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#QCymru members, your April newsletter should be in your inbox with blogs, journals & news. Look out for the in person event in Wales on the 27 June reservation link. Those with a pending membership are welcome to join. Not a member? Join here - q.health.org.uk/join-q/ Please RT.

Do you work in NHS Wales, with a background or interest in improvement? Could I please interview you for my MSc #SystemsThinking research regarding a Whole Systems Approach? See the pic below for details & DM me if you can help. Many thanks #QCymru

Calling all improvement enthusiasts & practitioners in Wales - register for the Q Collaboration event on the 27th June here - q.health.org.uk/event/q-collab… . Old, new and non-members welcome! Agenda to follow. #QCymru

Has anyone got any interview questions I can have for a GP practice pharmacist? Thank you in advance Graham Stretch Robin Conibere Brendon Jiang 江汉昌 FRPharmS Laura Buckley The PCPA

Prof Dr Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

And here he breaks down while explaining the absolute trauma experienced by smaller hospitals in particular - the "healthier" ICU patients were transferred out, leaving them coping with so much death. They felt so alone.

Thank you to the many thousands of people across the whole of the NHS & social care who helped deliver the care during the pandemic. Has been a strange and difficult day. But felt it was important to give witness to some small part of the enormity of the challenge we all faced.

Latest paper looks at why people leave #NHS roles People give multiple reasons for leaving (not just one) We have started to see supervisory burden and taskification emerge as contributory factors. Distress, overwork & understaffing were common rdcu.be/dVtUO

Going over to #bluesky to check it out . Acrware.bsky.social . Not seeing the fantastic stuff I used to from the NHS in the timeline . Will try and share and post more over there too.

Cardiff Met's water polo teams are heading to Malta for training and need our support to make it happen. Every bit helps! Please consider donating and sharing this. Thank you! gofund.me/be4d9a71

Pleased to share, my MSc is completed. My dissertation ‘Cases of Whole System approaches in NHS Wales & implications of Systems Thinking in Practice for #Improvement practitioners’ had recommendations aligned to the health & care quality standards. Thanks to all that contributed

Here is one for you Helen Howson I’ve been the staff member trying to figure out why a pt is not on the list . I remember maybe Anne Marie Cunningham sharing a similar story on X of a ‘Not an appointment letter’? Untrusted assessment, over checking, #sillyrule = mega-failure demand

1/2 We are saddened to hear of the sudden passing of friend and colleague Nigel Hullah. Nigel worked very closely with our Dementia Team and leaves a remarkable legacy, having been a huge presence in the national and regional dementia programmes.

Q Lab Cymru are proudly involved in the Wales Mental Health Exchange in Aberystwyth taking place from yesterday, today & tomorrow. We have already had a powerful opening from Des, Ashton Hewitt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇯🇲 , Ciara & Horatio Clare . “Mental health is a universal human experience”. #WMHLEx

Keynote speaker Horatio Clare gives a shout out to Mental Health pharmacists, their value adding role & the importance of trials for effective treatments. Individuals going through hell hesitant for medication & the stigma of MH. #WMHLEx

Breakout rooms at #WMHLEx - Dr Chris O’Connor & Ewan Hilton of Platform, talk open access care, what are the implementation considerations in Wales? Delegates share beat practice , what do we do differently & how it can sustain ? “This is not a flash in the pan”. Dr O’Connor

Breakout room 2 - Rebecca Temple-Purcell & Jon Bisson delivering the trauma informed practice at #WMHLEx. Adapting the medical model with social, psychological & behavioural dimensions not as “third class” passengers. Examples from the knowledge exchanges that already took place

Final day of #WMHLEx. Kicking off with more international learning SANE sharing their digital services for people with complex mental health needs 🇦🇺 Joining us via Teams in Aberystwyth & Cardiff. “Designed against user need, not service or policy need” . Diolch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿