Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈
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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈
@drneilpender.bsky.social
Medical Director of Trinity Hospice and Brian House Children’s Hospice, Blackpool, UK.
Consultant in Palliative Medicine.
#HAPC #HPM
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#PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice
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Dear followers,
If you can help... LIKE and REPOST.
Many thanks!

#PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice
November 17, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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!
January 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you have a happy and healthy 2025. #BeKind
January 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Merry Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Another virtual Conqueror Challenge completed: Día de los Muertos:
- 157.6km in 7 days
- Walking and cycling
December 21, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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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GM Ringway Stage 2 - Go Jauntly
Stage 2 links Sale Water Park and Didsbury Village tram stations via the verdant Mersey Valley.
walks.gojauntly.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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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”
Investment in the whole system is needed for quality end-of-life care.

Read our press response to today's hospice funding announcement: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
December 19, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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.
Hugh Pym BBC Health Editor: “Govt has announced £126 million over 2 years for #hospices in England - capital spending for buildings and kit etc - inc £26 million for children’s hospice #grant next year”.
December 19, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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📣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

Please share 🔁
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 17, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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#digitallegacy #techforgood #palliativecare
December 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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.

walks.gojauntly.com/walks/gm-rin...
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.
walks.gojauntly.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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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...
November 30, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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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-...
November 29, 2024 at 2:29 PM
MPs vote in favour of the Assisted Dying Bill

Yes - 330
No - 275
Majority of 55
November 29, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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.
November 28, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Off for a long walk then…
November 25, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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
November 23, 2024 at 10:32 AM
What a @bsky.app welcome. 500 followers in 2 days. Hello everyone!
November 19, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Dear followers,
If you can help... LIKE and REPOST.
Many thanks!

#PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice
November 17, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky!

18M users? 🙂‍↔️ 18M friends 🙂‍↕️
November 16, 2024 at 8:43 PM