acknowledging its collaborationist past.
The curators evidently designed the exhibition for an educated French audience. Explanations are in French only and there is little discussion of the war of 1939-40. The show ends with a photograph of Philippe Pétain at his postwar trial, and only the briefest of references are made to what happened to the other notorious French collaborators who embraced the Nazi view of Europe.
The exhibit runs until March 2, 2015. For those with a working knowledge of French, a brief glimpse, including an interview with Denis Peschanski, can be seen at www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr.
ALBA Board member Robert S. Coale lives and teaches in Paris. He is writing a book about Spanish Republicans who fought with the French army during World War II.
2 Responses to " French Collaboration on Display, 1940-1944 "
john andrechak on April 23, 2015 at 12:31 am
Is the movie "Army of Crime" related to this poster. I found the beginning of this movie so poignant as the names of the martyrs are read with the exclamation "Died For France!"
Jack Owens on May 3, 2015 at 1:43 pm
Those interested in the "texture" of collaboration may wish to read the first three novels of Patrick Modiano, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014. Apparently, he conceived them as a trilogy on the occupation.
They are: *La Place de l'Etoile* (1968); *La Ronde de nuit* (1969); and *Les Boulevards de ceinture* (1972). Gallimard has published all of them in inexpensive paperback editions.
I do not know if any of these has appeared in an English translation. Someone told me that until Modiano received his Nobel, there were no English translations of his novels.
I hope that this information is useful to those interested in the theme of collaboration.