Melanie Rowland
@mrowlandphysio.bsky.social
Associate Chief AHP at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. #Physiotherapist
Great news! The benefits of green spaces for communities so eloquently described by OT Adam Jackson. 🎬👏🏻
The Highbury Community Garden welcomed a visit today from Jack Simmons of Notts TV, who came to find out more about the recent funding from The National Lottery Community Fund. View on Freeview channel 7, BT 7, Virgin 159 or watch live at https://orlo.uk/DZqaF
June 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Great news! The benefits of green spaces for communities so eloquently described by OT Adam Jackson. 🎬👏🏻
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Our Nutrition & Dietetics team is celebrating #DietitiansWeek with the theme ‘the future of dietetics’. Follow the team on Facebook @NottshcDietitians where they’ll be sharing information on sustainability, technology & virtual ways of working & apprenticeship routes in the dietetic world.
June 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Our Nutrition & Dietetics team is celebrating #DietitiansWeek with the theme ‘the future of dietetics’. Follow the team on Facebook @NottshcDietitians where they’ll be sharing information on sustainability, technology & virtual ways of working & apprenticeship routes in the dietetic world.
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Are you working at an ICS in a strategic role focused on community-based care, inequalities, or support for older people?
Take part in the survey we are carrying out on behalf of the CQC and help inform this year's State of Care report.
Deadline 25 June.
Access our 10-15 minute survey, here 👇
Take part in the survey we are carrying out on behalf of the CQC and help inform this year's State of Care report.
Deadline 25 June.
Access our 10-15 minute survey, here 👇
Please fill out this form
For CQC's 2025 State of Care report, an annual assessment of health care and social care in England
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June 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Are you working at an ICS in a strategic role focused on community-based care, inequalities, or support for older people?
Take part in the survey we are carrying out on behalf of the CQC and help inform this year's State of Care report.
Deadline 25 June.
Access our 10-15 minute survey, here 👇
Take part in the survey we are carrying out on behalf of the CQC and help inform this year's State of Care report.
Deadline 25 June.
Access our 10-15 minute survey, here 👇
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The Trust is delighted to announce that the Live Team at Highbury Hospital in Bulwell, has secured a £20,000 grant from The National Lottery Community Fund to support the development and ongoing work of the Highbury Community Garden.
Read the full story online: https://orlo.uk/0SE8q
Read the full story online: https://orlo.uk/0SE8q
June 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Trust is delighted to announce that the Live Team at Highbury Hospital in Bulwell, has secured a £20,000 grant from The National Lottery Community Fund to support the development and ongoing work of the Highbury Community Garden.
Read the full story online: https://orlo.uk/0SE8q
Read the full story online: https://orlo.uk/0SE8q
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Physiotherapists can help preserve brain function in neurocognitive disorders through specialised exercise programms 🧠
Learn about this expanding role and evidence-based approaches – freely available to everyone on Physiopedia: https://www.physio-pedia.com/Neurocognitive_Disorders
Learn about this expanding role and evidence-based approaches – freely available to everyone on Physiopedia: https://www.physio-pedia.com/Neurocognitive_Disorders
May 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Physiotherapists can help preserve brain function in neurocognitive disorders through specialised exercise programms 🧠
Learn about this expanding role and evidence-based approaches – freely available to everyone on Physiopedia: https://www.physio-pedia.com/Neurocognitive_Disorders
Learn about this expanding role and evidence-based approaches – freely available to everyone on Physiopedia: https://www.physio-pedia.com/Neurocognitive_Disorders
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🏡 🧠This #MetaAnalysis of 35 studies on home-based rehabilitation for #stroke concluded "Home-based rehabilitation is comparable to hospital-based rehabilitation and more effective than usual care."
Read more:
academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...
Read more:
academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...
Effectiveness of Home-Based Rehabilitation on Activities of Daily Living in Patients with Stroke: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
AbstractObjective. This systematic review compared the effectiveness of home-based rehabilitation with that of hospital-based rehabilitation and usual care
academic.oup.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🏡 🧠This #MetaAnalysis of 35 studies on home-based rehabilitation for #stroke concluded "Home-based rehabilitation is comparable to hospital-based rehabilitation and more effective than usual care."
Read more:
academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...
Read more:
academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...
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🗓️ Wed 11 June national #ARCseminar:
Exploring lived experience with creative arts
www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-...
Prof Caroline Sanders @arc-gm.bsky.social
Prof Monica Lakhanpaul @ucl.ac.uk
Dr Laura Abbott @arceastofengland.bsky.social
Barbara Czyznikowska & Lis Naylor @arc-em.bsky.social
Exploring lived experience with creative arts
www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-...
Prof Caroline Sanders @arc-gm.bsky.social
Prof Monica Lakhanpaul @ucl.ac.uk
Dr Laura Abbott @arceastofengland.bsky.social
Barbara Czyznikowska & Lis Naylor @arc-em.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🗓️ Wed 11 June national #ARCseminar:
Exploring lived experience with creative arts
www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-...
Prof Caroline Sanders @arc-gm.bsky.social
Prof Monica Lakhanpaul @ucl.ac.uk
Dr Laura Abbott @arceastofengland.bsky.social
Barbara Czyznikowska & Lis Naylor @arc-em.bsky.social
Exploring lived experience with creative arts
www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-...
Prof Caroline Sanders @arc-gm.bsky.social
Prof Monica Lakhanpaul @ucl.ac.uk
Dr Laura Abbott @arceastofengland.bsky.social
Barbara Czyznikowska & Lis Naylor @arc-em.bsky.social
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This week we're shining a light on Lucie Aldrich, Speech & Language Therapist. Lucie has made an outstanding difference in the lives of both patients & colleagues. She's dedicated to listening to others & constantly drives service improvement.
May 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This week we're shining a light on Lucie Aldrich, Speech & Language Therapist. Lucie has made an outstanding difference in the lives of both patients & colleagues. She's dedicated to listening to others & constantly drives service improvement.
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The NHS is England’s biggest employer by far.
Our NHS staffing tracker shows the trends in staffing levels across hospital and community services, general practice, and those in training to join the workforce 👩⚕️
Explore our tracker here 👇
Our NHS staffing tracker shows the trends in staffing levels across hospital and community services, general practice, and those in training to join the workforce 👩⚕️
Explore our tracker here 👇
NHS staffing tracker
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April 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The NHS is England’s biggest employer by far.
Our NHS staffing tracker shows the trends in staffing levels across hospital and community services, general practice, and those in training to join the workforce 👩⚕️
Explore our tracker here 👇
Our NHS staffing tracker shows the trends in staffing levels across hospital and community services, general practice, and those in training to join the workforce 👩⚕️
Explore our tracker here 👇
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Join my team at @thecsp.bsky.social Vacancy: Assistant Director, Digital Comms, flex location, 28 hours a week, FTC for 1 year (potential to extend to 2). Contact me for a chat. For full details see below
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April 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Join my team at @thecsp.bsky.social Vacancy: Assistant Director, Digital Comms, flex location, 28 hours a week, FTC for 1 year (potential to extend to 2). Contact me for a chat. For full details see below
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Please do share with friends and/or colleagues if you can.
See you there. 💃🏽
#AGILEConf25 #OlderPeople #AddingLifeToYears
@thecsp.bsky.social
@thecspstudents.bsky.social
@agilecsp.bsky.social
See you there. 💃🏽
#AGILEConf25 #OlderPeople #AddingLifeToYears
@thecsp.bsky.social
@thecspstudents.bsky.social
@agilecsp.bsky.social
Come join us at @agilecsp.bsky.social conference this May in Nottingham.
Many ticket options available including students. Open to AGILE members and non-members.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agile-conf...
Many ticket options available including students. Open to AGILE members and non-members.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agile-conf...
April 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Please do share with friends and/or colleagues if you can.
See you there. 💃🏽
#AGILEConf25 #OlderPeople #AddingLifeToYears
@thecsp.bsky.social
@thecspstudents.bsky.social
@agilecsp.bsky.social
See you there. 💃🏽
#AGILEConf25 #OlderPeople #AddingLifeToYears
@thecsp.bsky.social
@thecspstudents.bsky.social
@agilecsp.bsky.social
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We are looking for autistic children & young people aged 11-18 to participate in a survey about improving the accessibility of CAMHS in the UK. Views can be shared by writing, recording a voice note, or drawing & labelling a picture. Link in QR code below or here: ljmu.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...
April 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We are looking for autistic children & young people aged 11-18 to participate in a survey about improving the accessibility of CAMHS in the UK. Views can be shared by writing, recording a voice note, or drawing & labelling a picture. Link in QR code below or here: ljmu.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...
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Do you live near Murcia in Spain (or know someone that does) and have AT skills to set up Grid 3 with eyegaze? Please let me know at [email protected]
February 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Do you live near Murcia in Spain (or know someone that does) and have AT skills to set up Grid 3 with eyegaze? Please let me know at [email protected]
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Research shows for employees, “feeling respected” is 17.9 X more powerful a predictor of an organisation’s culture score than the average factor (& 2 X as strong as the 2nd most important factor, supportive leadership). Advice for leaders:
sloanreview.mit.edu/article/are-.... Graphic: Gaping Void
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sloanreview.mit.edu/article/are-.... Graphic: Gaping Void
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January 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Research shows for employees, “feeling respected” is 17.9 X more powerful a predictor of an organisation’s culture score than the average factor (& 2 X as strong as the 2nd most important factor, supportive leadership). Advice for leaders:
sloanreview.mit.edu/article/are-.... Graphic: Gaping Void
.
sloanreview.mit.edu/article/are-.... Graphic: Gaping Void
.
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Have you spotted @ElizabethCasso1 is looking for our next chair. I stand down in Oct25 after 6yrs. Can I tempt you to consider this fantastic leadership role 😉 We are building in a handover period to ease transition. Go on! Take a look 👇🏻👇🏻.
www.peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/chair-o...
www.peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/chair-o...
Chair of Trustees | Elizabeth Casson Trust via Peridot Partners
Elizabeth Casson Trust seeks a new Chair of Trustees to support the development of occupational therapists in the UK and internationally.
www.peridotpartners.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Have you spotted @ElizabethCasso1 is looking for our next chair. I stand down in Oct25 after 6yrs. Can I tempt you to consider this fantastic leadership role 😉 We are building in a handover period to ease transition. Go on! Take a look 👇🏻👇🏻.
www.peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/chair-o...
www.peridotpartners.co.uk/jobs/chair-o...
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AHPs interested in a public health role, check out this great opportunity to become a physical activity clinical champion
tinyurl.com/4dej242d
@tolanahp.bsky.social @suzannerastrick.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4dej242d
@tolanahp.bsky.social @suzannerastrick.bsky.social
Job details
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January 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
AHPs interested in a public health role, check out this great opportunity to become a physical activity clinical champion
tinyurl.com/4dej242d
@tolanahp.bsky.social @suzannerastrick.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4dej242d
@tolanahp.bsky.social @suzannerastrick.bsky.social
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Our PhD student, Meri Westlake, has done a lot of thinking about how we frame hospital aquired deconditioning. Lovely to see her work starting to appear in the wild with this publication: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
January 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Our PhD student, Meri Westlake, has done a lot of thinking about how we frame hospital aquired deconditioning. Lovely to see her work starting to appear in the wild with this publication: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
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We take a deep dive into how integrated care systems are making a positive impact on people's health and wellbeing. This is the first in a series on how ICSs are delivering against their four core purposes. In this edition, we look at improving population health.
Are integrated care systems improving population health outcomes?
A deep dive into how systems are making a positive impact on people's health and wellbeing.
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January 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
We take a deep dive into how integrated care systems are making a positive impact on people's health and wellbeing. This is the first in a series on how ICSs are delivering against their four core purposes. In this edition, we look at improving population health.
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Coming up Wednesday 22nd Jan - launch event for the new UK AHP Public Health Strategic Framework
Join here - tinyurl.com/6ucfkf9v
Join here - tinyurl.com/6ucfkf9v
January 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Coming up Wednesday 22nd Jan - launch event for the new UK AHP Public Health Strategic Framework
Join here - tinyurl.com/6ucfkf9v
Join here - tinyurl.com/6ucfkf9v
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First podcast episode of 2025 released today.
It’s a good one; co-design, real good listening and a significant improvement in number of falls and ambulance need.
open.spotify.com/episode/4ZMr...
It’s a good one; co-design, real good listening and a significant improvement in number of falls and ambulance need.
open.spotify.com/episode/4ZMr...
January 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
First podcast episode of 2025 released today.
It’s a good one; co-design, real good listening and a significant improvement in number of falls and ambulance need.
open.spotify.com/episode/4ZMr...
It’s a good one; co-design, real good listening and a significant improvement in number of falls and ambulance need.
open.spotify.com/episode/4ZMr...
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It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
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Deputy Chief AHP Forum (DeCAF) - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform webinar.
12 March 10:30-12:00 the career journeys of:
Laura Plant & Noma Makhanda
Open to non-members and aimed at those aspiring to be a deputy chief AHP or chief AHP.
📝 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/37e101...
12 March 10:30-12:00 the career journeys of:
Laura Plant & Noma Makhanda
Open to non-members and aimed at those aspiring to be a deputy chief AHP or chief AHP.
📝 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/37e101...
January 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Deputy Chief AHP Forum (DeCAF) - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform webinar.
12 March 10:30-12:00 the career journeys of:
Laura Plant & Noma Makhanda
Open to non-members and aimed at those aspiring to be a deputy chief AHP or chief AHP.
📝 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/37e101...
12 March 10:30-12:00 the career journeys of:
Laura Plant & Noma Makhanda
Open to non-members and aimed at those aspiring to be a deputy chief AHP or chief AHP.
📝 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/37e101...
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What are Allied Health Professionals? 🩺
In a new blog, Deputy Chief AHP Officer for England @lindahindle.bsky.social and student dietician Kyle Kennedy explain the progress made by Allied Health Professionals in the latest impact report.
www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...
In a new blog, Deputy Chief AHP Officer for England @lindahindle.bsky.social and student dietician Kyle Kennedy explain the progress made by Allied Health Professionals in the latest impact report.
www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...
Celebrating the Achievements of AHPs in Public Health
Deputy Chief AHP Officer for England Linda Hindle and student dietician Kyle Kennedy explain the progress made by Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in the latest impact report.
www.rsph.org.uk
January 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
What are Allied Health Professionals? 🩺
In a new blog, Deputy Chief AHP Officer for England @lindahindle.bsky.social and student dietician Kyle Kennedy explain the progress made by Allied Health Professionals in the latest impact report.
www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...
In a new blog, Deputy Chief AHP Officer for England @lindahindle.bsky.social and student dietician Kyle Kennedy explain the progress made by Allied Health Professionals in the latest impact report.
www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...
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📢 The UK AHP Public Health Impact Report (2019-24) is here
Thanks to the incredible efforts of AHPs:
✔ 100% of HEIs now include public health in AHP education
✔ 80+ case studies published
✔ 31 population health fellowships
👏 Thank you AHPs
👉 www.ahpf.org.uk/Public_Healt...
#AHPpublichealth
Thanks to the incredible efforts of AHPs:
✔ 100% of HEIs now include public health in AHP education
✔ 80+ case studies published
✔ 31 population health fellowships
👏 Thank you AHPs
👉 www.ahpf.org.uk/Public_Healt...
#AHPpublichealth
January 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢 The UK AHP Public Health Impact Report (2019-24) is here
Thanks to the incredible efforts of AHPs:
✔ 100% of HEIs now include public health in AHP education
✔ 80+ case studies published
✔ 31 population health fellowships
👏 Thank you AHPs
👉 www.ahpf.org.uk/Public_Healt...
#AHPpublichealth
Thanks to the incredible efforts of AHPs:
✔ 100% of HEIs now include public health in AHP education
✔ 80+ case studies published
✔ 31 population health fellowships
👏 Thank you AHPs
👉 www.ahpf.org.uk/Public_Healt...
#AHPpublichealth