Lib Dem Peers @libdempeers.bsky.social News and updates from the Liberal Democrat team in the House of Lords.
artesea @artesea.co.uk Ryan Cullen - Liberal, Newark, Arsenal (men and women), He/Him
Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social Neurologist ;🔶 Libdem District Councillor (Avoncroft Ward).
Read & share! https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s741
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
Clare Windsor @clarewindsor.bsky.social Consultant Intensive Care & Anaesthesia, South Yorkshire. Intensive Care Society Council & Pt Safety Lead. Chair of ICS Cons Intensivist PAG
Kathy Petersen @kathyspetersen.bsky.social GP partner and clinical lead for NENC ICB for learning disability, mental health and neurodivergence, co-chair RCGP learning disability special interest group.
I am passionate about parity of esteem and reducing health inequalities, RPNE
Jennie the Dog MP @jenniedogmp.bsky.social Lib Dem MP for Torbay. Gratefully assisted by my guide person, Steve Darling.
Parody, obvs. 🦮
Mind @mind.org.uk Fighting for mental health – for support, for respect, for you ✊
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
Sian Reece @sianreece.bsky.social Public Health Doctor & Researcher | PhD | BMJ Leader Editorial Fellow | Mother | Surviving stillbirth
Interests in inequalities in maternal and child health | Global health | Leadership | Kindness and human connection | Creative and participatory methods
@katienurcombe.bsky.social @katienurcombe.bsky.social
@rthonjen.bsky.social @rthonjen.bsky.social
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Local Government Association (LGA) @local.gov.uk We are the national voice of local government, working with councils to support, promote and improve #LocalGov
Visit our website: https://www.local.gov.uk/
The Galitzianer @galitzianer.bsky.social Posts about Jewish History, live on the same calendar day when they happened.
Alan Geoffrey @alangeoffrey.bsky.social Culture editor in London. Proud owner of a Scottish terrier. Arsenal fan.
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Amyloidosis UK @amyloidosisuk.bsky.social We are a small, growing charity run by and for amyloidosis patients. We aim to bring the amyloidosis community together and to provide information and support to anyone living in the UK who is affected by amyloidosis. https://amyloidosisuk.org/
Mandy Pearse @mandypearse.bsky.social Award winning PR & Comms consultant, speaker & trainer. Amateur 📸.
Previous CIPR president & Board member Global Alliance (GA) for PR. GA European Council, iProvision Board Member and Vice chair @ciprlps.bsky.social Founder: www.seashellcommunications.com
Tom Grinyer @tomgrinyer.bsky.social Institute of Physics group CEO, dad of two, frustrated commuter, Pompey fan and northener living in the south - views own
Royal College of Emergency Medicine @rcem.ac.uk The Royal College of Emergency Medicine's official Bluesky account.
RCEM is the membership body representing Emergency Department (A&E) clinicians and their patients, and working to #ResuscitateEmergencyCare
Ross Wigham @rwingman.bsky.social Sometimes right, mostly wrong, always certain. Views personal. Dad of 3 girls| North East| director of comms|PR| Ex-hack| past chair of NHS providers comms leads
Chloee ☀️ @pr-suze.bsky.social here for the vibes, the tension & the "what happens next" 😏 ❤️🩹
Ben Capper @bencapper.bsky.social I do comms. I live in and support Liverpool.
Emma Welham @emwelham.bsky.social Communications officer @uhdnhs.bsky.social
Dorset dweller. Film History graduate. Mum of three. Enjoys art, cinema, reading, walks in the forest and being by the sea. #TeamUHD #NHSComms
https://www.uhd.nhs.uk/news
@eloiseparfitt.bsky.social @eloiseparfitt.bsky.social
Ranjeet Kaile @ranjeetkaile.bsky.social NHS Communications Director, driving organisational innovation through AI, fostering change and creating better services. Helping to amplify voices and build communities to tackle systemic health inequalities across London.
Ali Barbuti @alibarbuti.bsky.social NHS Communications and Engagement Manager and former journalist now working in Manchester.
Marcus Duffield @marcus-duffield.bsky.social Ex-journalist, now NHS communications, likes live music (mainly from the late 1970s and early 1980s) and a bit of running.
Natalie Yost @natalieyost.bsky.social Experienced communications professional committed to nurturing talented and compassionate teams making a difference to public and patients.
Paul Cooney @pablocooney.bsky.social I’m the Assistant Director of Communications at the NHS Confederation - likely to post and share content about healthcare policy and comms 👋
Sean Thornton @seandthornton.bsky.social Director of Communications and Engagement and NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board.
NFFC season card holder.
Holly Cubitt @hollycubitt.bsky.social Head of Communications at Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT
Bhavna Patel @bhavnapatel.bsky.social SWB NHS External Comms Officer | Gamer | Movie nerd | She/her
Rachael @rstirling.bsky.social Photo-taker & houseplant addict 🪴• #NHSComms • open/cold water swimmer 🏊♀️
Pete Austin @pete-austin.bsky.social Deputy Director, Communications in the NHS. Formerly Imperial War Museums, UAL and Goldsmiths. Founded a brand agency. Run a brand course at City University. Ex-news journalist. Views are mine (obvs)
Danny Love @danlove92.bsky.social Senior comms officer for an NHS trust. Love a quiz, football, TV and travel.
Michelle Baillie @michellebaillie.bsky.social Self-confessed chocoholic & shoe lover. #NHS #Comms by day, Supermum by night.
Sarah Williams @iamdigitalsarah.bsky.social Digital #Communications Lead, Devon Partnership NHS Trust. #NHSComms #nhs @dptnhs.bsky.social
Louise Lewis (Banks) @louisejb.bsky.social NHS comms at Pennine Care NHS - mental health, learning disabilities and autism in Greater Manchester. Love running (London 🇬🇧 and Tromso 🇳🇴 Marathon in 2025), netball, dogs (of course) and the great outdoors.
Carol Deans @caroldeans.bsky.social Proud to be a communications director in the NHS.
@georgieagass.bsky.social @georgieagass.bsky.social
Claudia Blake @claudiablake.bsky.social Communications Manager | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Loves walks, my kids and sleep. | Proud to have fought off academisation at King Edward VII School. All views my own. #NHS #Comms
@katrums.bsky.social @katrums.bsky.social
Katie Lockley @katiecomms.bsky.social Head of Communications & Marketing at Aqua | Mum of 1 | CIPR & CIM qualified | #NHScomms #CommsHero
Chappers @chappers.org Accessibility / Web / intranet / social / patient information @ NHS | Brentford FC sufferer. Pdf killer. #A11y
Fiona Thompson @fiona-thompson.bsky.social Media and PR Manager for South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
💻 Check out our latest news: stsft.nhs.uk/news/latest-news
All views personal.
@sazzleyorks.bsky.social @sazzleyorks.bsky.social
Phil McNamara @phil-mcnamara.bsky.social
Karen Marie @karenmarie66.bsky.social Journalist in a previous life. NHS communicator since 2010. Mother of two amazing adults (but I would say that, wouldn’t I?). Three cats, too many shoes, lots of views - all my own
Debbie Rigby @debrigby.bsky.social NHS Communications Officer
Wife and Mum of two young people
Charity volunteer for Children’s Heart Association NW
Beckie Livesey @beckiecomms.bsky.social Head of Digital Communications | NHS comms and engagement | Strategic Electronic Patient Record and digital transformation comms 🚀
Ilario D’Amato @dossierhamer.it British & Italian. Professional journalist. Digital Communications Officer. MCIM CMktr. Author of #DossierHamer (http://is.gd/dml6GA), a book about the Germanic New Medicine.
He/Him
Ellis Turrell @ellisturrell.bsky.social Work in NHS public affairs. Former Parliamentary staffer and city councillor. Views my own.
Paul Hemingway @paulhemnhs.bsky.social A Director of Communications and Involvement in the NHS - proud to work for NHS West Yorkshire and the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership
Dave Shapland @inter-mezzo.bsky.social Chess fanatic ♟️| Communications professional 📢 | Health innovation enthusiast 💡 | History aficionado 📚 | Dedicated rambler 🥾 | Die-hard foodie 🍱 | Amateur mixologist 🍸 | Bedroom DJ 🎧 and most definitely pulling for ‘team cat’! 🐈
Laura McCarthy @laura-mccarthy.bsky.social Digital Communications Officer at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust 💙.
All views are my own.
Jude Tipper @judetipper.bsky.social #NHScomms expert for NHS England’s Transformation Directorate (digital, tech, data, innovation & improvement).
Trying to lead with empathy, integrity and kindness.
Joe Freeman @josephfreeman.bsky.social Healthcare social media
Salzasal @salzasal.bsky.social Art, pets, animals, baking, comms, NHS, nature, wellbeing, music, stories, friends, family, laughter, good food, Provence rosé, Earl Grey tea
James Ludley @jpludley.bsky.social Evertonian. #GirlDad. Comms Thrive LDN and #NHSComms family. Retired Mobile DJ. Usually not too far from a powerful little girl. All mine unless witty.
Luisa @luisaclarke.bsky.social #NHScareers #NHScomms. Leading schools engagement @BucksHealthcare.bsky.social
All views/RTs personal.
Rob Knowles @robknowles90.bsky.social Optimistic Coventry City ST holder (Block 28) #PUSB. Husband and Dad. Work in #NHScomms. Enjoy a good book, collecting CCFC shirts, and #F1. All views my own.
Ads @adm80s.bsky.social Lets go on an adventure. 🏡 London 💼 Digital Marketing & Comms in Healthcare, CDMP ⚓️London Canal Museum Trustee. A11y advocate. Transport, art, architecture, history, museums, exhibits, film geek. Dog dad. Any views are my own. He/Him
Andy Ashcroft @nhsguy.bsky.social Director of Comms & Engagement: NHSSYICB. Sunday League CB. Former journalist. Hike the odd Mountain path. All views are my own.
If Not Now @ifnotnowagency.bsky.social Your team of digital activists. We work exclusively on environmental and social issue campaigns and projects.
www.ifnotnowdigital.co.uk
Board of Deputies of British Jews @boardofdeputies.bsky.social Established 1760. This account is operated by the Board of Deputies of British Jews Limited, a registered company (06781106). https://bod.org.uk
Jewish News @jewishnews.bsky.social The home of Jewish Content | Giving you Jewish News since 1997.
Co-Leads of Progressive Judaism UK @rabbisinchief.bsky.social Two rabbi/ceos developing collaborative leadership to help bring together Reform and Liberal Judaism in the UK.
Amos Schonfield @ajschonfield.bsky.social Refugee and migrant rights advocate // Founder & CEO @oursecondhome.org.uk // AWFC masochist // Unsubtly bearded // Unfathomably Jewish // he/him
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
Matt Tee @matttee1.bsky.social Former CEO of IPSO, Permanent Secretary and NHS national board member. Now to be found trying to make the NHS better and financially sustainable. Surrey General Committee. Dulwich Hamlet and Arsenal.
Olovus @olovus.bsky.social Patient and public involvement, and strategic communications for the NHS and Public Health. Talk to us about NHS service change.
Sam Fletcher @samfletcher.bsky.social Director of Comms @rcn.org.uk. Social justice, inequalities, facts & stats. Mum of boys. Scouse in south. Views my own.
@evesacker.bsky.social @evesacker.bsky.social
Steve Tolan @tolanahp.bsky.social Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer @NHSEngland. Physiotherapist.
The Hostile Handmaid 🧡 @hostilehandmaid.bsky.social policy, campaigns, & coproduction | #VAWG #disability & #migration | + UK/US politics, criminal justice, housing, human rights, neurodiversity, & welfare | #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #cPTSD #dyspraxic #migrant #survivor | 🌈🌱✡️✍🏼 #NoOneIsIllegal #ScrapNRPF
West Midlands ADASS @wmadass.bsky.social WM ADASS shared vision is for a sustainable health & care system, that supports thriving local economies & communities; promoting independence & social justice. Find us at https://www.wm-adass.org.uk/
Helen Anderson PhD RN Queen's Nurse @drhelenanderson.bsky.social RN. Advanced Nurse Practitioner. Qualitative Researcher. University of York. Interests: nursing, professional identity, primary care, advanced practice, tea
Picker @pickereurope.bsky.social We design and deliver original health and social care research. Our rigorous experience surveys advance thinking and policy around #PersonCentredCare, with the end goal of improving #PatientExperience.
fayscho @fayscho.bsky.social Social & digital strategist specialising in working with nonprofits and charities 💛
Founder of social & digital comms agency @catnipcomms.bsky.social🐈 https://www.catnipcomms.com/
Part of Tech for Good Live podcast🎙️
Catnip Comms @catnipcomms.bsky.social We're a purpose-driven communications agency. We help non-profits and NGOs amplify missions, engage audiences, and drive impact with powerful digital content.
Learn more about us: https://linktr.ee/catnipcomms
Rosemary Bruce @rbruce72.bsky.social Mum, wife, friend, foodie and lover of musical theatre. Proud Liberal Democrat - former Aberdeenshire Councillor and former Parliamentary candidate.
Robin Lanfear @robinlanfear.bsky.social Senior Comms Manager at Impetus @impetus.org.uk. Young people, politics and football things mainly.
Michael Ryan @michael-a-ryan.bsky.social Events at The King's Fund. Views are my own.
Fr Soady @frsoady.bsky.social Former Staffer to Roy Jenkins, Sec of ARON & ARCiE, Rector of Rufford & Tarleton. MStJ
Rhodri Harries @rhodriharries.bsky.social PR for tech and health at Kaizo now part of Cavendish Consulting. Views are my own as is my humour….
Sarah Castell @scastell.bsky.social CEO Involve. Working to build a stronger democracy that works for everyone, by using the supertools of participatory and deliberative democracy. Also like improv & jumping in cold water.
Neil Fawcett @neilmfawcett.bsky.social Rock, folk and prog - Doctor Who - real ale - TV, films and books - Lib Dem - generally woke and proud - he/him. Lib Dem councillor. Works for Layla Moran MP. Posts are personal.
Michael Carden @mdcarden.bsky.social Currently leading comms for the London region at NHS England
Becky Cotton @beckycotton.co.uk Co-founder and CEO, Lumino. Digital therapeutics. Better mental health for everyone. Funded by Innovate UK, NIHR, NHS and Scottish Government.
Politics geek. Women in Innovation award winner. Cat enthusiast.
https://hellolumino.com
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy @thecsp.bsky.social Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) - the professional, educational and union body for 67,000 UK-chartered physiotherapists, students and support workers.
Suzanne Rastrick @suzannerastrick.bsky.social Chief Allied Heath Professions Officer (CAHPO) for England | NED & audit chair in #socialhousing | Visiting professor Oxford Brookes University & City St.Georges, University of London | Lifelong ‘tricky tree’
Refuge @refugecharity.bsky.social Refuge provides specialist services to survivors of domestic abuse. We run the Freephone 24 hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247
IainFaeFife 🔶️ 🏳️🌈 @iainfaefife675.bsky.social Lib Dem. Former MSP. Retired public policy officer. St Johnstone FC and Test Cricket fan.
Antony Tiernan @antonytiernan.bsky.social Director of Transformation Communications and Engagement at Department of Health and Social Care. Served over 20 years in the NHS. Proud NHS Charities Together trustee. Love running. Personal views etc.
https://linktr.ee/antonytiernan
Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social Emmy-award-winning journalist
https://lukemcgee.substack.com/
luke@luke-mcgee.com
Vanessa Longley @vanessalongley.bsky.social She/her. CEO at Beat eating disorders. Chair @ContactFamilies. Believes lived experience told powerfully can change the world!
Matt Chorley @mattchorley.bsky.social 📻BBC Radio 5 Live weekdays 2pm-4pm
🇺🇸Americanswers Mondays BBC Sounds
🎤Stand-up shows coming in 2025
✍️Subscribe to mailing list mattchorley.com
Helen Priest @pbfhpunk.bsky.social Digital Fundraiser for 20 years, currently at a children's hospice. Passionate about charity, digital, cats and Grease 2 - not necessarily in that order.
Favourite podcasts (if you're interested): HDTGM and The Neighborhood Listen.