Adrienne Betteley

Please do share this opportunity to help shape @macmillancancer work on cancer and other long term conditions, we are seeking people with lived experience and health and care professionals who are supporting them to gain a deeper understanding of the issues people experience.

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Love to hear from: • Disabled people & people living with long term conditions • Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities • Black communities • LGBTQIA+ communities • People with dementia,learning disabilities • Gypsy Roma and Traveller communities • Carers and families

If you are living with cancer alongside other long term conditions or disability, supporting someone who is, or working closely with these communities, we would love to hear from you @macmillancancer : forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

We @macmillancancer are working with SODA to run workshops and do interviews for people with cancer and other long term conditions as well as shared decision making & specifically trying to recruit from key communities, for further details and sign up: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

@caspertown42 @AdrienneBettel3 I was there too! Really important to mark these milestones in cancer nursing’s evolution @macmillancancer

@AdrienneBettel3 @alisonleary1 @ruthlt82 @macmillancancer Sadly not but I do remember that the Macmillan CNS team at @StJoHospice celebrated a significant event - I think they may have been among the first 10% of hospice CNS teams

@AdrienneBettel3 @alisonleary1 @ruthlt82 @macmillancancer 💯- Adrienne I remember celebrating the 30th anniversary celebrations all too well. #ValueCNS - specialist nursing advanced practice

@caspertown42 @alisonleary1 @ruthlt82 @macmillancancer Amazing, any photos to share?!

Suggesting that women who may be pregnant should have a pregnancy test before being offered assisted dying has been described as frivolous and non-sensical. Interesting article 👇

I was talking to a colleague about locum shifts, and she said there were fewer opportunities because trusts locally (Birmingham) are going abroad and “importing doctors”. Now I know what she meant. This story is really shocking, considering that I need to send endless receipts and justifications even for a 1.65£ parking fee, trust reps apparently spent thousands to travel abroad and recruit doctors when local doctors can’t get jobs. Then the dodgy pay through an intermediary company. The exploitation of doctors who were paid less than local doctors. The avoidance of tax, calling them “students” Taking large numbers of doctors from a country that has a doctors shortage. All this while there has been a recruitment crisis for years, graduates can’t get into training posts, and there are bottlenecks throughout. 😡

@caspertown42 @alisonleary1 @ruthlt82 Thank you for sharing Paul, here is the evidence to prove it which includes a video of one of first CNS's talking about her role: youtu.be/lcMXaCCwV9c Next Year @macmillancancer will be celebrating 50 years since the first Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist! Watch this space!

@alisonleary1 @ruthlt82 Breaking my own holiday rule, but felt compelled to jump in & highlight the hundreds of Macmillan CNS in specialist palliative care that have existed since 1970s. Over 1,000 Mac CNS by 1993.

RIP Sir Kenneth Calman. Such an inspirational man and strong connections with @macmillancancer : zoboko.com/text/1odyy0d4/… @BBCNews #cancer

Academic and devolution reformer Sir Kenneth Calman dies aged 83 - BBC News - RIP - any cancer nurses of a certain age will know the know the impact of the Calman / Hine review (1995) & how it changed the face of cancer care forever ⁦@alisonleary1⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

I am very excited to be recruiting an @macmillancancer Occupational Therapist for the role of Older People's Clinical Fellow. This role will sit within the newly launched Macmillan Cancer Support Clinical Fellows programme for 2025/26 lnkd.in/eKTiy9NG

@MartinSLewis you should have written it all down and recited it back to him and said thank you for giving me access to all your accounts and security questions. I heard someone do just that on a train once and it really shocked the person. Some people are very naive.

Young man, on a table behind me (im sitting out in the sun) speaking to his bank to move money but he's ON SPEAKERPHONE. Why? He's just listed his account numbers, talked through his finance, I can (as can many others) hear the security checks he's being asked. He's now asking how much is in his savings, with the answer coming on speaker. I want to suggest he do it off speaker, but he's being quite aggressive on the phone, so I'm not going to. Yet its not rocket science that this isn't something to play out aloud (let alone being quite annoying to all near)

Truth is a precious commodity treated badly. It's important to provide trusted sources of cancer imformation. My blog for @macmillancancer on health misinformation macmillan.org.uk/healthcare-pro…

This news makes for a very Happy International Nurses day!! 🙌 Thank you to @DawnButlerBrent @alisonleary1 @theRCN @caspertown42 and all #ProtectNurse team for years of campaigning. A historic moment for our profession @DaBell5 @AdrienneBettel3

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@Lucy_Selman @CBNtweets @BereavementNBA @PEoLCSW @PolicyBristol @BristolUni Am sure you did an amazing job! I was on a virtual round table this morning with the Commission representing the nursing voice thanks to @alisonleary1 @Ben_Bowers__ and others for raising the lack of nursing voices on the commission

Delighted to give oral evidence to the Palliative Care Commission today - and meet Alison Penny @CBNtweets @BereavementNBA and colleagues on the panel. Good luck to all the Commissioners pulling together the evidence. Written call open until 28 March.