Shelagh O’Riordan

Photo showing a cyclist on the Crab and Winkle Way. Text reads: Route of the week: Crab and Winkle Way. Walk Wheel Cycle Trust

This week we're travelling down to the Kent coast for our Route of the Week. It's the Crab and Winkle Way! 🦀

#NewWebinar #HospitalAtHome

"NHS England Midlands Regional evaluation of implementation of Hospital at Home service"
Thursday 27 November 2025, at 12:30 (BST)

Open to all 👉 Joining details: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

To become a member of the UK Hospital At Home Society you can find the details here⬇️

www.hospitalathome.org.uk/membership_s...

📢 Calling all UK Hospital at Home Society members!

📨 Our National Benchmarking Survey has just been launched – please check your inbox and respond to help us deliver the most comprehensive look yet at Hospital at Home services across the UK.

#HospitalAtHome

This is going to be a fantastic conference. Do you wonder what hospital at home really is, what can be done, is it safe etc??? Then join us

📢 Save the Date!

Join us for the UK Hospital at Home Society Conference
📅 5–6th March 2026
📍 Edinburgh

Two days of learning, innovation & networking in Hospital at Home care.
More details coming soon!

#HaHConf2026 #HospitalatHome #UKHaHSoc
@ukhahsoc.bsky.social

Embarrassed at how NHS treats trainees. Have trainee due to start GP training induction today. My colleague asked one week ago for reference. Funnily enough in July, she’s on leave & not replied. Poor trainee, through no fault of their own, not even allowed to start induction. Pitiful & infuriating

This is going to be a fantastic conference!! Are you curious about how HAH works? Do you want to increase your skills?? Are you working in a virtual ward- they’re the same thing!! Join us!!

I often say it’s like doing an abdominal assessment and coming up with the diagnosis of tummy ache! 😣

Excellent NHS care, delivered at home.

We're expanding Hospital at Home to 2,000 beds by the end of 2026 - watch this to find out how it will help ease pressure on the NHS and cut waiting lists. 👇

Great to meet the lovely NHS staff at @nhsforthvalley.bsky.social who deliver the Hospital at Home service.

We’re expanding it to 2,000 beds across Scotland by the end of 2026 - meaning more patients treated at home, shorter waiting lists, and more space freed up in hospitals.

Reducing Risks for Older Adults | Best Practices This course, Reducing Risks for Older Adults, provides context and best practices for systematically identifying older adults who are at risk for poor outcomes

Did you know it is estimated that #delirium goes undiagnosed in more than 50% of cases? Take our course 'Reducing Risks for Older Adults' to learn best practices for identifying older adults who are at risk for poor outcomes >> buff.ly/4jdRcDs #hpm #hapc

We are lucky- we have an ED consultant with us and he just phones people- they seem to have direct phones for SDEC etc which we don’t know about!

That’s fantastic! Thank you!!

I would suggest using the SPOA team instead. We have a team of doctors and ACPs hanging out in ambulance offices pulling patients from the stack and offering alternatives to conveyance. Expert knowledge of community offers and non ED offers including urgent OPD/SDEC essential.

Amazing photo!!

I think both would be great. This provoked much discussion at work today within my team and also local hospital!

A stuffed stork with an arrow through its neck – it’s that very stork, now found in the zoological collection at the University of Rostock.

202 years ago today, this stork was shot in the village of Klütz in northern Germany. It already had a 30-inch arrow in its neck. The arrow was made of African wood, and this first ‘Pfeilstorch’ (‘arrow stork’) played a pivotal role in the understanding of bird migration.

Excellent review. I run a hospital at home service and we talk about this often. Sometimes the staff and patients/carers want to iv because it makes them feel they’re doing their best!

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Virtual wards and hospital at home Virtual wards aim to provide hospital level healthcare in patients' homes. What are the opportunities and risks for patients, carers and the NHS?

Excellent report on virtual wards and hospital at home just published. Nice to see @ukhahsoc.bsky.social members contributions. Also reference to @arc-gm.bsky.social @gerisoc.bsky.social publications.
post.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Fantastic news for all those in #HospitalAtHome we are proud to support the new ‘The Journal of Advanced Home Medicine’ #JAHM
🔗https://jahm.io

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The Reshaping Of NHS National Bodies Has Only Just Started. How Will It Finish? | The King's Fund Following the announcement that NHS England is to be abolished, Siva Anandaciva considers the implications and why at the moment there are more questions than answers.

Brilliant piece by Siva Anandaciva from the Kings Fund on the implications of abolishing NHS England.

www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

No. But similar need in the community- eg district nurses still go out to give insulin. It’s a role for a joined up it system- if only such things existed! 😂

Today, we celebrate the incredible women driving innovation & excellence in #HospitalAtHome care. We’ll continue to champion gender equality and recognise the vital role women play in shaping the future of #HospitalAtHome
#InternationalWomensDay #WomenInHealthcare #EquityInCare

Supporting older people through Hospital at Home care: a systematic review of patient, carer and healthcare professionals’ perspectives AbstractIntroduction. Hospital at Home provides hospital-level type care at home, both remote and face-to-face by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare pr

A review on Hospital at Home.
From my experience: Person-centered care drives satisfaction, familiar surroundings reduce delirium&other risk in seniors AND natural activity at home accelerates rehabilitation - partly by preventing deterioration in the first place.

There’s all sorts of endura kit in the Faversham Oxfam too! Wonder where it’s coming from. All boxed too

Interesting slide on who is classified as “old” in Japan. Lots to say about this. But as it’s Friday afternoon, I’ll just say that I’m looking forward to super older adults appearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe…