Great news! The benefits of green spaces for communities so eloquently described by OT Adam Jackson. 🎬👏🏻

Illustration of a women with black curly hair holding, dressed in a white medical coat, holding an apple in one hand and a donut in another. A bowl of fruit and salad and a glass of orange juice sits on the table to the left. Text reads Dietitians Week 2 - 6 June 2025. #DW2025

Our Nutrition & Dietetics team is celebrating #DietitiansWeek with the theme ‘the future of dietetics’. Follow the team on Facebook @NottshcDietitians where they’ll be sharing information on sustainability, technology & virtual ways of working & apprenticeship routes in the dietetic world.

Please fill out this form For CQC's 2025 State of Care report, an annual assessment of health care and social care in England

Are you working at an ICS in a strategic role focused on community-based care, inequalities, or support for older people?

Take part in the survey we are carrying out on behalf of the CQC and help inform this year's State of Care report.

Deadline 25 June.

Access our 10-15 minute survey, here 👇

Highbury Hospital Community Garden

Highbury Hospital Community Garden

Highbury Hospital Community Garden

The Trust is delighted to announce that the Live Team at Highbury Hospital in Bulwell, has secured a £20,000 grant from The National Lottery Community Fund to support the development and ongoing work of the Highbury Community Garden.

Read the full story online: https://orlo.uk/0SE8q

Physiotherapists can help preserve brain function in neurocognitive disorders through specialised exercise programms 🧠
Learn about this expanding role and evidence-based approaches – freely available to everyone on Physiopedia: https://www.physio-pedia.com/Neurocognitive_Disorders

Effectiveness of Home-Based Rehabilitation on Activities of Daily Living in Patients with Stroke: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis AbstractObjective. This systematic review compared the effectiveness of home-based rehabilitation with that of hospital-based rehabilitation and usual care

🏡 🧠This #MetaAnalysis of 35 studies on home-based rehabilitation for #stroke concluded "Home-based rehabilitation is comparable to hospital-based rehabilitation and more effective than usual care."

Read more:
academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...

NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research #ARCseminar Image: Close-up picture of a paintbrush painting bright watercolours

🗓️ Wed 11 June national #ARCseminar:

Exploring lived experience with creative arts
www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-...

Prof Caroline Sanders @arc-gm.bsky.social
Prof Monica Lakhanpaul @ucl.ac.uk
Dr Laura Abbott @arceastofengland.bsky.social
Barbara Czyznikowska & Lis Naylor @arc-em.bsky.social

This week we're shining a light on Lucie Aldrich, Speech & Language Therapist. Lucie has made an outstanding difference in the lives of both patients & colleagues. She's dedicated to listening to others & constantly drives service improvement.

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The NHS is England’s biggest employer by far.

Our NHS staffing tracker shows the trends in staffing levels across hospital and community services, general practice, and those in training to join the workforce 👩‍⚕️

Explore our tracker here 👇

Join my team at @thecsp.bsky.social Vacancy: Assistant Director, Digital Comms, flex location, 28 hours a week, FTC for 1 year (potential to extend to 2). Contact me for a chat. For full details see below

Please do share with friends and/or colleagues if you can.
See you there. 💃🏽
#AGILEConf25 #OlderPeople #AddingLifeToYears

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Poster inviting people to take part in a research project about the accessibility of CAMHS for autistic children and young people.

We are looking for autistic children & young people aged 11-18 to participate in a survey about improving the accessibility of CAMHS in the UK. Views can be shared by writing, recording a voice note, or drawing & labelling a picture. Link in QR code below or here: ljmu.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...

Do you live near Murcia in Spain (or know someone that does) and have AT skills to set up Grid 3 with eyegaze? Please let me know at Richard.Cave@mndassociation.org

Research shows for employees, “feeling respected” is 17.9 X more powerful a predictor of an organisation’s culture score than the average factor (& 2 X as strong as the 2nd most important factor, supportive leadership). Advice for leaders:
sloanreview.mit.edu/article/are-.... Graphic: Gaping Void

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Chair of Trustees | Elizabeth Casson Trust via Peridot Partners Elizabeth Casson Trust seeks a new Chair of Trustees to support the development of occupational therapists in the UK and internationally.

Have you spotted @ElizabethCasso1 is looking for our next chair. I stand down in Oct25 after 6yrs. Can I tempt you to consider this fantastic leadership role 😉 We are building in a handover period to ease transition. Go on! Take a look 👇🏻👇🏻.

www.peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/chair-o...

AHPs interested in a public health role, check out this great opportunity to become a physical activity clinical champion

tinyurl.com/4dej242d

@tolanahp.bsky.social @suzannerastrick.bsky.social

Our PhD student, Meri Westlake, has done a lot of thinking about how we frame hospital aquired deconditioning. Lovely to see her work starting to appear in the wild with this publication: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...

Are integrated care systems improving population health outcomes? A deep dive into how systems are making a positive impact on people's health and wellbeing.

We take a deep dive into how integrated care systems are making a positive impact on people's health and wellbeing. This is the first in a series on how ICSs are delivering against their four core purposes. In this edition, we look at improving population health.

Coming up Wednesday 22nd Jan - launch event for the new UK AHP Public Health Strategic Framework

Join here - tinyurl.com/6ucfkf9v

First podcast episode of 2025 released today.

It’s a good one; co-design, real good listening and a significant improvement in number of falls and ambulance need.

open.spotify.com/episode/4ZMr...

A little bit of hope after a terrible week A survival guide to the next four years.

It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

Deputy Chief AHP Forum (DeCAF) - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform webinar.
12 March 10:30-12:00 the career journeys of:
Laura Plant & Noma Makhanda

Open to non-members and aimed at those aspiring to be a deputy chief AHP or chief AHP.
📝 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/37e101...

Celebrating the Achievements of AHPs in Public Health Deputy Chief AHP Officer for England Linda Hindle and student dietician Kyle Kennedy explain the progress made by Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in the latest impact report.

What are Allied Health Professionals? 🩺

In a new blog, Deputy Chief AHP Officer for England @lindahindle.bsky.social and student dietician Kyle Kennedy explain the progress made by Allied Health Professionals in the latest impact report.

www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...

📢 The UK AHP Public Health Impact Report (2019-24) is here
Thanks to the incredible efforts of AHPs:
✔ 100% of HEIs now include public health in AHP education
✔ 80+ case studies published
✔ 31 population health fellowships
👏 Thank you AHPs
👉 www.ahpf.org.uk/Public_Healt...

#AHPpublichealth

Exercise is medicine

The new global exercise guidelines for healthy longevity in older adults are published:

❌ No medications currently enhance fitness, functional capacity or alleviate frailty

✅ Physical activity & exercise can enhance physical function & extend health span

'What’s needed now is political will and long-term investment to finally implement reform and improve the lives of millions of people and their carers.' Hugh Alderwick, Director of Policy at the Health Foundation

Director of Policy, Hugh Alderwick welcomes a new independent commission on adult social care reform but notes the past three decades have seen the recommendations of many reports go unfulfilled, resulting in delays and broken promises.

Read more 👇
https://buff.ly/4a0VbPs

🌿#AHPs in England we are just over 3 months away from our annual #GreenerAHP Week

📆 Put 31 March – 4 April 2025 in the diary!
 
🌿You can find the full event schedule on the Greener AHP hub in the new year 👉 www.england.nhs.uk/ahp/greener-...

Are you a #UK based #AHP and #researcher with a joint contract or funded research time?

Please fill this in to help map the workforce.

cahpr.org.uk/mapping-the-...

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Focusing on treatment alone is not the answer. We need preventative strategies, not just because they cut down on costly interventions but because they deliver better outcomes for individuals.

👀Read our new blog, written with the LGA, @nhsconfed.bsky.social & @rsph.bsky.social ➡️bit.ly/41KyexQ