Simon Browes
@sabrowes.bsky.social
🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (He/Him) 💚 #HopeNotHate 👤 Nursing, Public Health, Inclusion 👥 PCE Psychotherapy Stumbling into middle age, occasionally fall over.
How do we build more inclusive cultures in psychotherapy training and supervision? Join us online on Friday, 23 October, 10am – 2.30pm to explore this question. UKCP members receive a discount. Find out more and book your place: https://ow.ly/vqW950ZATxl #Psychotherapy #EDI
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This week @nursingstandard.bsky.social published a special investigation into cuts to bank pay and shifts, costing nursing staff £00s a month. On the podcast this week are me and Paul O’Keefe, talking about how cuts are affecting nursing staff and why. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... #NurseSky
Bank cuts: NHS trusts accused of failing to challenge spending limits
Podcast Episode · Nursing Standard Podcast · 10 July · 45min
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'If psychologists are serious about reducing depression in the population, they should focus on wealth distribution in society rather than on resilience training in individuals.' - Brian Hughes www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... #AcademicSky #TherapistSky
Psychology is not ‘Woke’: Examining claims of liberal bias | BPS
Brian M. Hughes with the argument from his book, ‘Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism: How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protects Privilege’.
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Thank you to our speakers, staff, attendees and sponsors who made UKCP Conference 2026 such a memorable two days last week. Sign up to hear about next year's conference: https://ow.ly/yj8k50ZhCbn #ThreadsAcrossTheDivide #UKCPConference2026
Day one of our UKCP conference is underway. In his keynote session, Paul Hoggett explores how the modern self is shaped by three fundamental separations: nature, ourselves and others. He also considers what repair might look like. #UKCPConference2026 #ThreadsAcrossTheDivide
Thanks James. Non-paywalled version below. Meanwhile I’ll get onto Slate - the original version used to be free
James Green@ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere's a free version of the same article gcaptain.com/drowning/
Urgent action needed to address declining Health Visitor numbers and the impact on children and families. #NurseSky #UKPublicHealth
#NurseSky My latest blog for Independent Nurse. A genuine commitment to healthier communities must acknowledge that the public health system depends on scientifically trained nurses whose contributions have shaped every major advance in community health. www.independentnurse.co.uk/content/blog...
Defending the scientific heritage of community nursing - Independent Nurse
The history of community nursing shows that the very concept of ‘healthier communities’ is rooted in scientific nursing practice and public health innovation
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Today's King's Speech included the NHS Modernisation Bill, but no concrete funding for mental health. Over 1.6 million people are waiting for mental health support. Any plan to reform healthcare must put mental health on an equal footing with physical health. #KingsSpeech2026 #MentalHealth
We have submitted evidence to NHS England's call for evidence on children and young people's health services, making the case for five psychotherapeutic interventions including parent-infant psychotherapy, play therapy and systemic family therapy. Early support saves lives. #ChildMentalHealth
Say what you like about the British press, but I find it reassuring that they spend months ripping apart a Labour PM for properly declaring some glasses and football tickets, then all but ignore someone who wants to be PM when he tries to cover up a £5 million gift.
Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.
As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy
Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 4mo agoOur breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.
“15.1 - You acknowledged that the NHS has a problem with misogyny. You didn’t acknowledge that it has a problem with transphobia. I think it does. Do you?” www.carolinelitman.com/post/meeting...
Meeting Streeting
I met with Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and James Palmer, Director of Specialist Services for NHS England on 17th March 2026.It was with some distress that the moment I left the room m...
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When pressures rise, nurses need nurses at the table. @rcn.org.uk Reps listen, support, and stand alongside colleagues when it matters most. If you care about your team, consider becoming #ARepLikeMe @rcnactivism.bsky.social youtu.be/e6KJNOPoX74?...
A Rep Like Me - Kieran
YouTube video by RCN North West
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Since February 2026, major parts of The Employment Rights Act have taken effect, including: trade union reforms, new parental leave rights, enhanced sick pay rules, stronger whistleblowing protections, and the establishment of the Fair Work Agency. 🔗 Read to find out more ⬇️ lnkd.in/e5wvt9ej
Employment Rights Act: what does it mean for nursing staff? | RCN Magazine | Royal College of Nursing
The RCN continues to push the UK government to improve the working rights of our members and to protect those rights in law
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Are you interested in where psychotherapy is heading? Join us online on Saturday, 23 May for the UKCP research conference 2026 – open to members and non-members. Book your ticket: https://ow.ly/7ov250YGZ5Z #UKCPResearchConference2026
UKCP research conference 2026 – The evolving psychotherapy profession: practice, ethos and community
Our research conference, taking place on Saturday 23 May 2026, will showcase emerging research and explore how practice, ethos and community intersect.
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@rcnfoundation.bsky.social grants are now open! rcnfoundation.rcn.org.uk/Grants-and-f... Applications close 5pm on 13 May 2026. You could be awarded between £500 - £2,500, and you don’t need to be an @rcn.org.uk member to apply (but we would love you to join us). #NurseSky
Education grants | RCN Foundation
Apply for a grant to fund further education in nursing
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Immigrants built the NHS! We must always stand united against hate 💙
Our conference programme is now live – and early-bird tickets close on Tuesday, 31 March. Join us on Friday, 19 – Saturday, 20 June at Mary Ward House, London for our conference, Threads across the divide: weaving connections in a fragmented world. (1/2)
Despite a growing number of people experiencing anxiety, the guideline has not been meaningfully updated in over a decade. It limits patient choice and fails to address access for people who face additional barriers to care (2/3)
Last week, we wrote to NICE calling for an urgent update to their guidelines for treating generalised anxiety and panic disorder (1/3)
“Where is all that money going? Is any of it going to causes that are for women, for women’s advancement, for women’s rights? I think these are things that need to be made more transparent.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
International Women’s Day website owners urged to stop ‘exploiting’ day
Hundreds sign open letter calling for owner of website, from which UN has distanced itself, to ‘contribute meaningfully’
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