What a wonderful way to start a Wednesday morning! Nurse Clinical fellow Suma- who has developed & grown professionally this year so much so- that she is almost unrecognisable. She has secured a promotion in the system too and produced a fabulous toolkit for ward leaders!👏🏽 Well done!

Brilliant to start the day with HIAE Meeting in Penarth today! We have visitors from Canada, Denmark, Estonia and many others! Croeso I Cymru!

Great to be at the co-production event for the delivery of the Women’s health plan! Wales has a proud history of co-production already. Looking forward to seeing the progress on the key actions!

Lovely to have Sam Donohue from the NMC joining us in Wales today, discussing the Future of education standards for nursing and midwifery!

Thank you to Felicia Kwaku and Acosia Nyanin, DCNO England- for bringing this update on bilateral agreements and improving safeguards on international nurse recruitment. Calling on CNO involvement and participation in agreeing BLAs!

Well done to Grace and team for receiving their official Designation. Fantastic achievement all!🎉👏🏽🎊

Karen Jewell, chief midwifery officer at Welsh Government talking about how fundamental the route map and global collaboration is for better health outcomes for women and babies are!

Cardiff’s WHO Midwifery collaborating centre: Working to strengthen midwifery throughout the European Region- through the delivery of the Sustainable Development goals.

Kate Button kicking off the event this afternoon. Joined by some great colleagues. And Grace Thomas, director of the centre -a brilliant advocate for midwifery and women’s health.

Honoured to have Maggie Langins joining Cardiff University this afternoon in the re-designation of the WHO midwifery collaborating centre.

Attended Romania’s National day on Sunday with Dr Nistor Becia- Honorary Consul of Romania in Wales. Highlighting the contribution of Romanian Diaspora, and great meet so many wonderful people especially Madalina. A nurse and an incredible baker!

Wonderful to meet Amy, Learning Disability nursing student nominated for an award tonight. Good luck Amy! 🎉🎊

Lifetime achievement award- presented by Lord Lieutenant and Honathan Morgan Chair Cwm Taf Morganwg at RCN Wales Nurse of the year awards. The winner is Clare Hurlin🎉

At RCN Wales Nurse of the Year awards 2024 with Gill Knight. Excited to be here and looking forward to presenting the CNO Wales award!

Nursing Times and Future Nurse Digital conference.
Thanks to Prof Natasha Philips for the in invite. My message to nurses concerned about digital future in health- ‘Healthcare will always be human led, and tech enabled’. We must embrace but critical that we influence design.

Nursing Times Digital Nurse leaders- encouraging nurses to be part of the digital future in health! A call to action- be part of the solution!

Great to met Gideon at the NNACUK conference.

Nigerian Nurses Association conference last Friday. A pleasure to see Sam, Jay and so many friends again and looking forward to today. It’s a wonderful 4 day celebration of nurse and midwife contributions. 🎉