Last week, we launched the NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit (NEST)! It's a free suite of resources to help mainstream secondary schools establish & maintain peer support networks for neurodivergent students. You can find out more & download here! ⬇️ salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/research/nest-…

Annual march around Inverness with Highland Pride 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️🌈 It's a difficult time right now for the LGBTQ+ community. It's as important as ever to stand with us and join in on protests like today's. We also need all who come along to Pride to support us the rest of the year 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Did you notice the newsletter land in your inbox yesterday? It's got a full list of events for all TMH clinical forums & the Oct conference agenda; take a look 👀& get signed up to an event! Royal College of Occupational Therapists CPD@RCOT Leanne Hunt Penelope Firshman Dervil Dockrell OT Pain Network UK Deborah Davidson

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I've joined with Breast Cancer Now to call on NICE, NHS England, AstraZenecaUK and Daiichi Sankyo UK to make the life-extending drug, Enhertu available on the NHS. Will you join me? Sign the petition #EnhertuEmergency action.breastcancernow.org/enhertu-emerge…

Ken spent his career as an #NHS nurse caring for others, retiring at 60 because of his #osteoarthritis. It's time that employers return that care, and that the Government enables them to #TakeArthritisSeriously in the workplace. versusarthritis.org/campaign-with-… #GeneralElection2024

Over the last few years, a group of international researchers have created a new screening tool, the Spider. This is used to measure the presence and impact of symptoms often reported by people with #hypermobilityspectrumdisorder (HSD)/#hypermobileEhlersDanlossyndrome (hEDS). It

Congratulations to Erika Kague on receiving a Royal Society of Edinburgh International Joint Project Award! Erika will collaborate with Prof Paul Eckhard Witten (UGent) to study bone cell osteocytes in zebrafish to help improve understanding of #osteoporosis ! Zebrafish Rock! Institute of Genetics and Cancer

Proud to present my poster on the role of OT supporting work in Axial SpA at the NASS Aspiring to excellence celebration event. Can't thank the team as NASS enough for all their support. NASS Alex Vincent NHSGGC North AHP NHSGGC Clyde AHP Dr Mhairi Brandon FCSP Alasdair Davie 🇺🇦

Delighted our parent subscriber platform is now live & ready for sign-ups! Our approach is ‘self-delivery with support’ as we understand how parents of children with Neurodevelopmental difficulties need to be empowered but vitally need support not just signposted to resources

As promised, here is the the first video from one of our amazing speakers at RCOT TMH annual conference 14.10.24 in Birmingham. Enjoy listening to Vicki Bushell PARS OT lead! Royal College of Occupational Therapists CPD@RCOT Leanne Hunt Penelope Firshman Dervil Dockrell OT Pain Network UK Deborah Davidson Jo McCarthy

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Me on the 6 o’clock news talking about EPIC Think Learn EPIC Think Learn

New #spinout EPIC Think Learn has launched an online platform of child-centred, research-based resources for parents and teachers of neurodivergent children➡️eil.ac/EPIC/T Wellcome Edinburgh Medical School #innovation #collaboration #neurodivergent #ADHD #dyspraxia

SO delighted that our feasibility and acceptability study of the Neurodivergent peer Support Toolkit (NEST) materials is OUT!! 🥳 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…

The hEDS-START team (Dervil Dockrell Kathryn Berg) are engaging with policymakers on the findings of thier report on the lived experiences of those with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome & Hypermobile Spectrum Disorders in Scotland. Read more here: ed.ac.uk/institute-gene…

bjgp.org/content/72/715… As Henry Moore highlighted: ‘Length of RGP–patient relationship is significantly associated with lower use of OOH services, fewer acute hospital admissions, and lower mortality’ Disinvestment in core GP in the UK is dangerous

I hosted an Ehlers-Danlos syndrome roundtable to bring together Ehlers-Danlos Support UK, parliamentary colleagues, clinicians and those with lived experience of the condition to discuss EDS and particularly the pressing need to establish new care pathways. Thank you to all who attended.

Great to be able to contribute to the roundtable discussion on Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder. Thank you to all who took the time to attend. Hopefully it became apparent why there is a need for formal care pathways for those with the conditions.

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