VICTORY FOR OUR NHS!💙

I am delighted to report that the NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board took the decision today not to renew the contract of US healthcare giant Centene (Operose Health) to run Hanley Primary Care Centre in Islington - a huge win for local people

Great evening on the PhoenixGP with GP colleagues in H&W Graham Jackson inspiring us with v gd advice - how to build shared purpose, how to develop relationships and how to stay +ve for you & colleagues. Hollie Hastings 💙 Seb Morton Meeraj Shah

As a GP/ACP in Primary Care, if you didn`t have to issue sick notes/order bloods/ make onward referrals that could have been made directly in an outpatient appointment,how much extra clinical time would you have each day ?🐼 Parody RCGP (not a doctor) DocInTheHeed 🦀 Simon Hodes, General Practitioner

21 years ago my GP trainer died by suicide. Such a waste of life. 32 years old, GP trainer, PCG chair, Rlind table chair, life boat Dr, father, friend. Talk to your friends or colleagues if you are struggling

#timeforcare great session from @jamescatton and Olivia Allen re working with PAs and First Contact Physios in primary care. Better care and releasing time! “We couldn’t survive without them”

#TimeforCare David Oliver, Freshwell Dr Campbell Murdoch “lose a TON of weight” with low carb approaches. Involving whole community and seeing real change! Freshwell Low Carb Project - check out their website lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk

#TimeforCare Dr Campbell Murdoch so inspiring “we cannot fix an epidemic of metabolic disease with more pills” (paraphrased). “QI bingo” as Prof Susan Fairlie RN 💙 says!

We are launching a £4 million suicide prevention fund to support high-risk groups.

This will help expand services to meet increased demand from people who have struggled most during the pandemic.

Applications for the fund open on Thursday 2nd December.

Learn more 🔽

How do you deal with extreme stress?

Be open with your emotions, ask for help, accept it when it’s offered and create a safe space for others to do the same.

Watch Guy Raz and my full conversation for the How I Built This Resilience Series here: bit.ly/2Lc82Ur

Thank you Bikeworks for partnering with us @islingtongp - getting sats probes delivered so speedily to people, this has really helped us with remote assessment of patients with suspected covid19. Invaluable service Dr Tamar Koch CS Bengi Beyzade John McGrath

Day 1 of #islington covid hot hub service. Obligatory dodgy album cover shot. All 5 @NHS_NCLCCG boroughs up and running. Islington GP Federation @IslingtonCCG

In my The BMJ feature, #gp drbenedictsmith explains how primary care in Islington is preparing for #COVID19 and Dr Mark Porter explains how things are different in Gloucestershire thanks also to RCGP bmj.com/content/368/bm…

Our QI team worked with a #primarycarenetwork in Islington and managed to achieve improved vaccination rates in all eligible groups, despite vaccine uptake being lower across London compared to 2018/19 Shaine Mehta

We will be sharing some of the achievements of our QI team over the next few days. Kicking off with our support of the new QoF QI modules - we more than doubled the no. of people at the end of life who have a care plan in place @IslingtonCCG Coordinate My Care

to stay as well as we can to the end of our lives. It works at the limits of science – bringing the highest levels of human knowledge and skill to save lives and improve health. It touches our lives at times of basic human need, when care and compassion are what matter most.(2)

Breaking twitter silence to share the first paragraph of the #nhs Constitution:
The NHS belongs to the people.
It is there to improve our health and wellbeing, supporting us to keep mentally and physically well, to get better when we are ill and, when we cannot fully recover, (1)

Kicking off day 1 of another group of future improvement leaders in sunny Birmingham! #timeforcare #gpil #NHS

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