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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Through the interpersonal as much as policy. And then, if you’re fortunate, you become a boss yourself, and you remember every single second of it and do the opposite.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

through practices, norms, culture. You learn how bad leadership echoes, impacts felt years after they’ve left. You feel the precarity. You live the mistrust. The dread of what they’ll do next. You understand that bad leadership is incremental. It seeds through interactions as much as strategy. 2/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Bad leadership is a treasure trove of learning. I’ve had good bosses and bad bosses. I’ve probably learned more from the bad ones. Learning to lead is as much about what not to do as what to do. You learn the personal impact of bad leadership. How it pervades an organisation, reverberates 1/

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Christina Ebanks @christinaebanks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Secretary of State has confirmed an employer-led review for all Band 5 nursing roles employed directly by NHS Trusts. A great initiative which ensures a fairer pay &recognition of skills.Particularly for the voiceless, let's keep levelling the playing fields. www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nu...

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NHS England » Nursing Band 5 job evaluation

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

There is nothing like working with talented people. Nothing like the rhythm of a high performing team when it gels. Nothing like the fluidity of excellence, the easy flow of ideas, contention, challenge. We spend a lot of time at work. Far better to spend it with talented people.

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Morale of staff expected to oversee major NHS reform programme is..? But does Streeting give a fig? It is a TenYear ‘Plan’ after all (though even the ‘plan’ bit is a little questionable) and he will move on to richer pickings long before the smoke clears www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/re...

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Revealed: huge variation in NHSE regional job cuts

The level of job cuts across the NHS England regional teams is set to vary significantly, with London's headcount reduced by around half but another region facing a cut of around just 15 per cent, HSJ...

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

£37.4 billion net economic contribution. The enlivening of communities and classrooms. Global soft power value, global literacy. Cross subsidy funding of research. Cross subsidy of niche courses. Cultural richness and perspective. In a rational world, nations would genuinely welcome 1/

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"For thousands of years, women tended to give birth in an upright position – whether kneeling, using birthing stools or squatting. In fact, squatting can enlarge the pelvic diameter by at least 2.5cm (1in), while working with gravity makes it far easier to give birth." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Women were never meant to give birth on their backs

It's usually more dangerous for women to give birth lying down, so why do they? It's all because of a Frenchman who decided it was more convenient – for men.

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

BMJ reporting that government has said that 1000 extra training posts for resident doctors will no longer be available from this April. Stupid. Impact of resident doctors on patient care and healthcare system make it essential to provide adequate training posts for them www.bmj.com/content/393/...

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

and what you learned from failure, talk about your journey. Use AI to gain information about the employer and the role, use it to think through the job description and how your skills match, use it to assess ‘fit’ but write it yourself. Good organisations recruit authentic people.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

personality, a perspective, an expertise honed through the realities of work rather than the artifice of LLMs. Talk about real impact, real students, real leadership. (I’ve always used the rule of three before AI saturated prose with it so don’t even). Talk about the ‘how’ of success 2/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Want your job application to stand out? Don’t use AI. For me, real writing is a differentiator for recruitment. When a panel are assessing applications, they want to hear a voice, they want to get an idea of what you would bring, real experiences rather than the generic. They want to feel a 1/

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

Astronaut in space suit surrounded by his beautiful family, including their dog

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Settings that didn’t require code-switching or adoption of regional pronunciation, settings where theory was expounded in the most resonant authentic accents. While accent bias in the sector is very real, we must remember that there are universities with less obsession with class and elitism, 4/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Educational access is economic. Attainment is economic. Graduate outcomes are economic. If social mobility is the goal, then support must be weighted towards those with the least. Not rhetoric. Not positioning. Real investment in the students who stand to gain the most.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

universities that challenge class and elitism and celebrate regional, international and working class accents. That more and more senior leaders are being appointed without code-switching gives me hope. blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

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Open your ears: dismantling higher education’s sonic straitjacket - LSE Higher Education

UK universities name-drop Stormzy while ensuring no one who sounds like him actually breaks through British academia’s accent ceiling. Aymen Idris tackles HE’s open secret: accent discrimination A mur...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 27/03/2026

Wow, turns out vaccines during pregnancy are... safe and effective, even protecting babies! Incredible! Truly shocking! It's almost like science works?!💉🛡️👶 This admin keeps peddling COVID-19 antivax nonsense, but science prevails.💪 Science: 2,978,547 🧠🪱: -785

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Yep, a mom's COVID shot during pregnancy protects her baby, a large study finds

A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy.

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Sickle Cell Society @sicklecelluk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Please note our helpline will be closed on the 31st March 2026. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding. #SickleCellSociety #HelplineUpdate #CommunitySupport

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Use AI to automate the mundane, of course. Let it do the boring work, the routine, by all means. Let it augment creativity and enhance the social. But preserve the human at all costs.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Second, universities perform the creation of new knowledge rather than producing summaries of what already exists. Like learning, research is intrinsically human, endlessly creative, curious, perpetually inventive.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

AI will kill universities according to those making a fortune from AI. Everything will be free so what’s the point of higher education. Intelligence will be like a utility. Institutions of knowledge will become obsolete as AI democratises knowledge. 1/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It asks people - including the leader - to tolerate uncertainty and push against the easy consensus. That’s the real test.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The decision that avoids conflict. But the right thing in leadership is rarely the comfortable option. It’s not always popular. It’s not always supported. And it’s almost never celebrated in the moment. More often, it challenges the status quo. It creates discomfort. 2/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The simplest leadership advice is: do the right thing. Simple. But problematic. Because not everyone is a good judge of what the right thing actually is. Too often, the right thing becomes whatever carries the least personal risk. The decision that protects reputation, position or relationships.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

But more than anything, people get time to think. Universities run on ideas. Yet our diaries often leave very little room for thinking. Sometimes the most productive thing an organisation can do is remove something, especially meetings, and give people the space to do the work that really matters.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Six months ago we introduced meeting-free Fridays. Fridays have become the day people catch up, read, write, plan. New ideas get bounced around. Publications and projects get shared. New resources developed, new technology experimented with. 1/

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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 15/03/2026

Today marks #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay. Long COVID continues to impact many nursing staff. If you’re living with long COVID, or supporting a colleague who is, visit our website to access resources, advice and support ⬇️ (1/2)

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Lots of people who have had COVID-19 continue to suffer from debilitating symptoms well after their initial illness. And nursing staff are disproportionately affected.

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Sickle Cell Society @sicklecelluk.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Sending love this Mother’s Day to all the incredible mums in our community. 💐Your strength and resilience inspire us every day. From all of us at the Sickle Cell Society, we celebrate you. ❤️ #MothersDay #SickleCellMums #SickleCell #SickleCellCommunity

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

per night. Free meals, cheapest coffee in town. The Big Deal providing over £200 of free cultural, sporting and development events per month. Compressed timetables. Flexible delivery. Onsite recruitment agency for part time work, including on campus. Identify a need, meet it. That’s it.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

the ‘need more trades’ narratives (but for other people’s kids, naturally). Sudden concern for the loan book, access work treated as reputational drag, schools of privilege targeted for recruitment. Marketing and pronouncements and interviews that code prestige, not impact. 2/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Elitism in higher education never went away but it’s becoming more acceptable again. As competition intensifies, some universities are quietly rediscovering the comfort of exclusivity. We see it in the silent acquiescence to the Mickey Mouse narratives, the ‘too many students’ narratives, 1/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Universities don’t just reflect inequality, they can reinforce or interrupt it. The real question for leaders is whether access remains a core value or a convenient casualty.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Measles patients are developing severe complications including life-threatening anemia and liver inflammation. Measles is a life-threatening infection which can be prevented by vaccination. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Measles is 'worse than expected' in Utah, officials say

Measles patients in Utah are developing severe complications, health officials say, including potentially life-threatening anemia and liver inflammation.

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

‘The mental health sector feels “abandoned”, and with no long term plan and its share of spending “falling like a stone” In 2025 Kings Fund reported that 1 in 4 mental health beds are now ‘outsourced’ so possibly Gov sees mental health as easy target for privatisation www.hsj.co.uk/mental-healt...

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Trust CEO: National leaders are holding back mental health progress

A leading trust CEO and former national director has warned the mental health sector feels "abandoned", with no long-term plan and its "share of spend falling like a stone".

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

‘The planned increase in health spending over this year is below the historic average but above the 2010s, while adjusting for population size and age also considerably reduces real-terms growth in NHS funding’ www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The majority of organisational problems are caused by a lack of talent. And the majority of organisational problems can be solved by a density of talent. Recruiting, developing and retaining talent should be our preoccupation.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

When she received her cancer diagnosis, she did not expect that her hobby of knitting, which she took up while recovering, would affect the lives of thousands of breast cancer survivors. She now makes knitted breasr prostheses for other breast cancer survivors. apnews.com/article/keny...

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Knitting for healing, one stitch at a time

A Kenyan woman who survived breast cancer is knitting prostheses and training others to make them in a country where silicone ones are expensive.

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Steve Hardy @stevehardyldn.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Nurse apprenticeship illustrated through case studies, show how epidemiological knowledge supports earlier identification of health needs, clinical decision-making and the provision of personalised, person-centred care #LearningDisabilities

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Role of epidemiology in supporting learning disability nurse education and practice

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The government’s response on unpaid internships is welcome but it must lead to real change. As the Sutton has pointed out below, unpaid and unadvertised internships remain a significant barrier to opportunity. They privilege those with financial backing and insider networks over those 1/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

with financial backing and insider networks over those with talent and potential. We know internships are a key route into many professions. When access depends on who can afford to work for free, that isn’t meritocracy, it’s structural advantage. If we’re serious about social mobility, 2/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

paid internships must be the norm, transparently advertised and properly enforced. Opportunity shouldn’t depend on your parents’ bank balance. www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

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Sutton Trust reaction to the Government's response to consultation on unpaid internships - The Sutton Trust

The Government has published its response to the consultation on unpaid internships.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I’ve worked in education for 26 years, half my life. And I’ve never regretted it once. Education can be maddening, wildly frustrating, exhausting mentally, physically and emotionally. There are times of grind, times of counting the days until holiday, times of boring meetings and pointless 1/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

bureaucracy, egos to endure, politics to endure. But when it’s right. When it clicks. When learning happens, when people flourish. When students cross the graduation stage. When solutions are found and thinking is collective and innovation sparks. When a student gets it. When a colleague gets 2/

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

a promotion. When you see people develop. When you see small kindnesses. When you upset the right people. When people do the things others said they could not. Then. Then there is nothing like education. Nothing.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

roles, even when they have similar qualifications and apply in the same numbers. This isn’t about aspiration or talent. It’s about discrimination in the workplace. Higher education has widened access. But if the labour market doesn’t change, we risk creating access without mobility.

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UK employers less likely to recruit disadvantaged ethnic minority graduates

Ethnic minority graduates from a low socio-economic background are 45% less likely to be offered entry-level professional roles compared to more advantaged White applicants, finds a new report led by ...

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