Excellent reception to our joint ‘decaf by default’ poster with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust at today’s BGS continence conference - mention by other speakers and wide interest to find out more about the approach ! www.bgs.org.uk/%E2%80%98dec...

Critical patient-oriented research: a fundamental shift in patient engagement | CMAJ www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

Join Launchpad for a World Mental Health Day celebration 📅 Wednesday 8 October 🕚 11am – 3pm 📍 Cullercoats Crescent Club The event is open to all and is a great opportunity to come together, share experiences, and put mental health at the heart of our community.

Sign up to watch this event tomorrow either in person or online We'll be getting into depth on how the govt intends to use financial flows to shift activity and behaviour in the NHS

🎧 “The value of a person has nothing to do with their age, ability or achievements” A powerful clip from my next @wildcardws.bsky.social #podcast with Benedicte Symcox 💥 💛 Curiosity. Kindness. Lived experience 📢 Full episode lands 7am tomorrow! #SEND #EveryLifeMatters #coproduction #WhoseShoes

A country divided by health inequalities. Solving the UK regional health divide. bmj.com/cgi/content/... @felly500.bsky.social @jesstud.bsky.social @ipprnorth.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social

conversational-leadership.net/batesonian-i... We often treat information as something that can be stored, sent, or delivered. But if nothing changes, and there is no shift in perception or behavior, has any information really been shared?

Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, but at what environmental cost? www.croakey.org/artificial-i... By Jason Staines #AusPol #PublicHealth

I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature. Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:

Being kind boosts mental health more than seeking joy. Evidence: Doing 3 random acts of kindness a week is enough to reduce depression, anxiety & loneliness. It's more beneficial than doing nice things for yourself. Self-care feels good, but generosity builds lasting bonds.

Explain delirium in accessible terms: "The brain isn't processing information normally right now." This helps families understand why repeating basics about what is going on, as well as being reassuring over and over again, can help the person experiencing #delirium.

Emergency Department (ED) staff: screen ALL patients over 65 for delirium. Emergency departments are where it's most missed and most dangerous. Make it as routine as checking blood pressure.

I've known Andrew for more years than I can remember. All that time he has quietly and unfussily led with a focus on what really matters in communities. Not waiting to be told what to do, but getting on with what needed to be done. I have high hopes for SE London.

🚨 The Picker Experience Network Awards 2025 finalists are LIVE! 🏆 👏 Huge congrats to all the shortlisted entries! 🔗 See the full list: patientexperiencenetwork.org/awards/ #PEN25 #PersonCentredCare #PatExp @pickereurope.bsky.social

Last month’s 10 year plan for the NHS in England proposed initiatives aimed at patients as consumers of services. Are more choice and consumerism really solutions to the NHS’s woes? @mancunianmedic.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/...

My Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shibley/...

Event @theqcommunity.bsky.social: Data to decisions: Using staff experience effectively 🗓️13th August 12 -1 This should be interesting! Learn from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s local staff experience programme. Register here ▶️▶️▶️ tinyurl.com/3p7hnb2s

I wouldn't miss the new book by @marioluissmall.bsky.social and @jessicacalarco.bsky.social "Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research" www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

This is a powerful reminder of the risk that qualitative research becomes "reframed as a simple information extraction from words rather than a more complex mess, disentangling and entangling and sense making process". I recommend a listen #edpsychs

Questions to help to see if a person with #delirium may have delusions: "Do you feel that everyone is treating you well? Do you feel safe here?" #MedEd

🧠 New paper #Delirium is often missed in #Parkinson’s - quick, reliable screening could change this. We found the 4AT is a sensitive tool for spotting #delirium in #Parkinson’s But accuracy drops in those with known cognitive issues - a gap we need to address. 🔗 academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

😞 Social isolation and loneliness in older people. 🇨🇦 From the Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health. #DementiaCare #MedTwitter

Some studies show that in some undergraduate degrees nurses get no formal #delirium training. For an emergency that affects 1 in 6 hospital patients. Help me understand why this is.

Health tips for older adults. #medtwitter

There's a real gap in public information on #delirium & I'm aiming to help address this with this book. Get a pdf of Chapter 1 via this link: www.the4at.com/family-delir... #familycaregiver

I’m pleased to say that our pilot project, “Go Decaf,” has been shortlisted for a Patient Experience Network National Award (PENNA). Promising results, with an 11%& 20% reduction in inpatient toileting related falls. Always happy to share our approach! #pen25 www.northumbria.nhs.uk/media-centre...

First of it's kind, proud to have contributed with chapters on Ageing and Ageing Populations, and Carer and Family Support - Fundamentals of Caring for the Older Person amazon.co.uk: Now on pre-sale (20% off) #Ageing

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

There's a growing appreciation of the power of "empathetic leadership". Yet 52% of study respondents felt their organisation's efforts to be empathetic were dishonest. This suggests that while leaders are trying, many of us may be going about it wrong: t.co/2D5QlGLL4b. By tanmayvora.bsky.social

Is it time to shift the balance of our change thinking/practice from changing individuals to changing the systems around them? Not just just redesigning choices - but reshaping the conditions that create them: medium.com/@noelito/fro.... By noelito7.bsky.social who posts great content on Medium.

@davidgurteen.bsky.social As an avid newsletter subscriber for many years, I’m thrilled you’re here!

"Humanocracy: creating organisations as amazing as the people inside them": a book that's had big impact on my change practice (new edition out in Aug 25). tanmayvora.bsky.social s new sketch on a key "Humanocracy" principle: impact multipliers for large scale change: linkedin.com/posts/tnvora....

"Team rituals" are regular activities/practices, eg huddles, team lunches, check-ins, celebrations. New research shows teams with more rituals have more engagement, psychological safety, knowledge & job satisfaction, leading to higher productivity/performance: lnkd.in/eXNNvP-G Art: lnkd.in/e_XmBeg9

#istherelifeonmars #whitleybay

Are they different today? A simple question to ask in hospitals and care homes to spot #delirium. #Alzheimers #dementia #MedSky #NeuroSky

Cats. Cats never change. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

Don’t be glum about the long, cold winter. Look around: the trees are busy, not sleeping. When the temperature permits, cells in this bud are dividing, maturing into flowers, leaves, stems. The cambium, maker of all the trees, is preparing for its spring festivities. Be like a tree: keep growing.

Looking particularly majestic tonight #whitleybay

NHS flu vaccine available until 31 March 2025. See If you’re eligible If symptomatic *please* don’t mix with others. Work will wait Simple things help: • masks • aerating rooms • hand hygiene Can that meeting be online?

Thanks Mary. Lead author was Associate Professor Chrysanthi Papoutsi, rising star in this field.

Would you use this language around your kitchen table? Love this brilliant graphic by the fabulous @penmendonca.bsky.social, illustrating the 'five categories of hmmm words' @tricianicoll.bsky.social and I will be discussing in our #GloriouslyOrdinaryLanguage programme. What words would you add?

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

Blowing cobwebs away in #WhitleyBay 🏃‍♀️ particular highlight was the unexpected appearance of Eye of the Tiger whilst running against the wind - accompanied by silhouetted gulls next to me over the water ☺️

"In addition to reminding us that older people with chronic illness, prior #depression, and sociodemographic disadvantage are more likely to be depressed, they find a potential protective effect of volunteering — even in people with a history of depression." #mentalhealth #psychology #gerontology

Four planets (maybe five) and the moon. 🥰 amazing skies tonight

Another interesting @bmj.com piece for us all this morning. Anita Hannig on the medicalisation of dying and how we would do well to reclaim it as a human event rather than a clinical one. Link: www.bmj.com/content/387/...

A great view of Venus snapped last week ⭐ 🌙 just the 100million light years away

“Facing death differently: revolutionising our approach to death and grief”. A really important piece here from @lucyselman.bsky.social in the @bmj.com. I’ll try to pick out some highlights in a🧵, but actually I’d recommend reading the whole article. Link here: www.bmj.com/content/387/...

#LTC residents spent 47.5% of their day doing nothing. Interventions need to be personalized to combat effectively the highly individual nature of boredom. Person-centered #dementia care provides a valuable intervention strategy to meet this requirement. #Alzheimers #caregiving #mentalhealth

Ref: Journal of American Geriatrics Society agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....