Lin B
@linb.bsky.social
Thrice retired Nurse & Consultant in Public Health. Love festivals, travel, cheese, Wales, London, Africa, Australia, Vegas, dogs. Reformed revolutionary. Former Chair of RCN Congress. Views all mine. #nursesky
Link here www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Sub... #nursesky
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Lin B@linb.bsky.social · 12mo agoHardly seems like any time since the last one, but @rcn.org.uk Congress is now open for submission of items for next year 😊😊
Hardly seems like any time since the last one, but @rcn.org.uk Congress is now open for submission of items for next year 😊😊
Been busy with summer festivals, both having fun and working in the healthcare provision. Glad we finally have rain in the UK but sad that festival season is over for this year. Last sunset of last night at my last festival (Reading)
In a keynote address at RCN Congress today, Professor Nicola Ranger demanded an update on pay for those in the NHS and general practice, and stressed that all nurses needed a ‘significant pay rise’ urgently #nursesky
Practices nurses must not wait any longer for pay update, says RCN chief
General practice nurses (GPNs) must not be expected to wait any longer for news on their pay for 2025/26, the chief executive
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Three days of @rcn.org.uk meetings now, finalising the plans for RCN Congress in Liverpool next month. Who’s joining us? 😊
Finally back home in the UK after a month travelling across Canada. It was an interesting time to be visiting - antics south of their border, new PM and now an election. Didn’t meet a single Canadian who thought they ought to be part of the USA though!
From work-life balance to health tourism, and international student hardship and understanding neurodiversity, our 2025 Congress agenda offers a huge selection of vibrant and vital debates for RCN members. #RCN25 Find out more and book your free place ✅ buff.ly/DUhXfjs
Currently in Quebec where it’s -8 but so sunny, and I’m loving it! There’s a year round Christmas shop too
Still wondering how @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social could leave Leonard Cohen out of their list of great Canadian musicians!? I can understand them not mentioning Bublé but not Cohen!! I could listen to Live in London on repeat forever
I love a train! I’m a geek 😊 This was Vancouver to Edmonton and tonight I’m off from Edmonton to Winnipeg 🇨🇦
Unfucking believable as CDC is suddenly launching a study into exploring possible links with MMR and autism. I wonder who might have initiated this? 🤔 to be clear There is NO link and this has already been debunked in massive studies 🧪🧵
Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
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Canada - not as cold as I was expecting 😊 Kitsilano beach, Vancouver today
You GUYYYYSSSSSSS The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
2025 Governors Ball US Army - "Do You Hear the People Sing" BRILLIANT TRUMP TROLLING!
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Very worrying news
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 2y agoU.S. CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health. The EIS ‘disease detectives’ investigate outbreaks around the world, by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t... via @statnews.com #GlobalHealth
Good news, the agenda for this years @rcn.org.uk Congress has been published www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Age...
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I have contacted my MP to ask him to support this bill, using the website www.writetothem.com/write Please think about doing the same @alisonleary1.bsky.social @leannehpatrick.bsky.social @mrsbosanquet.bsky.social
Dawn Butler MP@dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨NEW: On Tuesday 11th February, I will introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill seeking to make ‘nurse’ a protected title in UK law. Pleased to have support from and build on the vital Protect Nurse campaign. #ProtectNurse Read more: www.dawnbutler.org.uk/ten_minute_r...
🚨NEW: On Tuesday 11th February, I will introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill seeking to make ‘nurse’ a protected title in UK law. Pleased to have support from and build on the vital Protect Nurse campaign. #ProtectNurse Read more: www.dawnbutler.org.uk/ten_minute_r...
We're standing in solidarity with nurses, students and lecturers protesting outside Cardiff Uni today and highlighting critical concerns about the proposal to close its School of Nursing. We're calling for urgent action to protect nursing and ensure a sustainable future for the profession in Wales.
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
Woke up this morning with a quote going through my head “Hope is the thing with feathers”. No idea why. It’s from an Emily Dickinson poem according to Google
Just heard that Marianne Faithfull has died, she sang (but didn’t write) one of my favourite 70s tracks youtu.be/d0NxhFn0szc?...
Marianne Faithfull -- The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan HD
YouTube video by walter “Club Dj 80s” mogentale
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Very good to see you all! It was a hard slog but I think we have a great agenda and 2025 congress will be excellent
Clare Manley@mannersofmarple.bsky.social · 2y agoA productive 2 days @rcn.org.uk with the Agenda Committee full of tough decisions - hard but positive work with passionate & hardworking folk - Congress25 will be amazing 🥰 Heading home to see the family now xx 😘
She joined the RCN just four days before historic strike action began, but her story doesn't begin there. From dodging crossfire in Karachi to steering an NHS trust through the pandemic; get to know our General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger: bit.ly/42jViUG
‘Don't mistake kindness for weakness’: get to know Nicola Ranger
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