ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

Ireland’s Call. Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the west of Ireland ☘️

difficult decision

Sir Chris Hoy forced to announce he has cancer when he wanted to keep it private. Presumably because a newspaper was about to publish a story. This country is the pits.

'Being kind is the most commercially effective tool you can use'
Caring about staff means staff care about the business and each other. They stay. Consistency is cost effective and improve efficiency.

Looking to develop your #leadership skills? Complete our free online course exploring how to lead with staff health and wellbeing in mind. You can complete the course for free over three weeks 📝 kingsfund.org.uk/courses/leadin…

Happy International Women in Science Day 🔬🧪👩‍🔬

Today we celebrate the invaluable contributions of women in all fields of science. We continue to encourage women to become agents of change to accelerate progress 🚀

#February11 #WomenLeadership #EquityInScience #InclusionInScience

Signs of a leadership culture problem:
- status & grade are everything
- high staff turnover, especially staff who ask questions 🙋‍♀️
- bright people go quiet 🤐
- good ideas are claimed by seniors
- rule followers are the ones who stay
- leaders can’t see there’s a problem 🤷‍♂️

There less than four weeks left to apply to the #TrinityChallenge and win up to £1 million for your solution. Can you adapt previous learning, technology or data to innovate in the struggle against antimicrobial resistance? Apply before 29 February here: solve.mit.edu/challenges/tri…

There’s something important to learn from shows like Downton Abbey. Period dramas from what seems a very different time, when many ordinary people were ‘in service’ to aristocracies. We assume we’ve progressed since those times. But the basic rules of social life never change. /1

New class of antibiotic has potential to kill resistant superbug

“The discovery of an entirely new type of antibiotic has raised hopes that one of the world’s most dangerous superbugs can finally be defeated.”

Errr…. no.

🧵1/n

thetimes.co.uk/article/1519ab…

Dame Sally Davies Prof. Dame Sally Davies with Baroness Bennett @nataliebenand, Rose Gallagher Rose Gallagher MBE 🇺🇦 and brilliant patient advocate Harry Serafi talking about #AMR and 'the silent pandemic' at the #SFAconference2023 Patient Safety Learning #patientsafety #safetyforall

December first… you know what that means 🎅🎄

In memory of Shane MacGowan ❤️

ᚉᚐᚔᚏᚇᚓ

#cairde #shanemacgowan #thepogues #christmas

Super proud of @ahmedsaadtito who won the Healthcare Infection Society poster prize at #FIS2023 for our work on detecting AMR genes in hospital air during an MDRO outbreak. Great work with Leanne Kermack @Baker_Lab_Cam and the airborne pathogen sampling crew!

I fulfilled a dream. To do a TEDx
Dedicated to the silenced. Here's to speaking up, speaking out and the importance of being heard
TEDxBrayfordPool Thank you.

What does silence sound like? | Laura Serrant | TEDxBrayford Pool youtu.be/OZdhQmTEhE8?si… via YouTube

Ireland’s Call. All the best to Ireland in the Rugby World Cup quarter-final today! #RWC2023 #IREvNZL

Goodness me. It's as if some of these 'angry commentors' have never met a consultant nurse, consultant physio, consultant paramedic or any other consultant AHP before!!

Also Rob Crouch is a legend.

Also also Happy 75th NHS! See you at 100. 💙

Dogs can be trained to detect Covid-19 in people - and detect it before people test positive.

Why?

Unique volatile organic compounds (VOCs). VOCs are what the individual parts of smells are.

This thread is going to blow your mask AND socks off.

cdcfoundation.org/stories/projec….

WHO: Antimicrobial resistance could cause more than 5 million deaths in Western Pacific by 2030

The modeling study projects a significant health and economic impact from drug-resistant infections from 2020 to 2030

cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-…

#AMR #AntibioticStewardship