Helen Lodge

SWAC Run Club in the evening sun on Rotten Row, Southport

Perfect spring night for Wednesday SWAC interval session
#southportwaterlooac #intervals

Myself, Jenny and Katie on the steps outside Liverpool Cathedral with our caps and gowns on

@ljmuofficial.bsky.social PG Dip Specialist Community Practitioner District Nursing class of 2024 graduation. We made it through with pier support for each other! Fab day celebrating yesterday.🎓🥂🍻🎓 #scpdn #spq #graduationday

Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest: 7 Keys for Navigating a Life-Changing Diagnosis a book by Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow. The essential guide for every patient and family The doctor's office called. It's not good news. What comes next? When you are diagnosed with a life-changing illness, it can be overwhelming. While y...

Bedtime reading to hopefully enable me empower patients to plan for their future with illness. #palliativecare #futurecareplanning
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Mixed emotions today as I leave District Nursing after 24 years (and the NHS) to join specialist palliative care. #SPQ #SCPDN #specialistpalliativecare

YouTube video by Jared Rubenstein Palliative Care PSA - We’re the fire department, not the fire.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNi...

Calling bereaved men:
will you help my colleagues to improve the support we offer to deathbed companions?
Volunteer by email at dbe.research.enquiries@lancaster.ac.uk
All bereaved voices welcome, but the researchers are especially short of responses from men.
Please share.

@merseycarenhs.bsky.social any teams up for the challenge?

Misty sun shining the tall grasses

River Alt with blue skies

What a difference the sun makes. Just beautiful out there this morning by the River Alt 😍

Shein: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling the company's success Workers making clothes for the fast fashion giant tell the BBC they labour for up to 75 hours a week.

BBC News - Shein: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling the company's success - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Throw away clothes that are wrong on so many levels.

‘A wicked problem’: tackling variable access to urgent palliative care medicines “Me and my sister would drive huge distances late at night, completely exhausted, trying to find a chemist that could dispense the drugs. Nobody came out to deliver them or administer them or call in ...

Good piece on issues and possible solutions with accessing end-of-life medicines in the community, and pleased to be able to contribute..

pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feat...

My family with David Moyes 17 years ago at Finch Farm. Ewan's "wish"

Welcome back Moysie! @evertonfc.com 💙

Rainbow into the sea in front of sand dunes on Formby beach.

Flooded path on the route of Southport parkrun

Southport parkswim and a blustery beach walk with husband and dog. Happy start to 2025. 🎊

The front cover of Beatrix Potter A Life in Nature by Linda Lear with a black and white photo of Beatrix in the centre.

There's so much to learn and love about the life of Beatrix Potter/Heelis, and now I discover she was a champion of district nursing.

Thank you @petrena.bsky.social

Reading list suggestions please to prepare for Specialist Palliative Care Nurse post #palliativecare #specialistpalliativecarenurse #endoflifeprescribing

Our new BJCN Editorial: 'Providing effective dying symptom control at home'. We sometimes need to do much better as an integrated care team (sadly)!

⬇️ Paper ⬇️
www.britishjournalofcommunitynursing.com/content/edit...

@theqni.bsky.social @mariecurieuk.bsky.social

So happy to have been appointed as a Palliative Care Nurse Specialist today. 23 years in district nursing and ready for a new challenging role.

@thameswater excelling yourselves again. My housebound 88 year old mum has had no water in her village for 4 days. Finally spotted a man walking up her drive who'd dumped 6 2l bottles on her doorstep which she had to call him back to lift into the house and open one as she can't. No duty of care?

Attention District Nurse Team Leaders! Please complete this 10 minute QNI Survey #districtnurseteamleader #dnspq

A poster for Self-Care Week 2024 18-24 November. The image includes the Self-Care Week logo (an orange heart), the Self-Care Forum and NHS logos. There are seven illustrations of ways to self-care: Eat a Balanced Diet, Get Lost in a Book, Count your Steps, Listen to Music, Make time for friends, Notice Nature, and Ensure a good night's sleep.

This Self-Care Week we’d like to remind our community nurses and colleagues about the importance of self-care! 💜 Remember ‘you can’t pour from an empty cup’…
The Self-Care Forum has lots of great resources 👉https://selfcareforum.org #selfcareweek #mindandbody

Shoppers at Black Friday sales in London. Huge crowds vying to buy new products.

Thoughts on Black Friday?
We're resisting the temptation to buy new kit - seeing that some 22 billion pairs of trainers are chucked into landfill every year, and 100 billion new garments are produced annually.
We're looking to reuse, repair and recycle where possible.
#climate #environment #runners

It's Advanced Nurse Practitioners who require that.

That's on every NHS hand hygiene poster! Always water first.

John Barnes and Katerina Johnson-Thompson being interviewed at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall with her new book Unbroken displayed on the screen behind.

An Evening with Katerina Johnson-Thompson at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall with added John Barnes. Kat completely played down the struggles she over came to achieve gold at Doha and silver in Paris. What an athlete with an amazing team behind her.

Switching just 1 trip a day from 🚗 to 🚴 or 🚶‍♂️ = almost 30% less transport CO2 for the ave UK urban resident. If 1 in 5 did this in 🇪🇺 it’d cut emissions from all 🚗 travel in 🇪🇺 by 8%. The potential impact of active travel on CO2 could be huge

This gets our 🐐 as well. Needless nudging to buy new shoes.

Does anyone else feel the same?

Or are you ok with this?

I’d create a poll but there’s no option for one at the moment.

3 logs covered in ivy with tree covered hillside behind in brown and gold colours.

A stroll round Tatsfield footpaths plagued by the sound of private jets from Biggin Hill Airport mocking climate change initiatives #stopthejets #greenwashing

Not sure how to start on here, so here's my 88 year old mum's back garden in Autumn glory, and my efforts at bramble clearing to allow the foxgloves some light 🍂🍁