Justine Robinson
justinepilgrims.bsky.social
Justine Robinson
@justinepilgrims.bsky.social
Occupational therapist, passionate about palliative care and arts and nature in health.
Hospice based head of therapies and wellbeing services
This is not my professional account, all views are mine!
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The Association for Palliative Medicine has produced a Myth Buster on assisted dying and the Terminally Ill Adults bill.

The debate must be based on evidence, not soundbites and spin.

It’s an essential tool for Peers, journalists and other commentators.

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September 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Our new paper, about how we evaluated the end of life care planning toolkit with people with learning disabilities
August 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Tai Chi for Insomnia: A Win-Win 🌙
New research shows tai chi outperformed standard care for sleep - with benefits lasting up to 2 years.
For older people: Better sleep + improved balance + chronic condition management + social connection. #AHP #OT #Therapy #PT #CPD bmjgroup.com/yoga-tai-chi...
Yoga, Tai Chi, walking and jogging may be best forms of exercise for insomnia - BMJ Group
Findings back use of exercise as primary treatment strategy for poor sleep, say researchers Yoga, Tai Chi, walking and jogging may be the best forms of exercise to improve sleep quality and ease insom...
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July 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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“Before about 1963, there are no voices of people with learning disabilities in their own words. Nothing.”

Channel 4 News has recently shared United Response's new project 'Our Life Stories' - ensuring people's stories will be heard and remembered for generations to come:

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Groundbreaking project gives a voice to people with learning disabilities
Across the UK, people with learning disabilities are taking part in a groundbreaking oral history project called Our Life Stories. For the first time, their personal lives are being recorded by peers ...
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June 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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The @local.gov.uk have published an important report that showcases the value and impact of occupational therapy, and other AHPs working in social care.
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Occupational therapists in councils: Unlocking capacity and driving change
This report, developed in partnership with national and regional occupational therapy leaders, explores the unique role of occupational therapists in councils. It highlights their impact across housin...
www.local.gov.uk
June 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Ahead of the Spending Review, the Local Government Association (LGA) is calling for urgent action to boost the number of Occupational Therapists (OTs) employed by councils to increase community wellbeing, promote independence, and achieve government health goals.

#occupationaltherapy #UK
SR: Up number of Occupational Therapists to achieve government health goals, says LGA
Ahead of the Spending Review, the LGA is calling for urgent action to boost the number of Occupational Therapists employed by councils to increase community wellbeing, promote independence, and achiev...
www.local.gov.uk
June 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Superb #ALPM2025 by @drjrubenstein.bsky.social about "PR" in #palliativecare

TAKE AWAY: Palliative care doesn't need to change what we're called or what we do; we should help our non-pall peers understand our awesomeness

Watch his Fire Department & other vids: www.jaredrubensteinmd.com/videos
June 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Great to have our TACP, Charlotte Davies presenting Pilgrims Hospices' work on our Comprehensive Palliative Care Assessment at the EAPC 2025 conference in Helsinki.
#eapc2025 #PalliativeCare #EndOfLifeCare
June 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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** Opportunity**

We want to recruit 3 disabled, chronically ill, & ventilated contemporary artists who require ventilatory support, such as non-invasive ventilation like CPAP or BIPAP, or other forms like a tracheostomy

www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

Please share widely! 🙌🏽
Artist Collaborator Recruitment
Cripping Breath is recruiting three disabled, chronically ill, and ventilated contemporary artists.
www.sheffield.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Yes, that would be awful, wouldn't it. Bloody artists, wanting money for their work.
May 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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If we are brave enough to ask people about themselves and what and who is important to them, what they find difficult, what they are fearful of and what they need, we may have a chance to really improve the experiences of the people we care for.”

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Reflections on working in health inequity in palliative care: Learning from the No Barriers Here project five years on
Published in Progress in Palliative Care: Science and the Art of Caring (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮 𝗸𝗶𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?

Researchers at the University of Kent want to better understand how people make decisions about their health.
May 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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🧡 Please take 5 secs to vote for @hospiceuk.bsky.social Garden of Compassion, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, BBC/RHS People’s Choice Award.
🧡 Winning means more people hear the amazing work hospices do for patients and their families.
Vote here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
Vote closes 8pm Thurs 22 May
BBC Two - RHS Chelsea Flower Show - The BBC RHS People's Choice Award at Chelsea Flower Show 2025
View the Show Gardens from the Chelsea Flower Show 2025
www.bbc.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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It’s #CreativityAndWellbeingWeek 🎉

Led by @lahartshealth.bsky.social and Culture Health & Wellbeing Alliance, the national festival celebrates how creativity supports health and wellbeing.

Events are happening all week in hospitals, museums, and communities across the country 🩵
May 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Globally, only 14% of people who need palliative care actually receive it. A decade after the WHA Resolution, what progress had been made?

New paper in BMJ Global Health: Confronting global inequities in palliative care

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Confronting global inequities in palliative care
The number of people dying with preventable, serious health-related suffering is rapidly increasing, and international calls for the expansion of palliative care services have been made, such as the W...
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May 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Our gardens are a vital part of the care we offer people likely to be in their last year of life. Engaging with nature as something cyclical and bigger than us can be incredibly comforting and therapeutic for people in our services.
We’re thrilled to unveil the Hospice UK Garden of Compassion at #RHSChelsea today.

Fully-funded by @projectgivingback.bsky.social, it's the result of a year of hard work by the garden’s award-winning designer Tom Hoblyn and his expert planting, design & landscaping teams Mark Whyman Landscapes.
May 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Strong statement from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. “We cannot support the Terminally Ill Adults Bill as it stands”

www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default...
May 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Canterbury on #ACPDay2025 last week to watch the live-stream of the National Advance Care Planning Conference. 💡 💙

We hope you all enjoyed an enriching learning and networking experience.

#PilgrimsHospice #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek
May 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Of all the NHS cuts being forced by the govt's draconian spending targets, those to palliative care are especially horrifying.

At exactly the time MPs debate assisted dying, we face removing care from dying people.

How can you do this, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NHS plans 'unthinkable' cuts to balance books
Diabetes care, rehab centres, end-of-life services and talking therapies at risk in England.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Working in health & social care? Interested in creative health? Our new newsletter is for you! Monthly insights for colleagues working across Primary Care, Trusts, ICBs, Public Health, Social Care, wider NHS mailchi.mp/5260ee494d27/health-care-creative-health-newsletter
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April 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Pilgrims Hospice will be live streaming the conference and offering a free lunch! Come for all or part of the day.
• May 7th
• 9:15 – 15:45 ( 8:45am for coffee)
• Ann Robertson Centre 55 London Rd, Canterbury, CT2 8HQ
Contact us to reserve your place:
Education@pilgrimshospices.org
01227 812616
#ACPDay2025 Speaker Announcement: Corinna Grimes😍

Corinna is a Health and Social Care Consultant in Northern Ireland and Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute. She led the 'Advance Care Planning For Now and For The Future' work for Northern Ireland.

#HSCNI #AdvanceCarePlanning
April 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Health attorneys call us because they need urgent help.

Often they struggle to be heard when trying to refuse treatment on behalf of the person they love.

In our blog we discuss the lack of support for attorneys and what we're doing to fill this gap 👇

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Resolving disputes: Health and welfare attorneys tell us they need more support
There are significant gaps in the support available to enable health attorneys to make decisions for the people they love.
compassionindying.org.uk
April 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Pilgrims Hospice will be live streaming the conference and offering a free lunch! Come for all or part of the day.
• May 7th
• 9:15 – 15:45 ( 8:45am for coffee)
• Ann Robertson Centre 55 London Rd, Canterbury, CT2 8HQ
Contact us to reserve your place:
Education@pilgrimshospices.org
01227 812616
Advance Care Plan Day 2025 Insights from Dr. Christian Ntizimira.

Learn about Christian's upcoming presentation at the National Conference on the 7th May below 😍

advancecareplanday.org/national-con...

#ACPDay2025 #Ubuntu #WhatMattersMost #PalliativeCare
April 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Call for submissions: The Role of Creative Health in Public Health for @rsph.bsky.social journal 📣📖

Alongside @ncch.bsky.social, we're looking for practice and research which demonstrates the value of collaboration between creative health and public health.

Find out more 👇
We're looking for submissions to a special issue on the role of creative health in public health in our journal, Perspectives in Public Health, with @ncch.bsky.social and @artscouncilengland.bsky.social.

Find out more and submit your article by 1 September 2025 ✍️👇

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RSPH | Perspectives in Public Health
Perspectives in Public Health is the RSPH bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal and available to all RSPH members
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April 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM