I’ve been really neglectful of my blog the past few weeks. I’ve left it so long it’s hard to know where to start. Although I haven’t...

A pandemic of racism, and we’re absolutely riddled, still. So ingrained in society some can’t even see the hypocrisy we’ve helped to...

I spoke to an old friend the other night who is going through a tough time in her new post. Unfortunately it’s all too common an...

Permission is given to politicians and those in powerful positions, to avoid self isolation like the rest of the population. Even though...

We started off our first Sitting Zoom of Culture a couple of weeks ago - which is the latest project we have developed. It’s essentially...

I finished my run of night shifts yesterday, I woke up from what was meant to be a power nap 7 hours later. Another day off wasted. This...

Look up Red sky in the evening, “Herd Immunity means your freedom” Red sky at dawn “we’ve weathered the storm” Red sky at night “We’ve...

I was on the bloody News yesterday. ITV asked to interview myself and Liam from The Laura Hyde Foundation. It was overwhelmingly intense,...

Holy Moly. When I sat on my break last night and uploaded my blog, I just thought it would be the usual load of my mates and family who...

This morning I finished a night shift, and although back in tonight and really should have gone straight to bed – I needed to get this...

200 years since Old Flo was here, since she braved the Crimea and shaped our career and profession into its modern dimension. Paved the...

It’s actually a miracle I managed to do anything productive this week when I’ve had to keep one eye firmly on Jude. With Dan and I both...

I’ve been a bit quiet the last few days, I’ve been so knackered that I haven’t had the energy to write much. I’m feeling a bit...

Tory maths you have to laugh turning graphs to hieroglyphs so they don’t have to admit the mess we’re in. They can’t count and we can’t...

I don’t think the universe wants me to sleep this week. Sunday night I’m pretty sure I got one of my antidepressants stuck in my gullet –...

Grey Grey, from clouds to ground all around this blanket swamps me. I’m living a black and white movie. Drowning in Grey like a dead...

Lockdown living, full of misgivings but this prison is actually a prism. The light of life is still there, it’s just refracted, bent and...

I had an interesting shift yesterday- our ward closed. The numbers of patients admitted had dropped so low, that multiple wards closed. I...

Last night my local hospital was on Panorama - it’s not the Trust I work for – but I’m so proud of them. It was an amazing documentary...

Yesterday was my first shift of being in charge of the ward. I was bricking it to be honest. I had that awful tummy churning feel like...