Lin B
@linb.bsky.social
Thrice retired Nurse & Consultant in Public Health. Love festivals, travel, cheese, Wales, London, Africa, Australia, Vegas, dogs. Reformed revolutionary. Currently Chair of RCN Congress. Views all mine. #nursesky
Link here www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Sub... #nursesky
October 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Link here www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Sub... #nursesky
October 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Hardly seems like any time since the last one, but @rcn.org.uk Congress is now open for submission of items for next year 😊😊
September 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hardly seems like any time since the last one, but @rcn.org.uk Congress is now open for submission of items for next year 😊😊
Been busy with summer festivals, both having fun and working in the healthcare provision. Glad we finally have rain in the UK but sad that festival season is over for this year. Last sunset of last night at my last festival (Reading)
August 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Been busy with summer festivals, both having fun and working in the healthcare provision. Glad we finally have rain in the UK but sad that festival season is over for this year. Last sunset of last night at my last festival (Reading)
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🚀 Launching: the RCN Activism Strategy!
Today we've launched our new Activism Strategy.
Hear from leading members about why activism matters.
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Today we've launched our new Activism Strategy.
Hear from leading members about why activism matters.
Learn more: buff.ly/BdbStyP
June 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🚀 Launching: the RCN Activism Strategy!
Today we've launched our new Activism Strategy.
Hear from leading members about why activism matters.
Learn more: buff.ly/BdbStyP
Today we've launched our new Activism Strategy.
Hear from leading members about why activism matters.
Learn more: buff.ly/BdbStyP
And what an interesting week it was!
From big issues like pay and career progression to personal moments captured between RCN members, here’s some of what happened earlier this month at #RCN25 ⬇️
RCN Congress 2025 round-up: Nursing pay, strikes and immigration among the topics in Liverpool | RCN Magazine | Royal College of Nursing
RCN Congress 2025 round up Liverpool moments
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May 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
And what an interesting week it was!
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In a keynote address at RCN Congress today, Professor Nicola Ranger demanded an update on pay for those in the NHS and general practice, and stressed that all nurses needed a ‘significant pay rise’ urgently #nursesky
Practices nurses must not wait any longer for pay update, says RCN chief
General practice nurses (GPNs) must not be expected to wait any longer for news on their pay for 2025/26, the chief executive
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May 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
In a keynote address at RCN Congress today, Professor Nicola Ranger demanded an update on pay for those in the NHS and general practice, and stressed that all nurses needed a ‘significant pay rise’ urgently #nursesky
Definitely not my first rodeo @rcn.org.uk 🤣🤣
May 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Definitely not my first rodeo @rcn.org.uk 🤣🤣
Three days of @rcn.org.uk meetings now, finalising the plans for RCN Congress in Liverpool next month. Who’s joining us? 😊
April 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Three days of @rcn.org.uk meetings now, finalising the plans for RCN Congress in Liverpool next month. Who’s joining us? 😊
Finally back home in the UK after a month travelling across Canada. It was an interesting time to be visiting - antics south of their border, new PM and now an election. Didn’t meet a single Canadian who thought they ought to be part of the USA though!
April 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Finally back home in the UK after a month travelling across Canada. It was an interesting time to be visiting - antics south of their border, new PM and now an election. Didn’t meet a single Canadian who thought they ought to be part of the USA though!
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From work-life balance to health tourism, and international student hardship and understanding neurodiversity, our 2025 Congress agenda offers a huge selection of vibrant and vital debates for RCN members. #RCN25
Find out more and book your free place ✅ buff.ly/DUhXfjs
Find out more and book your free place ✅ buff.ly/DUhXfjs
March 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
From work-life balance to health tourism, and international student hardship and understanding neurodiversity, our 2025 Congress agenda offers a huge selection of vibrant and vital debates for RCN members. #RCN25
Find out more and book your free place ✅ buff.ly/DUhXfjs
Find out more and book your free place ✅ buff.ly/DUhXfjs
Currently in Quebec where it’s -8 but so sunny, and I’m loving it! There’s a year round Christmas shop too
March 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Currently in Quebec where it’s -8 but so sunny, and I’m loving it! There’s a year round Christmas shop too
Still wondering how @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social could leave Leonard Cohen out of their list of great Canadian musicians!? I can understand them not mentioning Bublé but not Cohen!! I could listen to Live in London on repeat forever
March 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Still wondering how @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social could leave Leonard Cohen out of their list of great Canadian musicians!? I can understand them not mentioning Bublé but not Cohen!! I could listen to Live in London on repeat forever
I love a train! I’m a geek 😊 This was Vancouver to Edmonton and tonight I’m off from Edmonton to Winnipeg 🇨🇦
March 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I love a train! I’m a geek 😊 This was Vancouver to Edmonton and tonight I’m off from Edmonton to Winnipeg 🇨🇦
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Unfucking believable as CDC is suddenly launching a study into exploring possible links with MMR and autism. I wonder who might have initiated this? 🤔 to be clear There is NO link and this has already been debunked in massive studies 🧪🧵
Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
www.reuters.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Unfucking believable as CDC is suddenly launching a study into exploring possible links with MMR and autism. I wonder who might have initiated this? 🤔 to be clear There is NO link and this has already been debunked in massive studies 🧪🧵
Canada - not as cold as I was expecting 😊 Kitsilano beach, Vancouver today
March 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Canada - not as cold as I was expecting 😊 Kitsilano beach, Vancouver today
Best cover of this song ever youtu.be/d8_fLu2yrP4?...
Roberta Flack - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 1972
YouTube video by OLD TAPES
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February 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Best cover of this song ever youtu.be/d8_fLu2yrP4?...
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You GUYYYYSSSSSSS
The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
2025 Governors Ball US Army - "Do You Hear the People Sing" BRILLIANT TRUMP TROLLING!
YouTube video by Anti Trump
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February 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
You GUYYYYSSSSSSS
The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
Very worrying news
U.S. CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health. The EIS ‘disease detectives’ investigate outbreaks around the world, by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t... via @statnews.com #GlobalHealth
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
www.statnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Very worrying news
Good news, the agenda for this years @rcn.org.uk Congress has been published www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Age...
RCN Congress agenda | Congress | Royal College of Nursing
See the important nursing topics we'll be debating this year.
www.rcn.org.uk
February 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Good news, the agenda for this years @rcn.org.uk Congress has been published www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Age...
I have contacted my MP to ask him to support this bill, using the website www.writetothem.com/write Please think about doing the same @alisonleary1.bsky.social @leannehpatrick.bsky.social @mrsbosanquet.bsky.social
🚨NEW: On Tuesday 11th February, I will introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill seeking to make ‘nurse’ a protected title in UK law.
Pleased to have support from and build on the vital Protect Nurse campaign. #ProtectNurse
Read more: www.dawnbutler.org.uk/ten_minute_r...
Pleased to have support from and build on the vital Protect Nurse campaign. #ProtectNurse
Read more: www.dawnbutler.org.uk/ten_minute_r...
February 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I have contacted my MP to ask him to support this bill, using the website www.writetothem.com/write Please think about doing the same @alisonleary1.bsky.social @leannehpatrick.bsky.social @mrsbosanquet.bsky.social
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Dinnertime at the Mason-Tanenbaum house.
February 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Dinnertime at the Mason-Tanenbaum house.
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🚨NEW: On Tuesday 11th February, I will introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill seeking to make ‘nurse’ a protected title in UK law.
Pleased to have support from and build on the vital Protect Nurse campaign. #ProtectNurse
Read more: www.dawnbutler.org.uk/ten_minute_r...
Pleased to have support from and build on the vital Protect Nurse campaign. #ProtectNurse
Read more: www.dawnbutler.org.uk/ten_minute_r...
February 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🚨NEW: On Tuesday 11th February, I will introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill seeking to make ‘nurse’ a protected title in UK law.
Pleased to have support from and build on the vital Protect Nurse campaign. #ProtectNurse
Read more: www.dawnbutler.org.uk/ten_minute_r...
Pleased to have support from and build on the vital Protect Nurse campaign. #ProtectNurse
Read more: www.dawnbutler.org.uk/ten_minute_r...
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We're standing in solidarity with nurses, students and lecturers protesting outside Cardiff Uni today and highlighting critical concerns about the proposal to close its School of Nursing. We're calling for urgent action to protect nursing and ensure a sustainable future for the profession in Wales.
February 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
We're standing in solidarity with nurses, students and lecturers protesting outside Cardiff Uni today and highlighting critical concerns about the proposal to close its School of Nursing. We're calling for urgent action to protect nursing and ensure a sustainable future for the profession in Wales.
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Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.