Heather Heppenstall

Runner, physio, mum

[Therapies dept RLI @TherapiesRLI]

A merry Christmas to you all but especially to all the fantastic staff from the
#physiotherapy and #occupationaltherapy teams working to help get people up and home safely or on the road to recovery across the Bay. Thank you! @UHMBT

[Jayne Lyons OT @jayne4810]

@FghTherapies were getting in the festive mood today @UHMBT #physiotherapy #occupationaltherapy #AHP @JadeChelton @HeatherHeppens1 🎅🎄🦌☃️🎁

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

A festive day at work for the therapy team at FGH

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

@drandyknox Great work Lizzie 👏

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

@drandyknox Congratulations Andy, you amaze me with how much you manage to do all the time 👏👏. Very well deserved

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

Excellent training session on the cough assist today @FghTherapies @aaroncumminsNHS @Juliehu45339158 @TheACPRC @CriticalCareFGH

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

@EM_RESUS Patient is intubated, right sided tension pneumothorax, left sided chest drain, I think pleural effusion or haemothorax, left hemi diaphragm is raised as well. Also, is that a calcified aorta?

[UHMB Integrated Community Stroke Team @UHMBICST]

We would like to wish all of our colleagues working in critical care a very happy #ICURehabDay and celebrate all our @UHMBT ICU therapists and other staff who aid in a patient's recovery #RehabIsCritical

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

Celebrating the fantastic work of our MDT teams at @UHMBT on #ICURehabDay23. Therapies and nursing staff getting people moving, ICU follow up clinic getting people their lives back @aaroncumminsNHS @CriticalCareFGH @FghTherapies @aaroncumminsNHS @Juliehu45339158 @GaynorArnold76

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

Celebrating the fantastic work of our MDT teams at @UHMBT on #ICURehabDay23 , working together to get the patients back to their best lives

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

Are there any acute trusts out there who no longer operate a 24 hour on call physio service? If so, I'd be interested to hear your experiences #physio #acprc @KarenD_ACP_Resp @GaynorArnold76 @NewshJo @Juliehu45339158 @Ridley_Emma_L

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

@northwestcsp @Ridley_Emma_L @thecsp Staff at Furness General in Barrow

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

@TomStocks1982 No point in asking AHPs to do that as the NHS don't provide us with cameras (not in our trust at least)

[Karen Donaldson @KarenD_ACP_Resp]

Are you a Physio or OT with experience of community, rehab or Respiratory working? 🫁 ✅… Would you like to work across the beautiful South Cumbria, Furness and Lakes? 🏔 ✅… 🥳 We are expanding our team of Respiratory Therapists 🥳… Come and join us 😁 https://t.co/0wFhAdxPDb

[Karen Donaldson @KarenD_ACP_Resp]

Our first ever BTS poster presentation done ✅😅
Well done @LakesMrs
and thank you to our friendly and welcoming chairs @REvans_Breathe @cjolley192

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

@KarenDo95244198 @LakesMrs @REvans_Breathe @cjolley192 @MBResp @PenguinPhysio @katresp @UHMBT Well done to you all! A fab service set up quickly and serving the needs of our patients after leaving hospital

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

@AHPLeader @GaynorArnold76 @Juliehu45339158

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

Lovely gifts given to the amazing ICU staff at FGH today as our patient left us to go to the ward @UHMBT

[Heather Heppenstall @HeatherHeppens1]

@Ridley_Emma_L I feel your pain!

[Aoife Abbey @WhistlingDixie4]

As more outcomes come to light the lower mortality figures we saw reported on earlier second wave @ICNARC reports are drifting very much upwards and towards wave 1 figures

17.1% (mid October - fig 1️⃣)
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23.1% (end first week in Nov - fig 2️⃣)
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30% (latest Dec 11th - fig 3️⃣