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nurseandy.bsky.social
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I always lose myself in this photo. 📷 A moment of serenity for Twixmas: the jaw-dropping Gothic beauty of Salisbury Cathedral, mirrored in the shimmering reflection of William Pye’s font. 📸✨

I'm back. What's next? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgvb...

✨🔍Worth cracking open: the magnificent Peterborough Cathedral taken from the east end with my tilt shift lens.

Thames Water intentionally diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups towards other costs including bonuses and dividends www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I anticipate that some head & neck cancer patients will use the assisted dying route eg those at risk of life-ending catastrophic haemorrhage following a herald bleed. It will have a significant impact on advanced nursing practice.

It's astonishing in how many areas the last government's response to difficult problems was just to abandon governing: to stop processing asylum claims, stop setting realistic budgets, ignore critical warnings from the prison system, and ultimately scuttle the ship by bringing forward the election.

An absolute must-read from the great @carolecadwalla.bsky.social (who broke the Cambridge Analytica story) about the combined threat of Musk and Trump to the free press. Any journalist who thinks currying favor with this regime will work for you: think again. timesofmalta.com/article/ther...

Here in the UK the only 'thanks' RNs received during/ following the pandemic was a real terms pay cut and lots of unpaid overtime - and politicians wondered why retention is a huge issue in the UK.

Wow. Imagine the shock for the Daily Mail when it finds out Tory plans were for fines of £5k - later reduced to £3k - for each missed heat pump sale. What Ed Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. As @torstenbell.bsky.social says today Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”

What's the end game for the West?

"Lower turnover rates for nurses and senior doctors at hospital level were associated with better health outcomes for patients with emergency hospital admissions." The question for me is why we have to keep spelling this out. www.bmj.com/content/387/...