Elaine Francis
@elainefrancis.bsky.social
Enhanced Care for Older People (EnCOP) Lead at Northumbria NHS | MH Nurse | PhD student (frailty & hospital discharge decision-making) | #Personhood | #QI | #RestorativeSupervision | #TransformationalLearning | Views my own
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First of it's kind, proud to have contributed with chapters on Ageing and Ageing Populations, and Carer and Family Support - Fundamentals of Caring for the Older Person amazon.co.uk: Now on pre-sale (20% off) #Ageing
Excellent reception to our joint ‘decaf by default’ poster with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust at today’s BGS continence conference - mention by other speakers and wide interest to find out more about the approach ! www.bgs.org.uk/%E2%80%98dec...
‘Decaf by Default’ and Its Wider Impact: Reducing Toileting Falls, Supporting Continence and a Positive Care Environment | British Geriatrics Society
https://www.bgs.org.uk/‘decaf-by-default’-and-its-wider-impact-reducing-toileting-falls-supporting-continence-and-a
September 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Excellent reception to our joint ‘decaf by default’ poster with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust at today’s BGS continence conference - mention by other speakers and wide interest to find out more about the approach ! www.bgs.org.uk/%E2%80%98dec...
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Critical patient-oriented research: a fundamental shift in patient engagement | CMAJ www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Critical patient-oriented research: a fundamental shift in patient engagement
Key points
More than a decade after the launch of Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR), patient engagement is increasingly expected across the health research ecosystem. Institutiona...
www.cmaj.ca
September 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Critical patient-oriented research: a fundamental shift in patient engagement | CMAJ www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
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Join Launchpad for a World Mental Health Day celebration
📅 Wednesday 8 October
🕚 11am – 3pm
📍 Cullercoats Crescent Club
The event is open to all and is a great opportunity to come together, share experiences, and put mental health at the heart of our community.
📅 Wednesday 8 October
🕚 11am – 3pm
📍 Cullercoats Crescent Club
The event is open to all and is a great opportunity to come together, share experiences, and put mental health at the heart of our community.
September 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Join Launchpad for a World Mental Health Day celebration
📅 Wednesday 8 October
🕚 11am – 3pm
📍 Cullercoats Crescent Club
The event is open to all and is a great opportunity to come together, share experiences, and put mental health at the heart of our community.
📅 Wednesday 8 October
🕚 11am – 3pm
📍 Cullercoats Crescent Club
The event is open to all and is a great opportunity to come together, share experiences, and put mental health at the heart of our community.
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Sign up to watch this event tomorrow either in person or online
We'll be getting into depth on how the govt intends to use financial flows to shift activity and behaviour in the NHS
We'll be getting into depth on how the govt intends to use financial flows to shift activity and behaviour in the NHS
EVENT | ⏰ Join us tomorrow ⏰ How can changes to NHS incentives help deliver the 10 Year Health Plan?
With Thomas Cawston
@novartis.bsky.social
@sallygainsbury.bsky.social
Anita Charlesworth, Hardev Virdee,
@stuarthoddinott.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/nhs-in...
With Thomas Cawston
@novartis.bsky.social
@sallygainsbury.bsky.social
Anita Charlesworth, Hardev Virdee,
@stuarthoddinott.bsky.social
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/nhs-in...
September 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sign up to watch this event tomorrow either in person or online
We'll be getting into depth on how the govt intends to use financial flows to shift activity and behaviour in the NHS
We'll be getting into depth on how the govt intends to use financial flows to shift activity and behaviour in the NHS
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🎧 “The value of a person has nothing to do with their age, ability or achievements”
A powerful clip from my next @wildcardws.bsky.social #podcast with Benedicte Symcox 💥
💛 Curiosity. Kindness. Lived experience
📢 Full episode lands 7am tomorrow!
#SEND #EveryLifeMatters #coproduction #WhoseShoes
A powerful clip from my next @wildcardws.bsky.social #podcast with Benedicte Symcox 💥
💛 Curiosity. Kindness. Lived experience
📢 Full episode lands 7am tomorrow!
#SEND #EveryLifeMatters #coproduction #WhoseShoes
June 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
🎧 “The value of a person has nothing to do with their age, ability or achievements”
A powerful clip from my next @wildcardws.bsky.social #podcast with Benedicte Symcox 💥
💛 Curiosity. Kindness. Lived experience
📢 Full episode lands 7am tomorrow!
#SEND #EveryLifeMatters #coproduction #WhoseShoes
A powerful clip from my next @wildcardws.bsky.social #podcast with Benedicte Symcox 💥
💛 Curiosity. Kindness. Lived experience
📢 Full episode lands 7am tomorrow!
#SEND #EveryLifeMatters #coproduction #WhoseShoes
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A country divided by health inequalities. Solving the UK regional health divide. bmj.com/cgi/content/... @felly500.bsky.social @jesstud.bsky.social @ipprnorth.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social
Regional health divisions in the UK
Coordinated action is needed to resolve inequalities
People in the poorer areas of the UK are dying on average nine years younger than those in more affluent areas.1 This divide, which is the fourth ...
bmj.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A country divided by health inequalities. Solving the UK regional health divide. bmj.com/cgi/content/... @felly500.bsky.social @jesstud.bsky.social @ipprnorth.bsky.social @clesthinkdo.bsky.social
conversational-leadership.net/batesonian-i... We often treat information as something that can be stored, sent, or delivered. But if nothing changes, and there is no shift in perception or behavior, has any information really been shared?
Batesonian Information | Conversational Leadership
We often treat information as something that can be stored, sent, or delivered. But if nothing changes, and there is no shift in perception or behavior, has any information really been shared? Gregory...
conversational-leadership.net
September 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
conversational-leadership.net/batesonian-i... We often treat information as something that can be stored, sent, or delivered. But if nothing changes, and there is no shift in perception or behavior, has any information really been shared?
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, but at what environmental cost?
www.croakey.org/artificial-i...
By Jason Staines
#AusPol
#PublicHealth
www.croakey.org/artificial-i...
By Jason Staines
#AusPol
#PublicHealth
September 4, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, but at what environmental cost?
www.croakey.org/artificial-i...
By Jason Staines
#AusPol
#PublicHealth
www.croakey.org/artificial-i...
By Jason Staines
#AusPol
#PublicHealth
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I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature.
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
November 16, 2024 at 1:51 PM
I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature.
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:
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Being kind boosts mental health more than seeking joy.
Evidence: Doing 3 random acts of kindness a week is enough to reduce depression, anxiety & loneliness. It's more beneficial than doing nice things for yourself.
Self-care feels good, but generosity builds lasting bonds.
Evidence: Doing 3 random acts of kindness a week is enough to reduce depression, anxiety & loneliness. It's more beneficial than doing nice things for yourself.
Self-care feels good, but generosity builds lasting bonds.
August 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Being kind boosts mental health more than seeking joy.
Evidence: Doing 3 random acts of kindness a week is enough to reduce depression, anxiety & loneliness. It's more beneficial than doing nice things for yourself.
Self-care feels good, but generosity builds lasting bonds.
Evidence: Doing 3 random acts of kindness a week is enough to reduce depression, anxiety & loneliness. It's more beneficial than doing nice things for yourself.
Self-care feels good, but generosity builds lasting bonds.
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Explain delirium in accessible terms: "The brain isn't processing information normally right now."
This helps families understand why repeating basics about what is going on, as well as being reassuring over and over again, can help the person experiencing #delirium.
This helps families understand why repeating basics about what is going on, as well as being reassuring over and over again, can help the person experiencing #delirium.
August 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Explain delirium in accessible terms: "The brain isn't processing information normally right now."
This helps families understand why repeating basics about what is going on, as well as being reassuring over and over again, can help the person experiencing #delirium.
This helps families understand why repeating basics about what is going on, as well as being reassuring over and over again, can help the person experiencing #delirium.
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Emergency Department (ED) staff: screen ALL patients over 65 for delirium.
Emergency departments are where it's most missed and most dangerous.
Make it as routine as checking blood pressure.
Emergency departments are where it's most missed and most dangerous.
Make it as routine as checking blood pressure.
August 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Emergency Department (ED) staff: screen ALL patients over 65 for delirium.
Emergency departments are where it's most missed and most dangerous.
Make it as routine as checking blood pressure.
Emergency departments are where it's most missed and most dangerous.
Make it as routine as checking blood pressure.
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I've known Andrew for more years than I can remember. All that time he has quietly and unfussily led with a focus on what really matters in communities. Not waiting to be told what to do, but getting on with what needed to be done. I have high hopes for SE London.
What does it take to make a neighbourhood health service real?
This week on #HealthOnTheLine, @confedmatt.bsky.social speaks with Andrew Bland and @rrankine.bsky.social about what proactive, preventative care means in practice.
Tune in now: 🔗 bit.ly/3UwD2Cq
This week on #HealthOnTheLine, @confedmatt.bsky.social speaks with Andrew Bland and @rrankine.bsky.social about what proactive, preventative care means in practice.
Tune in now: 🔗 bit.ly/3UwD2Cq
August 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I've known Andrew for more years than I can remember. All that time he has quietly and unfussily led with a focus on what really matters in communities. Not waiting to be told what to do, but getting on with what needed to be done. I have high hopes for SE London.
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🚨 The Picker Experience Network Awards 2025 finalists are LIVE! 🏆
👏 Huge congrats to all the shortlisted entries!
🔗 See the full list: patientexperiencenetwork.org/awards/
#PEN25 #PersonCentredCare #PatExp
@pickereurope.bsky.social
👏 Huge congrats to all the shortlisted entries!
🔗 See the full list: patientexperiencenetwork.org/awards/
#PEN25 #PersonCentredCare #PatExp
@pickereurope.bsky.social
Awards 2025 - Picker Experience Network
patientexperiencenetwork.org
July 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🚨 The Picker Experience Network Awards 2025 finalists are LIVE! 🏆
👏 Huge congrats to all the shortlisted entries!
🔗 See the full list: patientexperiencenetwork.org/awards/
#PEN25 #PersonCentredCare #PatExp
@pickereurope.bsky.social
👏 Huge congrats to all the shortlisted entries!
🔗 See the full list: patientexperiencenetwork.org/awards/
#PEN25 #PersonCentredCare #PatExp
@pickereurope.bsky.social
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Last month’s 10 year plan for the NHS in England proposed initiatives aimed at patients as consumers of services.
Are more choice and consumerism really solutions to the NHS’s woes? @mancunianmedic.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Are more choice and consumerism really solutions to the NHS’s woes? @mancunianmedic.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
August 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Last month’s 10 year plan for the NHS in England proposed initiatives aimed at patients as consumers of services.
Are more choice and consumerism really solutions to the NHS’s woes? @mancunianmedic.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Are more choice and consumerism really solutions to the NHS’s woes? @mancunianmedic.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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My Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shibley/...
Crossroads in diagnosis of dementia in England: a perilous position
The recent Care England exposed further tensions in English dementia policy as regards dementia diagnosis.
open.substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
My Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shibley/...
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Event @theqcommunity.bsky.social: Data to decisions: Using staff experience effectively
🗓️13th August 12 -1
This should be interesting!
Learn from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s local staff experience programme.
Register here ▶️▶️▶️ tinyurl.com/3p7hnb2s
🗓️13th August 12 -1
This should be interesting!
Learn from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s local staff experience programme.
Register here ▶️▶️▶️ tinyurl.com/3p7hnb2s
Data to decisions: Using staff experience feedback effectively
Join us on 13 August to explore staff wellbeing, data collection, analysis and reporting with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Book now!
tinyurl.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Event @theqcommunity.bsky.social: Data to decisions: Using staff experience effectively
🗓️13th August 12 -1
This should be interesting!
Learn from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s local staff experience programme.
Register here ▶️▶️▶️ tinyurl.com/3p7hnb2s
🗓️13th August 12 -1
This should be interesting!
Learn from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s local staff experience programme.
Register here ▶️▶️▶️ tinyurl.com/3p7hnb2s
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I wouldn't miss the new book by @marioluissmall.bsky.social and @jessicacalarco.bsky.social "Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research"
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
November 3, 2023 at 9:14 AM
I wouldn't miss the new book by @marioluissmall.bsky.social and @jessicacalarco.bsky.social "Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research"
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
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This is a powerful reminder of the risk that qualitative research becomes "reframed as a simple information extraction from words rather than a more complex mess, disentangling and entangling and sense making process". I recommend a listen #edpsychs
Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...
Dr Braun(love) - or: how I learned to stop worrying and love GenAI (yeah nah)
YouTube video by Virginia Braun
www.youtube.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This is a powerful reminder of the risk that qualitative research becomes "reframed as a simple information extraction from words rather than a more complex mess, disentangling and entangling and sense making process". I recommend a listen #edpsychs
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🧠 New paper
#Delirium is often missed in #Parkinson’s - quick, reliable screening could change this. We found the 4AT is a sensitive tool for spotting #delirium in #Parkinson’s
But accuracy drops in those with known cognitive issues - a gap we need to address.
🔗 academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...
#Delirium is often missed in #Parkinson’s - quick, reliable screening could change this. We found the 4AT is a sensitive tool for spotting #delirium in #Parkinson’s
But accuracy drops in those with known cognitive issues - a gap we need to address.
🔗 academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...
Detecting delirium in Parkinson’s disease: an evaluation of diagnostic accuracy of bedside tools
AbstractBackground. Delirium is a serious, acute neuropsychiatric condition associated with fluctuating attention and altered arousal. Delirium in Parkinso
academic.oup.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🧠 New paper
#Delirium is often missed in #Parkinson’s - quick, reliable screening could change this. We found the 4AT is a sensitive tool for spotting #delirium in #Parkinson’s
But accuracy drops in those with known cognitive issues - a gap we need to address.
🔗 academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...
#Delirium is often missed in #Parkinson’s - quick, reliable screening could change this. We found the 4AT is a sensitive tool for spotting #delirium in #Parkinson’s
But accuracy drops in those with known cognitive issues - a gap we need to address.
🔗 academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...
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😞 Social isolation and loneliness in older people.
🇨🇦 From the Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health.
#DementiaCare #MedTwitter
🇨🇦 From the Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health.
#DementiaCare #MedTwitter
July 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
😞 Social isolation and loneliness in older people.
🇨🇦 From the Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health.
#DementiaCare #MedTwitter
🇨🇦 From the Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health.
#DementiaCare #MedTwitter
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Some studies show that in some undergraduate degrees nurses get no formal #delirium training.
For an emergency that affects 1 in 6 hospital patients.
Help me understand why this is.
For an emergency that affects 1 in 6 hospital patients.
Help me understand why this is.
August 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Some studies show that in some undergraduate degrees nurses get no formal #delirium training.
For an emergency that affects 1 in 6 hospital patients.
Help me understand why this is.
For an emergency that affects 1 in 6 hospital patients.
Help me understand why this is.
Reposted by Elaine Francis
August 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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There's a real gap in public information on #delirium & I'm aiming to help address this with this book.
Get a pdf of Chapter 1 via this link:
www.the4at.com/family-delir...
#familycaregiver
Get a pdf of Chapter 1 via this link:
www.the4at.com/family-delir...
#familycaregiver
July 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
There's a real gap in public information on #delirium & I'm aiming to help address this with this book.
Get a pdf of Chapter 1 via this link:
www.the4at.com/family-delir...
#familycaregiver
Get a pdf of Chapter 1 via this link:
www.the4at.com/family-delir...
#familycaregiver