Graham Blowes

Director, Business Development, Transformation and Communications, NELFT

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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Open approach to mental healthcare | Letter http://t.co/iX2QxR6Gpx Positive press for mental health in East London. Please retweet @nelft

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

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.@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

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

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

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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