Hello, it’s your Miss January’s here! Just letting you know that the Blue Skies Hospitals Fund calendars are out for sale, £6.99 from the Blue Skies shop! (We will sign your copy on request 😉)

Another day, another rehab group! 🧠💪🏼Lovely to see patients supporting eachother along their Stroke rehab journey! #strokerehab #rehab #OccupationalTherapy #physiotherapy #weloverehab #grouprehab Royal College of Occupational Therapists Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) Photos shared with patient consent!

Delighted to promote the excellent work we do in Blackpool.

Thanks to Victoria Davies and Amanda Heaton for representing the Hospital Physio and OT service at the NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospitals 💙🌈 careers event 💙💚

Today is the Careers Open Day at BVH! Me and Amanda have spent the day representing #physiotherapy and #occupationaltherapy ! Fingers crossed we’ve got lots of new PT/OTs to be in the near future!! Amanda Heaton

A busy but very productive day for IAT today with a 75% diversion rate 🥳🥳 A big thank you to those who came to assist with demand - Jo Wild Care of Older Person Integrated Therapies and Victoria Davies we very much appreciate it 💙💚 #frontdoortherapy #Emergencymedicine #admissionavoidance

New Spinal Red Flags Resource created with Dr. Yvonne Harrington. Covers key red flags for the Big 6 with links to more info. Aimed at GPs but may be useful for others. Hoping this will aid early detection. Please share with your GP colleagues. Feedback welcome as always :)

Trying out the Sara Combilizer, we can’t wait to try it with our patients! Thanks David Seddon

Happy Valentine’s Day from the ASRU Therapy Team! Today we’ve been making Valentine’s cards and painting flowers on our occupational therapist Ellie! 💙💚 #integratedtherapy #strokerehab Stroke Association Royal College of Occupational Therapists Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)

Lovely MDT working today here on ASRU! Group upper limb art session, increasing therapy intensity and working towards those #SSNAP Guidelines! 💚💙💜 SSNAP Audit Speech and Language Therapy BTH Stroke Association Royal College of Occupational Therapists Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) #upperlimb #strokerehab #rehab

*screams in professional excitement* Looking forward to the day ahead! #NHNNgaitcourse2024

Very excited to be in sunny York today for ACPIN Ataxia Study Day with Victoria Davies ☀️🧠🤓

Representing PT/OT 💚💙Blackpool Sixth today! Hopefully winning over lots of new local Physios and OTs! NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospitals 💙🌈 Amanda Heaton #GrowYourOwn #careers Royal College of Occupational Therapists Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)

Always on the CPD!- Right Hemisphere Stroke seminar this evening! 🧠Midlands ACPIN ACPIN

Learner of the year is Holly Andersen. Holly is a Physiotherapy Technical Instructor who is praised as someone who “has a calming and empathetic presence that puts patients at ease” Well done Holly! #BTHawards24

The post I made a couple of days ago on the differences between efficiency and productivity has been turned into a superb sketchnote & accompanying blog by Tanmay Vora ✍: qaspire.com/efficiency-and…. For those who couldn't open the original article by Avi Siegal, here's another link:

We are calling on the government to give everyone the #RightToRehab because it adds life to years not just years to life. ➡️ Will you join by writing to your MP, or sharing our new digital patient journey experience: csp.org.uk/showcase-alice

When your patient wants to fish .. the therapy team gets creative 🎣🐠 #strokerehab #OT #physio #fishing #functionaltaskpractice #hittingthosessnapgoals Stroke Association Royal College of Occupational Therapists Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) SSNAP Audit NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospitals 💙🌈

We are so excited to have a treadmill back in the service! Yesterday we had the Biodex NxStep unweighing system + Gait Trainer delivered. This is going to make a huge difference to the rehab we provide patients 🎉 A big thanks to Roger & Mark for the training! IPRS Mediquipe