Dame Elizabeth Anionwu OM DBE FRCN

What a star!! It was a huge honour Karen to present you with your @theqni.bsky.social Fellowship badge. All the very best in your new post as Regional Chief Nurse for #NHS London.

#LastDay as Chief Nurse @buckshealthcare.bsky.social #2024 memory - so many amazing colleagues 💞so I had to pick 2 pictures for my last day- thank you to my amazing team & executive colleagues with special thanks to my boss Neil Macdonald 💙

Will get this framed. Thrilled that my piece honouring Madame Pelicot is the cover.

Many thanks to the #VirtualSundayBookclub for organising a book signing of my memoirs #DreamFromMyMothers & afternoon tea. We also braved the cold & wet weather to visit the #MarySeacole Memorial Statue!

Love this photo! It shows my beautiful cousin Joy, who is normally resident in the USA. She has travelled to our Nigerian home town of Onitsha to be at the Ibu Ego Odu ceremony for Obie Nancy Egbuche.

Taliban overhaul Afghanistan's education system – DW – 11/30/2024 The Taliban are rewriting school and university curricula in line with their deeply conservative version of Islam. They have created "a hell of structural oppression and systematic violence," one expe...

And today, the BBC is reporting that they've just announced that women can no longer train as midwives 'until further notice' (which, by all accounts, means never) - this in the country that already has one of the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. www.dw.com/en/taliban-o...

Country’s first specialist unit launches in Manchester to support patients with sickle cell disease - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Patients in the North West living with a rare blood disease have welcomed the launch of a pioneering new specialist unit and 24/7 helpline to support them during emergencies. The new Sickle Cell Unit ...

Interesting info on sickle cell disease ED bypass units.
mft.nhs.uk/2024/03/05/c...

🙏🏽 Teresa!

Thank you to QNI bestowing me this amazing #Fellowship. @crystaloldman.bsky.social 🫶🏽 even more special I received it from my dear friend @dameanionwu.bsky.social . Congratulations to my #FQNI @michellecox.bsky.social @steveforsyth.bsky.social, Pam Ciparno, Fiona Nolan & @drbenbowers.bsky.social

We were delighted to welcome Dame Elizabeth Anionwu to our #QNIAwards2024 Ceremonies today, where she presented QNI Fellowships and signed copies of her book, Dreams from my Mother. @dameanionwu.bsky.social

Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu speaking with great passion about being a nursing activist at Homerton College

Wonderful experience being invited by Lord Simon Woolley, Principal of Homerton College @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
to take part in a conference on Uterine Fibroids.

Hi Karen, welcome to Bluesky!!
@karenbonner.bsky.social

Beautiful weather for a walk, albeit a bit windy. 💨

Really enjoying catching up with the French detective series on BBC Four #Sambre:AnatomyofaCrime. Couldn’t help noticing in Episode 2 that Judge Irene Dereux, beautifully played by Pauline Parigot, is sitting on a sofa that’s identical to the one I had in the 1980s!

COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE - COLLAPSE
UK population⬆️7%-2012-24
❌GPs ⬇️7%
❌District nurses⬇️42%
❌Health Visitors⬇️30%
❌Learning Disability Nurses⬇️23%
❌School Nurses⬇️25%
❌Nursing home beds⬇️ 12%
❌Residential Care home beds⬇️16%
❌Social care cuts

Need to increase funding not increase costs eg NI employers/staff

Britain’s first black voter was in 1749, 25 years earlier than thought, and ran a pub John London, a landlord, paid rates so could take part in Westminster byelection despite being called a ‘blackamoor’

Britain’s first black voter was in 1749, 25 years earlier than thought, and ran a pub www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Congratulations to my screenwriter daughter @azukaoforka.bsky.social
She’s been included in #TheBritList2024 for her script ‘Lucy Negro’ 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
brit-list.co.uk/all-lists/th...

Fantastic to meet you at last Sue!

With Sue Tranka, Chief Nursing Officer for Wales at Nigeria Nurses Association UK conference.
Great photo by Teddy Kintu! www.gokephotography.com

Ah, thanks Carolyn! I was so pleased to find you on this platform. 😊

A photo of my dog. It is taken from above, so you are looking down on her back. She is a big grey and white fluffy dog. Snow flakes can be seen on her back

Either Noodle has developed a very bad case of dandruff… or it has started snowing outside 😱😱😱

Doctors and nurses talk about coping with patient deaths Doctors and nurses describe their personal experiences of dealing with the death of their patients.

Good morning folks!

In an attempt to reintroduce myself, let me share with you some of the pieces of work that I’ve been a part of…

This video from BBC Ideas featuring @orthopodreg.bsky.social and Elizabeth Anionwu about #HCP 1st experience of pt #death

www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cxw23...

This year we held the 3rd Dame Elizabeth Anionwu @dameanionwu.bsky.social Public Lecture. Delivered by Dr Ruth Oshikanlu. The lecture serves as a platform to engage clinicians, students and local communities and organisations on matters of inclusivity. I’m so pleased to launch this lecture

Same here Ally and quite enjoying being on this platform. Have had to do a fair number of searches to find out the ‘how to do this or that’ but well worth it!

Hair - as it was and as it is.

We all grew up and raised hell on twitter, Blue is like our retirement home. Dont be over here with all that noise. Sit ya ass down and act like you got some sense.

a woman with red hair and glasses is sitting on a couch and clapping . ALT: a woman with red hair and glasses is sitting on a couch and clapping .

Loads more lovely people turning up here, kids.

All wrapped up for a walk.
What are you up to today?

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.