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2019 Review Blog – What A Year!

December 28, 2019
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Well, what a year 2019 has been. Not the best on the health front by any stretch of the imagination, but an incredible year in many other ways. This year is the year I was announced as the 9th most…

Co-Production Week: Two Podcasts Sharing Two Different Uses of Co-Production

This week it’s National Co-production Week, running 1st-5th July. Managed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE, which is pronounced “Sky”), co-production week aims to raise awareness of co-production and to highlight good examples of co-production, especially in social…

Sitting on the NHS Assembly & Supporting Implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan

April 25, 2019
Lucy Watts MBE
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With everything going on in the country currently, you’d be hard pressed to be able to ignore the negative press around the NHS, its future, the care it’s providing, patient satisfaction, and how other countries (without naming them) are trying…

2018 – What A Year! & Looking Ahead to 2019

December 30, 2018
Lucy Watts MBE
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What a year 2018 has been. Such highs, such lows, but overall, it’s been an incredible year. I have had such fun, achieved a lot, received recognition for my work, been involved with even more work and projects, I’ve given…

Lucy & Molly – BBC Essex Interview (Dave Monks Show) – 19-01-17

January 20, 2017
Lucy Watts MBE
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Here's the video from our interview on the Dave Monks Show on BBC Essex.

Molly Awarded the ‘Animal OBE’, the PDSA Order of Merit

January 19, 2017
Lucy Watts MBE
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In October 2016, on a sunny, day, we had a very important visitor. Jan McLoughlin, Director General at the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) came round to present Molly with a very prestigious honour. In the same year as…

Rest in Pixels – BBC Three Documentary – How To Create and Control Your Own Digital Legacy

May 11, 2016
Lucy Watts MBE
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Late last year I did some filming with a crew for a BBC Three documentary, Rest in Pixels. This documentary delved into the world of death in the context of our online footprint, our online representation, and how this lives…

New Years Honours – Lucy Watts MBE

December 31, 2015
Lucy Watts MBE
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To my wonderful friends, family and supporters, I have a very, very exciting announcement to make: I am now Lucy Watts MBE I have been appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s New Year…

The Listening Project: Living While Dying

September 21, 2014
Lucy Watts MBE
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Earlier this year I went to the BBC studios to do a recorded conversation for The British Library and BBC Radio 4 as part of The Listening Project. It will be archive for many years to come in The British Library. Mum…

Crufts Friends for Life Winners

March 20, 2014
Lucy Watts MBE
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The weekend before last, from the 6th - 10th March we were at Crufts. Many people had nominated Molly for the Friends for Life award for changing my life, and we had become one of 5 finalists. Then the British…