Best wishes to my partner-in-crime of five years Claire Coles who leaves Sheffield Children's today. Typically she seems to be off twitter to avoid the fuss but suffice to say her management of our Board, Governors and all round governance business was brilliant and she'll be missed

Nottingham ❤️ A surreal and deeply sad day. The loss of life, including victims so young, on our own streets is hard to come to terms with. But Nottingham is a wonderful, vibrant and resilient city. And that has not changed. Our thoughts are with everyone impacted today.

Good to catch up with the North East Derbyshire District Council crowd.

After many years of having an amazing Chair in Sarah Jones ⁦⁦Sheffield Children's⁩ we are looking for someone to take us into our next chapter when she steps down at the end of this year. Please share details with possible candidates, link is below👇 jobs.theguardian.com/job/8568955/ch…

This November, me and John T from Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS FT are running a new course supported by Adso and East Midlands Councils on #corproategovernance aimed at people in the NHS at B5-8 or for those thinking of moving into the NHS. More info here: emcouncils.gov.uk/ADSO/ADSO-%E2%…

Graduation day

Not one to shirk a challenge Robert Peace and @jd_armstrong, I did the #5forTheo challenge at a windy MargateMainSands today supporting Esme Morgan, Lionesses and Sheffield Children's My nominations: Ewen Laycock Joanne Upton Richard Chillery 🏳️‍🌈 Fatima Khan-Shah 💙 Follow me on BlueSky Ruth Vernon justgiving.com/campaign/5fort…

After a week at Bluestones, a weekend at glowormfest. House move next week then prep for start of school. No such thing as a quiet August.

Day 1 ready 👍

To mark #WorldPatientSafetyDay, we have created a range of videos, blogs and podcasts to show some of the work happening around the NHS to engage patients for patient safety. You can view these on our World Patient Safety Day 2023 webpage 👉england.nhs.uk/patient-safety…

Pleasure to join colleagues from Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals on their workshop for future exec and non-exec directors this afternoon

Monster hunting

On the coffee trail in York

Loved being the bad guy. Finn, aka King Herod, today.

We’re delighted to welcome Peter Hartland as a Non-executive Director on our Board of Directors. Peter has been Chief Executive of St Luke’s Hospice in Sheffield for the last 15 years and has and has worked in business, higher education and with charities for over 30 years.

Great morning at Sheffield Children's Becton Centre meeting colleagues and discussing our Quality Promise @beckyjoyce2002 Yvonne Millard MBE Ruth Brown Daisie Patefield helen mulholland

Great event on Friday with our new learning response and care group governance leads exploring PSIRF and how it links with our Quality Promise and CARE values.

All of us at Sheffield Children's would like to wish #EidMubarak to everybody celebrating Eid al-Fitr today. We hope your day is filled with joy and happiness for you and your loved ones.

With our amazing colleagues at our Napier Street offices Sheffield Children's to say thank you for everything they do 👍

Late to the party after a week of end of year stuff but just wanted to say what a great event this year's Caring Together was. Pic is of the afternoon team on the clinical governance stall who strangely are standing in height order @sheff