Ann Parkes
@parksey.bsky.social
Heart failure nurse, optimistic, lover of books, tea, wine & walking 🏴 (also Welsh!)
Calling all Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialists 🫶 Two jobs available in Cardiff & Vale UHB - 1 for clinical lead band 8a - one for band 6/7 CNS - take a look on the UHB website. A fab job in a fab team 💓
August 17, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Calling all Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialists 🫶 Two jobs available in Cardiff & Vale UHB - 1 for clinical lead band 8a - one for band 6/7 CNS - take a look on the UHB website. A fab job in a fab team 💓
Heart failure nurse leadership (band8a) in Cardiff - fantastic team 🥰
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June 18, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Heart failure nurse leadership (band8a) in Cardiff - fantastic team 🥰
www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo...
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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
May 23, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
It’s the little moments 💕
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It’s the little moments 💕
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Our BEAT-HF mass community Healthy Heart Events have produced some striking statistics. We conducted tests on 5,373 individuals across the UK for hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and a POCT test using NT_proBNP for those exhibiting BEAT symptoms associated with heart failure.
Our BEAT-HF mass community Healthy Heart Events have produced some striking statistics. We conducted tests on 5,373 individuals across the UK for hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and a POCT test using NT_proBNP for those exhibiting BEAT symptoms associated with heart failure.
Earlier Detection of Heart Failure at Community Heart Health Events Using the BEAT-HF Tool
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March 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Our BEAT-HF mass community Healthy Heart Events have produced some striking statistics. We conducted tests on 5,373 individuals across the UK for hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and a POCT test using NT_proBNP for those exhibiting BEAT symptoms associated with heart failure.
Our BEAT-HF mass community Healthy Heart Events have produced some striking statistics. We conducted tests on 5,373 individuals across the UK for hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and a POCT test using NT_proBNP for those exhibiting BEAT symptoms associated with heart failure.
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This Friday we are holding our next Heart Health Event in Norwich. If you are experiencing any of the following symptoms you should consider attending the event because these could be signs of Heart Failure:
Breathlessness
Exhaustion
Ankle swelling
Time to come to our event!
#BeatHF
Breathlessness
Exhaustion
Ankle swelling
Time to come to our event!
#BeatHF
March 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This Friday we are holding our next Heart Health Event in Norwich. If you are experiencing any of the following symptoms you should consider attending the event because these could be signs of Heart Failure:
Breathlessness
Exhaustion
Ankle swelling
Time to come to our event!
#BeatHF
Breathlessness
Exhaustion
Ankle swelling
Time to come to our event!
#BeatHF
Absolutely honoured to receive a Pumping Marvellous Special Recognition Award 💕 What a fab HF team we have in Wales 🏴 #pumpingmarvellous
February 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Absolutely honoured to receive a Pumping Marvellous Special Recognition Award 💕 What a fab HF team we have in Wales 🏴 #pumpingmarvellous
A romantic gesture off the fella 💕
January 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A romantic gesture off the fella 💕
Absolutely amazing and well deserved 🥂 #pumpingmarvellous
Nick Hartshorne-Evans the Founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation, the UK’s heart failure charity based in Preston, has been named in the New Year’s Honours list. Read more here pumpingmarvellous.org/new-year-honou…#NewYearsHonoursrs
https://pumpingmarvellous.org/new-year-honou…
December 31, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Absolutely amazing and well deserved 🥂 #pumpingmarvellous
Heart Failure CNS job in Cardiff - fab job in a fab team! ❤️ cavuhb.nhs.wales/jobs/#!/job/...
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December 6, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Heart Failure CNS job in Cardiff - fab job in a fab team! ❤️ cavuhb.nhs.wales/jobs/#!/job/...
Happy birthday to me! 💕
November 20, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Happy birthday to me! 💕
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Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
November 18, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
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What a fab night at “the Inn at the Sticks” ❤️ and a lush morning walk #Llansteffan
November 10, 2024 at 4:58 PM
What a fab night at “the Inn at the Sticks” ❤️ and a lush morning walk #Llansteffan
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Thanks to everyone who came to help at the #PumpingMarvellous healthy heart check at Cardiff City FC. Almost 600 people turned up and were seen. #BeatHF ❤️
September 19, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to help at the #PumpingMarvellous healthy heart check at Cardiff City FC. Almost 600 people turned up and were seen. #BeatHF ❤️
Free heart checks for the over 40s in Cardiff tomorrow- just pop along ❤️
September 18, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Free heart checks for the over 40s in Cardiff tomorrow- just pop along ❤️
If you are over the age of 40, without a heart failure diagnosis, come along to a FREE HEART CHECK on 19 Sept in Cardiff, see ⬇️
August 29, 2024 at 3:45 PM
If you are over the age of 40, without a heart failure diagnosis, come along to a FREE HEART CHECK on 19 Sept in Cardiff, see ⬇️
My pooch and his little pal 😊
August 28, 2024 at 5:58 AM
My pooch and his little pal 😊
Hello blue sky, we are here 💕
August 22, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Hello blue sky, we are here 💕