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In our second #150Leaders webinar of the year, Samantha Donohue, Assistant Director at the NMC will explore how student leaders can promote changes in healthcare at different levels. All students from nursing, midwifery, and allied health disciplines are welcome to join this event as well as Student Leadership Programme alumni. The Student Leadership Programme is run […]

Antonio is a Nursing Adult Student at the University of Roehampton. In this blog, Antonio shares some insightful reflections on the 150Leaders Welcome Event who took place in Manchester last September. Last month, I had the incredible opportunity to attend the 150Leaders Student Leadership Programme Welcome Event in the vibrant city of Manchester. These two […]

Jade Hunt is a nursing student from the University of Plymouth. In this blog, Jade shares her story from getting accepted in the programme on her second attempt, to attending the Welcome Event in Manchester in September 2023. Jade explains how formative this journey has been for her.   In the first year of my […]

As defined by the NHS, person centeredness refers to “developing a workforce and community with behaviours, skills and competencies that support and drive person-centred approaches to wellbeing, prevention, care and support”. For our first #150Leaders webinar of the year, Prof Joanne Bosanquet MBE will talk about how students can become leaders advocating for person-centred care, […]

Congratulations to all our new #150Leaders who have been selected as part of our 2023-24 cohort. We are very much looking forward to meeting you in September. We had a huge number of excellent applications so please don’t be disheartened if you missed out this year – it definitely won’t stop you from becoming a […]

Our next 150Leaders webinar will take place on 23 May on Zoom. Michelle Mello and Anne Trotter discussed antiracism in professional practice. Register now! Anti racism in professional practice 23 May 2023, 15.00-16.00 This interactive session focused on the  anti-racism resource published in November 2022 NHS England Combatting Racial Discrimination against minority ethnic nurses, midwives […]

Michael Bartholomew is an Operating Department Practitioner student at the University of West London and one of our 2022-23 #150Leaders. Here he describes how he managed to overcome his fears and attend the welcome event, where he met like-minded students and healthcare leaders. Lastly, he explains how the programme has opened him up to new […]

A guest blog from Jade Wareham, adult student nurse apprentice at The Open University and one of the #150Leaders. The blog presents Jade’s personal project to promote professional relationships through neurodiversity awareness with The Florence Nightingale Foundation. Jade will hold an interactive webinar for any individual who would like to learn more about neurodiversity on […]

A guest blog from Monique Cleary, podiatry student at the University of Southampton and one of the #150Leaders. The blog presents Monique’s personal project to develop a image bank of pathologies and symptoms of the foot with diverse skin tones, which health professional could refer to, to help diagnose all patients. I was made redundant […]

A guest blog and testimony from Soneika “Sunny” Atkinson, Mental Health Student Nurse at University of Essex and one of the #150Leaders. The blog aims to present Sunny’s experience and personal project to promote and develop good dental care for mental health patients in hospital settings. Soneika’s project has the support of the Student Education Facilitator […]