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cdocherty.bsky.social
Personalised Care Fellow at NHS North East London, and East London social prescriber, with a background in voluntary sector management and healthcare. Oh, and obsessed photographer. Keep following me for a seasonal wallpaper every couple of months 🙄
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It's not often you'll find me sharing the Daily Mail but this makes upsetting reading because for once their report is true. I slid reluctantly into my 60s recently and actually I'm more tech literate than some people younger than me. Employers who fail to understand this are wasting talent.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

This is welcome. We need more and more major organisations to make this switch. There can no reason to support hateful and manipulative platforms. There must be consequences for lies, misinformation ans distortion. EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky | Reuters search.app/kz5HHXVhby5Z...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Seeing Musk just give a Nazi salute and the crowds cheering him on has turned my blood to ice. America, what have you done? #inauguration

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

I seldom hear much about medication induced weight gain. I've jumped 10kgs in 6 months myself because of vital meds and can't find much info on how best to tackle it, which means I'm only doing half my job when I refer these patients for weight and exercise. Thoughts? #primarycare #generalpractice

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Healthcare Assistants do amazing things across the NHS every single day but rarely get the credit they deserve. Huge thanks to all of them 💙

submitted 100 days ago • 5 comments

It's intriguing to see the numbers of colleagues from the health and care sector jumping one by one from X, Facebook, Threads and all the other Muskerberg platforms. Personally I think it's healthier and care-ier (TM) to leave them behind. Who needs trolls and toxicity on life. 1/2

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Sounds like a plan

submitted 41 days ago • 685 comments

Thoughts on social media developments. cliffdocherty.blogspot.com/2025/01/no.h...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Colleagues #PrimaryCare who are unfamiliar with the Deep End Movement: it started with scholarship by Deep End GP academics in Glasgow #inversecarelaw English DE practices have tapped into #NIHR funding to set up research active deep end practices- transforming research participation & inclusion

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

This is interesting to read. Not everyone can work easily as they get older, especially those in manual trades, but the rest of us want to despite health challenges. There is study after study confirming the mental health benefits of working *in a non-toxic* work setting. 1/2

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

EveryDoctor is stepping things up and we have just launched a community to build the movement of millions to fight for the NHS. Click here to join it: chat.whatsapp.com/JvFzeWNis5e6.... 🌟🌟🌟 👉https://youtu.be/lldMgsl-ezo

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Once again London's transport network is in a meltdown so I can't get in and have to cancel all my face to face appointments. This doesn't just affect commuters but leads to delays for patients, people missing job interviews, people missing holiday departures. Why does it never get better? #lrt

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

This is troubling to say the least. Apart from just the spew of bile that comes out of traditional social media, what worries me equally is that we openly talk about a "post-truth society". How is that even a thing? The consequences are terrifying.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

On a more positive note, time to take down the Xmas profile wallpaper and replace it with something that reflects the current weather. Taken at a friend's house in northern Sweden some years ago. Tiny, tiny place called Pauträsk.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Xmas done so its back to work and a salutary reminder of why I do my job. Patient couldn't come to see me because he has no shoes. No benefits, no home apart from a friend's sofa, and no shoes. Its 2025 and my patient has no shoes. Not 1825. But here we are. Our leaders should be utterly ashamed.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Time to change the #profilewallpaper with the change of season. A tree for #Christmas / New Year / Winter Solstice / Goodness Knows We Need Some Glitter. Perhaps it's my job but I see a tree & instantly think about how the glitter is only for those who can afford it. We need to do better than this.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

New report! Envisaging a Social Prescribing Fund in England makes the case for a new fund that would provide long-term funding for social prescribing activities and local communities  Find out more⬇️ https://buff.ly/49zgibp

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

New - Creative Health Across the System: ICB, Hospitals, Public Health, & Combined Authorities. The short video explainer helps audiences to orientate themselves as to how creative health shows up in four key healthcare contexts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fHH... More info ncch.org.uk/news/creativ...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

It occurred to me today that being a #photographer in my spare time has really helped my #socialprescribing practice because you end up having a mental encyclopedia of places to go and things to do from all the time you spend researching subjects to photograph. Happy days, quite literally 🖼️ 🎭 ⚽ 📷 💃

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Really valuable meetings recently with @tphc.bsky.social to discuss their #socialprescribing evaluation toolkit. Keen to look at how we integrate this into strategy and work flow. www.transformationpartners.nhs.uk/new-toolkit-...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve yet to see a social prescriber (long waiting list) but I’ll send my GP practice a copy of this encouraging #autism research. It suggests that accessible, inclusive #SocialPrescribing in primary care could support the well-being of autistic patients. #AutRes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

This is another issue that I get too animated about, especially with library closures. I spend a great deal of my practice time connecting patients with social groups at libraries, advice surgeries, children's activities, & more. Patients usually unaware. Better publicity needed?

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Really valuable ICB CoP meeting today. I was excited to learn about the CYP social prescribing schemes around the country and to get a chance to talk about frameworks to take this forward. A huge gap in provision at the moment. Also need to consider Family Social Prescribing schemes.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Didn't take long. Tiresomely just spent my journey home blocking crypto and "hello dear" bots. Inevitable I suppose but sad to see the scammers have jumped X along with colleagues and friends.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

This saddens me beyond belief. Social media has turned people into toddlers, hurling tantrums and insults at people in a way they'd never do in person. 1/2 www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Been along to #KewGardens with my husband to see the #Christmas lights. Absolutely stunning and a great balance to a busy working week. Also a good opportunity to test drive my new camera and it didn't let me down. I'm always encouraging people to walk and this is a long one that you won't regret.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

It has been a joy to work with PrescQIPP on our series of 7 social prescribing webinars. There is so much potential for the integration of pharmacy and social prescribing - this is just the beginning. Next session on 4th Dec You can find out more and register your interest here: ow.ly/fCVk50SC6gB

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Today, to mark #CarersRightsDay, we are launching our next episode of #PPIEinPractice. In this episode, Abi Woodward & Sarah McMullen talk about PPIE in their project exploring support for Pakistani carers through social prescribing Watch here 📽️➡️ bit.ly/3V2XZFF #PPIE #Involvement

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

The evidence to support the use of social prescribing – the findings from a new report by the National Academy of Social Prescribing looking at the impact of #socialprescribing on health service use and costs www.gponline.com/evidence-sup...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Home time. Me time. Been a very busy day. Going to get my 1959 suitcase record player out and play some 78s. It's all go here. #78rpm #analogue #workfinished

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

I'm posting some social prescribing-type work done with public libraries. Choose a book by mood from Opening the Book and Reading Well, or investigate health topics developed by The Reading Agency #SocialPrescribing #PublicLibraries #Reading #NHS

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments