Happy to listen and support all our colleagues in General Practice in Coventry and Warwickshire. Striving to make General Practice in C&W a psychologically safe place that we can all thrive, learn and support each other National Guardian's Office 💙 #FTSU

We’re attending the perinatal mental health in primary care study day in Birmingham. Incredible learning experience that we highly recommend attending if you get the chance! Thank you Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub for inviting us!! #midlandpnmh #perinatalmentalhealth #MentalHealthAwareness

Yesterday we hosted our Perinatal Mental Health (PNMH) study day for Primary Care, learning about ways we can better support our patients. #MidlandsPNMH #PerinatalMentalHealth

An amazing day yesterday sharing my story of postnatal depression and also the value of peer support. Thanks to Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub & NHS England for supporting the training of GP’s across the Midlands The turn out was phenomenal with over 200 GP’s and trainees attending!

Back to where it all began today! My old ST3 room from 10 years ago ☺️

My Mother’s Day gift from my beautiful 16 year old daughter - a collage 🩷⚕️🩺😷

We're proud that our general practice clinical placements have been put on the GMC website as an example of good undergraduate clinical teaching. Take a look here: tinyurl.com/3ppbsrwn

Incredibly proud of the close collaboration across our fantastic GP practices and Warwick Med School - congratulations to all involved in creating such positive learning experiences

Grim, but alas unsurprising. Patient need in deprived areas is greater, but #generalpractice in the poorest areas of England is under-funded and under-doctored relative to the richest areas. Little wonder that access is harder, and people turn elsewhere health.org.uk/publications/r…

Strategies are completely pointless. They take up all our time & energy preparing them, presenting them to boards & management but they just don’t make a difference. It’s STORIES that really make a difference. Develop a compelling story of place, of community & of relationships.

This is appallingly shortsighted and will have serious implications on workforce welfare, retention, recruitment and morale. I normally try to apply Hanlon’s razor, but this is deeply concerning

One of my elderly care home residents sang for me and gave me a hug today…. and it might be one of my favourite career memories to date 🥰

Discussion with my 11 yo this morning (*background of recent chats re dangers of people-pleasing) Me: We have the dentist today, make sure you do an extra good brush because it will make the dentist happy Child: I am not responsible for John’s (dentist) happiness 😂🙌🏻

Does anyone who what type of baby bird this is? Flew into my car when I opened the door and landed happily on my hand (flew straight back to the tree afterwards)

IMG (international medical graduate) GP network launch event tonight - incredible speakers, inspiring stories and an abundance of enthusiasm, talent, hope and positivity Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB Coventry & Warwickshire ICS

The first five years of general practice can be equally rewarding and challenging. Finishing your training is an exciting time but transitioning from trainee to GP can sometimes be difficult. Find support with our First5 C&W Network. More - buff.ly/3K0g019

Excellent presentation by Craig Lister on their Integrated Neighbourhood working approach to prevention - discussing the impact of decreasing physical inactivity and the tangible benefits on quality of life ( and easing access pressures in primary care!) Best Practice Show

A call to action from Katie and Tim at Rother Valley South PCN on PCN collaboration in bid applications for community initiatives with colleagues in voluntary sector, public health, local authority - accessing novel funding from commercial sector Best Practice Show

Outstanding work shared at our PCN CD And Aspiring CD Forum today by Unity PCN and their OTs Jo and Tara. Using population health data to provide proactive CGA assessments 💚#ARRS

We are joining forces with the University of Warwick and NHS organisations to tackle health inequalities in the region in a bid to improve life expectancy rates in Coventry. Figures from Coventry and Warwickshire's Integrated Care Services Health Inequalities Plan show that life