East Princes Street Gardens and the Scott Monument, looking great today.

#East
#EPSG
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#Edinburgh
#Scott Monument
#Monument
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#Street
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Great to see the Friends of #JamesCourt community garden springing up again,
on the #Old #Town of #Edinburgh  

#LadyStairsClose
Friends of Calton Hill
Mercat Tours 🏳️‍🌈
Friends Saughton
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Edinburgh Garden Partners

BREAKING Best foot forward: Brits urged to wear flip-flops or sandals for Euro passport checks from Oct 2024.
When the Entry Exit System begins, UK travellers to the EU will have to give toe prints + facial biometrics.
Aim is to swerve legal cases over right to take fingerprints.

1st April ? ☺️

Public satisfaction with the @NHS has dropped to 24%

You know what annoys me? Talking about the NHS blob as if it is one entity like Amazon.

It is a massive patchwork of 1000s of organisations, tiny to massive, so I'm not sure how talking about 'the NHS' is helpful when there…

3 key messages from today’s NHS satisfaction survey that you might not read/hear so much about:

▪️The public are not looking for changes to the principles of the NHS

▪️They do not want a different model

▪️They want the one they have got to work.

26 miles walked in the last seven days

641.2 to go

#NHS1000miles  

Thanks for the progress tracker, to #walk1000miles

I've seen 'old people' get stronger. My clients. Other people's clients. But watching my 73 year old mother get stronger and better at deadlifting week by week still seems unbelievable for some reason.

49.9 miles walked in the last seven days

667.2 to go

#NHS1000miles

england.nhs.uk/nhsbirthday/ge…

Thanks for the progress tracker, to #walk1000miles

NEW: A study has found that hospitals that are privatised typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership.

Researchers analysed 13 long-term studies from different high-income countries such as England, Germany, South Korea and the USA.

More info⬇️

A useful blog from Ben Parker who looks at the role of citizens in ensuring effective regulation of short-term lets/ #Airbnbs in #Edinburgh .
edinburghgreens.org.uk/blog/stl-actio…

Are you, or do you know, a practising or aspiring manager who is in a decision making role in the NHS? If yes, then this insightful course is for you!

The next 'Board Development Programme for NHS Risk Practitioners' session is now available to book >>

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19.7 miles walked in the last seven days

782.1 to go

#NHS1000miles

england.nhs.uk/nhsbirthday/ge…

Amazing news! @spend_with_ukraine is proud to be featured in a special article by Mail+ dedicated to Ukrainian brands protecting our culture.
Check it out!
#dailymail #media #ukrainianstartups #techstartups

Thank you BBC Woman's Hour Emma Barnett for inviting me & Joanne Froggatt to talk about BREATHTAKING this morning. We'll be discussing how - and why - we made the series.

From 10am on BBC Radio 4 📻

Four years since #COVID19 was declared a global health emergency, the world remains unprepared for the next pandemic.

Elders join members of @GPMB, The Independent Panel & other experts to call on leaders to step up & help deliver an ambitious #PandemicAccord at the #WHA77 in May. 1/2

“Compared with rail, other forms of transport are costing the earth.”
This 1974 ad shows British Rail to be ahead of its time.even if it is promoting Deltic rather than electric traction though sure Roger Ford would approve

I suspect I will be accused of being a pedant for saying this, but might I ask that politicians stop saying we have a problem with mental health? We really don’t. Mental health is what we all want. It’s mental ill-health that we have a problem with.

The NHS determines only 20% of our health outcomes. The rest is our environment and behaviours.

Amanda Pritchard is right to be outraged by Nestlé KITKAT cereal.

What a piss-take! This is health vandalism of the most cynical kind.

thetimes.co.uk/article/0708b2…

32.3 miles walked in the last seven days

827.6 to go

#NHS1000miles

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