How people experience care is something that is fundamental to what we do in health, listening to the views of those around us - the people we care for, their relatives, their friends, our colleagues, other health care professionals and anyone else who may be involved in the care - can improve and inform our practice and service.  But how often do we take time to examine the evidence behind experiences of care ? Why is it so important? And how can we share the evidence and importance on a wider scale? ...... How about a Twitter Storm ? A Twitter storm is an event on Twitter that takes place over a short period of time. The idea is that people share their links to evidence around a subject and retweet other people links to spread the message ...

There are lots of families in the community looking after CYP with complex medical needs and carrying out care such as invasive and non invasive ventilation, enteral and parenteral feeding, administration of intravenous medication and much more.  Often supported by community children's nurses.   This is evidenced by #notanursebut on Twitter.This chat is co-hosted by Linda Partridge formerly of Well Child and aims to discuss the accountability issues of training families i.e consideration of health and safety and delegation.Ensuring health & safety/delegation - how do you ensure that responsibility for training is not delegated to someone who is not experienced to deliver specific training/taskWhat if any are your major challenges when it co ...

For Experience Of Care Week (#ExpOfCare) 2019 WeCommunities and the Experience Of Care team from NHS England will be hosting a multidisciplinary tweetchat on co-production.    What is co-production?Co-production is a way of working that involves people who use health and care services, carers and communities in equal partnership; and which engages groups of people at the earliest stages of service design, development and evaluation. Co-production acknowledges that people with ‘lived experience’ of a particular condition are often best placed to advise on what support and services will make a positive difference to their lives. Done well, co-production helps to ground discussions in reality, and to maintain a person-centred perspective.Co-pr ...

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) has reported a27% drop in applicants to healthcare programmes in the period 2014-18placingsome AHP programmes at risk. Many courses in the UK are uncertain they will be able to recruit to their cohort numbers and, in some cases, even to recruit a viable cohort. The Office for Students (OfS) recognises Therapeutic Radiography, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Orthoptists and Podiatry as the AHP small & vital professions.  (HEE AHP At the forefront of improving care -a year in review 2017/2018)This comes at a time when the need for the skills of AHPs and the under standing of their added value and potential is increasing. The NHS long term plan recognises the need to fully utilise the potentia ...