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Joanna Manley
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Head of strategy for AHP delivery NENC ICB #Cockermouth
Everyone Matters. Enjoy being “arty” and walking the fells with my #workingcockerspaniel Freddie.
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#Oliverscampaign
#LearningDisabilityWeek2025
It's learning disability week How many people with LD feel they are seen, heard & & valued? Not many The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on learning disability & autism for health/care staff will change that
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The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism
YouTube video by NHS England Workforce, Training and Education
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June 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
June 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Regular readers will know that I did mergers and demergers for a living before joining the NHS.

The mean time for a new org to fully settle its operations post-merger is around 2 years, and the culture takes up to 5 years.

If you never let things settle, you will always be running inefficiently.
“At some point as a country, we have to stop trying to design the ‘perfect’ health care system and instead try to maximise the opportunities of the one we have.”

Siva Anandaciva considers the implications of abolishing NHS England.

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March 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social thank you for a fabulous evening at the theatre in Keswick this evening - so much to think about . @cerifowler.bsky.social just brilliant!
March 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
URGENT! Regular rail users in England, consider buying a season ticket now (before 2 March) as prices are rising 3.8% - this could be a difference of £100s. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/02...
February 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Exactly this
bmj.com The BMJ @bmj.com · Feb 21
"Medical students shouldn't be faced with decisions about whether to disrupt their course, or abandon their medical career entirely, because they cannot afford to live while at university."

@georgeawebster.bsky.social on why medical students need more financial support
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February 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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If we want patients to feel held & safe, then NHS workers also need to feel held & safe. These things are totally related. What we have now is overwhelm & anxiety spreading through our services. We need to think systemically... to see the relationship between cared-for workers & cared-for patients.
January 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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“Connection is the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment.” Brené Brown

Who will you help the feel heard today? 🧡

#kindness #connection

(Image by Dear Darling Design Studio)
January 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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It doesn’t matter how you like to stay active—Every Move Counts!

Healthy Holidays!
December 29, 2024 at 7:50 PM
It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄
🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.
December 24, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Unfortunately Taste Cumbria has been cancelled due to Storm Darragh but we, and lots of other businesses in #cockermouth will be open today for #smallbizsaturday
December 7, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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A good news story.

“The bumblebee population has made an impressive comeback in a developed area by increasing to 116 times what it was two years ago thanks to a nature restoration group.”

https://www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bumblebee-population-increases-116-times-over-in-remarkable-scotland-proje…
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project
‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’
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November 27, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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The benefits of the great outdoors are hard to research, being impossible to separate all the variables, as I found in my walking research many years ago...outdoors, exercise, social setting. My anecdotal evidence is I couldn't do without being in nature! 1/
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More GPs using social prescribing to help with mental health
Doctors are using social prescribing to help patients suffering with mental health issues.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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With time,honesty,good palliative care+appropriate prescribing we can avoid painful deaths.That is my 30 years experience.Assisting someone to die intentionally is not the role of a Dr @CatSmithMP
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The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-25
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024-25 has its second reading on 29 November 2024. This Library briefing provides an overview of the bill and key areas of debate.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
November 26, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Fabulous - majestic trees
1500 year old yews trees in Borrowdale

#borrowdale #thelakedistrict #thelakes
November 26, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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High staff turnover is associated with higher patient mortality.

If you don’t care for the carers they cannot care for their patients. #NHS www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Staff retention and mortality
The importance of continuity of care Previous research suggests that survival of patients may be associated with hospital organisational culture.1 Organisational factors such as culture, staffing, an...
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November 25, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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The govt has its 3 shifts it wants to make in NHS.

But it's the workforce that'll make it happen.

A future NHS needs far more space for reflection & sharing experiences. Imagine a workforce that was meaningfully supported with basic needs, able to think clearly. This is core to safe, quality care.
November 22, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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Shocking statistic that if we can lift people out of poverty, we could prevent dementia in 1 in 6 cases in East London
#BGSConf
November 22, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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The Open University has some advice for social media users...
November 17, 2024 at 1:47 PM
@nbjohnniefaa.bsky.social delighted we are both “over here” - fabulous!
November 17, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Love this 😁 great advise
November 17, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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I’m not going to leave X just yet - I hate that sense of being driven away from a place I used to love. But after one day on here, I already know how much prefer it.

So if you see this and would be kind enough to share it to let people find me, that would be hugely appreciated. Thank you.
November 15, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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I'm quite new to Bluesky

Could I ask you to share this post to get my account in front of those who care about the NHS

So many good accounts from Twitter who don't know I'm on here

Thank you 🙏😊
November 15, 2024 at 5:52 PM