What a star!! It was a huge honour Karen to present you with your @theqni.bsky.social Fellowship badge. All the very best in your new post as Regional Chief Nurse for #NHS London.

#LastDay as Chief Nurse @buckshealthcare.bsky.social #2024 memory - so many amazing colleagues 💞so I had to pick 2 pictures for my last day- thank you to my amazing team & executive colleagues with special thanks to my boss Neil Macdonald 💙

Will get this framed. Thrilled that my piece honouring Madame Pelicot is the cover.

Many thanks to the #VirtualSundayBookclub for organising a book signing of my memoirs #DreamFromMyMothers & afternoon tea. We also braved the cold & wet weather to visit the #MarySeacole Memorial Statue!

Love this photo! It shows my beautiful cousin Joy, who is normally resident in the USA. She has travelled to our Nigerian home town of Onitsha to be at the Ibu Ego Odu ceremony for Obie Nancy Egbuche.

And today, the BBC is reporting that they've just announced that women can no longer train as midwives 'until further notice' (which, by all accounts, means never) - this in the country that already has one of the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. www.dw.com/en/taliban-o...

Interesting info on sickle cell disease ED bypass units. mft.nhs.uk/2024/03/05/c...

Thank you to QNI bestowing me this amazing #Fellowship. @crystaloldman.bsky.social 🫶🏽 even more special I received it from my dear friend @dameanionwu.bsky.social . Congratulations to my #FQNI @michellecox.bsky.social @steveforsyth.bsky.social, Pam Ciparno, Fiona Nolan & @drbenbowers.bsky.social

We were delighted to welcome Dame Elizabeth Anionwu to our #QNIAwards2024 Ceremonies today, where she presented QNI Fellowships and signed copies of her book, Dreams from my Mother. @dameanionwu.bsky.social

Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu speaking with great passion about being a nursing activist at Homerton College

Wonderful experience being invited by Lord Simon Woolley, Principal of Homerton College @cambridgeuni.bsky.social to take part in a conference on Uterine Fibroids.

Hi Karen, welcome to Bluesky!! @karenbonner.bsky.social

Beautiful weather for a walk, albeit a bit windy. 💨

Really enjoying catching up with the French detective series on BBC Four #Sambre:AnatomyofaCrime. Couldn’t help noticing in Episode 2 that Judge Irene Dereux, beautifully played by Pauline Parigot, is sitting on a sofa that’s identical to the one I had in the 1980s!

COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE - COLLAPSE UK population⬆️7%-2012-24 ❌GPs ⬇️7% ❌District nurses⬇️42% ❌Health Visitors⬇️30% ❌Learning Disability Nurses⬇️23% ❌School Nurses⬇️25% ❌Nursing home beds⬇️ 12% ❌Residential Care home beds⬇️16% ❌Social care cuts Need to increase funding not increase costs eg NI employers/staff

Britain’s first black voter was in 1749, 25 years earlier than thought, and ran a pub www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Congratulations to my screenwriter daughter @azukaoforka.bsky.social She’s been included in #TheBritList2024 for her script ‘Lucy Negro’ 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 brit-list.co.uk/all-lists/th...

With Sue Tranka, Chief Nursing Officer for Wales at Nigeria Nurses Association UK conference. Great photo by Teddy Kintu! www.gokephotography.com

Either Noodle has developed a very bad case of dandruff… or it has started snowing outside 😱😱😱

Good morning folks! In an attempt to reintroduce myself, let me share with you some of the pieces of work that I’ve been a part of… This video from BBC Ideas featuring @orthopodreg.bsky.social and Elizabeth Anionwu about #HCP 1st experience of pt #death www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cxw23...

This year we held the 3rd Dame Elizabeth Anionwu @dameanionwu.bsky.social Public Lecture. Delivered by Dr Ruth Oshikanlu. The lecture serves as a platform to engage clinicians, students and local communities and organisations on matters of inclusivity. I’m so pleased to launch this lecture

Hair - as it was and as it is.

We all grew up and raised hell on twitter, Blue is like our retirement home. Dont be over here with all that noise. Sit ya ass down and act like you got some sense.

Loads more lovely people turning up here, kids.

All wrapped up for a walk. What are you up to today?

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Spent an incredible day at the Bobby Moore Academy in East London. Am very impressed with achievements of all the scholars. What a great bunch you are! Many congratulations also to all the hardworking and enthusiastic teachers. I’m so honoured to have a School House named after me.😲🙏🏽

Looking forward to exploring @Bluesky! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...