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Helen Featherstone, PhD

@hfeatherstone.bsky.social
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Public engagement with research, creative & F2F, training & development for PER, interactive exhibits, research, visitor studies, cheese, growing things, making things, yarn, raving, Bristol. She / her.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 21/08/2025
Get hands-on at MA Conference 2025 🛠️ In Cardiff you'll be able to take part in interactive workshops on topics including: • Working equitably with partners • Implementing Easy Read • Making ethical choices in museum scenarios • Exploring Intangible Cultural Heritage through music, food and more
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Discover our programme of workshops at Conference 2025 - Museums Association
Explore the exciting range of interactive sessions for delegates in Cardiff
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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It’s so close now! Still just time to bag a ticket for TMiP 2025, where you can meet and network with other maths communicators, upgrade your skills and learn some new tricks: talkingmathsinpublic.uk
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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Our #TMiP25 conference attendees will also learn about how skills from stand-up comedy can improve our maths comm, with experienced comedy producer Chris Head. Tickets at talkingmathsinpublic.uk
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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 09/07/2025
Whether you’re attending @big-stem-network.bsky.social next week or not, we have a special #NerdyLooks challenge planned! Snap a photo of your outfit or part of it and share with the hashtag. Pls use alt text! @acescicomm.bsky.social
Text heavy graphic. BIG does #NerdyLooks 14th to 20th July. Prompts for the week are M - Spark, T - Bright, W - Life, T - Matter, F - Count and S & S - Free choice. Smaller text in a speech bubble says Bonus challenge: Wear one thing which has previously sparked a SciComm conversation. The text is on a grey centre which is surrounded by a pale green border covered in purple doodles related to science and science communication.
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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
⚡Funderworld⚡ What are the attractions? "The Amazing Grant Tombola" "The Polaris House Haunted Mansion" "It's A Small World - Panel Membership Selection Game"
Very busy poster attached to railings. The main text reads "Funderworld theme park, Bristol"
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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Talking Maths in Public is the UK's network for maths communicators. We run a conference every two years, and will shortly be opening sales for this year's event, 28th-30th Aug at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social. Join our mailing list at talkingmathsi... for updates!
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 02/04/2025
Tickets Alert: Visit the UK’s largest particle accelerator – the Diamond Light Source ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tic... A stunning flying saucer-shaped building housing a large particle accelerator can be found not far from Didcot and it opens to the public for free tours a few times a year.
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Tickets Alert: Visit the UK’s largest particle accelerator – the Diamond Light Source
A stunning flying saucer-shaped building housing a large particle accelerator can be found not far from Didcot and it opens to the public for free tours a few times a year.
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IPR @uniofbathipr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Become a guest writer for the IPR blog! Share your expertise, studies, and thoughts to enrich the policy conversation. Help shape the future of public policy by joining us here: buff.ly/0ueINOw #PublicPolicy #PolicyDiscourse
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Jo-ho-ho @jobrodie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"Good practice for public involvement and engagement in data research" Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:30 - 14:30 BST, online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/good-pract... cc @timandraharkness.bsky.social
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Good practice for public involvement and engagement in data research
Find out more about the development of PEDRI’s Good Practice Standards and how can we make sure the public voice shapes the way data is used
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Museum of Forward Planning @mofp2021.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Our retrospective of all our recent family fun activities begins next week! Dull but worthy - Where’s The Fun challenges families to complete 27 learning outcomes while enduring the exhibition. #Museums
A very grumpy looking child.
The black and white poster is entitled ‘where’s the fun? A retrospective of recent dull but worthy family fun events’ 

Tickets unavailable
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity. When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity - Research Professional News
When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates
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Jo-ho-ho @jobrodie.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Public Engagement Spark Awards 2025A open next week - funding for #SciComm folk working in STFC-areas (astro- / nuclear physics, computational science, quantum tech) www.ukri.org/opportunity/.... Max £20k, closes 24 April.
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Public Engagement Spark Awards 2025A
Apply for funding to engage the public with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supported science, people, technology or facilities.
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Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
OBS for Beginners Are you someone who wants to get to grips with livestreaming? Do you want to find out more about how to use OBS in a way that is accessible, inclusive and engaging? I'm offering an intro training session where we'll build a new stream together! www.eventbrite.com/e/obs-for-be...
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OBS for Beginners
Learn how to set up a simple livestream from scratch, whether you're playing video games, running an actual play, hosting a panel and more.
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Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The BIG Event this year is at the @ri-science.bsky.social, home of the Christmas lectures, the Faraday theatre and so much more science history! BIG is the skills sharing network for STEM communicators, and I am so excited to be involved in making it happen! www.big.uk.com/latest-news/...
An advert for the BIG Event. 

Green and purple graphics, including the BIG logo, the Royal Institution logo and a photo of the Best Demo competition competitors is shown. 

The text reads "London 2025. The BIG Event, 16tj - 18th July. Home of the best demo competition, over 30 sessions to choose from, fun networking opportunities (really). 

The skills sharing event for people that work in in STEM engagement. want to take part as a session host and receive a discount? Submit your ideas now. www.bigevent.info"
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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Executive Officer vacancy in my team starting salary £37,999 rising to £45,163 Working across Research and Innovation Services at @uniofbath.bsky.social to support department leadership team Looking for organised, flexible and proactive. No week will look the same. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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CC12411 Executive Officer - Jobs at Bath
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British Society for Immunology @britsocimm.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
📢 Calling all BSI members! Our BSI Communication & Engagement grant scheme is here to support your #PublicEngagement projects in #immunology Apply for up to £1,000 to bring your #SciComms ideas to life 💡 Deadline for applications: 1 February 2025 🔗 bit.ly/3Y9j8gm
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
After the unnecessarily complicated socks I decided to try another toe-up pattern. This one is sooo much quicker and easier. In less than ten days I've produced a whole sock and the second toe. Very pleasing indeed! #Knitting #Socks ##Lace
A multi coloured (reds, purples, and blues) hand knitted sock with a lace pattern on the front. Next to it is a ball of the yarn and the toe of the second sock. All on top of the paper pattern.
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Public Engagement Unit @ UniofBath @uniofbathpeu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Since 2023, Twerton & Whiteway Community Network members have been developing their #CommunityResearch agenda funded by@ukri.org. Check out what they've been up to + their approach to using research and engaging with academic researchers to empower their community. blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...
A green vinyl banner attached to railings with the words "Twerton and Whiteway Community Network" in green
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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Job alert 📣: Our centre hub, @uniofbath.bsky.social, is hiring for a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology. They are keen to receive applications from those working in Environmental Psychology. 🌍 Deadline: Monday 10 February. Find out more and apply now: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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CH12266 Senior Lecturer - Jobs at Bath
Senior Lecturer
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Science Communication Unit, UWE Bristol @scicommsuwe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
✨MSc Science Communication online open event✨ Thurs 30 Jan 2025 7-8pm Join us for an overview of the MSc, the SCU & the opportunity to ask Programme Leader @doc-webber.bsky.social lots of questions! www.uwe.ac.uk/events/msc-s... #scicomm #sciencecommunication #publicengagement
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Science Communication Unit, UWE Bristol @scicommsuwe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Interested in #scicomm? Then our online course Science Communication: Online and Media Writing CPD course might be just the thing for you! ⭐10 week course ⭐Online only - study from anywhere in the world ⭐Starts 22 April For more info & to apply: courses.uwe.ac.uk/USSKNP15M/ap... #sciwriting
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a cartoon drawing of a person using a laptop with the words write written around them
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a person using a laptop with the words write written around them
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Jo-ho-ho @jobrodie.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Royal Society has an afternoon event on 13 Jan about careers in Engineering Biology, a term I discovered for the first time last year and had to google (but turns out I already knew what it was). The afternoon session has someone from DSIT royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Careers in engineering biology | Royal Society
Hear from people who have established a career in engineering biology.
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Jo-ho-ho @jobrodie.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I'm pleasantly surprised to find that Google / YouTube's setting for "Allow third-party companies to train AI models using my channel content" is OFF by default and you can tick in the Channel > Advanced Settings option to allow it, if you wish. Then choose which companies can use it.
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Matthew is really good at this stuff. It's so easy to overlook, but vital for great #SciComm #PublicEngagement
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Not long after this, Potato worked out how to jump onto my desk from this position. She got pretty adept at it too, not bad for a 16yo. Sadly, Potato took ill over the festive season and we said goodbye to her in the small hours of this morning. We had a lovely couple of years with her.
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
📣#JobAlert #PublicEngagementLead 5 yr, full time. Starting at £37,999. Working in the newly developed Bath Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) @uniofbath.bsky.social to work with young people aged 12-25 in the region. Lots of #PublicInvolvement. Deadline 16 January. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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CH12324 Public Engagement Lead - Jobs at Bath
Public Engagement Lead
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Science Communication Unit, UWE Bristol @scicommsuwe.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
📢 We're recruiting for an Assistant Editor and Network Developer to join our Science for Environment Policy team at UWE! Deadline this weekend! ⏰ Apply by 5 Jan 2025 Search for 'Editor and Network Developer' via the link below for more details & how to apply: buff.ly/3DmUGDd
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas! Here's the full set.
25 festive images in a 5x5 grid. Top row: blue and red present, yellow and red star, Santa, green candle, Swedish straw goat.
2nd row: trumpet, robin, fairy lights, Christmas tree, candy cane. 
3rd row: yellow bell, sleigh, pink and purple bauble, sprout wearing a hat, gingerbread person.
4th row: reindeer, red mittens, purple stocking, holly sprig, roast turkey.
5th row: pink and yellow sweets, Christmas pudding, snowflake, angel , snow person with a purple scarf.
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This will be great. You should go if you are new to #SciComm
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Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The statue above the Commercial Rooms on Corn Street is commonly thought to be Neptune or Poseidon but is actually an 1811 female representation of the spirit of Bristol.
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
And here we have them! The socks are done. Thank goodness. They have been a looooong time coming. Now comes any of the other projects I've got lined up for when these are done. #knitting #socks #cables
A pair of greeny-blue, hand knitted sticks with lots of cabling patterns. They are lying against an orange background.
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Potato really wants to get on my lap. This is very much the wrong way to try to get there, but at least she's trying!
A small tabby cat with a white muzzle has both her paws on the side of the desk. She definitely can't get up via this route, but she's giving it a fair try.
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In exciting news. I only have the cuff of my unnecessarily complicated sock to do. #Knitting #Socks
A heavily cabled sock on four double pointed needles. It is against a colourful Kaffe Fassett cushion and you can see the little ball of yarn to the side of the sock.
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Public Engagement Unit @ UniofBath @uniofbathpeu.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Come join the #PublicEngagement Unit as @uniofbath.bsky.social's new Deputy Head. Check out the #Job pack and book in a chat with us if you fancy apply. Be quick though, just 1 week left to get your applications in! blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...
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Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I still have availability for public engagement and science communication work in 2025, including content creation, training and presenting work! You can check out everything I offer below samsighsoffer.carrd.co I am very good at it, even if I do say so myself. Please share to boost visibility :)
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What I Offer
Professional science communicator, performer and producer
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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think. Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!
A bright pink instructional graphic titled “How to sleigh alt text.” It includes colourful headings labelled Identify Who (in green), Expression (blue), Description (pink), Colour (red), and Interesting Features (grey). On the right side, there’s a sample alt text description in various colours that reads: “Santa Claus looking happy as he waves at the camera. He wears a traditional red suit and hat and has a long white beard and glasses. There are colourful lights twinkly behind him.” Below the text, a photo of Santa Claus is shown, waving with a big smile against a background of twinkling, colourful holiday lights
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Public Engagement Unit @ UniofBath @uniofbathpeu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📣📣 #PublicEngagement Job Klaxon📣📣 Fancy joining the team at the Public Engagement Unit? Come be the @uniofbath.bsky.social's new Deputy Head of Public Engagement. Check out the details of the job and how to apply 👇 blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...
A group of white people of mixed gender seated around a table in conversation. One of the groups holds a microphone in hand and directs it at another member of the group.
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I made an advent calendar last year. There is one of these squares for each day. They are made from tissue paper. I'll post them up each day. #Advent #Craft
A black square with two strings of multi coloured fairy lights across it. All made from tissue paper.
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
So much to like in this article from the fabulous Ed Stevens. Introduction and background provides a great overview of why #PublicEngagement with research is important. journals.uclpress.co.uk/r4a/article/...
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Activism and the academy: implementing and evaluating activist-in-residence programmes
Activist-in-residence programmes in universities represent a paradox: what space exists for activists in institutions which are often seen as re/creating and perpetuating hegemonic structures, and/or ...
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I don't know how many #PublicEngagement people are here yet. But I have a #job good in my team. Deputy Head of Public Engagement. Full time, permanent, based in Bath, starting at £37,999
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I had an interesting day talking about small grants for #PublicEngagement with research. We talked about new approaches to funding to reduce burden. How the value of funded projects is not always in the project, but in the process the teams go through (and how is this captured).
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
So I'm back to the #UnnecessarilyComplicatedSock. This time I've got help from Potato who is kindly sitting on the pattern. #Knitting #catsofbsky
A picture of a cat and a partially knitted green / blue sock on double pointed needles. The cat is sat behind the knitting, being helpful by sitting on the knitting pattern (which is complicated so the instructions are much needed!). 
The cat is a small tabby with a white face. She is looking grumpily at the knitting.
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Here's what I'm currently dealing with. An unnecessarily complicated sock. I wanted to try making toe-up socks. The toe-up bits are pretty straightforward, I really didn't need all the complicated cabling! #Knitting #Socks
A partly knitted turquoise sock with lid of cabling. The heel has just been turned and the stitches are held on the double pointed needles. The pattern is in the foreground.
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I can get down with reposts of cats. This is Potato trying to get into the kitchen after I had to run away because she was attacking my legs.
Image taken from inside a frosted glass door so everything is fuzzy. 
A small tabby cat with a little white face who is on her back legs, front paws are pressed against the glass. She looks so cute but is actually a beast.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Science city, research region: how to build R&D into local identity. Polling shows place-based awareness and alliances can be foundations for national support, says Kim Shillinglaw. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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Science city, research region: how to build R&D into local identity - Research Professional News
Polling shows place-based awareness and alliances can be foundations for national support, says Kim Shillinglaw
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Making work-related comments first thing on a Monday morning is not an accurate representation of me. Here's my cat instead, much more realistic for a Monday morning!
Tabby cat with a white muzzle sitting loaf-like on a red blanket.
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Duncan Yellowlees @dyellowlees.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Getting set up to present online can be tricky. Over the last few years here is what I've come up with. Now I know it's my job so I put the effort in but quick things you can do in the below thread 🧵 0/7
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Helen Featherstone, PhD @hfeatherstone.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Nice to see Human Centred Design getting a mention in here.
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Olly Benson @ollybenson.uk · 15/11/2024
▶️ NHS England are looking for patient safety partners with national and regional patient safety teams. Purpose is to be a voice for patients and ensure that the patient perspective is at the forefront of all that we do. Role eligible for involvement payment. Closes: 21 Nov.
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NHS England » Expression of interest information pack for patient safety partners with NHS England’s National Patient Safety team and regional teams
Introduction Thank you for your interest in becoming a patient safety partner (PSP) in NHS England’s National Patient Safety team or the NHS England regional teams. PSPs can be patients, service users...
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