Matthew Osborne
@matthew0sb0rne.bsky.social
Registered Nurse: Interests and experience include ED and urgent care, trauma, plastics, spinal surgery, advanced practise, nursing science, digital technologies, and education.
Proud to have been the personal tutor for Sarah. www.essex.ac.uk/news/2026/07...
University of Essex Student Wins Chief Nursing Officer Excellence Award | University of Essex
University of Essex nursing student Sarah Mather has received the prestigious Chief Nursing Officer Student Excellence Award for the Eastern Region, recognising her dedication, compassion and outstand...
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The Dutch infrastructure authority completed a systematic assessment in 2023 identifying 420 kilometres of barriers oriented within 45 degrees of south-facing, suitable for bifacial #solarpanel installation without structural modification or planning procedures beyond normal road authority approval
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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It's National Blood Week Will you save a life today? www.blood.co.uk @nursingstandard.bsky.social @rcem.ac.uk @rcn.org.uk @nursingtimes.bsky.social
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Register to be a blood donor, give blood and save lives. Find out more about blood donation.
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Well done to the @nationwideuk.bsky.social This could potentially save dozens of lives per year www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Nationwide makes life-saving changes to hundreds of high street branches
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@rcn.org.uk Delighted to be able to speak in the first topic of the day at #RCNCongress2026 on recognising nursing as a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) profession, as well as second the motion on behalf of the Essex Branch and the Urgent & Emergency Care Forum
Happy International Nurses’ Day to every nurse, everywhere, from this nurse. To the emergency nurses making impossible decisions at impossible speeds. To the ICU nurses who hold people together though complex injury and illness.
You know you are a nursing nerd when you go on a bit of a rant on social media about the term "Normal saline" There is not much normal about it
Final reminder: join us this evening ⬇️
Royal College of Nursing@rcn.org.uk · 6mo agoWe’re hosting a webinar for nursing staff working on Band 5 to unpack the commitments made by Westminster government about Band 5 role reviews in England. Join us in April to find out more, and how you can get involved. 🗓 15 April (4-5pm) ⬇️
Medical data should not be used for immigration. It hurts the wider population if people don't seek healthcare input. It leaves the country open to conditions that need managing safely.
Dr Duncan Robertson@duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat the hell.
Number crunching: Pay rise for nurses v pay rise for MPs From the new Private Eye, out now.
Looking at the irony when I see people complaining about the risk of fire in EV's and the shocking revelation that petrol is combustible and can catch fire.... www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A very good chance I will be delivering one of the talks in this... Not sure if that is a reason you should go, or avoid😁😅
Royal College of Nursing@rcn.org.uk · 6mo agoOur Acute Care Symposium returns on 8 July with a focus on managing the deteriorating patient. Save the date and register your interest to receive an email alert as soon as booking opens. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4dEVVxA
Our Acute Care Symposium returns on 8 July with a focus on managing the deteriorating patient. Save the date and register your interest to receive an email alert as soon as booking opens. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4dEVVxA
RCN Acute Care Symposium 2026 | Royal College of Nursing
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The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs
The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs
When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?
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🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19
🆕 Latest on the meningitis outbreak in Kent: We’ve worked with academic experts to produce a new technical briefing. Early evidence and preliminary analyses provide strong reassurance that existing vaccinations and antibiotic treatments remain effective against this MenB strain.
Today is World Down Syndrome Day 2026. As we come together to raise awareness and share how people with Down Syndrome experience the emergency department, further your learning by attending our virtual study held by Liz Herrieven Virtual, 19/05 (start 8:30 am) rcem.ac.uk/virtual-e...
"If this was any other sector, there would be howling rage. If it was an airline, we would be grounding aircraft." Dr Ian Higginson speaking today at the Parliament Health and Social Care Committee about the unacceptable impact of corridor care and long waits on patients.
Royal College of Emergency Medicine@rcem.ac.uk · 7mo agoRCEM President Dr Ian Higginson will be speaking at the Parliament Health and Social Care Committee at 9:30am on the topic of Corridor Care. He will be giving evidence alongside @rcn.org.uk General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger. Watch live: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
The SURGE Workforce Partnership has gathered ideas from patients, clinicians, and the public for future research to support the workforce in Urgent and Emergency care. They need your help to decide which ones matter most. uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
SURGE: Same day & urgent care workforce research partnership
Delivering quality research that will change policy and drive transformation to result in a thriving, diverse and sustainable workforce providing patient care.
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Launching an 'attack ad' on yourself is a little bit genius youtu.be/4yXsd87Zgb4?...
This Was Going To Come Out Eventually....... | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois
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The moment you find out one of your articles has been cited for the first time.
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UK median annual wage for employees is £31,056. £25,880 after income tax and NIC. Graduates take home even less. Tax thresholds frozen since 2021. Millions can't afford to buy homes, start family or business. No govt curbs profiteering. Can't build sustainable economy without redistribution.
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Monthly estimates of payrolled employees and their pay from HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC's) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data. This is a joint release between HMRC and the Offic...
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Advanced nurses don't subsitute doctors... they complement them. www.rcn.org.uk/About-us/Our...
RCN position on advanced nursing practice | Royal College of Nursing
RCN position on advanced nursing practice
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Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 8mo agoBritons living in EU face repayment hikes amid Reeves student loans row. Choice - Stay in the UK, be unemployed, claim dole OR go and work in EU, make higher loan repayments How many would sever links with the UK? Most European countries do not charge University tuition fees UK system is a mess.
In the last couple of years, on the last lesson I run for a class of student nurses who are about to graduate, I share with them my last thoughts - what i hope they find words of wisdom as they head out into practice. So this is to the April 2024 class at the University of Essex.
a nurse is counting down the hours of nursing school like a patient in a hospital bed
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The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education
These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...
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