Day 24: Testing, testing 1,2,3.... Hear me now?
- Helen Kilminster
- Jul 10, 2019
- 2 min read
05:00 - Alarm. Hit snooze
05:15 - Give into the alarm & get dressed; make coffee to take away in reusable cup
06:00 - Drive to the corner shop to get some change for train station parking
06:15 - Arrive at train station car park
06:30 - Droitwich Spa train to Bham New Street
07:00 - Arrive to Bham New Street
07:10 - Grab a Costa chocolate twist pastry thingy
07:30 - Bham New Street train to London Euston
08:50 - Arrive to London Euston, catch Tube to Elephant & Castle
09:10 - Finally find Stephen-Andrew Whyte (ACP legend) hanging kerbside waiting for me
09:15 - Find a courtyard coffee house. LARGE COFFEE Chitty, chitty, chat, chat.
09:50 - Find Dr Graham Stretch (El Presidente of PCPA)
10:00 - Arrive to NHS England HQ - Skipton House, met Louise Harvey & Dr Will Owen
10:15 - Start recording NHS England podcast all things CD - pharmacy - PCN
11:30 - Finish recording, start making my way to next appointment
11:50 - Find NHS 1 Lower Marsh building to meet Diabetes Pharmacist Consultant Anna Hodgkinson, to chat diabetes in primary care
12:40 - Walk to Waterloo, tube back to Euston
14:03 - Euston train back to Bham New Street
16:20 - Train back to Droitwich Spa
17:00 - Collect Mini K's from Nanny Tran, chat to my mum & mum feeds me noodles.
18:00 - Home
Been catching up on blogs on the train. The podcast I hope comes across insightful, positive and sensitive to challenges we face in months to come.
Graham and I are two very different people but our values are the same. We have become PCN Clinical Directors through different journeys but we bring our own unique experience and stories. The podcast was remarkably easy to do. We both care so much for the profession and the future years of pharmacy to come. Our current PCN status is very different, yet we compliment each other and we are always sharing solutions to support one another in this mammoth challenge. We ran to time. Those that know me and Graham this is a great achievement. That alone, we achieved what many thought would not be possible! #chatterbox
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