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Discharge Service Manager NHS / Retired Matron -Older People Services.

Dorset
Joined February 2010
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UHD Discharge Services - @RBH atrium -visit our stand - meet the team & learn about hospital discharge👍 #fabteam #safedischarge #greatpartnershipworking #CANwellbeingteam
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Ok ok… yesterday I was wrong TODAY is the busiest I’ve ever seen our ED… …and today it’s my turn to done the fleece and treat in the back of ambulances. The NHS is broken.
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NHS staff have saved thousands and thousands of lives over the past two years. We'll always be grateful. What about you?
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On the red carpet @OfficialNTAs nominee @leedsrhinos legend @Rob7Burrow and his family
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Fundamental principle of my leadership is removing obstacles but encouraging and developing autonomy in others to do the same. Creating conditions for cocreation is vital, giving your team permission to challenge and do things differently. Being courageous with change👍
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In the Horn household - We are celebrating 😉 – at Poole, England
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Thank you to the NHS and all of the hardworking staff. We absolutely love you. #NHS #gotyourbackNHS #allontheboard – at Greenwich, London
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An opportunity to make a difference dorsetccg.nhs.uk/care-and-su…
Care and support in the last years of life – what matters to you? Please share your experiences to shape end of life care in the community across Dorset. surveymonkey.co.uk/r/careand…
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Paul Bolton, our lead infection prevention and control nurse, explains why our visiting and face-covering guidance will remain unchanged from Monday.
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If the NHS runs hot all the time then small changes make a big difference. This is the folly of years of efficiency drives that have eradicated the slack that’s needed when demand rises. Govts must recognise this and provide funding to create headroom: staff, beds etc to prevent
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Over 225k older people across the UK often go a whole week without speaking to anyone. A conversation, even for just a few minutes, can make so much difference. You never know what you might learn. #LonelinessAwarenessWeek #LetsTalkLoneliness
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Well deserved 👍 – at Leeds, England
As always super proud of our incredible team ♥️🌈 #gastronauts
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I looked after a bay of lovely ladies this week, and as they were discharged, one by one, they exchanged numbers and are all going for a coffee together when they’re feeling stronger. I LOVE that! Their own therapeutic relationships! #StNProject
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Today marks the 77th anniversary of #DDay, the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation. This photo shows the then Prime Minister Winston Churchill visiting troops of the 50th Division in Caen, Normandy, a month after the successful landings.
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Thinking of my friends brother who is 52 ventilated in ICU with #COVID19 despite being previously fit and well and fully vaccinated. Her mother, 72, fully vaccinated also hospitalised but stable now. The pandemic rages on.
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Today we learnt that there have been “at least” 115k health & care worker #covid deaths globally - that’s over 200 a day since the start of the pandemic. Imagine that in any other sector 1/3
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Worth a read and a potential invest to save project? @mccubbin_cherry @mmould_pooleNHS @jemimapuddle3 @AmyHassan12 @Val_Horn – at Christchurch, England
Interesting Research. 15% of discharged elderly patients are readmitted within 28 days. Telephone follow up of discharged patients associated with 28 day readmission rate falling to 9%. rcpjournals.org/content/futu…
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