Great workshop today with Welsh NGS and government leads for Stroke focusing on the workforce. It's great to see that this will be a leading element of the next Welsh Stroke Standards

CSP makes the case for rehab to tackle health inequality CSP representatives joined a packed Health Equals parliamentary reception this week to highlight the role of physiotherapy and community rehabilitation in closing the UK’s health inequality gap.

'Together, we’re shining a spotlight on the vital role of physiotherapy and rehabilitation in tackling the social causes of ill health and narrowing the healthy life expectancy gap'.

Making the case for rehab to tackle health inequality with @healthequals.bsky.social ⬇️

#RightToRehab

Our chief executive @confedmatt.bsky.social told the BBC today that the ten-year health plan is "incredibly ambitious" that calls for the NHS to do things that have been talked about for decades but not achieved.

Today was a monumental day for the #RightToRehab campaign. In the NHS 10 year plan
Rehab was mentioned 7x and physiotherapy or physiotherapists 4x

The lovely Tilda Swinton signed the #parkypetition100k after being shown our leaflet by TasteTibet at @glastonbury.bsky.social - be like Tilda, demand a better deal for people with Parkinson’s

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Hello Blue Sky! We’re Different Strokes — supporting younger stroke survivors & their families in the UK. Thanks for being here as we settle in.💙💚

#StrokeAwareness #PeerSupport #Community #Stroke #StrokeRecovery #DifferentStrokes #DifferentStrokesUK

About SIGHT Trial University of East Anglia

🎉 The SIGHT trial has HRA & HCRW ethics approval! We’re set to launch the largest ever trial of therapy for spatial inattention post-stroke.

Recruitment starts now — learn more at 🔗 www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...

#SIGHTtrial #StrokeRecovery #UEA

Great to see so many ABUHB Stroke team members at the Welsh Stroke Conference today. Here are some of the fabulous MDT with Steve and Laura's poster presentation on a project to improve MDT Communication #WelshStrokeConf2025

Outstanding first day of the Welsh Stroke Conference today. A brilliant opening with a personal account of the devastating effect of losing speech after stroke. Followed by a fantastic Bhomick lecture with @avrildrummond1.bsky.social and an afternoon of fascinating psychology talks, #WSC2025

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Off to the Welsh Stroke Conference #WSC2025. A great programme and lots of lovely people from the Wales stroke scene and beyond. Posters from our ABUHB Inpatient Stroke Rehab team and our Neurostute Neuro Recovery College. Also my 1st opportunity to network with the other Wales AHPs in Stroke !!

We’re all set up and ready to welcome you to the @thestrokeassoc.bsky.social stand and posters at @welshstrokeconf.bsky.social tomorrow!

Gave a talk on #Unheard today in the Harris Lecture Theatre at Guys today where I used to attend teaching as a medical student on 1998. In fact I have written about my histopath lectures there in the book! Full circle. 💜

Phrase of the day: Audacious goals!

I love that strategy Ronan. You can get a walking stick that shoots out a line of light on the floor that works in a similar way in case you don't have someone with you to put something on the floor for you. And you're absolutely right about the brain,clever thing, so many ways it can go wrong

A list of novel choices for the exams, including works by Austen, Hemingway, Steinbeck, as well as contemporary authors like Sarah Crossan, Deidre Sullivan.

Really surprised, honoured and delighted to discover that Leonard and Hungry Paul has been included as one of the novels on the Junior Cert curriculum. Will be part of the exams in 2028-2030.

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Isn't this just the best news.

Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social

Has been selected to go on the National Curriculum in Ireland for the Junior Certificate.

Alongside.

Chinua Achebe
Jane Austen
Malorie Blackman
Esi Edugyan
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck.

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Another fantastic session with the newly renamed Gwent Stroke Voices (formerly known as the Stroke Reference group). Rich discussion about many important stroke related matters and a great personal explanation of the Spoon Theory of Fatigue management. Also our regular donation of exercise balls

Exciting discussions about Technology enriched rehab gyms today, let's do this!

A healthcare worker helps an older adult adjust his foot on a stationary bike in a rehab setting.

Calling all UK physios & exercise professionals! Whether or not you deliver cardiorespiratory training after stroke or TIA, we want to hear from you. Help improve future care. Fill in the short survey: ths.im/43gqyCI

Blue patterned bedspread with the head and foot of a brown terrier mix and Kobo ebook showing the cover of Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession

What are we reading today?

To be honest, nothing yet, but hoping to steal a few moments with these two 🐕 📘

Leonard and Hungry Paul is possibly the book I recommend most, to the point of being annoying, so I’m really looking forward to digging further into this latest ☀️

Rónán Hession: ‘I’m basically psychological quirks stacked inside a trench coat, passing myself off as a human’ Dublin writer Rónán Hession is author of the novels Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka and Ghost Mountain

Wonderful interview with @ronanhession.bsky.social in @irishtimes.com

What have Ade Edmondson, Harry Hill and Nana Maskouri got in common.

Read on McDuff.

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Alt text: Quote graphic from Pedantic Zebra Bookclub and Long Covid Advocacy. The quote reads: "In essence women have been systemically under-researched, doubted, under-investigated and under-treated. Their ability as knowledge-producers has been discredited. The androcentric, racist and ableist roots of Western medicine have silenced the voices of women, particularly the most marginalised, and led to a lack of knowledge about their own bodies." — Dr. Rageshri Dhaiyawan The graphic features a small image of the book Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing and the logos of Pedantic Zebra and Long Covid Advocacy. The background is dark blue with gradient design elements.

Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan talks brilliantly about how women have been silenced in healthcare in 'Unheard' 📚💙

This is often due to the marginalisation of women in science & therefore research

But also how women have advocated & fought back to be heard 🩷

#pedanticzebra #bookclub

Congratulations to Naga Munchetty on the launch of her new book ‘It’s Probably Nothing’. An empowering guide for women to advocate for themselves in healthcare services. Great to celebrate last night with @drnighatarif.bsky.social @elinorcleghorn.bsky.social @profjoyceharper.bsky.social

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Development of a self-help #Digital intervention for functional cognitive disorder: a theory- and user-centred approach (preprint) #openscience #PeerReviewMe #PlanP

Did you know May is Stroke Awareness Month?

This May we are asking if you can hold a coffee/tea/cake morning as part of our 'Put the T in sTroke Campaign' to raise awareness and much needed donations.

Contact us at office@bristolafterstroke.org.uk for some free resources.

I'm having an incredibly rubbish, no good, stressful day, but the way Bert's Books packed the first installment of my Penguin Archive subscription has pulled it back from the edge. I always appreciate little details like this, and I really needed a smile today, so huge thanks to Bert! #Booksky

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Hello Booksellers.

The paperback of Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession

Is now at our new distributors and available to order

BookSource based in Glasgow.

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