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Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hi Bluesky…

UK Paediatrician tiptoeing into new spaces…

Here for…
#medsky
#epilepsy
#QI

…Looking and Leaping?!!

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · 9h

My reflections…

1. Agreeing clear actions from a meeting is often vital!
2. I often use a Post-it to scribble my actions in the moment?!
3. This action from a governance meeting, relating apparently to ‘KPop Demon Hunters’, is a bit curve ball!!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · 6d

My reflections…

1. It is quite easy to be going in the wrong direction?
2. You reimagine the cues around you & sort of believe you’re right
3. Weirdly for me the easiest way to be wrong is completely 180 degrees wrong, rather than slightly wrong!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · 12d

Such a great team updating together our British Paediatric Neurology Association ACT course this last week in Birmingham. Co-created with parents and professionals! Is on track for 2026!

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Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · 14d

My reflections…

1. I still get imposter syndrome, partic in round table type collaborative activities!
2. This week I helped facilitate an Assessing Children’s Tone course!
3. This table ‘clapperboard’ was very helpful!!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · 20d

I got this one!

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · 20d

My reflections…

1. Sometimes you need to take the long view!
2. The ups and downs catch your eye but hide a real story, some things require patience and trust?!
3. Anyway time to “soak that fruit”!

#apaediatriclife

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Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · 22d

Very proud of this step change, driven by our @rcpch.bsky.social youth advocates….

@emma-sparrow.bsky.social

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) @hqip.bsky.social · 23d

1/3 NEW HQIP Article:
The proportion of children and young people with epilepsy who have a school Individual Healthcare Plan (IHCP) within the first year of care has jumped 72.8%, from 38.9% (2024 annual report) to 67.2% in the latest HQIP-commissioned #Epilepsy12 audit 2025 report.

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · 25d

A bit windy but now heading Bournemouth way for @ilae-epilepsy.bsky.social UK #ILAEUK2025. Trying to cram 15 years & ~14,000 children’s worth of @rcpch.bsky.social #Epilepsy12 improvements into my poster tube!

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · 28d

My reflections…

1. Clinic chat this week about being woken up by cockerels & setting phone alarms as medication reminders!
2. Is the 1st time ‘cockadoodledoo’ appeared in a work conversation!
3. I suspect what’s effective as an alarm is highly individual!?

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Sep 5

My reflections…

1. Glimpsed the Regatta Flag La Concha on rail trip home from Lisbon. Cheered on teams of 12 rowing in sync to & from a raw Atlantic!
2. Presented ups & downs of 15y co-creating QI in epilepsies!
3. It’s sure easier when the surf is with you!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Sep 3

😆…Not for you and your bedroom!!

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why do we keep using the term “bench to bedside”!? Surely health research can do better than reaching the hospital bed?

Bench to…

bedroom
bathroom
birthday party
beach
boardroom
bus stop
ballroom
basketball
ballet
biology lesson
behind the bike shed

Any more?

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great to seee @bpna.bsky.social PET with ETAM in so many presentations and conversations over the last 4 days in @ilae-epilepsy.bsky.social Lisbon #IEC2025.

Liking the cascade! Loving the impact!

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Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Aug 30

My reflections…

1. I like to think I’m rational and evidence-based
2. I avoid flying as much as possible!
3. En route to Lisbon via Gare Montparnasse, this is my type of daring!!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Aug 28

Off to @ilae-epilepsy.bsky.social #IEC2025 Lisbon to showcase 15 years of @rcpch.bsky.social #Epilepsy12 showing reducing gaps in England/Wales epilepsy care!

….I’ll go by train I faintly remember saying!!!!

👋 to anyone else heading that way!!!

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Aug 22

My reflections…

1. Bank holidays always bring out a range of panics!
2. On call cover, getting admin done, avoiding traffic, ending up in that traffic anyway, believing all shops will be closed!
3. We got a little more milk than we were expecting!!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Aug 15

My reflections…

1. My mum’s not that well at the moment and is unhappy in hospital
2. It’s quite hard to be both a son & doctor?!
3. The nurse gave both of us ‘a cooler’ this week! Everything’s better after a rocket lolly!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Aug 8

My reflections…

1. Sometimes you have to make the most of opportunities?
2. I love blackberries!
3. I picked these on the way home from the staff car park!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Aug 1

My reflections…

1. It is (far too widely) known within my team that I have an aversion to unicorns!
2. While covering for strikes I was ‘kindly’ made a coffee!
3. This has to be the worst drawing of a unicorn ever?! (I had to work hard to let it trigger me!)

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Jul 28

Great to see this getting closer…jump in!

registration.e12openukconference25.com/e12open

@rcpch.bsky.social
@profrecordsb.bsky.social
@bpna.bsky.social

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Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Jul 25

My reflections…

1. Life journeys take you in all sorts of directions, some on your own, some with others!
2. Celebrated a 32 years anniversary this week!
3. We caught a community bus together!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Jul 18

My reflections…

1. It’s good to pause, think and take a helicopter view!
2. Sometimes I sit for a moment on top of the stairs!
3. On this occasion the cat joined me and disarmingly my youngest caught us!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Jul 11

My reflections…

1. I love a good cookie!
2. In my worlds, food & medicine are separate entities…These are wrong for all sorts of reasons?!
3. Anyways… my youngest bought them (against dad/medical advice)

…and I only had a small bite!!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Jul 4

My reflections…

1. The dialogue around transcriptions is really important!
2. It’s been roasting hot this week!
3. This typist correctly diagnosed a certain cyclical disruption!!!

#apaediatriclife

Colin Dunkley @drcolindunkley.bsky.social · Jul 4

Reading 10-year health plan. A stack chiming with epilepsies ambition. Prevention, digital wearables & self-management, genetics, equity, close to home, children, long-term conditions, PROM/PREMs, AI 4 admin burden, SPR!!

…already paddling this way…lots to do!

🛶 🛶 🛶

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