David Sims @DavidSims02
Joined February 2016-
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Our #LetsConnect campaign provides insight for parents and carers in how to respond to and support their young person as well as helping young people to provide peer support using their own ideas and tips. Dr Nicola Dawson tells us more this #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
Really excited to publish with Erin Giles, Sam Relins, @KGrayBurrows @sarahRbakerDPH. Working with @BiBresearch birth cohort, our paper showed a strong association between school readiness and oral health of children aged five. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…
A wonderful way to end our adult physical Community Health Services' Quality Celebration event with the presentation of four Lisa Singleton awards - we'll tell you more about this soon - thanks to Lisa's mum Julie and congratulations to our winners #BDCFTquality
Going through a green phase at the moment. #betterlivesrocks order book is awaiting your requests.
#HealthyMindsSummit2024 “we need to listen & act on what we hear”, “I believe we need more neurodivergent and disabled people in employment and in our services”, “people need to be represented, feel supported and they will then engage”, “understand the power you have and use it”
Our panel exploring what practical changes can be made to improve services- the importance of using staff with a diverse range of backgrounds including language to improve therapeutic interventions @ActAsOneBDC #HealthyMindsSummit2024 #EqualityDiversityInclusion
Our Safe Spaces commissioned from our outstanding voluntary sector in Bradford District - a same day service available 365 days a year. #HealthyMindsSummit2024
come & work with us! Fantastic & rewarding opportunity: Consultant Clinical Psychologist working with CYP. Pls share @Mel_Pickup @theresepatten13 @ActAsOneBDC @DavidSims02 @PhilSage5 @shubly @DrLouiseClarke @charlottehrams1 jobs.barnardos.org.uk/jobs/vacancy/c…
We'd like to say a huge well done to our Deputy Medical Director, Sarfaraz Shora who has been awarded Trainer of the Year 2023 at the Yorkshire and Humber School of Psychiatry’s conference 👏
Fantastic to welcome Anne @a_wdavies to BDCFT @BDCFT for the afternoon. Great to sit in with Waddiloves team quiz. Huge thanks to Vicky @Vikdilsam and Kelly O for community enthusiasm and Selina and Sally for Najurally visit.
It's #WorldKindnessDay 3 Years ago today the @healthymindsbdc apprentices released K.C.U! The campaign is still going strong in schools across Bradford and Craven and we've updated the music video!📽️ "Let kindness, compassion, understanding shine through!"🎵
This is an important part of our @healthymindsbdc strategy to improve the physical health of people with serious mental illness. Get in touch with the amazing @EmmaLVDG and team! Co-production with people with lived experience is key to developing effective services. 🙌🏽
This is an important part of our @healthymindsbdc strategy to improve the physical health of people with serious mental illness. Get in touch with the amazing @EmmaLVDG and team! Co-production with people with lived experience is key to developing effective services. 🙌🏽
Support the campaign! Join the #JustDont campaign and help to bring about change. The #JustDont campaign aims to bring about a change in some of the everyday inappropriate behaviours women and girls sadly face. Find out more about the campaign: bit.ly/457OdEt
Chief People Officer, Bob Champion has taken to the stage to talk about the award schemes we have & the newest partnership award Celebrate as One. He describes our own Trust values as an opportunity to learn from the successes of our colleagues & recognise their hard work 👏
Courtyard Cafe is back! Our community cafe is open 11-1 and Mondays during term time. Pop in for everything from a cup of tea to a three-course hot meal! In our hall on Hilton Place.
Great North Run 2023 for @BDCFT_BLCharity - completed it in sub-2 hrs in very hot & sunny conditions. Amazing to meet Sir Mo Farah before his final ever professional race! strava.app.link/ky7T1FCkZCb
Accountability is one of the key domains in our Tackling racism in the workplace guidance. Members of our working group go through Actions 3, 4, and 5 below #ActAgainstRacism To learn more, click here ⬇️
📢NEW COURSE📢 The half-day masterclass event reflects on approaches to compassionate leadership in trust example. All information can be found at andrewsimscentre.nhs.uk/book-events/co… #LYPFT #BDCT #CPD #NHS #compassionateleadership
Our Great North Run team are ready & raring to go for next week's marathon! Through JustGiving the team have raised an incredible £1039 so far, if you're able to help the team with their fundraising targets, please visit our website for their links: bdct.nhs.uk/better-lives-c…

Jaspreet Sohal 🐝�... @jassij1984
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BDCFT NHS @BDCFT
6K Followers 948 Following Provider of mental health, community, learning disability and children's services. We check & respond to tweets Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. Tweets by Communications team.
Bradford District Cra... @ActAsOneBDC
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Better Lives Charity @BDCFT_BLCharity
548 Followers 293 Following We're the official charity of @BDCFT, here to enhance the services and care it provides. Charity number 1130011. Monitored Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm. @NHSCharities.
Sarah Firth @FirthSarah
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BDCFT Experience & In... @BDCFT_YourVoice
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Jodee Simpson (she/th... @jodeesimpson
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BDCFT Library & Healt... @BDCFTLibrary
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School Nursing Specia... @BDCFT_SNSN
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Ash Alom @ashalom2
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Emma @EmmaLVDG
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My Living Well @MyLivingWell1
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Wendy Burn CBE (She/h... @wendyburn
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Collette Brauns @ColletteBrauns
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Lade Smith CBE @DrLadeSmith
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Bev Knaggs @ChatterboxBK
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Kelly 🏳️🌈 @kelly_BFD
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Nagina Javaid @nagina_j
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Andrew Sims Centre @AndrewSimsCtr
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People First Podcast @PfkcPodcast
404 Followers 631 Following European LOVIE award shortlisted podcast presented and run by people with learning disabilities! We talk about issues that are important to our community.
Gregor Russell @GregorRussell6
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Helen Cook 💙 @Helenclematis
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Zubeda Khatoon 💙 @ZubedaKhatoon7
360 Followers 640 Following Research and Development @BDCFT_RD @BDCFT @NIHRrdn @NIHRresearch All views are my own
BDCFT Research & Deve... @BDCFT_RD
256 Followers 310 Following The @BDCFT Research & Development Department deliver high quality evidence based services to the local community #BDCFTRD
BDCFT Children's Lear... @BDCFT_CLDT
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mgp @MGP1970
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paul rowlands @paul42smg
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@drkalpana @drkalpa54679357
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LEJ LEARNING HUB @lej4learning
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Sharon Cooney @CooneyLiv
51 Followers 515 Following Views my own and not representative of my employer.
Four Seasons Café at... @BDCFT_4Seasons
193 Followers 198 Following The café is open seven days a week, 9am - 4pm, for patients, carers, families and staff. Tweets are monitored seven days a week, 9am - 5pm.
Staff Support and The... @BDCFTSSTS
14 Followers 81 Following We are a confidential and anonymous service offering support and therapy to all BDCFT NHS staff. (Direct Messages are not monitored)
Claire Warne @ClaireWarne1
20 Followers 45 Following Team leader at SNSN and craven children's LD team. RNLD
Helen Sheppard (she/h... @HelenSh88789810
1K Followers 2K Following I am an individual with my own views. Proud to be a Social Worker working in Mental Health @BDCFT working in Specialist Mother & Baby Mental Health Service.
Cathy Elliott, West Y... @NHSWYChair
911 Followers 209 Following Twitter account of Cathy Elliott the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Integrated Care Board (ICB) Chair.
Nicky D @NickyD50908453
20 Followers 242 Following young people - mental health - optimism - carpe diem
kismet ki baat @baat_kismet
365 Followers 720 Following
#hellomynameis Hannah... @HannahNutting1
606 Followers 537 Following NHS Service Improvement- First time mama 👶🏻 Winging it. Views/opinion my own. she/her 🏳️🌈
BDCFT Childrens Servi... @CommunityChild7
255 Followers 159 Following Dawn Lee - Head of Community Children's Services (Public Health 0-19 and Specialist). Working with an amazing team of colleagues in Bradford.
Prabhdeep @Prabhdeep_ks
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Givemore Chahwanda @givemore_cha
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LucyC @LucyChiddick
158 Followers 867 Following Be curious, kind, treasure relationships, find your tribe! ♥️wild swimming and adventures
Usha Narayana @UshaKundur
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Shelley Russell @shelleyr100
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CravenChildrensLDTeam @CravenLd
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Suzy Zito @ZitoSuzy
536 Followers 2K Following Passionate about improving SEND and SEMH for children and young people and ensuring their voices are heard. Views my own.
Adam Jameson @adamjameson96
454 Followers 1K Following Clinical Pharmacist💊 @BDCFT | PhD Student📚 @UniOfBradford | LUFC⚽️ #Pharmacogenomics #MentalHealth
Andrea Hodgkinson @ystesund
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Jaspreet Sohal 🐝�... @jassij1984
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BDCFT NHS @BDCFT
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Bradford District Cra... @ActAsOneBDC
3K Followers 1K Following We are the health and care partnership for Bradford District and Craven. We Act as One with the ambition to help people live ‘happy, healthy at home’
West Yorkshire Health... @WYpartnership
12K Followers 1K Following We work in partnership to improve the health and care of 2.4 million people across WY. Account operated by NHS West Yorkshire ICB.
Better Lives Charity @BDCFT_BLCharity
548 Followers 293 Following We're the official charity of @BDCFT, here to enhance the services and care it provides. Charity number 1130011. Monitored Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm. @NHSCharities.
Sarah Firth @FirthSarah
2K Followers 4K Following I am a quirky, nature loving, rock painting mum of 2. Working in the Medical Directorate at @BDCFT - views are my own. #BetterLivesRocks
BDCFT Experience & In... @BDCFT_YourVoice
1K Followers 1K Following Working to improve the experience & involvement of people who use our services or care for them & connecting to our community. See website for more info.
BDCFT Volunteer Servi... @BDCFT_Volunteer
474 Followers 118 Following BDCFT Volunteer Service supports volunteering across our mental health and community services. This account is monitored Mon - Fri 9am-5pm
BDCFT Library & Healt... @BDCFTLibrary
599 Followers 639 Following Library & Health Promotion Service for Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. We love evidence-based practice and a nice cup of tea.
School Nursing Specia... @BDCFT_SNSN
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Ash Alom @ashalom2
775 Followers 538 Following Head of Partnership Development | System Transformation | Change Management | People & OD at heart. Passionate about tackling health inequalities. Own views
Emma @EmmaLVDG
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Catherine Jowitt @JowittCatherine
350 Followers 201 Following Charity & Volunteer Lead at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, Chair of Relate Bradford and Leeds.
Wendy Burn CBE (She/h... @wendyburn
27K Followers 5K Following Past President @rcpsych. National MH Clinical Advisor, @NHSE_WTE. Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, @LeedsandYorkPFT
Fazeela Hafejee @fazeela_hafejee
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BDCFT Lively Up Yours... @BDCFT_LUY
368 Followers 718 Following Wellbeing events @BDCFT Online and face to face! Fun and inclusive! View the latest timetable and join us! #LivelyUpYourself Account monitored 9am-5pm ⭐
Fatima Khan-Shah 💙... @shutcake
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Chapeltown Cohousing @ChacoLeeds
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Nagina Javaid @nagina_j
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BDCFT Research & Deve... @BDCFT_RD
256 Followers 310 Following The @BDCFT Research & Development Department deliver high quality evidence based services to the local community #BDCFTRD
paul rowlands @paul42smg
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@drkalpana @drkalpa54679357
162 Followers 515 Following Psychiatrist, PhD Student, Christian, occasional cook. Special interests - autism, ethnicity & religion in mental health, crime and mental health.
Spirituality Special ... @rcpsychSSIG
559 Followers 115 Following Spirituality Special Interest Group@The Royal College of Psychiatrists-Our twitter content is to share information and not necessarily our official view/policy.
Jennifer Robb @Jennie_clinpsy
43 Followers 41 Following Consultant Clinical Psychologist, mother of three, beekeeper and poultry fanatic
Harehills Lane Baptis... @LaneBaptist
128 Followers 234 Following A Church that is part of the Baptist Family in Leeds
rcpsychCAP @RcpsychCAP
2K Followers 320 Following The Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The Royal College of Psychiatry (@rcpsych).
Sharon Cooney @CooneyLiv
51 Followers 515 Following Views my own and not representative of my employer.
Four Seasons Café at... @BDCFT_4Seasons
193 Followers 198 Following The café is open seven days a week, 9am - 4pm, for patients, carers, families and staff. Tweets are monitored seven days a week, 9am - 5pm.
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911 Followers 209 Following Twitter account of Cathy Elliott the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Integrated Care Board (ICB) Chair.
Nicky D @NickyD50908453
20 Followers 242 Following young people - mental health - optimism - carpe diem
kismet ki baat @baat_kismet
365 Followers 720 FollowingZulfi Hussain @ZulfiHussain
776 Followers 897 Following Zulfi is an #Entrepreneur and #Philanthropist - The Man Who Makes the Impossible Possible!
BDCFT Childrens Servi... @CommunityChild7
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Prabhdeep @Prabhdeep_ks
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suzanne Heywood-Evere... @heywood_everett
95 Followers 76 Following
RCPsych Planetary Hea... @rcpsychGreen
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Shelley Russell @shelleyr100
428 Followers 621 Following Learning Disability and Neurodiversity programme manager@WYHpartnership •she/her • views my own •Mum • nature • dogs
Jacqui Hooley @Jacquihooley
338 Followers 508 Following Principal Social Worker Bradford District Care Foundation Trust Social Worker/Approved Mental Health Professional/ Practice Educator
CravenChildrensLDTeam @CravenLd
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Adam Jameson @adamjameson96
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YoungInCovid @Young_in_covid
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BDCFT CAMHS @CAMHS_Bradford
676 Followers 1K Following BDCFT CAMHS Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services are a specialist Mental health service that aim to work with Infants & young people- Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Karen Gilbank @karen_gilbank
114 Followers 179 Following Practice Educator and Advanced Practitioner Lead Social Worker. Social Workers rock!
Sughra Nazir 💙 @Care_excellence
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Unique @Unique_charity
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All Star @AllStarEnts
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Dr Rob Waller @DocRobWaller
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AMurphy @amurphy26
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#hellomynameis Hannah... @HannahNutting1
606 Followers 537 Following NHS Service Improvement- First time mama 👶🏻 Winging it. Views/opinion my own. she/her 🏳️🌈
BradfordCareAlliance ... @BradfordCareCIC
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David Gibson @davidgibsonNHS
223 Followers 254 Following NHS manager, bcafc supporter, MBA FM graduate at SHU, family guy, ale drinker, footballer, runner, views expressed are mine
Naomi Holdsworth @NaomiHoldswort2
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Dr Usman Hamdani @hamdani_usman
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