sad-shocking story - but what happened to intention to have 'no more wrinkly hands' as symbols of care ?
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We will be posting from Shirley’s books and archive, along with news and updates.
Usually found (professionally) talking about ageing, loneliness, health, care, ageism etc. Other stuff as the mood takes me
Director of Health, Health Foundation
Leading work to improve health and reduce inequalities.
Trustee Centre for Homelessness Impact
Honorary member @adphuk.bsky.social
Independent Chair Calderdale Cares Partnership Board
Views my own
📍Hebden Bridge
Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers as S.J. Fleet. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Barrister, writer and educator, mainly mental capacity, mental health and healthcare ethics. Bluesky largely used to share materials - for contact, please email me at alex.ruckkeene@39essex.com.
Website: https://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk
Professor of Health and Social Care and Director of the Policy Research unit for the Health and Social Care Workforce (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/hscwru), Kings College London, Co-lead https://transforming-evidence.org
Research Fellow in Policy Research Unit, King's College London. PhD from UCL. Interested in dementia, homecare, care workforce, and qualitative, innovative, and creative methodologies. Here for the cat photos.
Policy and programme adviser at Belong, the Cohesion and Integration Network. Associate fellow at British Future
Interests: employment, immigration, integration and cohesion policy, heritage, elections, Ukraine, textiles, ceramics.
Mum. Posts are personal
From August, Provost, The Queen’s College, Oxford. Previously director, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Author “Follow the Money”
Director, Policy Institute at King's College London and Chair of the Campaign for Social Science
At the Centre for Ageing Better we are pioneering ways to make ageing better a reality for everyone. Supported by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Senior Fellow @HealthFdn. Ex-Whitehall civil servant & NHS England.
Love ideas, numbers, analysis, evidence, debate and challenge. Views my own.
Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval history, talking’ about eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Chief executive, Demos; journalist; non exec director, PHSO
Freelance journalist: writes about health policy and politics of the English NHS in weekly column (£) ‘Cowper’s Cut’ on www.healthpolicyinsight.com.
Director of Research in Practice | Strategic Director @ National Children’s Bureau. Trustee of Family Action.
All views & swearing my own. Expert in nowt (except maybe Transitional Safeguarding).
Actually, “ranting with references” is a job.
Chief Executive @NuffieldTrust - curious and questioning. Listening and learning. Views my own.
Deputy CEO, NHS Providers; co-chair Agenda Alliance; coffee-lover; feminist; cat mother; occasional activist.
Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
