Just one in three London tube stations are still not accessible from the street to the tube. Meet the man teaching wheelchair users some handy skills.

Are you a UK nurse working in or wishing to study breast cancer nursing? Following generous funding from Triple Negative Breast Cancer, grants of up to £1,600 are available in a wide range of educational courses to support your career. Apply by 18 Oct: bit.ly/3IUABUk

Ballot papers have arrived ! 📣RCN Branches, Forums, Committees: Time to cast your vote for Chair and Vice Chair Congress 25/26 Vote for Change - Vote for Me!✔️ Thank you!

Alison Paterson 💙 Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse Shiv Smith 💙 I have a greater personal experience of NHL than I would like & while the whole MDT was so important our closest interactions were with the CNS & pharmacist.Several times they needed to be contacted with side effect issues/questions-can’t imagine going through the pathway without

Hundreds of healthcare support staff will stage a 48-hour strike from Wednesday at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Foundation Trust. The latest in a series of disputes across the country. Sunday Times wrote about it earlier this month:

Alison Paterson 💙 Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse Paul Trevatt💙 Shiv Smith 💙 The importance of the CNS role for older people with a cancer diagnosis is definitely a factor which is featuring in my PhD research.

Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse Dr Ruth Oshikanlu MBE RN RM RHV QN FRCN FAAN FRSPH Living through this right now, my dad drives to between 3 & 10 pharmacies daily because the drug is hard to find & they are responsible for getting it in for the district nurses. He's 82 & exhausted. They only give a 3 day prescription, so the pharmacy can't advance order.

Paul Trevatt💙 Alison Paterson 💙 Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse Shiv Smith 💙 When I started MSc Adv prac 2009 I was a B6 specialist nurse aspiring to Consultant Nurse via CNS. There were 2 accepted & respected pathways. ACP has taken over & there is now a hierarchy. This may be because standardising pathways is easier & simpler but not more beneficial.

‘Incompetence, dishonesty, greed’ Absolutely damning final report from Grenfell Tower inquiry lays out how residents were ‘badly failed’ by almost every single organisation • governments • TMO • Kensington & Chelsea Council • manufacturers of cladding & insulation •

Lucy Lewis 💙#ProtectNurse Paul Trevatt💙 Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse Shiv Smith 💙 The narrative, workforce planning and finance from #nhsengland has really pushed the ACP route over the CNS one. To the detriment of pt experience. ACP role is great, but it isn't a CNS and in some trusts they are now managing CNS services

One of the disabled children we advocate for is being placed in a SHED—yes, you read that correctly—a shed on his school playground in England. Starting tomorrow, he will be in this shed. Shockingly, the school and others seem fine with this arrangement. Photos to come...

The The BMJ obit. of V Craig Jordan rightly celebrates his achievements as 'father' of Tamoxifen. But science is a team venture and Tamoxifen had a 'mother' : Dora Johnson, the chemist who first synthesised this life saving drug #womenwhocurie bmj.com/content/386/bm…

📢Join tomorrow's conversation World Cafe on Inequities in End-of-life care: a Public Health Approach with Krupesh Hirani AM Chair GLA Health Committee Dr Libby Sallnow Head Marie Curie Research/UCL 👉 Hybrid bit.ly/lovecareanddig… Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse Regina Keith Marie Curie EOLC

Excl: Nearly one in three temporary Black and ethnic NHS workers suffer physical violence independent.co.uk/news/health/nh…

Just used pharmacy first, it was brilliant✅ Before speaking to pharmacist, a retail assistant offered to sell me the wrong medicine and made an incorrect diagnosis. Fortunately I knew my diagnosis/correct treatment. This is why frontline workers must be proficient in practice

Brilliant example of volunteering Helpforce

Today marks the fourth Prosthetists and Orthotists Day! How are you celebrating today? HAPPY P&O DAY and thank you for the hard work you do ❤️ #Prosthetics #Orthotics #Prosthetists #Orthotists #PandODay2024

1/2. Am I the first person to comment that this is the sort of investigation done to aid planting a story in an effort to normalise a particular action or situation [in this instance a sale of BMT assets?] Why investigate? Why publish? Why draw attention to this?

EXCL: Landlords banned from removing tenants without cause within months as government launches long-delayed package of measures for renters - ⁦Kiran Stacey⁩ theguardian.com/money/article/…

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