Alec Rickard

Despite the on field rivalry, excellent dedication & team working between @PlymUniPhysio & @MarjonSport at the annual Ocean City Varsity, providing first aid & sports injury cover. Well done to Pete Scott for organising for UoP and Vicki Evans for Marjon #TeamPlymouth #TeamMarjon

@plymouthbus Nevermind, has now appeared on the tracking and just about at the stop

@plymouthbus Any news on school bus #PCB808? Not turned up, yet and not appearing on the tracking section of your website.

0755 Good Morning-Avg traffic #PCB21 #PCB21A delays around 10 minutes on two current journeys #PCB42A #PCB42C delays around 12 minutes #PCB14 both directions delays around 10 minutes #PCB34 both directions delays around 10 minutes #PCB44 current journey delay of 11 minutes.

@SandraDunn1955 @carolvorders @LondonThemis @JohnnyMercerUK Great, so the majority of his Plymouth Moor View constituency, who aren't veterans, can just go f@!*k themselves, is that what he's saying?

@carolvorders @LondonThemis @JohnnyMercerUK

Johnny Mercer UPDATE @JohnnyMercerUK told local paper adamantly last yr he did not receive a rumoured £17,000 payout when Truss sacked him, but this was not the whole story! ⏬️ Yday it was revealed he had, in fact, received £8,000 of taxpayer's cash so Labour has asked him to correct the record & questioned his 'standards in public life' Last night his office told paper "Johnny has nothing further to add to when he answered the question, on the record and truthfully." It's reported, however, that the Guardian had asked if he'd received a payment at the time &, if so, had he given the money to charity, and he refused to answer. It seems he and his usually vocal wife @mercer_felicity (paid c£45,000 on MP business expenses in his office) and who recently responded to someone online saying "I'll go with him but only after I've taken a massive sh*t on your lawn" (charming) are both quiet on twitter for now. I don't think this story is going away plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-…

@CSPsouthwest @NHSLeader @ashjamesphysio I assume this is not an example of good leadership and/or values?!

⁦@NHSLeader⁩ sums up her presentation on inclusive leadership today with some top tips for delegates at the ⁦@CSPsouthwest⁩ event

@jonnypride1 @KevinASchofield Reading between the lines, I think he said we're f@*cked!

Asked about the behaviour of Nadine Dorries this morning, Rishi Sunak said: "I'm not focused on the past, I'm focused on the future." Asked whether HS2 will go to Manchester, he said: "I'm not speculating on future things." 🤷‍♂️

@DorineUTrees @barndog70 @thomas_jesson twitter.com/PhysioAlec/sta…

@barndog70 @AnaMorphoSci @thomas_jesson Was told similar by the ♀️ tutor of my late 90s NAGS & SNAGS course: due to US litigation had to show possibility may not ever wear a bra, or "could" be essential to do with bra off. Suffice to say, never had that need myself, despite having had ♀️ patients who didn't wear bras!

@AnaMorphoSci @thomas_jesson The 4th edition of his book ‘Manual Therapy: “NAGS”, “SNAGS”, “PRP’S” here is the story behind the book and the 'model' criticalphysio.net/2015/05/20/sna…

Could it be because physio possibly has greater scope for private practice of those listed (thanks @christiephysio)? Do clinicians, upon gaining NHS experience, then leave mostly to avoid overnight & weekend duties…. would paying off loans solve this (thanks @sianvgoddard)?

Interesting article about #NHS staff retention and proposal to pay off #studentloans Within this population, Physios have lowest drop out from university (best retention), but highest proportion leaving within 2 years (lowest retention). bbc.co.uk/news/health-66…

@CSPsouthwest Sorry I can't be there #Covid - but know the @CSPsouthwest team will smash it and hope everyone attending enjoys the event

@BenJaneFitness @brassoteach Could add to that, having to teach/instruct: - basic spelling & grammar - students not to plagiarise, including not just copying & pasting (at least merge the effing format if you do!) - to actually attend timetabled sessions! BTW, not having a go at school teachers themselves

@brassoteach I'm a University lecturer. We have to teach means and medians and some struggle. I would never say, "I don't want to fuel the HE/secondary divide.....but...." Some students need to revisit topics.

@BenJaneFitness Bow ties with Jordans/Air Force 1s even better...

@PhysioAlec Bow ties are definitely the way forward.

Male academics that still wear ties to work...still in touch with the workers on the ground or lost forever to LinkedIn and pursuit of the next big career move?

@BenJaneFitness Not that I ever would, but if I did make 'professor', a part of me does have the urge to wear a bow tie! However, the Air Jordans I had when I was 15 have been reissued, so perhaps I should get down with the kids this way? #dadjokes

@BenJaneFitness But what workers are you referring to and on what ground? I wore a tie yesterday at work, but then so did most of my male students. Ok, technically they were now former students and it was a graduation ceremony - does that change things?

Are you a person with Parkinson’s who would like to take part in Conrad’s exercise study? If so, take a look at this poster he has prepared… @APRG_Plymouth @plymouthPDnurse @UHP_Parkinsons

Well done to Issy Lloyd, winner of the CSP South West Regional Network prize for excelling in clinical practice, Richard Freeman for his Elsevier award for best overall mark & David Mbinga for the staff prize for outstanding student support & citizenship! 🙌🏼 @thecsp @CSPsouthwest

👏🏼 @PlymUni @PlymUniPhysio BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy class of 23 on graduating today. So much hard work has paid off and hope you enjoyed it despite the (unusual for Plymouth 😉) rain!

@ejgranter Due to the negative connotations over the term "hot-desking", my university is using the term "agile working" or "desking solutions"!