Siobhan Harrington
@S_HarringtonNHS
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proud to be CEO @UHD_NHS & to be joining #TeamUHD & #TeamDorset . Working with partners to deliver the best care for local people. Views are my own.
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Just reflecting on 3 years as CEO
@WhitHealth
tonight at midnight - what a privilege & experience - thank you to everyone across the organisation & wider system who has supported me - the best job with at times the most challenge I have ever experienced in my career
#nhsceo
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Wishing all our mothers who work
@UHD_NHS
a very Happy Mothers Day - & special today as I did eventually get to meet Leonor my first grandchild
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Last night at sunset we gathered
@WhitHealth
to recognise & celebrate the contribution Nick has made over many years as a porter
@WhitHealth
- it was a special time;he will be so missed by colleagues & patients; thank you ‘the general’; a gentleman & outstanding role model
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Thank you to everyone working so hard across
@WhitHealth
over these last few days - you are amazing
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My personal tube taking me to work
@WhitHealth
this am. Thank you
@TfL
& thank you people for staying at home
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As I visited the emergency department today at Royal Bournemouth hospital
@UHD_NHS
I met Ernie one of our volunteers who was wheeling a wheelchair to come and help patients - he is 92 & has been helping here for 24 years - just inspirational- thank you Ernie 🙏
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Reminded me of why I decided I wanted to be a nurse many years ago - best career ever -
#IND2020
@teamCNO_
@WhitHealth
"To do what nobody else will do in a way nobody else can do..."
A Happy
#InternationalNursesDay
message from
@johnsonmich18
, our Chief Nurse and her Senior Nursing Team to all of our Nurses here
@WhitHealth
and across the globe.
#IND2020
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What a lovely welcome to my first evening in Poole. Thank you Exec Team
@UHD_NHS
Looking forward to tomorrow
@paula_shobbrook
@Pete_Papworth
@mmould_pooleNHS
@AllmanKaren
& Alyson & Richard & Pete
#kind
#TeamUHD
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one of our amazing gynaecologists Dr Amma retiring today;what a woman & what a contribution to women & families & colleagues
@WhitHealth
- not only an inspirational caring consultant but also first black female student
@QueensCollegeCa
Cambridge - thank you Amma we will miss you
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Ali told me this morning this is his last week
@WhitHealth
- he has been one of our amazing cleaners working across the Whittington & always brings a smile - thank you Ali for all you have done
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At Bournemouth Hospital we have a lake & 🦆 - today I met Paul Fox in the estates team
@UHD_NHS
- below is Paul & the garden where the ducks go to hatch their baby ducks who can’t fly. Paul looks after the baby ducks & helps them to the lake - above & beyond 365days per year
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… but very excited that I will be joining
#TeamUHD
and everyone at
@OurDorsetICS
- looking forward to meeting the people in
#TeamUHD
and everyone in the health and care system in Dorset who support local people (2/2)
We are pleased to share
@S_HarringtonNHS
has been appointed as our new chief executive and will take up her role on 1 June 2022. Siobhan will succeed
@DebbieFleming18
, who announced in September that she would be retiring from the NHS on 31 March 2022.
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Our new nursing badge
@WhitHealth
based on an original badge from long ago.
#proud
to be a nurse - rolling them out across nursing & midwifery & considering how we roll out to all our staff - this is the beginning
#valuingourstaff
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Just have to say this Friday after a long week - I am just in awe of how hard everyone has been working
@WhitHealth
- thank you 🙏 and thank you to our local community and partners for all your support
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sun shining on some of our
@WhitHealth
heroes
@mcmanusb
@debbieclatwort1
@celiabielawski
- thank you
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Today started as a challenging day - seeing the Christmas Tree - & the sun shining on the Jenner building & seeing our amazing ITU colleagues interviewed on
@itvnews
& all the colleagues I met today across
@WhitHealth
&
@nclstp
made it a positive day - thank you
#NHSheroes
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Very privileged & proud to lead the opening of the Michael Clift Well-being Room
@WhitHealth
with colleagues & Michael’s family - a legacy of kindness & compassion
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My experience of being part of induction
@UHD_NHS
this morning. Great to meet everyone in person - only one colleague today said they were on Twitter. Great positive energy in the room & thanks
@Pete_Papworth
for the main intro to the Trust - and Clare for the IPC session
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Achieved an early morning swim in the sea before work this morning - hope I can keep this up - such a benefit of working
@UHD_NHS
@OurDorsetICS
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Brenda our marvellous housekeeper doing a fab job through this challenging time - keeping us safe
@WhitHealth
thank you and your colleagues and love the new outfit
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Very sad that next spring I will be leaving
@WhitHealth
and all the fabulous people that I have had the privilege of working with here… (1/2)
Our CEO
@S_HarringtonNHS
is moving on, after over 12 years
@WhitHealth
and 4.5 years as our Chief Exec, to take up a new role leading
@UHD_NHS
.
Read her message here:
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Carol Gillen - thank you for my gift and so true - all 4500 staff
@WhitHealth
absolute legends
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This afternoon as I walked around our maternity unit - pleasure to meet a student midwife in her last year - Sarah Toure - our future generation of midwives as she described herself
#future
employee
@WhitHealth
watch this space
@Yanarichens
@Bevlate1
@johnsonmich18
@TeamCMidO
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Sharing this shout out with all the amazing staff and my team
@WhitHealth
#bestjobintheNHS
Congratulations to our CEO
@S_harringtonNHS
who has been named in this year's
@HSJnews
list of the top 50 NHS Chief Executives!
Read more at:
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Thank you
@CNOEngland
for coming
@UHD_NHS
to see us today. The sun shone on our wonderful new Beach building at Royal Bournemouth Hospital & you bought your energy & passion for patients & staff with you to some of our special events today 🙏
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Just sitting with my mother in law - 5 days after valve replacement
@NHSBartsHealth
- she is telling me about what great care she has had. 85 & going strong - thank you
@A_WilliamsNHS
& team sounds amazing even the food
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So proud & honoured to work with you
@johnsonmich18
- this is so well deserved. Thank you for all you have done over many years in the NHS & especially each & every day
@WhitHealth
for our local community & all our staff, & partners
Our CEO
@S_HarringtonNHS
and our Chair Baroness Julia Neuberger have congratulated our Chief Nurse
@johnsonmich18
on behalf of everyone at Whittington Health NHS Trust on being made an MBE in the Queen's New Years Honours:
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A huge thank you Gretta O’Toole - retiring as our very special infection control nurse - great to talk to you about how you came
@WhitHealth
in 1975 as a student & stayed your whole nursing career. Thank you on behalf of your patients & colleagues - 46 years!
@johnsonmich18
⭐️👏
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Just stopped by young man as leaving
@WhitHealth
hospital site who said - aren’t you the ceo here - just want to say how great it is here; have been on placement as part of degree & just succeeded in getting job
@kpmg
- what you all do here really matters’
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Building demolished in one day
@WhitHealth
as part of the development of the mental health unit - amazing progress
@CI_NHS
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A very special afternoon
@WhitHealth
unveiling the statue -a tribute to nurses & midwives from the Commonwealth & windrush generation. Very proud this is at the Whittington. Thank you
@NubianJak
@IslingtonBC
@haringeycouncil
@IslingtonMayor
@AJogee
& our amazing nurses & midwives
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Actually wore my Nightingale badge today on International Nurses Day - nursing is the most special career & we are privileged to be part of people’s lives. Florence Nightingale continues to inspire so many of us
@UHD_NHS
@CNOEngland
@paula_shobbrook
@sue_doheny
@Crouchendtiger7
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A difficult day
@WhitHealth
- all our thoughts are with family & friends however struck by how many emails & texts I have had from staff & colleagues & that how much our outstandingly caring staff got me through today - thank you
We are deeply saddened at the news of the death of our former Chair Steve Hitchins. Our thoughts are with his loved ones.
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My car is in the garage so this evening thought how shall I get from Royal Bournemouth Hospital to home near Poole -
@BCPCouncil
thank you - really enjoyed my cycle ride on the beryl bike - easy & along the beach
@UHD_NHS
we are lucky to be in
@OurDorsetICS
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Looking forward to meeting
#teamUHD
over the week ahead. Thank you Steve for my name badge last week at Poole & also a big thank you
@paula_shobbrook
for everything & loved seeing the coloured eggs. This evening a quick walk by the harbour - feel fortunate to be
@UHD_NHS
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Not sure how may people have noticed the new ‘Living wall’ outside
@WhitHealth
on Highgate Hill - the planters are part of the Councils carbon reduction initiative to reduce vehicle pollutants in the locality. Thank you
@IslingtonBC
& I love flowers & plants so think this is g8
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A huge thank you to each and everyone of our staff across hospital & community services
#BetterNeverStops
so proud of everything you all do
We are delighted that today we have been rated as Good overall and Outstanding for caring by
@CareQualityComm
following our most recent inspection. Our Community Services were rated as Outstanding overall.
This is a fantastic achievement against a very challenging backdrop. 💙
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@Yanarichens
welcome & congrats on being our Director of Midwifery
@WhitHealth
- how lucky are we
@johnsonmich18
@Bevlate1
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In a bit of a mad day so good to bump into
@DrJulieAndrews
who had just been given gifts from her new consultants leadership group that she developed a leadership programme for
@WhitHealth
- our values in action & great clinical leadership - thank you
#caringforthosewhocare
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Two of our fabulous guys who support everyone
@WhitHealth
- Mark & Steve working across the hospital with years of experience & looking out for staff & patients alike - thank you
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‘Be more Bernard’ - such a lovely gesture from one of the junior doctors who had badges made that the whole team were wearing to encourage more people to be like Dr Bernard Davies one of our great haematologists
@WhitHealth
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Congratulations
@KamyThavanesan
- now Associate Medical Director for Governance & Risk
@UHD_NHS
- great to hear her passion & enthusiasm this morning as we bumped into each other at Royal Bournemouth.
@PMWilson1
@paula_shobbrook
@Tristan_UHD
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‘We remember them’
@IslingtonBC
@WhitHealth
- thank you
@JegedeTina
for representing us all
@IslingtonMayor
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Thank you
@RoyalMintUK
for the lovely 10p coins - we are one of two NHS trusts in London to have them enter circulation. They are lovely with a stethoscope & heart & N for NHS. Thrilled that
@WhitHealth
is part of this. Our NHS70 heroes will receive one on Monday
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A socially distanced happy retirement to Dr Wakeel - over 40 years in the NHS & 17 years
@WhitHealth
as one of our great Dermatolpgy team - thank you on behalf of all the patients you have treated and your colleagues
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Great to catch
@WillWindsor1981
in Theatres at Royal Bournemouth Hospital this morning
@UHD_NHS
- your passion for what you do was so evident. Thank you 🙏
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Fatima our fabulous matron on Mary Seacole north with
@ElaineKelman
from
@thepalincentre
helping on the ward on Saturday
@WhitHealth
thank you so much - a busy weekend
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Jonathan our director of strategy
@WhitHealth
has been an absolute star working with local people & companies on supporting our staff - thank you for toilet rolls
@Ocado
- staff so appreciated it as distributed across trust
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Michael is leaving his role in the canteen after over 20 years at Royal Bournemouth hospital to work in a new role in estates. I think many of us are going to miss his amazing smile & humour in the mornings
@UHD_NHS
- thank you 🙏
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Lovely morning at the lake at Royal Bournemouth hospital with our Pride flag flying through
#LGBTplusHM
@UHD_NHS
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The A (amazing) team
@WhitHealth
deep cleaning Meyrick ward - Shaun leading the charge & real energy & passion for making everywhere safe for patients & staff - thank you all of you for what you are doing each & every day
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Thinking of everyone affected by COVID-19 tonight - NHS & social care colleagues who have died; their families & friends
#ThankYouNHS
& everyone else who has been impacted by this pandemic
#ThankYouTogether
@WhitHealth
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I first met Ruth over 20 years ago - she has always been a woman of such integrity & commitment to the NHS & nursing. As a nurse & CEO I have seen the injection of confidence & profile of the nursing profession since she has been
@CNOEngland
#proud
we need you now
@CNOEngland
I’ve never read such nonsense as I have about
@CNOEngland
.Ruth has given her life to the service of others and provided top leadership to the profession in its hours of need ,from ppe to nurses we have lost ,Ruth is the CNO we all need now
#dontletetc
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Bumped into Clarence Moore
@UHD_NHS
#christchurchhospital
not only the matron for some of our medical specialities across the Trust but also a Nightingale nurse with a new modern badge different from mine! So good to meet you Clarence
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Thank you to everyone
@UHD_NHS
over the last few days preparing for the days ahead. We are
#TeamUHD
- we are the NHS. Our priorities are keeping our patients safe & looking after our staff 🙏 & thank you to all our community & partners
@OurDorsetICS
for your support
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Walk around our busy emergency department & Helen told me that she had started the MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice & is amongst the 1st AHPs
@WhitHealth
to do this - working as part of our amazing frailty team
#proud
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A huge thank you to colleagues across community services
@WhitHealth
vaccinating our local housebound patients yesterday & today. Helping local people live longer healthier lives with partners across Islington & Haringey
@VardaLassman
& Juliet Benton
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Thank you
@Yvonne
coghill1 for actually coming in person
@WhitHealth
- so good to catch up on London WRES strategy & next steps
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We are so proud
@WhitHealth
of our very own and special Comfort Offorjindu NHS Lifetime Achievement award - so well deserved and struck by so many midwives and doctors that she has trained supervised and inspired
#proud
.
@JaneMCummings
presents the
#windrush70
NHS Lifetime Achievement award to Comfort Offorjindu
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Trust Board meeting today where Matthew described his experience of having had covid and spending over 40 days in ITU. Thank you so much for talking with us & also to whole team
@WhitHealth
who cared for him
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To everyone working across the bank holiday weekend - thank you for what you are doing for patients & each other across hospital & community services
@WhitHealth
heroes & hoping you all manage to get some rest at some point. Easter & spring are seen as a time of hope
#StayAtHome
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So proud to have just heard that
@Seemefirstbadge
has been shortlisted for the National BAME Health & Care Awards
@WhitHealth
@BAME_HCA
- well done
@Bevlate1
@paulattw
@Millsyd81
such great news
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A huge thank you to all our staff working tonight & over the weekend
@WhitHealth
- it is a challenging time & inspired by your focus on keeping our patients safe in the community & hospital. Happy New Year to everyone
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Kofi - thank you for being my mentor - my experience of being reverse mentored is proving challenging, energising, enlightening - at some times sad & some times very affirming. Look forward to our next session!
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So nice to bump into Dr Theresa Freeman Wang
@WhitHealth
just been announced as President of the British Society of Colposcopy & Cervical Pathology - first woman president - many congrats Theresa we are so very proud of you & your achievements
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Well earned ice creams today for staff
@WhitHealth
stopping at some of our community sites as well as the hospital site
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Back on twitter after a great week of annual leave - saw my dad after a long time! Had a haircut, swim and time out.
@WhitHealth
colleagues make sure you take some leave - you deserve it
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#smilebehindthemask
Thank you Dr Calisha Allen for reminding me how important the smile is behind the mask - many of us are realising how important our smiling eyes are
@WhitHealth
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Wow what a great lady - Carol Skillen who has worked here for 18 years & today received an award at Royal Bournemouth hospital for demonstrating excellence in our values
@UHD_NHS
our ‘walking ray of sunshine’ - thank you Carol - discharge coordinator & bank therapy assistant
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A quiet walk around Poole reflecting on my first few months
@UHD_NHS
- a special place & special people - thank you for making me feel welcome
#TeamUHD
- &
@OurDorsetICS
- having a break for the next few weeks & back for all the opportunities ahead
@paula_shobbrook
thank you
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A highlight of many this week meeting Monica & Judith who are part of the leadership team of the BAME network
@UHD_NHS
- looking forward to supporting the network. Lots to do & such great people
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A special time today celebrating our Noel
@UHD_NHS
- much missed & his son played for us all one of Noel’s favourite songs - thank you & to TeamUHD for making it so special 🙏
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Enjoyed walking & talking around the fab imaging department
@UHD_NHS
#poolehospital
this afternoon - 3 MRI machines & 3 CT scanners on this site & ultrasound & X-ray & amazing ‘can do’ colleagues
@mmould_pooleNHS
@raviayer
thank you
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A quick pause for a view over London from
@WhitHealth
Dr Clare Dollery - my super MD sat my side merry Christmas
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A huge thank you
@SomersetFT
for the care my dad has had over the last 12 days as in patient in Montacute ward - great care thank you
@hayleypeters
@PeterLewis45
such a challenge as parents become frailer but
#lucky
he is now home 🙏
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There are some days when you realise how amazing staff in the NHS are & how hard it can be.
@WhitHealth
today was one of those days - thank you
#teamwhitthealth
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And then I met John today - one of our patients having an outpatient appointment
@UHD_NHS
- RBH has many long corridors & he was on roller skates. He proudly told me he was 78 & liked to love life to the full!
#onlyinDorset
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First Dorset Integrated Care Board this morning
@OurDorsetICS
@P_MillerNHS
@Jenldt
- great first meeting grounded in staff/patient story
@UHD_NHS
@DCHFT
@DorsetHealth
@BCPCouncil
@DorsetCouncil
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Labour ward this morning
@WhitHealth
- 2 babies so far this morning - merry Xmas and thank you
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Anil from our amazing rapid response team
@WhitHealth
with Dr Sarah Humphery medical director and local GP with a sign made by one of patients - so special
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Wishing Bridget Coleman all the best
@WhitHealth
after coming to the Whittington pharmacy 23 years ago for a one year fixed term contract as a junior member of staff & now retiring as deputy chief pharmacist - thank you for all you have done & what a great personal journey
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Lovely way to start the day - thank you Medical Committee
@WhitHealth
for my lovely flowers 💐- & thank you for your hard work & support
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Just in queue for lunch
@WhitHealth
with my 2m distance from Ali ahead of me who told me of her experience in ITU & how different from her role as clinical lead for speech & language therapy
@thepalincentre
- in awe of how you have helped patients & fellow staff this morning
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Amazed today to get picture from a friend in Australia who saw this on a wall in a local doctors surgery - we get everywhere
@WhitHealth
#smallworld
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Great to meet the physios
@UHD_NHS
#christchurchhospital
great colleagues & great facilities - just love the innovation & energy of AHPs
@NadineJeal
@WhitHealth
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The most beautiful cake I have ever seen - thank you Natalie & your creative cakes
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pleased to have visited the maternity unit
@UHD_NHS
#stmaryspoole
- meeting the team & talking about the last few years, the now & future. Struck by great teams & honesty re things that are good & where improvements planned. Thank you
@KerryTa24800219
@The60528001
& Jane & team
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What a lovely surprise to come home to this evening - made me smile - thank you special friend Marilyn
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