happens far too often. Relationships really do matter - and relationships take time to build trust and to be effective. I hear you!

The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism YouTube video by NHS England Workforce, Training and Education

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#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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Ioannis's fundraiser for North Cumbria University Hospital NHS Trust Help Ioannis Michalakis raise money to support North Cumbria University Hospital NHS Trust

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Hello!

Manchester Marathon I probably don’t need to state the obvious, but Cancer is bad. 1 in 2 of us will get cancer in our lifetime, and Ceri and I have both had parents diagnosed with cancer in the last few years. My mu...

fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/benruns... so proud of you Ben and Ceri xx @cerifowler.bsky.social

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.

Best wishes to you both from Cumbria. Uk 🇬🇧

How wonderful. To have someone to have your back and trust you at work is a precious gift. As it should be - but so often isn’t. Makes such a difference.

@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!

That looks really sore. I am so sorry this is now your “normal”.

@cerifowler.bsky.social

Exactly this

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.

People start to heal the moment they feel heard. Picture by dear darling design studio. Brightly coloured pink and orange and blue type on a black background with stars.

“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

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Stay active during the holiday season: Take a walk, cycle, follow exercise videos, throw a family dance party, tidy up, or play sports.

It doesn’t matter how you like to stay active—Every Move Counts!

Healthy Holidays!

Fabulous colourful pointilism art - thank you for sharing - grey day here too today in the UK.

@cerifowler.bsky.social 🥰

I have had a couple of hospital admissions over last few weeks and experienced small acts of kindness and compassion others will not have seen. Often from the lowest paid colleagues. We absolutely need to value our NHS clinicians to enable them to care - we need to care for them. #thankyouNHS

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

What an amazing tree!! Sending love to Kyiv this evening. This is my tree this year - from my home in Cumbria, Uk 🌟⭐️

Beautiful 🥰

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’

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.”

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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.

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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That sounds a great plan. I will have to think about which tweets I would like to save too - I can understand you wanting to save this tweet xx

Wow!

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.

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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Fabulous - majestic trees

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...

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/...

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.