Started a Twitter account to help promote/ support the invaluable roles HCAs /HCSWs perform in GP @WeGPNs. @orangesmartie @gillrogers66 @LooBlackburn please share and retweet !!

📢📢Humbled and deeply honored to receive the "Outstanding Male Writer Award" from the #Rwanda Literary Excellence Award @radiaterwanda for The Safari Concept book. This recognition belongs to every #patient and #family who allowed me to listen to their #stories and learn from their #Courage. 🙏 🩵 Sharing the stage with Hon. Antoine Mugesera, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, reminded me that writing is service: we preserve #memory, protect #dignity, and open pathways for #empathy. 📚The Safari Concept was born from bedside conversations, moments of uncertainty, #Hope , and #love. It argues for a partnership model in #Medicine: patients not as clients, but as co-authors of their care. 🥼 To the young and junior #physicians: your words matter. Document the hard #days and the healing ones. Write to #challenge systems, to #humanize statistics, and to make #care safer, fairer, and kinder. With #Gratitude to Prof. Mbonyinkebe Deo (anthropological insights), Mr. Samuel Sangwa (rigorous literary guidance), Dr. Susan Block (medical mentorship), and my wife Reine Kamagaju♥️ (unconditional support). #SafariConcept #RadiateRwanda #PalliativeCare #HealthHumanities #Rwanda #MedicalEducation @NewTimesRwanda @IGIHE @medsar_rwanda @MSKCancerCenter @AkwiAsombangMD @BillyRosaPhD @palliumindia @palliumcanada @palliativeire @NaheedD @acreolglobal @AORTIC_AFRICA @asso_SFAP @nytimesbooks @nybooks @KStajduhar @isatitou @oncodaily @KublerRoss @AP @Ashoka @Changemakers @ASCOPres @PalliativeMedMD @PCAUganda @HCAMontreal @PalliatifQc @nsanzimanasabin @harvardmed @Tallberg

Such an amazing programme! All the GPNs in my practice have been trained through this programme. We work well as a team, know how to challenge and how to care. #nhs10pointplan @PCWT_hub

3/ It is of the upmost importance that our employers (GPs) or (Care home providers) can support our #RNs in their quest for long term parity and equity afforded to other professional groups.

So true

Calling all nurses working in general practice! Take part in our survey exploring key topics such as pay, recruitment, retention, training and job satisfaction – issues critical to the future of GPNs Take our survey here 👉 buff.ly/3MZ0SD1

Can you #help please? My elderly parents have gone missing in #Venice They got separated & my dad (with Alzheimer’s) has both their phones. They didn’t arrive back at the pick up point & no one knows where they are. They’re called Bronwen and Stan. Please share!

It has taken some work but we are close to publishing the results of our study asking whether the issues identified by Camilla Cavendish in 2013 still characterise how NHS support workers experience work and if so why and what the consequence is.

3rd yr student nurse on practice placement, loving primary care. Doesn’t want to go back to the wards, already looking at jobs. Think we have another convert!!! @louisebrady17 @CorrieLlewellyn @BeckyWych @stephzak #GPN #PCnursePioneers #LSCTH #banishthemyths #SDMCPC

Thanks to all the team in Lincolnshire today for a warm welcome. Fantastic support for #GeneralPracticeNurses 150 strong.. at the conference 💪 Met return to practice nursing teams.. Military Nurses entering GPN and the next generation of students coming into primary care.

3/ Critical long term investment into core RNs then ensures a sustainable investment into HCA development!

Did you know following review of the data in the last 12months our health care assistants have had the biggest growth in workforce numbers from Dec 22 to Dec 2023 across England? In addition there are numerous dedicated programs to support development.

Increasing questions about who signs off HCA competencies in GP - and line of authority / delegation . Any guidance re PAs signing @louisebrady17 @BrownNhsdeb @marsden_paula @sfadormy please ? Thank you

The government is seeking views on a new pay scale for NHS nurses on AfC contracts. Keen to hear what GPNs make of this? What would a separate pay spine for NHS nurses mean for those in primary care? DMs are open or email me at meganford@cogora.com gov.uk/government/calls-for-…

When the class of fantastic GP HCAs remember your birthday !

As a passionate #womenshealthnurse I love when I combine my job, and my vision to give women 'time for them ' my second retreat of ladies In beautiful sunshine where body and mind have been nourished @GlampingSheep @WeGPNs @RCNGPNForum @charlie_psych @TheQNI @WellbeingofWmen

WE DID IT ! The highest ever Altmetric score for any paper in @BMJNutrition So a paper about low carb is the most popular paper they have EVER published. I am so proud and happy Thanks to fellow authors @jen_unwin @DocRunner1 @ChrisDLDN and Prof Roy Taylor nutrition.bmj.com/content/ea…

Number crunching and found we’ve had over 1600 HCAs from GP / PCN /Community on programs this year already ! @GPHCAs @louisebrady17 @Bromley_TH @GPNJula @sfadormy @hcatrainer @NCELCEPN