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Gill Phillips

@whoseshoes.bsky.social
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🍋Catalyst for change in health care ++ Creator of Whose Shoes? approach to coproduction, helping people work together to improve lives. padlet.com/WhoseShoes/overview #HSJ100 Wild Card ♥️♦️♠️♣️ Host of ‘Wild Card - Whose Shoes?’ podcast @WildCardWS 🎤

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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🎧 “The value of a person has nothing to do with their age, ability or achievements” A powerful clip from my next @wildcardws.bsky.social #podcast with Benedicte Symcox 💥 💛 Curiosity. Kindness. Lived experience 📢 Full episode lands 7am tomorrow! #SEND #EveryLifeMatters #coproduction #WhoseShoes
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Lyse_e @lyse-e.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
So perhaps before the NHS Plan gets all the air time/readership there will be a little window of opportunity for Whose News 14! sway.cloud.microsoft/a95hvCYFAgjO... @whoseshoes.bsky.social #CYPWhoseShoes #StaffsCoProWeek2025 #CoProWeek2025
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🎧 “The value of a person has nothing to do with their age, ability or achievements” A powerful clip from my next @wildcardws.bsky.social #podcast with Benedicte Symcox 💥 💛 Curiosity. Kindness. Lived experience 📢 Full episode lands 7am tomorrow! #SEND #EveryLifeMatters #coproduction #WhoseShoes
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
For #learningdisabilityweek2025, I invite you to listen to my recent #WildCard #WhoseShoes podcast conversation with fab @nicolaenoch.bsky.social, founder of Positive about #DownSyndrome : whoseshoes.buzzsprout.com/1838805/epis... #DownSyndrome
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65. Nicola Enoch – It’s World Down Syndrome Day! It’s the global Podcasthon! - Wild Card - Whose Shoes?
This special episode of Wild Card – Whose Shoes? is part of The World Podcastathon, a global celebration of podcasts that spark conversation, challenge perspectives, and inspire change.I’m thrilled to...
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Welcome to #FlamingJune! 10 years since this campaign of #MatExp actions, led by #FabObs Flo aka @fwmaternity.bsky.social And the highlights written up here by equally fab Emma Jane Cushnan 💜 matexp.org.uk/the-matexp-j...
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#FlamingJune – #Matexp igniting the flames to improve maternity experiences
Wow what a month its has been!  The whole of June has been #FlamingJune, a month when everyone was asked to share actions big or small to show ways they are going to improve maternity experiences. …
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Great programme of events coming up for Patient Partnership Week 2025. I’ve just signed up for the session with Sir Jim Mackey #PPW2025 Well done @patientsassoc.bsky.social #CoproductionWeek www.patients-association.org.uk/news/patient...
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Patient Partnership Week 2025
We’ve launched Patient Partnership Week 2025! Find out more and book to attend our free webinars.
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🎙️New @wildcardws.bsky.social podcast! For #VEDay80, join Dulcie (88) & Dorothy (82) for a powerful, moving convo about resilience, creativity #hope ✨Stay curious & always say yes✨ 🕊️Stories from wartime Coventry to today's challenges 🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/1838805/epis... #Storytelling #OlderVoices
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67. VE Day Special - Dulcie Matthews and Dorothy Hall - Hope, Resilience, and the Spirit of Coventry - Wild Card - Whose Shoes?
🎙 Episode 67: Dulcie Matthews and Dorothy Hall – Hope, Resilience, and the Spirit of CoventryThis very special VE Day episode of Wild Card – Whose Shoes? is a real treat. 🕊️Join me, Gill Phillips, as ...
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Lyse_e @lyse-e.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
What an amazing episode! A must listen for anyone interested in co-production, children and young people’s health care, health inequalities, social determinants of health, use of the arts in health, and reimagining health care.
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Lyse_e @lyse-e.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
An exciting parcel arrived today - the final scenarios for our #MPFTWhoseShoes project creating new content to help us have the conversations that count! The latest edition relate to SEND - a huge topic that @whoseshoes.bsky.social and @yvonnenewboldmbe.bsky.social have done amazing justice to!
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
“Why would you clip people’s wings like that?” – Dr Guddi Singh New @wildcardws.bsky.social episode today!🎙️ Co-production, creativity, courage – and why we need to break out of our boxes. #WhoseShoes #NHS #Leadership #Empowerment #TroublemakersWelcome www.buzzsprout.com/1838805/epis...
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66. Dr Guddi Singh - Radically reimagining health care - Wild Card - Whose Shoes?
In this electric, soul-stirring conversation, Dr Guddi Singh joins me to explore what it truly means to radically reimagine health. From the frontline realities of paediatrics to the bold edges of cre...
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“Why would you clip people’s wings like that?” – Dr Guddi Singh New #WildCardWhoseShoes episode drops on Sunday 6/4 🎙️ Coproduction, creativity, courage – & why we need to break out of our boxes. 📦 #WhoseShoes #GuddiSingh #NHS #Leadership #Empowerment #TroublemakersWelcome @wildcardws.bsky.social
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Matt Clack @mattclack.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I loved that quote too! Really invigorating session, can't wait to see how the movement grows (and cobtribute to it!)
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I’m enjoying the Kimg’s Fund event – the launch of the ‘Do with, not do to’ movement. My fave quote so far is from the fabulous @clentonf.bsky.social: “we (people) need to create the conditions to lead our gloriously ordinary lives” @thekingsfund.bsky.social #WhoseShoes #coproduction #DoWith
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Here it is! 🎙️ #Podcasthon whoseshoes.buzzsprout.com/1838805/epis...
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65. Nicola Enoch – It’s World Down Syndrome Day! It’s the global Podcasthon! - Wild Card - Whose Shoes?
This special episode of Wild Card – Whose Shoes? is part of The World Podcastathon, a global celebration of podcasts that spark conversation, challenge perspectives, and inspire change.I’m thrilled to...
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Tomorrow is the day! 😉 Look out for my @wildcardws.bsky.social - #Podcasthon conversation with Nicola Enoch, CEO of Down Syndrome UK celebrating … #WorldDownSyndromeDay! It is the last day of #Podcasthon - 2000 global podcasters dedicating episodes to a fave #charity! #podcast #makeadifference
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Congrats @fwmaternity.bsky.social Exciting to see your special #Podcasthon episode of The Obs Pod on @podcasthon.bsky.social My @wildcardws.bsky.social episode with fab Nicola Enoch, founder of #DownSyndrome UK comes out on Thurs for #WorldDownSyndromeDay 👍 podcasthon.org/podcaster/th...
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🚀 New episode of @wildcardws.bsky.social podcast coming soon for #WorldDownSyndromeDay - part of the global #Podcasthon! 🍋 💡 🍋 A Story That Will Change the Way You Think! 🤔 Here’s a preview! @podcasthon.bsky.social #DownSyndrome #charity #podcast #MatExp #stigma #NHS #WhoseShoes
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Great to see @podcasthon.bsky.social has joined Bluesky! Are you following #Podcasthon - an amazing initiative to bring 1700 global podcasters together in March. What have we got in common? We’re all showcasing a favourite charity. Look out for my @wildcardws.bsky.social episode re #DownSyndrome
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#InternationalWomensDay Great memories of the amazing #MatExp #WhoseShoes session we had with the Brighton maternity team for International Women’s Day! Wherever I go, I meet women who rock 🎶 💃 🍋💡🍋 youtu.be/0NFBCS44eDQ?...
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Found you! 🍋💡🍋 Welcome to BlueSky @drguddisingh.bsky.social 😘
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Exciting to chat to Dr Guddi Singh on the @wildcardws.bsky.social podcast this afternoon. What an extraordinary woman she is. Reimagining Healthcare – and beyond. 🚀 Let’s make it work for people rather than systems. 🍋💡🍋 I recommend Guddi as a #HSJ100 Wild Card!!
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Lizzie Wortley @lizziewortley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is brilliant and so useful. Thanks for taking the time to do this and rebuild the network!
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
How awful! 😢 How unnecessary in 2025.
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Loved Roy Lilley’s podcast this morning about Amanda Pritchard and her legacy as NHS CEO👍 BUT Odysseus was not a Greek god. He was a mortal hero. The king of Ithaca, known for his 💥 intelligence, cunning, and resourcefulness💥 😀 Let’s hear it for us mortals! 😀 www.buzzsprout.com/1931280/epis...
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God - Roy Lilley's NHSManagers.net e-Letter Podcasts
Listen to Roy Lilley read his daily NHSManagers.net e-Letter. Roy Lilley is a health policy analyst, writer, broadcaster and commentator on the National Health Service and social issues. Subscribe to ...
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Enjoyed the truly *global* #Podcasthon meet up! SO interesting to hear about the wonderful charities people are supporting across the world for this special event in March! 💙 ❤️ 💛 💚 🎙️ Look out for my @wildcardws.bsky.social episode with fab Nicola Enoch, founder of Posiitve About Down Syndrome 🎙️
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Lovely to see you here @fhussain73.bsky.social 👋 Farzana has … curiosity. 💜 It’s wonderful when doctors have curiosity about people What really matters to them? 🤔 Comes through loud and clear in @wildcardws.bsky.social #podcast we recorded together🎙️ 💜 whoseshoes.buzzsprout.com/1838805/9217...
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2. Dr Farzana Hussain - a fellow HSJ100 Wild Card! - Wild Card - Whose Shoes?
My very first podcast guest!Very special indeed that my good friend Dr Farzana Hussain, GP of the year 2020 and fellow #HSJ100 Wild Card,  dived in to do this with me. This is exactly the to...
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 22/02/2025
Dear @maitlis.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social @krishgm.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social, I would be hugely grateful if you might consider sharing my piece about the extraordinary work of Ukrainian combat medics on the front line. Thank you.
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"Whose Shoes? Board game sparks conversations about better #maternity care" www.southwestlondonics.org.uk/local-storie... ✍️Great to see this on the SW London ICS website 📈 4 x #MatExp #WhoseShoes South West London workshops. Keen to hear all the key outcomes ... so far! @annageyer-np.bsky.social
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Whose Shoes? Board game sparks conversations about better maternity care - South West London ICS
Hospital maternity units are using the board game, Whose Shoes to talk about improving birth experiences across south west London.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Terrifying www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Trump calls Zelenskyy a ‘dictator’ who should ‘move fast’ or lose country as row with Ukraine leader worsens – Europe live
US president attacks Ukraine leader after Zelenskyy says Trump is living in a Russian ‘disinformation bubble’
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
📢 NEW @wildcardws.bsky.social podcast 💥 My 82 yr old friend Dorothy shares her shocking experiences of #ageism in the #NHS and her fight back 🎧 “You do realise we stop this treatment at 80?” 😱 No discussion, no evidence, no choice. 😢 🔊 www.buzzsprout.com/1838805/epis... ✨🚀 #WIGO #WhenIGetOld
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64. Dorothy Hall - age discrimination in the NHS - Wild Card - Whose Shoes?
In this powerful episode, Gill Phillips chats with her long-time friend Dorothy Hall, a former social worker and fierce advocate for fairness. They explore the realities of ageism in healthcare.At 82 ...
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Tune in tomorrow! 🍋💡🍋 A brand-new episode of the @wildcardws podcast! 💜 Dorothy, age 82 and a half, talks about her experiences of age discrimination in the NHS – and it is already proving a bit of a blockbuster 🎤 💥 #podcast #NHS #QI #listening
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Welcome to Bluesky @terriporrett.bsky.social @fabnhsstuff.bsky.social @roylilley1.bsky.social 🍋💡🍋 Happy 10th birthday, collecting all the fab stuff in the #NHS and sharing it so generously! We love our #MatExp #WhoseShoes collection 💜 fabnhsstuff.net/fab-collecti... Here’s to the next 10 years 💥
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Terri Porrett @terriporrett.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Great to see fabnhsstuff on Bsky - keen to link in with QI groups working in the health and social care arena
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy 10th birthday today FabNHSStuff 🔟 🍰 🍾 You awesome bunch! 🍋🍋🍋 Everywhere I go, I tell people about Fab NHS Stuff, collecting & sharing the best stuff in #NHS! #Fab10Birthday #10YearsOfImpact Here’s Dr Terri Porrett to tell you more! www.buzzsprout.com/1838805/9486... @roylilley1.bsky.social
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12. Dr Terri Porrett - #FabNHSStuff - and so much more! - Wild Card - Whose Shoes?
Today is #FabChange21 - the Fab Change 21 Festival -  and how better to celebrate this than to chat with Dr Terri Porrett, otherwise known as ’The Blonde.’  You can find out more about 'bein...
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Joint decision-making at its best! A clip from forthcoming @wildcardws.bsky.social podcast about age discrimination in the NHS. Proud of my friend Dorothy, aged 82, for sharing her story in such a positive way. What a learning opportunity about listening; valuing people’s lived experience. 🍋💡🍋
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Coming soon … A @wildcardws.bsky.social episode on age discrimination in the NHS! Talking to Dorothy Hall, one of my oldest friends – in both senses of the word! #WildCard #WhoseShoes #podcasting #WIGO #WhenIGetOld #LivedExperience www.linkedin.com/posts/whoses...
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Gill Phillips on LinkedIn: #whenigetold #wigo #nhs #healthinequalities #ageism #whoseshoes
So, have you missed the ‘Wild Card - Whose Shoes?’ podcast? There hasn’t been an episode yet in 2025. 😳 But hopefully the wait will be worthwhile! 🕰️ This…
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New Possibilities @annageyer-np.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Angelina was fabulous at those workshops, clearly passionate about hearing the voices of women and their families. 👏
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Lyse_e @lyse-e.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@whoseshoes.bsky.social I’ve #JFDIed this tonight #mpftwhoseshoes
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Enjoying Midwifery Hour - live! Fab Angelina Ankomah is speaking. I met her last year at my annual #WhoseShoes session with the #Darzi Fellows. We then worked together bringing the Whose Shoes experience to the 4 trusts across SW London. #MatExp @fwmaternity.bsky.social @annageyer-np.bsky.social
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Lyse_e @lyse-e.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I used a couple of existing videos from @whoseshoes.bsky.social you tube channel - including this one youtu.be/TcD-b0i2-Ks?...
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Emma Sparrow @emma-sparrow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
📢 RCPCH &Us is looking for examples of children,young people & family engagement in improving child health services 💡20 will be selected as posters at the RCPCH Conference #RCPCH25 ⏰ Deadline 20.02.25 🔗 forms.office.com/e/Qtr9sz9Yvh #YoungPeoplesHealth #Participation #YouthVoice #ChildrensRights

Cork noticeboard with a piece of white notepaper on it that says:

We are looking for your examples of participation and engagement:
1: children, young people or family involvement in health care/services
2: examples between April 2024 - Jan 2025
3: In England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
4: Deadline to share examples 20 Feb 2025
5: 20 will be selected to create posters
6: posters shared at the RCPCH Conference
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drasifqasim.bsky.social @drasifqasim.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Great news for sickle cell disease patients in the UK!! Gene therapy reduces symptoms and keeps patients out of hospital @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social @copddoc.bsky.social @martinmckee.bsky.social @doctoroxford.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...
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NHS to offer 'groundbreaking' sickle cell gene therapy
The gene therapy Casgevy, which will now be offered to some patients in England, could help people live disease-free, experts say.
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Rick MacDonald MD @kidsdoc1.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Gene therapy for sickle cell disease. It is life changing.
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Great #QI starter pack! Thanks for including me @theqcommunity.bsky.social – and I have just followed … everyone! 🍋🍋🍋
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
#MatExp 💜
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Another AMAZING session with Alex Mancini learning about innovative and oh-so-human #FICare practices in #neonatal units. Fresh air! 🌳🌞🌻 Thank you and well done indeed Kate Tantam and Diane Keeling @uhpnhs.bsky.social #JFDI stories everywhere! #MatExp #WhoseShoes #PtExp
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Gill Phillips @whoseshoes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Welcome to Bluesky, Rob! @nhsrobw.bsky.social
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