Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈

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#PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice

I’m delighted to announce that I started a new role this week - Medical Director of Trinity Hospice and Brian House Children’s Hospice in Blackpool, UK

@trinityhospice.bsky.social and @brianhousech.bsky.social, I look forward to meeting you all in the coming weeks! Thank you for the welcome so far!

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you have a happy and healthy 2025. #BeKind

Merry Christmas Bren!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Another virtual Conqueror Challenge completed: Día de los Muertos:
- 157.6km in 7 days
- Walking and cycling

Solo. Good thinking time!

GM Ringway Stage 2 - Go Jauntly Stage 2 links Sale Water Park and Didsbury Village tram stations via the verdant Mersey Valley.

GM Ringway Stage 2 @ Sale Water Park - Didsbury on @gojauntly.bsky.social

I will give it a 3/5. I suspect a nicer spring/summer walk. Today was very muddy but still pleasant.

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I found the middle section along the canal quite dull (around Trafford). I didn’t find that part particularly tranquil or scenic this time of year. The beginning and end brought the score up for me personally. I did find the Go Jauntly directions extremely helpful which was a bonus.

Thank you for highlighting this response to me. I hadn’t seen it. Hope you are well Patricia and enjoying your well earned retirement. As you can see, I moved up north following my registrar years in London.

Well said: “the majority of the investment announced today does not cover day-to-day running costs, such as staffing and other essential outgoings needed to give round the clock care” &”End-of-life care involves numerous parts of the health and care sectors in all four UK nations working together”

Is capital spending really what the hospice sector needs? Or is it fairer, equitable, transparent and recurrent funding from NHS Integrated Care Boards? Hospice expenditure is mostly people, not things.

📣Published TODAY 📖
It means so much to me to share our paper on #PalliativeCare & #EoLC for people with pleural #Mesothelioma 🫁 in @palliativemedj.bsky.social

Thank you to @mesouk.bsky.social for funding this research

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GM Ringway Stage 1 - Go Jauntly Stage 1 is a tranquil, largely traffic-free route from the city centre to Sale Water Park tram stop.

Just finished GM Ringway Stage 1 - Central Manchester to Sale Water Park on @gojauntly.bsky.social

I’ll give it a 3/5 but many more stages to come.

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I can’t rejoice at this assisted dying bill. Where is the humanity? After sitting as a justice of the Supreme Court, and having seen friends struggle with end-of-life choices, Jonathan Sumption believed the law should change. But he feels the new bill is over-engineer...

Well worth a read… #AssistedDying

www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Thanks @lbc.co.uk for having me on to discuss AD.

Both Keir Starmer & Wes Streeting know full well how grossly underfunded UK palliative care is - & they have the power to change that.

But will they?

Or will they turn their backs on dying people?

www.lbc.co.uk/news/palliat...

Toby Porter, CEO of Hospice UK, responds to the result of today's vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

Read the full statement: www.hospiceuk.org/latest-from-...

MPs vote in favour of the Assisted Dying Bill

Yes - 330
No - 275
Majority of 55

Last day working at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. Thank you for the wonderful send off! The next chapter of my life starts soon so I’ll keep you all updated.

Three quarters support assisted dying law | YouGov New YouGov survey takes in-depth look at attitudes towards assisted dying

An interesting read #AssistedDying

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Off for a long walk then…

Excellent. Good luck with the research!

Just watched another news report on #AssistedDying. But it was this comment that I’d like to explore: “Palliative Care needs to be improved”. Does palliative care need improvement? Or is it about equitable access to well funded and well resourced palliative care services? #PalliativeCare #HPM #HAPC

Ah, I see! I forget sometimes that BM is unusual.

Thank you!

Hello 👋
Yes, Southampton graduate. What made you ask?

What a @bsky.app welcome. 500 followers in 2 days. Hello everyone!

Hello! Glad you’re here too! Looking forward to some beautiful photos 😀