It concluded that patients live longer when they had access to fully qualified GPs, continuity of care and there is higher funding of general practices. buff.ly/49T7qMr

Deputy Chief Nurse position Chorley & Royal Preston
Great opportunity to work alongside some fantastic people and be supported to develop your career.
Take a look. 🤓

Amazing to spend the afternoon with Project 180 at CrossFit Deltafox in Darwin. Such moving and incredible stories of lives turned around, addictions broken, community built, purpose found and hope discovered! Yes to all of it! This is health creation and prevention in action!

Great to be in Blackburn with Darwen today at the Blackburn with Darwen Council Shadsworth Family Hub alongside the ever wonderful Chris Oliver - good to listen, to learn and to think together about how we co-create positive mental health in and with communities. Integration at place!

Victor Adebowale chair NHS Confederation 👇🏽👇🏻👇🏿👇🏼👇🏾

Got to spend some time with my friend & GP hero Mark Spencer in fabulous Fleetwood today. Left feeling encouraged, hopeful, inspired & loved! It’s wonderful what is growing there. Longevity & commitment to a place together with others means nothing is impossible? #daretodream

Funeral notice for Miss Margaret Robertson:

1100 on Thursday 2nd May at Sefton Road United Reforned Church in Morecambe.

Margaret Robertson has no family, if anyone can attend would be lovely.

She was 102, a former PMRAFNS McIndoe nurse,looking after Guinea Pig Club injured

Last week The Health Foundation published Health Inequalities in 2040.
A ground breaking report looking at current patterns of diagnosed illness & what the future holds
Essential reading for anyone wanting a fairer, healthier society.
My key takeaways in this blog:

health.org.uk/news-and-comme…

#Failure can be one of our most effective teachers. Just ask Ray Dalio, who credits an early-career failure with shifting his mindset from thinking 'I'm right' to asking, 'How do I know I'm right?'

Quote from p168 in #RightKindofWrong 📕 Grab a copy here: bit.ly/RKWBook

An excellent afternoon in Oxford with OX3+ Primary Care Network this week. I visited three different sites and looked at a range of activity from community outreach to urgent care, all of which underlined the scope for primary care to drive system change 1/11

We have a fantastic line-up and programme for The King's Fund upcoming virtual conference tackling health inequalities (8/9 May and on demand). Speakers including Bola Owolabi David Buck Ruth Robertson Duleep Allirajah greg fell FFPH Jacob Lant kingsfund.org.uk/events/health-…

Absolute privilege to listen to inspirational speakers at the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB health equity programme at Lancaster University run by Andy Knox and team!

Pritpal S Tamber Jennie Popay Cormac Russell So v motivating!

Just fantastic- the programme is open to applicants too atm.Highly recommend!

Inspiring conversation with Gareth Thomas about his journey to be a Psychiatrist as well as his ambitions for Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust as he gets ready to take up the position as our new Chief Medical Officer.....definitely worth listen👇

I found this thread very helpful today to better understand the data...

While political attention is elsewhere, a radical little programme of work has slipped out largely under the radar by Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, with quite big implications for how the centre might shift towards place-based working.

A 🧵 on Partnerships for People & Place… gov.uk/government/pub…

This survey once again shows us that NHS staff are under huge pressure and their mental health is suffering. twitter.com/NHSCharities/s…

An incredible couple of days at the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB population health leadership academy. Huge thanks to Jennie Popay Pritpal S Tamber & Cormac Russell for stretching our thinking about power, community and the power of communities. If we don’t understand this, we cannot create health equity.

Enjoyed trying out a new hosting tool today Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB pop health leadership programme

**The challenge**
How will you harness community power?

⚒️ OPERA
👉Own suggestions
👉Pair suggestions
👉Explanations
👉Ranking
👉Arranging

Read the book & was truly inspired. My copy is heavily annotated 😉

Fantastic to listen to Cormac Russell on the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB pop health leadership programme

Key message “Ensure help doesn’t do harm to communities”
👉discover
👉connect
👉mobilize

🙌Identify & build on the assets

This is such a big opportunity- to improve health, save lives and save money. Why not?!
MPs to vote on smoking ban for those born after 2009 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…