FUTURE FRONTLINE Discover more about the multidisciplinary learnings offered through this not-forprofit community interest company that is bringing allied health professionals together
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uture Frontline was founded in August 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, by two medical students Natasha Binnie and Nikki Kerdegari. Future Frontline is a not-for-profit community interest company supported by the Healthcare Leadership Academy with the aim of inspiring and supporting today’s and tomorrow’s NHS workers. After only two years, Future Frontline has over 7,000 followers across a variety
of social media platforms including Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook and its work supports thousands of students and professionals.
Presently, Future Frontline is composed of 35 healthcare students and professionals across the United Kingdom; consisting of students from nineteen universities as well as professionals from over six different NHS Trusts. The professions represented include occupational therapy, nursing, medicine, dental hygiene and therapy, physician associates, podiatry, nursing, paramedicine, dietetics and speech and language therapy. The organisation looks forward to representing more professions in the future. Future Frontline aims to raise awareness of the multitude of healthcare roles within the NHS, widen the participation of people in healthcare degrees and professions,
support current healthcare students and qualified professionals, and provide career advice for those in or pursuing healthcare roles. To achieve these aims, Future Frontline runs a variety of free initiatives including multidisciplinary casebased webinars, work experience webinars, interprofessional webinars to support students and professionals, and publishes informative social media content and website articles. On 25 September, Future Frontline hosted our latest virtual multidisciplinary webinar on Motor Neurone Disease (MND). MND is an uncommon condition that affects the brain and nerves, causing weakness, slurred speech, swallowing difficulties, weakened grip and muscle cramps and twitches, as well as weight loss and behavioural changes. MND primarily affects individuals in their 60s and
Future Frontline runs a variety of free initiatives including multidisciplinary casebased webinars, work experience webinars, interprofessional webinars www.
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