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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 […]

A guest blog from Tim Walsh, Children’s Nursing student at London South Bank University and one of the #150Leaders. The blog aims to present Tim’s personal project to develop and improve clinical education and practice on children’s end of life care for undergraduate nurses. For this initiative, Tim has been nominated for a Student Nursing […]

A guest blog from Fatimah Khathun, dietetics student at Leeds Beckett University and one of the #150Leaders. The blog follows her recent attendance at the BDA Yorkshire Celebrating Diversity in Dietetics event. I recently attended the BDA Yorkshire Celebrating Diversity in Dietetics event. It was an eye-opening event which gave me the opportunity to hear from inspirational […]

By Sianne Chinwuba, #150Leaders alumna They said that universities are open and inclusive for everyone who wishes to further their education and start a new career or progress in their current one. But as we know, there are still difficult issues surrounding the topic of race at universities across the country. Of course, there have […]

The 10th anniversary of the Student Nursing Times Awards, which honour student nurses and midwives, education providers and mentors was held just last week, and we are so very proud of the 150Leaders alumni that were present. Seeing as last year’s awards were held virtually, it was refreshing to see everyone accepting their well-deserved awards […]