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Australian Labor @australianlabor.bsky.social · 1d

Australians have clocked up more than 2 million visits to Labor's free Medicare Urgent Care Clinics!

More free health care when you need it, right across the country.

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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 2d

The scientific method is strong with these goons. 🙄

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent -

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Dr. Wendy Maddocks RN @nursinghistory.bsky.social · 1d

All prepped for my part of the #HistNursing talk at the Christchurch Nurse’s chapel Saturday from 2 pm. We are talking on the life and lessons of the #WW2 nurses & linking to modern crisis nursing

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Teachers
Nurses
Judges
Police
Doctor
Civil Service

Nigel Farage and Reform UK hates people in public service.

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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 1d

NMC plans to cut 145 jobs at regulator.

‘The scale of these redundancies is troubling,' said UNISON’s head of health Helga Pile, warning that the cuts 'risk undermining service quality and staff morale.'

NMC plans to cut 145 jobs at regulator

The NMC has announced plans to cut almost 150 jobs at the regulator amid a projected ‘financial gap’ of £24m this year.

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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 1d

Bet they don’t want Lionesses flags up - not one on display earlier this year

London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 1d

Paint the curb stones and see how keen

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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 1d

Wirral care workers to continue strikes over grading dispute

“It’s time for the local authority to work with staff to implement a fair grading system that ends this dispute.” UNISON

Wirral care workers to continue strikes over grading dispute

WIRRAL care workers are continuing strike action over grading dispute, says Unison.

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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see

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King's College NHS @kingscollegenhs.bsky.social · 1d

💙💗 To show our support for #BabyLossAwarenessWeek, we lit up the Hambleden Wing at King’s College Hospital blue and pink.

You can join our baby loss memorial service tomorrow at the PRUH Chapel from 2pm.

All patients, families and staff are welcome to attend.

#TeamKings #BLAW2025

Image of Hambleden Wing at King's College Hospital lit up pink and blue.

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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 1d

While pot holes in Kent go unfilled

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Dr Kate Chhatwal @katechhatwal.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to welcome Education Select Committee Chair @helenhayes.bsky.social to the launch of the 3rd cohort of @challengepartners.bsky.social pioneering #SEND Developmental Peer Review today. 1/3

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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed - done

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Helen Hayes MP @helenhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I was delighted to welcome Lucy Powell to Dulwich & West Norwood yesterday.

I’m proud to be supporting Lucy for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

If you are a Labour Party member your ballot should have arrived. Please vote for Lucy!

Helen Hayes and Lucy Powell talking to a member of the public on the doorstep

Helen Hayes and Lucy Powell walking down a street

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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 1d

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@unisonfifehealth.bsky.social

Off Duty

Nurses Charter.

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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 1d

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Off Duty

Nurses Charter.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 3d

I am absolutely fed up of this assault on critical thinking. Those in power & those who aspire to it don't want people to think critically; they don't want people to _think_. The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences are valuable in themselves, but watch the economy tank if Badenoch has her way...

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 3d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 4d

80% of private-sector workers have access to paid sick leave—a record high!

But access varies depending on where you live and how much money you make:

Highest-paid workers: 96% have paid sick days
Lowest-paid workers: 41% have paid sick days

Learn more: www.epi.org/blog/access-...

Access to paid sick leave continues to grow but remains highly unequal by geography and wage level

In a government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are on leave without pay for the duration of the shutdown (and possibly worse, if the threatened layoffs occur). If history is a guid...

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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 3d

Need to make more on this chias and lies

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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 3d

#HistNursing #BlackhistoryMonth This one nurse had a huge impact on how patient care is delivered in emergencies

Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 3d

#OnThisDay, 8 Oct 1952, USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage at the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️
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Abbie Sweetwine preparing a plasma infusion at the site of the crash. She is a black woman, surrounded by white men.

A photo of the Harrow and Wealdstone crash, showing three passenger trains that had run into each other. There is debris two storeys high, and people searching the wreckage.

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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 3d

Arguably the Oldest mental hospital in the world

Hospital De Los Pobres Inocentes

València

Built 15th century on a layout of two crosses by religious order - housing separate male & female wards

Surrounded by large gardens because fresh air & Plants seen as important for mental health

London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 7d

www.palmbeachquakers.org/post/joan-ba...

Joan Baez: How Her Quaker Faith Shaped Her Music and Activism

Today, we're delving into the fascinating world of legendary folk singer Joan Baez and the influence of Quakerism on her artistic endeavors.

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London Nurse @londonnurse.bsky.social · 7d

"A Girl Like You" Edwyn Collins
Farewell concert at National Theatre
Tonight

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