Wife and Mum. Occupational Therapist.💚Integration. Systems thinker & leader. Enjoying learning & connecting on Twitter. Posting my own views
North Somerset, England
Joined September 2016
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Today, I enjoyed delivering an in-service training session on public health & #OccupationalTherapy in @NorthSomersetC The popcorn effect of ideas & connections is reassuring me that "upstream doing" is possible. It is lovely to see familiar faces alongside new colleagues, too 💚
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The Joint BGS / Vivensa Foundation Training Fellowship is open for applications.
This is a great opportunity for front-line healthcare professionals working with older people, including allied health professionals, doctors and nurses. Find out more here: buff.ly/ZnIbBO6
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🚨 Join us for the LGA & ADPH Annual Public Health Conference 2026 - Better Health For All
🗓️ 24–26 February 2026
💻 Online
✅ Explore how local leadership is driving better health outcomes.
🔗 Register now: lgaevents.local.gov.uk/lga/f…
#BetterHealthForAll #LGAPH2026 @ADPHUK
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🎧In the latest ep of @R_S_P_H's 'Spread the Health' podcast, ADPH President, Greg Fell OBE, talks to @WilliamR0b3rts about the significance of the Tobacco & Vapes Bill and what needs to be done to ⬇️the no. of people experiencing harm from alcohol.
👂➡️bit.ly/49khn7m
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The last new #OnlyConnect special of the year is on tonight! Even more important than the Third Place Playoff, it’s the THIRD PLACE PLAYOFF PLAYOFF! If you like threesomes, tune into @BBCTwo at 8pm.
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Core20PLUS5 Framework: Reducing healthcare inequalities among older people.
This new framework from BGS aims to help identify people who have unequal access to and experience of healthcare, and to target action to counter that inequality. buff.ly/tZFrTG9
Really interesting blog, touching on how guaranteed income schemes could help reduce inequalities & demand on health and care. Simply being able to afford basics like nutritious food or heat could make the difference. After a decline into poverty we need to turn the tide
A recent US study showed one intervention - giving 1700 people $400 a month to spend how they wanted - resulted in 27% fewer visits to emergency services. Julia Cream explores whether this could work in the UK & places where similar ideas are being tested. kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and…
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Art is more than expression. It inspires action, sparks dialogue, and drives change. Find out some of the ways creativity shapes the world around us. 🧵 1/7
#Art #Creativity #BritishCouncil
ALT An artist painting. Text says: How art creates change. Art isn't just expression. It's a catalyst for change, shaping how we learn and connect.
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For every £1 spent on physiotherapy, the UK benefits by £4.
The first independent national economic analysis of physiotherapy’s impact – published today – shows physio saves the NHS more than it costs and actively boosts economic growth.
#RightToRehab
csp.org.uk/roi
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Ultra Processed Food, and the system that produces it, has overtaken tobacco in terms of health and economic harms, and is also the leading cause of plastic pollution, loss of biodiversity and deforestation, and the second leading cause of emissions.
This week @TheLancet published a landmark three-part series on the science, policy and politics of #UPF. thelancet.com/series-do/ultr…
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We are collecting short video messages that reflect your hopes, ideas and inspiration for the future of occupational therapy. Selected videos will be featured at the WFOT Congress 2026. Upload your video here: wfot.link/future-of-the-prof….
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🌟NIHR AHP Workforce Priority Setting Partnership Staff Survey 🌟
Follow the link: research.shu.ac.uk/ahpwrap/a…
#AHPs @cahprchair @gemmaclunie @Chris_Horler @LLedger1 @HazelRoddam1 @RMSmithPhysio @StrudwickDr @SuzanneRastrick @jstjohnmatthews
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@InstAlcStud are pleased to share their new report, A Healthier Future: A long-term vision to tackle alcohol harm in the UK, developed in collaboration with over 40 of the UK’s leading experts in alcohol policy, research, and treatment. ias.org.uk/report/a-healthie…
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Am so lucky to get to work with the inspirational Monica Geingos @KalondoMonica @FirstLadyNam3 in her drive for global action to tackle dangerous inequalities and secure a fairer, safer, world.
Love her 🔥interview in this week’s @mailandguardian.
🗞️ mg.co.za/partner-content/202…
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Only 10-20% of health & wellbeing is determined by access to traditional health services. The rest is shaped by other factors like 💷🧑🎓🏘️🌲&🚙.
The 10 Year Workforce Plan must look beyond the NHS & include the public health workforce.
👀Read in full➡️bit.ly/3XgLG9n
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When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits.
Due to our policies, we've done it in 9.
Good to speak at today’s @BloombergDotOrg summit on how bold climate action is transforming the lives of Londoners 💚
Autumn 🍂 the predictable and necessary shedding of the year passed.
Making way for new shoots of growth and change. 🌱
Emerging
Listen
Rest
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#SpacesForListening
Thankyou @brigidrussell51 & Charlie
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Time is an under-recognised social determinant of brain health.
In The Lancet Healthy Longevity, authors call for temporal justice through research and policies that recognise time as both a resource and a site of inequity in ageing and dementia: hubs.li/Q03R4bCV0
ALT Figure Integrative illustration of micro (individual)-level, meso (relational and organisational)-level, and macro (systemic)-level factors that shape people’s experience, use, and availability of time relevant to brain health. Copyright: 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. CC BY 4.0.
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📉The updated #IndicesOfDeprivation2025 reveal persistent and widespread deprivation across England.
🔹 82% of the most deprived areas in 2019 remain so in 2025
🔹 New insights into rural deprivation and income inequality
Explore the data 👉 gov.uk/government/statistics…
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In his blog this month, ADPH President, Greg Fell explores the impact that mis and dis information has on public health and what can be done to tackle it.
👀Read in full ➡️adph.org.uk
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Listen to 2 CC&CH Co-Investigators speak
David Moss BNSSG ICB & Teresa Salami-Oru Consultant in Public Health
Register here lnkd.in/euB5HEfu
@Lucy_Selman @MobCommAssets @capcbristol @ahrcpress @BarbaraMezes @BristolUni @brightonuni @BNSSG_ICB @EastSussexCC @LivUni
