Lead Nurse for Trent Regional Cleft Network, Nottingham Children’s Hospital #NCHexcels (all views my own)
Joined April 2016
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14 Jun 2025
One of the best 🤩
14 Jun 2025
🎉🎉🎉Absolutely delighted! The awesome @lbritton43 Lead Speech and Language Therapist for Trent Regional Cleft Network awarded an OBE for her work in cleft care.
A career of tireless work for quality of care improvement for people born with cleft lip and/or palate #cleft
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Heather Sahunta retweeted
10 Jul 2024
Dear new Doctors rotating to maternity hospitals this month - please visually inspect the infant palate as part of the newborn examination & refer promptly to the local cleft team👍 Thank you for your attention 😁
@RCPCHtweets
#cleftpalate #cleftcareireland
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12 May 2024
Dear All Nurses, you are never a ‘just’ and you are not ‘the’ pay grade. We are strong, safety critical advocates for our patients, keep doing what you’re doing. #InternationalNursesDay
12 May 2024
Have you ever described yourself as 'just a nurse'?
Click to read more about the profession's inferiority complex and why we need to be more vocal at celebrating nursing: rcni.com/nursing-standard/op…
#internationalnursesday
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8 May 2024
A brilliant post and a reminder to all health care professionals to look at palates with a touch and tongue depressor - a look and a feel just don’t work and leads to a missed diagnosis #cleftawarenessweek
7 May 2024
Today like @CLAPACOMMUNITY were talking about cleft palate which is less visible than cleft lip. My son was also born with a cleft palate which was noticed at birth, but it is sometimes harder to diagnose if no cleft lip… #cleftaware #cleftawarenessweek
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4 May 2024
I’m just going to leave the first sentence to speak for itself 🥰
4 May 2024
‘Older nurses are a wonderful gift to us all, and their experience and wisdom invaluable’
In this comment piece, Jane Bates discusses why nurses are returning to the profession after retiring.
Click here to read > rcni.com/nursing-standard/op…
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2 May 2024
If you work with infants on the neonatal unit (particularly EoE folk but all welcome) and would like to learn a bit about why neonatal feeding can be a challenge, join our virtual study day and hear from our amazing EoE teams about their work to support these infants
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Heather Sahunta retweeted
27 Apr 2024
I have generated a word cloud of menopause symptoms based on a large survey of nearly 6,000 women we did recently - the larger words are the more common symptoms.
Notice how many of the most common symptoms are related to the brain!
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26 Apr 2024
What a delightful morning, speaking with primary school children in assembly about my job as a cleft nurse. The school were engaged, asked brilliant questions about clefts, and to top it off they were having a non-uniform day to raise money for @CLAPACOMMUNITY 👏🏻 @nottmchildrens
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19 Apr 2024
Thank you to @NUHCharity for supporting attendance to @CFSGBI Scientific Meeting, this will influence our practice ultimately improving patient experiences within the care we deliver @lbritton43 @FayeHill88 @Charlene0189 @nottmchildrens @CLAPACOMMUNITY
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18 Apr 2024
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17 Apr 2024
Thank you to Claire and Nicky @CLAPACOMMUNITY for joining Cleft Nursing CEN meeting today, sharing a little and you and CLAPA updates @CFSGBI
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Heather Sahunta retweeted
21 Mar 2024
📣 New Band 8B post in Cleft Lip and Palate in Nottingham (0.4 WTE). This is an exciting expansion for our team - please do apply if you are interested! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 📣 @ClinPsyNUH @TrentCleftLP
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Heather Sahunta retweeted
28 Feb 2024
If you ask 100 people about #MartynsLaw 95 will say they never heard of it, 3 will say they heard of it but don't know what it is & 2 may say they know what it is. This is a law to keep the general public safe yet most don't know about it. Security is not normally on our radar.
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10 Feb 2024
This is a short questionnaire, have you had your say?
The consultation on a new nursing pay spine is your chance to help shape how our profession is valued.
Our General Secretary & Chief Executive Pat Cullen explains why it's so important there's a fresh start for nursing.
Have your say by 11pm Monday: rcn.org.uk/payspine
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A new e-learning resource for nurses to develop their understanding of Makaton and learn basic Makaton signs, has been added to the NHS Learning Hub.
Take a look #teamCNO: learninghub.nhs.uk/catalogue…
ALT A young girl using makaton to communicate with an nurse. The text reads: Makaton Training for Nurses. NHS logo
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Heather Sahunta retweeted
28 Nov 2023
We’re the UK’s cleft lip and palate support charity, and for one week only, all donations will be DOUBLED thanks to @BigGive: bit.ly/3Gk1zne
Thank you @JennieLongdon, for helping CLAPA to support hundreds of families in need this Christmas!
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22 Nov 2023
Fabulous, an initiative we can learn from and embrace
22 Nov 2023
An initiative to reduce unnecessary PPE use and reset practices adopted in the pandemic has saved one hospital using more than 300kg of plastic.
Holly Slyne - RCN Nursing Awards winner shares tips on introducing a greener nursing initiative in your area.
rcni.com/nursing-standard/ne…
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18 Nov 2023
Now not feeling quite so old, museum items were pre my nursing career 😊 @theRCN @nottmchildrens
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Heather Sahunta retweeted
3 Nov 2023
Job alert 🚨 Come and work with us! Amazing opportunity for a band 8a clinical specialist to come and join our paediatric team - reach out for more info jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadv…
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Heather Sahunta retweeted
13 Oct 2023
Whether you are new to the PNA role, PNA training curious, or running a PNA service, all of the #PNAweek full length shared videos will help and can be found here on our #PNAweek YouTube Channel 👇👇👇
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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