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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈

@drneilpender.bsky.social

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Medical Director of Trinity Hospice and Brian House Children’s Hospice, Blackpool, UK. Consultant in Palliative Medicine. #HAPC #HPM

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Nov 17

Dear followers,
If you can help... LIKE and REPOST.
Many thanks!

#PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Jan 9

All is good. Glad you’ve joined us!

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Nov 17

Dear followers,
If you can help... LIKE and REPOST.
Many thanks!

#PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Jan 8

I’m delighted to announce that I started a new role this week - Medical Director of Trinity Hospice and Brian House Children’s Hospice in Blackpool, UK

@trinityhospice.bsky.social and @brianhousech.bsky.social, I look forward to meeting you all in the coming weeks! Thank you for the welcome so far!

Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Jan 1

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you have a happy and healthy 2025. #BeKind

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Dec 25

Merry Christmas Bren!

Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Dec 25

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Dec 21

Another virtual Conqueror Challenge completed: Día de los Muertos:
- 157.6km in 7 days
- Walking and cycling

Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Dec 21

Solo. Good thinking time!

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Dec 21

GM Ringway Stage 2 @ Sale Water Park - Didsbury on @gojauntly.bsky.social

I will give it a 3/5. I suspect a nicer spring/summer walk. Today was very muddy but still pleasant.

walks.gojauntly.com/walks/gm-rin...

GM Ringway Stage 2 - Go Jauntly

Stage 2 links Sale Water Park and Didsbury Village tram stations via the verdant Mersey Valley.

walks.gojauntly.com

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Dec 20

I found the middle section along the canal quite dull (around Trafford). I didn’t find that part particularly tranquil or scenic this time of year. The beginning and end brought the score up for me personally. I did find the Go Jauntly directions extremely helpful which was a bonus.

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thank you for highlighting this response to me. I hadn’t seen it. Hope you are well Patricia and enjoying your well earned retirement. As you can see, I moved up north following my registrar years in London.

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Patricia Brayden @patriciabrayden.bsky.social · Dec 19

Well said: “the majority of the investment announced today does not cover day-to-day running costs, such as staffing and other essential outgoings needed to give round the clock care” &”End-of-life care involves numerous parts of the health and care sectors in all four UK nations working together”

The BMA @bma.org.uk · Dec 19

Investment in the whole system is needed for quality end-of-life care.

Read our press response to today's hospice funding announcement: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Dec 19

Is capital spending really what the hospice sector needs? Or is it fairer, equitable, transparent and recurrent funding from NHS Integrated Care Boards? Hospice expenditure is mostly people, not things.

Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · Dec 19

Hugh Pym BBC Health Editor: “Govt has announced £126 million over 2 years for #hospices in England - capital spending for buildings and kit etc - inc £26 million for children’s hospice #grant next year”.

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · Dec 17

📣Published TODAY 📖
It means so much to me to share our paper on #PalliativeCare & #EoLC for people with pleural #Mesothelioma 🫁 in @palliativemedj.bsky.social

Thank you to @mesouk.bsky.social for funding this research

Please share 🔁
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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MyWishes @mywishes.bsky.social · Dec 19

If you haven't made plans for your digital legacy, you can do so for free on MyWishes (the Best Digital Legacy Planning Platform 2023 - SME Awards).

To learn more visit: mywishes.co.uk/social-media...

#digitallegacy #techforgood #palliativecare

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Dec 19

Just finished GM Ringway Stage 1 - Central Manchester to Sale Water Park on @gojauntly.bsky.social

I’ll give it a 3/5 but many more stages to come.

walks.gojauntly.com/walks/gm-rin...

GM Ringway Stage 1 - Go Jauntly

Stage 1 is a tranquil, largely traffic-free route from the city centre to Sale Water Park tram stop.

walks.gojauntly.com

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Dec 1

Well worth a read… #AssistedDying

www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

I can’t rejoice at this assisted dying bill. Where is the humanity?

After sitting as a justice of the Supreme Court, and having seen friends struggle with end-of-life choices, Jonathan Sumption believed the law should change. But he feels the new bill is over-engineer...

www.thetimes.com

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Nov 30

Thanks @lbc.co.uk for having me on to discuss AD.

Both Keir Starmer & Wes Streeting know full well how grossly underfunded UK palliative care is - & they have the power to change that.

But will they?

Or will they turn their backs on dying people?

www.lbc.co.uk/news/palliat...

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Hospice UK @hospiceuk.bsky.social · Nov 29

Toby Porter, CEO of Hospice UK, responds to the result of today's vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

Read the full statement: www.hospiceuk.org/latest-from-...

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Nov 29

MPs vote in favour of the Assisted Dying Bill

Yes - 330
No - 275
Majority of 55

SkyNews @skynewsrss.bsky.social · Nov 29

Assisted dying bill backed by MPs after emotional Commons debate

Political reporter@fayebrownSky

news.sky.com

Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Nov 28

Last day working at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. Thank you for the wonderful send off! The next chapter of my life starts soon so I’ll keep you all updated.

Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Nov 25

An interesting read #AssistedDying

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Three quarters support assisted dying law | YouGov

New YouGov survey takes in-depth look at attitudes towards assisted dying

yougov.co.uk

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Nov 25

Off for a long walk then…

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Nov 24

Excellent. Good luck with the research!

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · Nov 23

Just watched another news report on #AssistedDying. But it was this comment that I’d like to explore: “Palliative Care needs to be improved”. Does palliative care need improvement? Or is it about equitable access to well funded and well resourced palliative care services? #PalliativeCare #HPM #HAPC

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