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Sarah Holmes

@holmes74sarah.bsky.social

Chief Medical Officer, Marie Curie UK | Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Bradford | All views my own She/her

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The fabulous cast of Evita take a bow

The fabulous cast of Evita take a bow

The entire audience at the Palladium on their feet to applaud the cast

The entire audience at the Palladium on their feet to applaud the cast

Hordes of people wait at the stage door to the Palladium

Hordes of people wait at the stage door to the Palladium

Well deserved, rapturous standing ovation at @OfficialEvita tonight with hordes of people waiting at the stage door. It’s on for another week or so - if you get the chance to see it, grab it with both hands!
Another roaring success for @JamieLloydCo πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»

21.08.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A fabulous time with this wonderful one in the big smoke today #london #girlsdayout

21.08.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lovely run along the River Nidd yesterday evening with the oldest teenager (although I think she may have regretted her life choices half way through!)
Unable to post usual obligatory selfie as β€˜Mother, do I look selfie ready?!?’ πŸ˜‚

19.08.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
4 Canada Geese marching through a field of haystacks

4 Canada Geese marching through a field of haystacks

Yesterday’s run. I love seeing all the haystacks at this time of year.

03.08.2025 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Testing a potential prototype daffodil costume today for the London Marathon next year. This one won’t be any good as I can’t see in it, but I’ll come up with something!
I’ll be running for @mariecurieuk - if you’d like to sponsor me, link below πŸ™

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28.07.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very proud to be with our Yorkshire team to represent @mariecurieuk.bsky.social at Leeds Pride today. After weeks of drought the heavens opened but the rain didn’t dampen spirits πŸŒˆπŸ’›πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

20.07.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So true πŸ«€

15.07.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What an incredible, cinematically beautiful, moving, powerfully written book. Thank you @drrachelclarke.com for such powerful story telling, and to my fellow passengers on the train who have tactfully ignored me crying quietly to myself as I read it!

15.07.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Despite swearing I’d never run another road marathon, I couldn’t resist the chance to run the London marathon as a daffodil for Marie Curie!
If you’d like to sponsor me, I’d be really grateful.
Anyone able to help us make the daffodil headdress?!

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06.07.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Dairy cows grazing on a hillside overlooking the Wharfe valley

Dairy cows grazing on a hillside overlooking the Wharfe valley

Another day, another run. Yorkshire looking glorious again

22.06.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A wonderful episode on BBC Radio4 @laurenlaverne.bsky.social
It strikes me that @lucygobag.bsky.social is the personification of decency, compassion, kindness and respect - such wisdom gained from a lifetime spent dealing with disaster.
And a great soundtrack choice too ❀️

13.06.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜The reality that we live and work in is a health and social care system that is opaque, bureaucratised and full of jargon without the back up that we need’
Powerful words from Rekha Vijayshankar about working as a community nurse and lived experience as a family caregiver

02.06.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜We keep investing in spangly new toys, but we keep forgetting to invest in that core base of quality palliative care’
Great talk from Dr Ben Bowers @drbenbowers.bsky.social
@mariecurieuk.bsky.social

02.06.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fascinating panel discussion about how we attract, retain and value the nursing workforce.
My beautiful mum was in a campaign to attract people into the profession in the 1960s and had a very rewarding, joyful career - perhaps nearly 60 years later we need another campaign?

02.06.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to an interesting day at The Royal College of Nursing
β€˜A Future Vision for Nursing in Palliative and End of Life Care: Beyond Assisted Dying’
@mariecurieuk.bsky.social

02.06.2025 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finding wise hope beyond a cure Catherine Shteynberg calls for health professionals to use clear language when delivering a diagnosis of incurable cancer Delivering the devastating news of an incurable cancer diagnosis is one of th...

β€˜Accepting death is a lifetime’s work’
A powerful article about the impact of language that healthcare staff, and society use, and the value of finding β€˜wise hope’

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18.05.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another week, another wood (this one a National heritage site) but a similar moment of serenity. Feeling very blessed to have this on my doorstep. #mindfulminute #minuteofmindfulness #birdsong #peace #calm

04.05.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Time to stop and stare on this morning’s walk….here’s a minute of complete peace for anyone who needs it #mindful #calm #peace #bluebells

27.04.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Proof, I think, from today’s walk, that the grass isn’t always greener! πŸ˜‰

27.04.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sarah and her daughter smiling at the top of Arthur’s Seat with a view of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth behind

Sarah and her daughter smiling at the top of Arthur’s Seat with a view of Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth behind

The entrance to Edinburgh’s old Royal Infirmary, now Edinburgh Futures

The entrance to Edinburgh’s old Royal Infirmary, now Edinburgh Futures

Plaque of Edinburgh Medical School

Plaque of Edinburgh Medical School

Sarah smiling with her daughter outside Doctors pub in Edinburgh

Sarah smiling with her daughter outside Doctors pub in Edinburgh

Loving a little trip down memory lane in Edinburgh today…and passing on my love for this fabulous city to the next generation #happydays

15.04.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Snap! From my run yesterday….

13.04.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for spending time with us at the hospice Rob, and for spreading the word about the importance of palliative and end of life care πŸ’›

13.04.2025 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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