24 minutes of repeated calls to my GP surgery this morning before I could even join the queue to speak to a receptionist. Now 19th in the queue…🙈

Really proud to have got the ball rolling on this and getting a staff comms notice out to the trust 🚨 Thank you to everyone who had input and helped produce this University Hospitals Birmingham ADHD UK

Flowchart from NHS England. “Do not perform urine dipsticks: Dipsticks become more unreliable with increasing age over 65 years. By 80 years half of older adults in care, and most with a urinary catheter, will have bacteria present in the bladder/urine without an infection.”

New research publication... How can virtual wards help people with frailty to avoid hospital? You can read our plain language summary: arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/research/proje… And the full paper published in Age & Ageing: academic.oup.com/ageing/article… Thank you Maggie Westby and team!

💥 NHS STAFF 💥 Please consider signing this open letter to Victoria Atkins & Amanda Pritchard at NHS England expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut NHS Practitioner Health funding for hospital staff. Please share widely 🙏 Letter here: forms.gle/YmXpi8dxSbW7UR…

New data shows some elderly patients waited 5 days + in A&E, "a national scandal" Adrian Boyle. In 2023, almost 100,000 elderly ppl in England wait 12 hrs + in A&E after decision for further care - age group 65+ sees 25-fold increase since 2019. 🌐 rcem.ac.uk/older-people-b…

How we talk about ageing affects how we feel about ageing - British Geriatrics Society has published a new frailty language guide, and this blog explains why we think this is important 👉 bgs.org.uk/blog/how-we-ta…

University Hospitals Birmingham BHH ED are preparing to celebrate IND on 12th May. This board represents the nursing team by celebrating their backgrounds and nursing journeys. Full of inspiring stories. We love working by alongside this team and celebrate each and every one of them too 💙 #IND2024

"Initially, I thought advance care planning was very specialist, but I've come to realise that anyone within the care team or family can do it. It's fundamentally about listening, understanding, and sharing the individual's values" #ACPDay2024 bgs.org.uk/blog/the-impor…

Older patients admitted to rehabilitation following COVID-19 substantially recovered, even those with frailty at admission. Patients with frailty should not be excluded from rehabilitation after acute illness. Read more at: academic.oup.com/ageing/article… Age_and_Ageing

Great event to engage with in West Birmingham to support the older persons wellbeing Rebecca Power tabitha breeze @bhamcommunity Lorraine Galligan rupinder chal

This warrior deserves a Damehood or something. Every bit a hero as her fella! 🥹

This is Rob Burrow in his own words ❤️

Delighted to launch our new healthy ageing site, soon to be followed by a free UK app to help people assess and manage how they are ageing thelifecurve.com

'Dying is not as bad as you think' | BBC Ideas youtu.be/CruBRZh8quc?fe… via YouTube New home for this BBC Ideas💡 video To embed: Choose 'share' Choose 'embed' Site will provide you with an embed code for your own website (BBC doesn't enable downloads). x.com/bbcideas/statu…

🧠 Try the 4AT: the4AT.com/trythe4AT ➡️ New interactive calculator - shows how the scoring works as you choose the options 👍 Good for teaching. ⭐️ Please retweet! #delirium #WDAD2025