Graham Blowes

Kyle Grieve giving brill presentation on tips and pitfalls of social media. Recommend it to promote good use of Twitter, etc #NELFTSoMeWeek

Seen a great quote this morning - 'Give power away - the more you give away, the more control you have'.

Tiring but enjoyable day at Colchester with others in Essex on flu pandemic planning. Great to see organisations working together so well

Great to see additional £600m from spending review earmarked for MH services. Hoping MH providers can help determine how this is spent

Nationally, 4% of staff at band 8 are from BME - at NELFT it's 22%. We've still got some way to go, but thanks to EMN for their work so far

Interesting discussion at NELFT's QI steering group today re line management styles. Are best line managers enablers rather than leaders?

Met with Ben Hall yesterday re his QI project on cancer screening. Bowled over by his enthusiasm, commitment & knowledge. Keep it up, Ben!

Kristy Leach has been telling me about the huge impact our FNP service is having on young families. Some powerful & heartwarming evidence

Great news re NELFT named as preferred bidder for Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Service for young people in Essex. Well done, all

Worked out today that NELFT has had > 4,700 staff transferred in to us as a result of successful acquisitions since 2009. Amazing figure

Great meeting with Roman Garvani yesterday re NELFT's strategy. Looking forward to the outputs

Going for a walk when I can each night, in prep for the GCC challenge - helps me unwind and I get a chance to listen to music uninterrupted

Reading Tim Harford's brilliant book - Adapt. Big organisations must constantly refresh their strategy to remain successful

Looking forward to watching Still Alice on 14/4, c/o NELFT. What a great way to increase awareness of dementia.

Open approach to mental healthcare | Letter gu.com/p/46t6y/stw Positive press for mental health in East London. Please retweet @nelft

I commit to ensuring we have more entries than ever for the 2015/16 Innovation Cave at NELFT #NHSChangeDay

.@JohnBrouder: As a leader of an NHS Trust, we'll keep pushing to ensure #OpenDialogue is used in the UK sooner rather than later. #POD4NHS

Mother of #mentalhealth service user tells conference: 'we too can help push #OpenDialogue forward in the UK'. #POD4NHS

The new NELFT website will be launched end of April. It'll be worth looking at - design will be very state of the art

Great to see so many colleagues at the Cavendish Square Group launch, united in the vision of parity of esteem for MH sufferers in London