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Lin B

@linb.bsky.social
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Thrice retired Nurse & Consultant in Public Health. Love festivals, travel, cheese, Wales, London, Africa, Australia, Vegas, dogs. Reformed revolutionary. Former Chair of RCN Congress. Views all mine. #nursesky

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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Yes it is reduced but not by much and the price shown does not include the VAT which is added at the check out
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Code is only for monthly plan, not annual!
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Came here to ask the same question as I am on an annual Apple plan which does not end until next summer. Also thought I saw there was a discount for existing vanguardistas but now cannot find that!
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Link here www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Sub... #nursesky
rcn.org.uk
Submit a Congress agenda item | Congress | Royal College of Nursing
The RCN is your organisation - this is your opportunity to have your say in setting its agenda and have your item debated at Congress.
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Link here www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Sub...
rcn.org.uk
Submit a Congress agenda item | Congress | Royal College of Nursing
The RCN is your organisation - this is your opportunity to have your say in setting its agenda and have your item debated at Congress.
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hardly seems like any time since the last one, but @rcn.org.uk Congress is now open for submission of items for next year 😊😊
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Been busy with summer festivals, both having fun and working in the healthcare provision. Glad we finally have rain in the UK but sad that festival season is over for this year. Last sunset of last night at my last festival (Reading)
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Aw thank you! :-)
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Shoe shopping fail
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Wes Streeting doesn’t need to give anyone permission. Health Visitors have always been able to do this with appropriate training eg managing anaphylaxis. I did it regularly as an HV in the 90s. But where is he going to magic the HVs from? Most feel all they have time for now is safeguarding?
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
No it only needs to be done once - mums pension was never going to change and she wasn’t earning on her 80s
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I disagree, and I’m already claiming my NHS pension. When my state pension kicks in I’ll be receiving more than a lot of working people.
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I’ve always said they should have a sliding scale. My mum was £5 a month over the limit for pension credit and consequently was 100s of £££ worse off rather than being £60 a year better off
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Congratulations!
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
And what an interesting week it was!
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Nursing in Practice @nursinginpractice.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
In a keynote address at RCN Congress today, Professor Nicola Ranger demanded an update on pay for those in the NHS and general practice, and stressed that all nurses needed a ‘significant pay rise’ urgently #nursesky
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Practices nurses must not wait any longer for pay update, says RCN chief
General practice nurses (GPNs) must not be expected to wait any longer for news on their pay for 2025/26, the chief executive
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Definitely not my first rodeo @rcn.org.uk 🤣🤣
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Ah that one for me too, but also this one
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a close up of a woman 's face with the words how bout that written below her
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the words how bout that written below her
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
To be fair I think it was the cumulative effect of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss wot did it
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Last episode to appear on my Apple list was on 2nd April 🙁🙁
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I was on @rcn.org.uk Pride float once and the only music we had was Pokerface Lady Gaga, played at max volume. I had a bit of a headache after
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Three days of @rcn.org.uk meetings now, finalising the plans for RCN Congress in Liverpool next month. Who’s joining us? 😊
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Finally back home in the UK after a month travelling across Canada. It was an interesting time to be visiting - antics south of their border, new PM and now an election. Didn’t meet a single Canadian who thought they ought to be part of the USA though!
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 22/03/2025
From work-life balance to health tourism, and international student hardship and understanding neurodiversity, our 2025 Congress agenda offers a huge selection of vibrant and vital debates for RCN members. #RCN25 Find out more and book your free place ✅ buff.ly/DUhXfjs
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Currently in Quebec where it’s -8 but so sunny, and I’m loving it! There’s a year round Christmas shop too
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Could have been doctor donut as he’s likely an expert in every field of medicine
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Still wondering how @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social could leave Leonard Cohen out of their list of great Canadian musicians!? I can understand them not mentioning Bublé but not Cohen!! I could listen to Live in London on repeat forever
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Not mentioned so far as it may not count as a fairy tale but Neverending Story? It’s been 40+ years and I’m still not over Artax dying
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I love a train! I’m a geek 😊 This was Vancouver to Edmonton and tonight I’m off from Edmonton to Winnipeg 🇨🇦
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Unfucking believable as CDC is suddenly launching a study into exploring possible links with MMR and autism. I wonder who might have initiated this? 🤔 to be clear There is NO link and this has already been debunked in massive studies 🧪🧵
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Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🤦🏻‍♀️
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Canada - not as cold as I was expecting 😊 Kitsilano beach, Vancouver today
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
He’s gorgeous!
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Best cover of this song ever youtu.be/d8_fLu2yrP4?...
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Roberta Flack - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 1972
YouTube video by OLD TAPES
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 23/02/2025
You GUYYYYSSSSSSS The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB
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2025 Governors Ball US Army - "Do You Hear the People Sing" BRILLIANT TRUMP TROLLING!
YouTube video by Anti Trump
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Just an FYI the tube station on Charing X Rd is Leicester Square not Charing X. Not that it makes any difference to the anecdote 😊
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The transformation scene from Ladyhawke is missing! :-(
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Very worrying news
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Good news, the agenda for this years @rcn.org.uk Congress has been published www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Age...
rcn.org.uk
RCN Congress agenda | Congress | Royal College of Nursing
See the important nursing topics we'll be debating this year.
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Thank you and well done! Heard it’s through to next stage!
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Couldn’t we have had a banana for scale please?
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I have contacted my MP to ask him to support this bill, using the website www.writetothem.com/write Please think about doing the same @alisonleary1.bsky.social @leannehpatrick.bsky.social @mrsbosanquet.bsky.social
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Dinnertime at the Mason-Tanenbaum house.
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Dawn Butler MP @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🚨NEW: On Tuesday 11th February, I will introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill seeking to make ‘nurse’ a protected title in UK law. Pleased to have support from and build on the vital Protect Nurse campaign. #ProtectNurse Read more: www.dawnbutler.org.uk/ten_minute_r...
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Royal College of Nursing Wales @thercnwales.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
We're standing in solidarity with nurses, students and lecturers protesting outside Cardiff Uni today and highlighting critical concerns about the proposal to close its School of Nursing. We're calling for urgent action to protect nursing and ensure a sustainable future for the profession in Wales.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Woke up this morning with a quote going through my head “Hope is the thing with feathers”. No idea why. It’s from an Emily Dickinson poem according to Google
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Lin B @linb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
BlueSky needs a smiling emoji for such updates 😊
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