📢 We need to persuade politicians to take children's play in healthcare more seriously.

Our webinar, ‘Playing with Children’s Health?’, will be the rallying cry of Starlight’s new strategic campaign to do just this.

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Is your child/young person coming to Queens or King George Hospital for a blood test, MRI or Surgery then please download our free app which will give them a tour. BHRUT NHS 🏥 BHR-Children’s Directorate NELFT BHR Phlebotomy @NELFT

I don’t know why people complain about perimenopause. It’s a fun way to play new games such as - Why am I swearing at inanimate objects? Is it my period again or am I haemorrhaging? and my personal favourite - Will my ankles painfully giveaway unexpectedly sometime today?

There’s growing evidence that the majority of Autistic people are also ADHD, and at least half of ADHD folk are also Autistic.

So it’s time we totally re-think how we recognise, diagnose and support people… as well as understand how overwhelming living in an AuDHD brain can be.

Regulating your nervous system doesn’t mean you’re always calm or stoic. It means you can feel intense anger or sadness and respond in ways you don’t regret later.

Transforming Children’s Healthcare: A Collaborative Approach to Health Play Workforce Development skillsforhealth.org.uk/news/transform…

#playmatters 'play is not consistently or systematically integrated into medical education, nor is information about the importance of play in healthcare reaching the various practitioners who work together to care for young children’s health'

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David Spurdle was presented the Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize for his outstanding work to support orphans & underprivileged children around the world. #PeaceSymposiumUK

When your Matron Lola AngloGerian🇳🇬🇯🇲🇬🇧💙 joins your wife's team Lara Dobbie 💙 Strategic Transformation & Redesign Team BHRUT Children’s ED 💙 BHRUT NHS 🏥 BHRUT Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Team 💙🌈 #TeamWorkMakesTheDreamWork

Happy #InternationalWomensDay 💜 Today we celebrate women's achievements & #InspireInclusion across our communities. On #IWD2024 we elevate the focus on #women sequality to help forge a #genderequal world 🌎Thanks everyone everywhere for supporting #women 🙏🏾 bit.ly/IWD2024

‘Pandemic Playthings: A multimodal perspective on toys and play in the time of COVID-19’ New open access in themed issue of SAGE Global Studies of Childhood from Dr Kate Cowan with theo van leeuwen and Staffan Selander IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society UCL Knowledge Lab Education@Sheffield UCL Centre for Multimodal Research John Potter 💙 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

ⓉⒽⒶⓃⓀⓎⓄⓊ Cards for Bravery for sending these fabulous activity packs for children and young people in Children's ED BHRUT Children’s ED 💙 #PlayInHospital #PlayMatters #FridayMotivation #Gratitude #kindnessbypost Aber Eaqub Chantal Ellis Patient Advice and Customer Experience at BHR BHRUT NHS 🏥 Harinder Sahota 💙🌈

Sometimes, having to start a task can be the hardest and most frustrating thing in the world to me. I often force myself to sit down and start working but I only get irritated until I cry. This is so hard to explain.

Part 1 of 4 explaining why this happens + coping tools

#ForEveryChild #ForEveryChild InCare #ForEveryChild ThatsSuffering #ForEveryChild ThaSurvived 💯 ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍 Society of Health Play Specialists Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition The Neurodiversity Charity ADHD Foundation Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Me first We Can Talk | CYPMH Resources & Training

#FridayMotivation #FeedbackFriday lovely family came today, to say how grateful they are for all the care received BHRUT Children’s ED 💙 Dr's, Nurse's, Play Team & Staff- also brought delicious cake Sherin Koshy Aber Eaqub Chantal Ellis Patient Advice and Customer Experience at BHR Matthew Trainer #Appreciation 💙🌈

Just a reminder from a neuropsychologist that when they say “ADHD gets better with age” what they really mean is “Men present less hyper-actively” and forget to say “Women go through a HUGE hormonal transition (ahem menopause) and lose their sh*t and their ADHD feels untenable.”…

Sensory Processing Differences are more commonly associated with Autism but also coexist with ADHD - but can also be confused with ADHD Sensory Processing Disorder Parent Support (SPD) Tony Lloyd
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Big ⓉⒽⒶⓃⓀⓎⓄⓊ to King George & Queen's Hospitals Charity for the wonderful #chritmasgifts 🎁🎄for children & Young people who visit our Children's Emergeny Departments #Christmas2023 BHRUT Children’s ED 💙 BHRUT NHS 🏥 Patient Advice and Customer Experience at BHR Harinder Sahota Aber Eaqub Chantal Ellis kay.springham Carlie Fortune 🤶🏾🎅