The Shuri Network is 5 ! 💝💝
An incredible team, allies, coaches & most of all, our members who are making a huge difference to digital innovation & patient care every day. Launching our alumni programme & Digital Fellowship applications
@HouseofCommons
Join the Shuri Network & be an ally on our journey to support diversity, innovation & safety !
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You don't have to be female or BME to be a member- just willing to encourage colleagues to get involved with digital innovation & create change!
Our joint statement with
@digitalhealth2
The reported comments by Frank Hester are despicable.We're committed to addressing the issues head-on & fostering a culture where such views are openly challenged.We call on the digital health community to join us.
Calling all our allies! Help to demystify what you do & how to take your first steps in digital health. We're creating shadowing opportunities with digital leaders for our members. Interested? Contact us on shuri
@nhs
.net !
It has been a difficult day but very proud of our team &
@digitalhealth2
for speaking up against racism & misogyny.
Tomorrow we celebrate our remarkable Fellows who demonstrate resourcefulness, pioneering spirit, authenticity & outstanding commitment to patient care
#Rewired24
A truly special evening celebrating our first cohort of Shuri digital nurse fellows
@DHRewired
You will light the way for so many others 🌟🌟
#Rewired22
🌟🌟
Are you a BME woman in digital health or informatics? Share your career journey, the highs and lows and how you're using technology to improve safety and patient care ! We want to hear from you! Contact us : shuri
@nhs
.net
#Inspiringwomenofcolour
We're so happy to be a finalist for the
@HSJ_Awards
NHS Race Equality Award 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 We are inspired by our members and this is a tribute to all BAME staff who are overcoming barriers at work, creating change and using technology to improve patient care.
#HSJawards
This year we sponsored the
@HSJ_Awards
NHS Race Equality Award.
Congratulations to all the finalists in this category, we are delighted to have received such a diverse range of applications. Good luck for the awards 🥳🤞
#HSJAwards
🌟🌟Special announcement! 🌟🌟The new Shuri Network podcast is launching on 23rd November. Learn about digital careers, demystify jargon & hear from inspirational digital health leaders about their journeys! 🎉🎉Join our hosts
@AyeshaRahimCCIO
@ronkeadejolu
&
@selina_lee32
🎉🎉
Meet the Shuri team & hear from incredible digital, health & care leaders! Join our network & tune into our exciting programme
🌟 Podcasts launching next week
🌟 Tweetchat on Thursday at 7 pm
🌟 Career & coding workshops in Dec
🌟 ICSs digital strategy
We've come a long way since our launch in 2019
@DHSummerSchools
!
🙌🏾 > 2000 members & allies
🙌🏾 Digital Fellowships
@NHSEngland
🙌🏾 >70 shadowing offers
🙌🏾Bursaries for
@ukfci
membership
🙌🏾10 amazing podcasts
🙌🏾 Student ambassador
Celebrate our 3rd birthday with us
#DHSS22
!
⚡️NEWSFLASH⚡️Applications are now OPEN for our Digital Fellowships for Nurses and Midwives. In collaboration with
@NHSEngland
@NHSTransform
we are launching our 2nd cohort of Fellowships to support our members to gain new skills, confidence and connections
We are starting the week with brilliant news:
@eddieolla
, Regional Director for Digital Transformation at
@NHSEngland
Midlands
will be joining our steering group. We look forward to growing and developing the Network further with you, Eddie !
Newsflash! We are developing an exciting project to support BME nurses in digital health with
@NHSEngland
Are you a qualified coach with a commitment to improving diversity and inclusion and a background in healthcare or technology? Contact us on shuri
@nhs
.net !
It's our 2nd birthday! We're celebrating with our members & allies
@DHSummerSchools
#DHSS21
! Join us on the 15th July to hear how we're helping to create opportunities for BAME women in tech, improve patient care and reduce health inequalities.
We are thrilled to award our first ever Shuri bursaries to support 25 of our members to join the
@ukfci
! Looking forward to hearing how their digital careers grow and develop !
#ShuriFellows
#womenintech
We need at least 32,000 more staff with digital expertise in the health and care sector. Let's build diversity in from the start
#yearofdigitalprofession
What an honour to be with these amazing women, and many more who weren't on the
@DHSummerSchools
panel but are part of our movement for change. Leaders exist at all levels of the hierarchy - we have to find and support them... and we will!
#liftasyourise
How could your heart not sing with happiness at the graduation ceremony for our Cohort 3 Digital Fellows ?
You are the unique, wonderful & capable future leaders of the NHS & we're so proud of all of you 💖💖
Thank you
@DHRewired
@jhoeksma
Lauren and Neil for hosting us again !
The Shuri Network
@ukfci
2021 Fellowship applications are open ! Following the success of our inaugural Fellowships, we are thrilled to offer bursaries to support our members who are women from BAME backgrounds. Also open to student members ! To apply see
#Inspiringwomenofcolourintech
@NikkiPatel_
Clinical lead for digital development
@NHSX
"Not only do we need more BAME women pulling up a chair to sit at the table in the NHS, lets also start to build our own tables! Thank you
#ShuriNetwork
for helping to make this happen"
🎉🎉Our 5th anniversary year begins !! 🎉🎉 Sooo excited about our plans for 2024 including our Digital Fellowships, celebration events, alumni & much more ! Join the Network today to be part of the Shuri family 💝
" I thought the Shuri Network discussion yesterday was one of the most genuinely moving discussions I've heard"
@NHSCCIO
: "As NHSX recruits new staff we need to include people who've never been tapped on the shoulder for these jobs"
We now have nearly 40 offers of shadowing opportunities on our
@hexitime
site from an amazing range of allies and members who are CIOs, CCIOs, startup founders, NEDs, UX leads, AI specialists, software developers & more ! To find out how to take part see:
Meeting our new cohort of Digital Fellows - blown away by the talent and expertise amongst the group.
You are all incredible and you will change the world
#ShuriFellows
#nurses
#midwives
#Inspiringwomen
@radmad11
Radhika Rangaraju,Head of Integration
@NHSX
Let’s not be discouraged by poor stats of BAME women in the NHS digital arena.Even the sky is not a limit for us. We have enabled humanity to reach & travel space. We will help the NHS scale these heights too!
Are you an NHS nurse taking your first steps in or involved in digital health? We have developed our fantastic Nursing Fellowship for Shuri members with
@NHSEngland
to help you progress in your career! Apply before the 19th August !
Hot off the press !
@NetworkShuri
& the
@ukfci
are pleased to announce the Shuri FCI Bursaries. We will provide 15 BAME women who are
@NetworkShuri
members with a bursary to cover the cost of a year’s membership of
@ukfci
. To join our Network see :
#Shurimagic
When a small group of determined people get together to change the landscape & help others to rise & succeed ! Join us on our journey to create a more inclusive and diverse NHS and care leadership, improve patient outcomes and support digital innovation
#HSJawards
BME groups are at higher risk of developing & dying from
#COVID19
Join a distinguished panel of leaders inc Dame Donna Kinnair
@CNagpaul
&
@ShafiAhmed5
to discuss the impact & why reducing health inequalities must be at the heart of the "new normal" 6 May
We're offering bursaries to 30 women who are interested in digital health to join the
@ukfci
inc 10 places for BAME students! You'll also benefit from career advice, opportunities to shadow digital & health leaders and being part of a peer support group!
"Digital is the way to go !" Meeting our fantastic Cohort 3 Fellows from across the country, our team
@Bisi_Sole
&
@SheraChok
, alumni
@vickykomolafe
and coach
@Claud_Williams
today. The Fellowship magic has started ! So much to look forward to on our journey together 🎉🎉
There are <5 women from ethnic minority backgrounds in CTO/CIO roles in the NHS. This lack of equity is not good for innovation, staff morale or patient care & not enough action is being taken. We look forward to discussing diversity in STEM with
@ChiOnwurah
@STEMDandIAPPG
Are you a BAME female student interested in health tech & currently doing under or post-graduate studies? We want to know what would help you succeed in building a career that includes digital health & data
@HEE_DigiReady
@EarlycareersFCI
@digitalhealth2
Calling all NHS nurses & midwives interested in exploring digital careers, building new skills & improving patient care using tech! 🌟🌟Join us next Friday to hear about our Digital Fellowship & meet our Fellows
@fifibreezy
& Jennifer Ntiamoah 🌟🌟
The Shuri magic continues!
@AyeshaRahimCCIO
&
@S_Amani
will be speaking at
@ExpoNHS
about diversity, why it is so important to build this into digital health and how
@NetworkShuri
can help the NHS engage our workforce to transform patient care through technology
#Expo19NHS
We remember & grieve for all our colleagues, friends & patients who lost their lives during the Covid-19 crisis
#NHS72
72 years on, BME staff & communities have been hardest hit by the pandemic.
"No one is born with 'digital leader' tattooed on their forehead." We can all do this !
And for allies:
"Open the doors all the way, not just part of the way."
Fantastic talk today by
@ronkeadejolu
and
@digitechnurse
on seizing the opportunities in digital health !
Shuri magic in action
@DHRewired
with our amazing digital nurse fellows, allies & team! We can't wait to launch our 2022 Fellowship programmes to support our members later this year. To find out how to take part or support us join the Network
#rewired22
Be bold, be militant, ask people out for tea, build support around you and use job descriptions to plan your development. We have all been in positions where we have been "admired but not desired" but we will support each other on our journeys and challenge collectively.
We'll be launching applications for our 4th cohort of Digital Fellowships soon ! Curious to know more ? Tune in to our podcast on the Fellowship with
@Bisi_Sole
&
@itsghreysnow
and join the Network to hear more !
We're delighted to welcome
@Adjoa_NsiahJen
to our Steering Group!Adjoa is a Digital Educator St Francis Hospice, specialising in tech-enhanced education.A qualified nurse & health visitor, she is also a proud alumnus of our Digital Fellowship & NHS Digital H'care L'ship pgramme
Help us build diversity and inclusion in digital health ! We're looking for a project manager who is passionate about making a difference to our members. This is an exciting new project with
@NHSEngland
& is a great opportunity to join our team. Apply now!
@NHSX
Brilliant news but do build in adequate diversity to increase transparency around how algorithms are built and to avoid replicating or perpetuating historical biases
Would you like to join our fantastic team & help us achieve our aims of supporting digital innovation, improving patient care & creating a diverse workforce & inclusive culture in the NHS? We're looking for a dynamic Business Support Officer - apply below !
We're just getting started! 2 years, 1600 fabulous members, 66 shadowing opportunities, 45 Fellows, bursaries, events, podcasts and more. Join us as an ally or member to create a more inclusive, safe and innovative digital world.
#ShuriNetwork
#inspiring
The audience in Leeds was riveted by
@lauraserrant
on why educating NHS staff about different cultures & building diverse perspectives into clinical care is not only a matter of inclusion, it’s a matter of safety. Every board should hear this message.
What an incredible year! To all our members, allies & supporters across the NHS & beyond - thank you for your energy & determination to support women of colour, improve safety, innovation and diversity in
#digitalhealth
#WakandaForever
"I wish I'd heard a panel like this when I was at school !" If you missed hearing these talented and passionate women talking about tech, data, coding and careers you can catchup here:
@codersofcolour
@NetworkShuri
We'll be launching more award-winning Digital Fellowships later this year with
@NHSEngland
for members ! To hear more, join the Network & GET INVOLVED
Meet us
@DHRewired
this month. Connect with our team & Fellows via
@hexitime
What actions are being taken to protect BME groups from C19 & inc inclusion?What qualities do digital health leaders need?Hear from
@RachelETesfaye
@StephRileyRN
Sarah Jensen,Evelyn Asante-Mensah,
@AnnaTransform18
, Shera Chok,
@JenniferTHF
& Daphne Amevenu
#Inspiringwomen
@ZainabH_ssain
"There’s a pool of untapped talent who don’t aspire to become digital leaders because they don’t see anyone that looks like them in leadership positions.Thanks to
@NetworkShuri
for creating role models for the next set of BAME female leaders!"
Starting
@NetworkShuri
has helped us find many wonderful female BME role models who don't "fit the mould" and allies who support our aims, but it's still going to take years to change that graph
@DrHNaqvi
@rogerkline
@yvonnecoghill1
🌟Shuri News🌟 After the success of our inaugural Digital Nurse Fellowships, we will launching our 2022/23 Digital Fellowships for nurses & midwives soon in collaboration with
@NHSEngland
&
@NHSTransform
&
@HEE_DigiReady
! Join the Network to hear more