My new book ‘Patient Leadership: A Revolution in The Making’ will (finally) be available in early October. £5 to newsletter subscribers (see below). £10 to non-subscribers as an e-book download. inhealthassociates.co.uk/patient-leader…

It's easy to see where Hersh's compassion came from. On what is easily the worst day of her life, Rachel Goldberg-Polin is thanking everyone for their efforts to bring her son home and hoping his death will act as a catalyst to bring the other hostages home alive. She'd have

Poetry for The Nervous Six week course starting October. Fortnightly Fridays 4-6pm. A way in to learning to love reading and writing verse. Each session, we will look at one poet in context of when, where and how they were writing, and discuss three poems. The second hour,

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Why Write .Cazij ✨✨Celebrating Adam✨✨ Bethlem Gallery Matt Makin Natasha Usher Becci Cussens @carolyncanfield ⭐️ Sally Cis Morgan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #BlackLivesMatter Miriam Taylor 🇺🇦

Two hours to write this. Four minutes per word. Poetry is a form of benign madness.

We need 3 more people to join small, low cost “Poetry for the Nervous”: fortnightly reading & writing group (Fri pms Oct-Dec) led by poet & Patient Leader David Gilbert. I enthusiastically recommend, having been in a previous group he led 😊. DM David or me if interested.

Via Zoom. For beginners and more experienced writers. Each week we’ll look at one modern poet and their work and then have time to write.

Yet another example of supporters being seen by their clubs as nothing more than walking, talking wallets.

How does one get to submit one's views to the Darzi Review? Googled and cannot find anything? .Jeremy Taylor Healthwatch England National Voices

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Digital + AI + self-monitoring + private providers + direct access to specialists (for some) will make primary care redundant - not saying that’s good. But I am saying the forces are inexorable. Give it ten years or so.

It may be that specialists refer to primary care type facilities as one option (as well as peer support, self-management, community wellbeing) rather than other way round …

#PxP24 is a patient-led conference all about patient engagement in #HealthResearch. IMHA is privileged to support the PxP conference and provide some financial and people resources to help bring the vision of the steering committee to life. More info: bit.ly/PxPConference-…

‘When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt’. Robert M. Pirsig, author and philosopher (6 Sep 1928-2017) via wordsmith.org

For patients By patients 1000 delegates Wow!

A doctor told a friend ‘you’re doing it to yourself’ re her anxiety. You might as well say ‘you’re doing it to yourself’ re your cancer. Volition in choosing one’s thoughts is one of the main things that those with toxic positivity assume.

So one of the mums on the School Run gave my wife some old clothes she didn’t need any more for our 4 year old. This genuinely came into my household. I don’t fucking think so. #lufc