Sharon Brennan
@sharonbrennan.bsky.social
Director of Policy and External Affairs @nationalvoices.bsky.social Prev. Asthma&LungUK, Alzheimer’s Society and award winning journalist HSJ
I recently chaired a @nationalvoices.bsky.social roundtable on AI -asking how to make it more patient & health inequalities centric. Recent @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social blog on AI In diagnostics shows the urgency to improve patient involvement: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/cu... #AI #healthcare
May 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I recently chaired a @nationalvoices.bsky.social roundtable on AI -asking how to make it more patient & health inequalities centric. Recent @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social blog on AI In diagnostics shows the urgency to improve patient involvement: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/cu... #AI #healthcare
Did the online GP referral thing - invited to book an appointment via NHS app - got this message. When the GP practice wasn’t using the app for the same process their website available appointments in 3 weeks+ time so at least you could book something.
April 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Did the online GP referral thing - invited to book an appointment via NHS app - got this message. When the GP practice wasn’t using the app for the same process their website available appointments in 3 weeks+ time so at least you could book something.
As part of Austism Awareness week @cftrustuk.bsky.social has shared this blog written by a social media pal of mine (we can’t meet due to cross infection risks) - loved this bit about small but vital hospital adaptions www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/news/so-much...
April 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
As part of Austism Awareness week @cftrustuk.bsky.social has shared this blog written by a social media pal of mine (we can’t meet due to cross infection risks) - loved this bit about small but vital hospital adaptions www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/news/so-much...
Representing @nationalvoices.bsky.social members today @commonshealth.bsky.social on NHSE abolishment’s and ICB cuts - real opp to refocus on patient exp in restructure - bringing back PE directorate& PE accountability at ICB board level, using national patient surveys to drive improvement 1/2
March 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Representing @nationalvoices.bsky.social members today @commonshealth.bsky.social on NHSE abolishment’s and ICB cuts - real opp to refocus on patient exp in restructure - bringing back PE directorate& PE accountability at ICB board level, using national patient surveys to drive improvement 1/2
I remembered a piece I wrote for @hsj.co.uk back in the day, leaving this here without comment www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...
March 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I remembered a piece I wrote for @hsj.co.uk back in the day, leaving this here without comment www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-r...
Was at Harefield hospital last 2 days and looked again as this the amazing pot by Grayson Perry called ‘Urn for the Living’. You can see it from outside and inside the operating theatre - it makes me feel loved and seen that someone has made something so beautiful to honour the transplant process
January 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Was at Harefield hospital last 2 days and looked again as this the amazing pot by Grayson Perry called ‘Urn for the Living’. You can see it from outside and inside the operating theatre - it makes me feel loved and seen that someone has made something so beautiful to honour the transplant process
We took mini VG to see this exhib @chris-branson.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We took mini VG to see this exhib @chris-branson.bsky.social
Bringing you our top 5 books each from 2024 with @chris-branson.bsky.social (bumped into Nick Cave at the Bacon exhib at the National Portrait Gallery today - thanked him for his music but not his book) #books #reading #skylit
January 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Bringing you our top 5 books each from 2024 with @chris-branson.bsky.social (bumped into Nick Cave at the Bacon exhib at the National Portrait Gallery today - thanked him for his music but not his book) #books #reading #skylit
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year with a message from Rosie (for you and the wider world)
January 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year with a message from Rosie (for you and the wider world)
Time magazine may have named Trump Person of the Year, but we all know 2024 belongs to this incredible woman:
December 19, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Time magazine may have named Trump Person of the Year, but we all know 2024 belongs to this incredible woman:
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
20. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
20. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
December 19, 2024 at 7:25 PM
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
20. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
20. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
19. Where the Wild Things are, Maurice Sendak
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
19. Where the Wild Things are, Maurice Sendak
December 18, 2024 at 11:24 PM
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
19. Where the Wild Things are, Maurice Sendak
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
19. Where the Wild Things are, Maurice Sendak
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
18. The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
18. The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
December 17, 2024 at 10:26 PM
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
18. The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
18. The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
17. Being mortal, by Atul Gawande
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
17. Being mortal, by Atul Gawande
December 16, 2024 at 10:12 PM
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
17. Being mortal, by Atul Gawande
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
17. Being mortal, by Atul Gawande
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
16. Dispatches, by Michael Herr
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
16. Dispatches, by Michael Herr
December 15, 2024 at 2:11 PM
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
16. Dispatches, by Michael Herr
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
16. Dispatches, by Michael Herr
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
15. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
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15. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
December 14, 2024 at 11:26 PM
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
15. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
15. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
14. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
14. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
December 13, 2024 at 6:44 PM
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
14. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
14. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
13. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Marriage, by Alice Munro
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
13. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Marriage, by Alice Munro
December 12, 2024 at 8:26 PM
A conversation about books, you say? Yes please!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
13. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Marriage, by Alice Munro
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
13. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Marriage, by Alice Munro
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
12. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
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12. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
December 11, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
12. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
12. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
11. The Overhaul, by Kathleen Jamie
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11. The Overhaul, by Kathleen Jamie
December 10, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
11. The Overhaul, by Kathleen Jamie
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
11. The Overhaul, by Kathleen Jamie
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
10. The Drowned World, by J.G. Ballard
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10. The Drowned World, by J.G. Ballard
December 9, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
10. The Drowned World, by J.G. Ballard
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
10. The Drowned World, by J.G. Ballard
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
9. The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd
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9. The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd
December 8, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
9. The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
9. The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
8.
The BFG, by Roald Dahl
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8.
The BFG, by Roald Dahl
December 7, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
8.
The BFG, by Roald Dahl
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8.
The BFG, by Roald Dahl
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
7. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
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7. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
December 6, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
7. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
7. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
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6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
December 5, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
#BookSky #books #bookchallenge
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley