Sometimes, we just need to listen 😍

Get your smears!

When the average life expectancy after moving into a nursing home is 1 year, and Residential Home is 2 years, can we afford NOT to talk about patients' wants and wishes and Advanced Future Care Plans?

If your team aren't as committed to a project or initiative as you'd like them to be, it might be worth taking a look at your communication and engagement style first #leadership #LeadershipDevelopment #sketchnote

One of the most striking things from my conversation with DrDr (😊)Wendy Mitchell was the missed opportunities for #AdvanceCarePlanning . How can we get better at normalising Important Conversations for us all & including #WhatMattersMost into appointments? speakforme.co.uk/podcast-episod…

Thank you @HEIW_NHS and Chris Williams for inviting me to be a breakout speaker today at the #nursingconference excellent and inspirational day ☺️

Brand new Frailty module starting at USW next year #Frailty #careoftheolderperson Dr. Wendy Mashlan email for more information 😀 👍 👌

📢New BGS publication! We have today published a new resource aimed at supporting healthcare professionals who want to offer a front door frailty service to older people presenting at emergency departments. #FrontDoorFrailty bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…

Brilliant first ever session teaching the new COTE palliative care champions! Great participation and passion for palliative and end of life patients in care of the older person ❤️ #palliative #frailty #champions #cote #symptommanagement #SEWS

"...maximising the health and life chances of older people should be considered a national priority."

"Talking about death will help us live better together." Excellent video by Kathryn Mannix

Cost for the NHS in Wales for one night on a GENERAL ward - £546... Cost to the elderly patient desperate for discharge... unmeasurable (possibily life). How do we fix the social crisis in Wales? 😫 #Wales #nhs #socialcrisis

The comfort of boring is a luxury others never experience #humble #endpoverty

Free to read: 15 key pieces of research on syncope in older people. Increasingly important given the overlap with falls. Awareness of causes of syncope, state-of-the-art assessment and treatment, is a priority in our field academic.oup.com/ageing/pages/s… Oxford Academic OUP Medicine

Pharmacological management of behavioral and psychological symptoms of #dementia #BGSconf

Great to see such support for protecting staff and patients through my 'No such thing as NOT FOR OBs' campaign, which in the January audits, compliance of record keeping went from 5.3%, to 91.6% #cote #elderly #symptom #SEWS #palliative #recordkeeping #patient #safety #wales

🥰💓

Another great and inspiring day at the CTM R&D Conference! Some familiar faces also doing great things. #beresearchactive

It was great to meet Richard Hughes 💙 at the CTM EAC Celebration and be recognised for 'Excellent Clinical Teaching' from Cardiff University - total surprise 😊