Great workshop today with Welsh NGS and government leads for Stroke focusing on the workforce. It's great to see that this will be a leading element of the next Welsh Stroke Standards

'Together, we’re shining a spotlight on the vital role of physiotherapy and rehabilitation in tackling the social causes of ill health and narrowing the healthy life expectancy gap'. Making the case for rehab to tackle health inequality with @healthequals.bsky.social ⬇️ #RightToRehab

Our chief executive @confedmatt.bsky.social told the BBC today that the ten-year health plan is "incredibly ambitious" that calls for the NHS to do things that have been talked about for decades but not achieved.

Today was a monumental day for the #RightToRehab campaign. In the NHS 10 year plan Rehab was mentioned 7x and physiotherapy or physiotherapists 4x

The lovely Tilda Swinton signed the #parkypetition100k after being shown our leaflet by TasteTibet at @glastonbury.bsky.social - be like Tilda, demand a better deal for people with Parkinson’s petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Hello Blue Sky! We’re Different Strokes — supporting younger stroke survivors & their families in the UK. Thanks for being here as we settle in.💙💚 #StrokeAwareness #PeerSupport #Community #Stroke #StrokeRecovery #DifferentStrokes #DifferentStrokesUK

🎉 The SIGHT trial has HRA & HCRW ethics approval! We’re set to launch the largest ever trial of therapy for spatial inattention post-stroke. Recruitment starts now — learn more at 🔗 www.uea.ac.uk/about/school... #SIGHTtrial #StrokeRecovery #UEA

Great to see so many ABUHB Stroke team members at the Welsh Stroke Conference today. Here are some of the fabulous MDT with Steve and Laura's poster presentation on a project to improve MDT Communication #WelshStrokeConf2025

Outstanding first day of the Welsh Stroke Conference today. A brilliant opening with a personal account of the devastating effect of losing speech after stroke. Followed by a fantastic Bhomick lecture with @avrildrummond1.bsky.social and an afternoon of fascinating psychology talks, #WSC2025

@rlwain.bsky.social 👋🏻

Off to the Welsh Stroke Conference #WSC2025. A great programme and lots of lovely people from the Wales stroke scene and beyond. Posters from our ABUHB Inpatient Stroke Rehab team and our Neurostute Neuro Recovery College. Also my 1st opportunity to network with the other Wales AHPs in Stroke !!

We’re all set up and ready to welcome you to the @thestrokeassoc.bsky.social stand and posters at @welshstrokeconf.bsky.social tomorrow!

Gave a talk on #Unheard today in the Harris Lecture Theatre at Guys today where I used to attend teaching as a medical student on 1998. In fact I have written about my histopath lectures there in the book! Full circle. 💜

Phrase of the day: Audacious goals!

Really surprised, honoured and delighted to discover that Leonard and Hungry Paul has been included as one of the novels on the Junior Cert curriculum. Will be part of the exams in 2028-2030. @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Isn't this just the best news. Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social Has been selected to go on the National Curriculum in Ireland for the Junior Certificate. Alongside. Chinua Achebe Jane Austen Malorie Blackman Esi Edugyan Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck. @thebookseller.com

Another fantastic session with the newly renamed Gwent Stroke Voices (formerly known as the Stroke Reference group). Rich discussion about many important stroke related matters and a great personal explanation of the Spoon Theory of Fatigue management. Also our regular donation of exercise balls

Exciting discussions about Technology enriched rehab gyms today, let's do this!

Calling all UK physios & exercise professionals! Whether or not you deliver cardiorespiratory training after stroke or TIA, we want to hear from you. Help improve future care. Fill in the short survey: ths.im/43gqyCI

What are we reading today? To be honest, nothing yet, but hoping to steal a few moments with these two 🐕 📘 Leonard and Hungry Paul is possibly the book I recommend most, to the point of being annoying, so I’m really looking forward to digging further into this latest ☀️

Wonderful interview with @ronanhession.bsky.social in @irishtimes.com What have Ade Edmondson, Harry Hill and Nana Maskouri got in common. Read on McDuff. @thebookseller.com @nybooks.com @gutterbookshop.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan talks brilliantly about how women have been silenced in healthcare in 'Unheard' 📚💙 This is often due to the marginalisation of women in science & therefore research But also how women have advocated & fought back to be heard 🩷 #pedanticzebra #bookclub

Congratulations to Naga Munchetty on the launch of her new book ‘It’s Probably Nothing’. An empowering guide for women to advocate for themselves in healthcare services. Great to celebrate last night with @drnighatarif.bsky.social @elinorcleghorn.bsky.social @profjoyceharper.bsky.social

Development of a self-help #Digital intervention for functional cognitive disorder: a theory- and user-centred approach (preprint) #openscience #PeerReviewMe #PlanP

Did you know May is Stroke Awareness Month? This May we are asking if you can hold a coffee/tea/cake morning as part of our 'Put the T in sTroke Campaign' to raise awareness and much needed donations. Contact us at [email protected] for some free resources.

I'm having an incredibly rubbish, no good, stressful day, but the way Bert's Books packed the first installment of my Penguin Archive subscription has pulled it back from the edge. I always appreciate little details like this, and I really needed a smile today, so huge thanks to Bert! #Booksky

Hello Booksellers. The paperback of Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession Is now at our new distributors and available to order BookSource based in Glasgow. @thebookseller.com @booksireland.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @dubraybooks.bsky.social

Another good day shadowing the Stroke Rehab teams. Does anyone have any good solutions for making scheduling rehab sessions more efficient?

Doctors at one of England’s leading cancer hospitals have launched a clinical trial of headgear that emits electric fields. The pulses disrupt cell division in glioblastoma — one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer www.thetimes.com/article/23d3...

11 years ago I set up an early supported stroke discharge team from scratch. It was so exciting,working with a brilliant motivated team all with the intention of improving stroke rehabilitation. I have now moved to a new role,new teams, same purpose and feel as excited now as I did back then #lucky

11 years ago I set up an early supported stroke discharge team from scratch. It was so exciting,working with a brilliant motivated team all with the intention of improving stroke rehabilitation. I have now moved to a new role,new teams, same purpose and feel as excited now as I did back then #lucky

@gary-y-ffisio.bsky.social croeso I awyr last 👋🏻

Come join us at @agilecsp.bsky.social conference this May in Nottingham. Many ticket options available including students. Open to AGILE members and non-members. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agile-conf...

What is rehabilitation? I have been asking this question for 44 years! My rewritten page asking this question gives my 2025 answer; significantly changed. rehabilitationmatters.com/what-is-reha... Also, I have added a table of all related pages. #neurorehabilitation

The economic evaluation of the Physio4FMD trial was finally published today! www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/... @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social

✨3 months until #Unheard is out as a paperback!✨ Available to pre-order from your usual book outlet now. “If you’ve ever been dismissed by a doctor, read this book” says @theipaper.com

Brilliant start to my new job today ( day 3).Participating in a Most Significant Change panel. Hearing stories from people in stroke rehabilitation, what mattered to them & what changed for them. Themes: positive risk taking, moments of joy, dignity & independence . The benefits of skilled banter

We would love to hear from you! What topics in stroke communication and swallowing would you like to see featured at the UK Stroke Forum in November? Let us know your thoughts here: shorturl.at/jOcVf @basaphasia.bsky.social @ukstrokeforum.bsky.social #SLT

The first book into our new are warehouse in Glasgow is the paperback of: Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession It is arriving on Monday 31st March. Publishing 24th April. @booksource.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

Tomorrow! www.acpin.net/events/east-...

Kenny's has been my go-to for online book shopping for years. An independent, family owned bookshop, on the go for over 80 years. Great supporters of new writers. When Leonard and Hungry Paul came out I visited and thanked them for stocking it. "We're not stocking it, we're selling it," said Tomás

I remember the cystic fibrosis patients I took care of 20 years ago. I also remember the dedicated HIV wards in the hospitals, and that Princess Diana made headlines for shaking hands with AIDS patients. Progress has been incredible. Miracles are where you choose to see them.

Seeing it online is nice but there's nothing like pulling into the petrol station to see your book in inky print. No 38 in the @irishtimes.com list of 100 fiction books of the 21st century so far, and surrounded by so many huge talents. Genuinely honoured. My mother would have been proud.

We add a free packet of seeds with every order...however small the order....because we are nice...and have no business sense. higgledygarden.com/shop/

Well, isn't this lovely. Ghost Mountain is the New York Public Library book of the day! Thanks @evaduffy.bsky.social for spotting it. FYI @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Delighted that Ghost Mountain will be coming out in French – the first of my books to be translated into French. I had a lovely meeting with the publisher last week – I know they'll do a great job.

First book of the day, Elif Shafak's "There are Rivers in the Sky"! - Michael

Paperback writer 💚