Love how very British this NHS advice is.

Wonderful to hear Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse again.

“NURSING is a profession of VIGILANCE”

But that is not factored into nursing workload tools or health care workforce planning.
We need to change how nursing is understood and planned.
#RCNRatios #valuingnursing #safestaffing

I am empathetic with my team. I care about my people, and I want them to deliver.

But I am unequivocal about the quality that I require.

Empathy and high standards are companions, not in competition.

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On rounds at Grady

Me: 'How're you feeling today?'
Him: 'Well. I been better. That medicine y'all gave me made me run off!'

My team looked puzzled.
I did not.

Me: 'Oh no! You talking 'bout the medicine we gave you for your gout flare up?'
Him: 'Yeah! That one!'

📣 Due to the retirement of the current post-holder, we have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic #PharmacyTechnician to join us as Lead Pharmacy Technician – Controlled Drugs and Governance (Band 6). Click ⬇️ to find out more jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

Latest event from Liverpool Head & Neck Centre 👇tinyurl.com/LHNC19BOOK

We've launched a new podcast series to support people who have been diagnosed with cancer and their loved ones.

You can find out more about the series, hosted by Julia Bradbury I HAVEN'T BOUGHT BLUE TICK💙 and funded by Guy's Cancer Charity, in this Evening Standard story:
standard.co.uk/news/health/ju…

The folks who can't call misogyny misogyny, or racism racism, now presume to give us a 'definition' of extremism? No thanks.

Yes. YES. YAAAASSSS.

This. Is. EVERYTHING! x.com/hannaweeny/sta…

So excited to get the Macmillan Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Development post out to advert. A really exciting opportunity for both the post holder and the development of the CNS workforce South East London Cancer Alliance Macmillan Cancer Support

Mhmm

“When I heard, ‘You can’t do that, you’re a girl,’ I went ahead and did it anyway.”

Happy #InternationalWomensDay

Photo by Norman Seeff

Genuinely perplexed by the Daily Mail’s purpose with its relentlessly mendacious reporting of legal aid in serious criminal cases. The Rule of Law is the essential underpinning of all aspiration. You want anarchy, you keep going. See what that does to house prices.

Photographs taken in the right place at the right time, intentionally or by chance - a thread 🧵

1. Wilma Hurskainen

The phrase “lost battle with cancer” frames the experience in terms of defeat, a sense of failure, or an implication that the person lacks something that those who 'won the battle' have. It's very sad, I wish we had other ways of talking about such things. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao…

Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a 'Hollywood elite.'

'Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut

This month we launched PREPARE across Royal Free London - a new fortnightly pre-treatment Health & Wellbeing event for cancer patients. Great feedback from patients and their loved-ones who've attended at Chase Farm & Hampstead so far #CancerPatientExperience #PersonalisedCancerCare

Looking forward to speaking at this about the Education Pillar of Advanced Clinical Practice