Mum of 3 (1/2👫adopted, 1 rescued podenco🇪🇸🐕)/Vegan4Animals/Refugee host/BWFC fan/Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Clinging on in a dying NHS
Manchester, England
Joined March 2011
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23 yrs a Dr, 14+ yrs an EM consultant. Never have I seen patients receive such suboptimal care and be at such risk. They are coming to serious harm as are ED staff who feel overwhelmed, broken, abandoned. This was predictable and preventable. @NHSMillion @RCollEM @doctor_oxford
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If you want to support efforts to help pets in eastern Ukraine, here’s a link (and more details in the thread). Thank you! 🙏 teapawt.net/natemook/status/158175…
Food need is huge in liberated areas, but also for vets & evacuating pets from the frontline. Volunteers are risking their lives rescuing cats & dogs. So we’re going to establish a fundraiser to help cover costs. In the meantime, I setup a PayPal link: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_bu… 👇
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#podenco
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Give me 8 minutes and I'll explain as clearly as possible why NHS workers are ready to strike. @ThereseCoffey, @Jeremy_Hunt, you might want to listen.
#SOSNHS #PayRestoration #EnoughIsEnough
#FairPayForNursing #SafeStaffingSavesLives
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Here's your weekly reminder that 10 years ago the NHS was the best healthcare system in the world, ranked number 1 by the @commonwealthfnd. A decade of Tory underfunding and criminal grade neglect has delivered the crisis we're in.
#SOSNHS
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🚨 Undercover investigation finds workers in China making clothes for Shein, world’s biggest fast-fashion brand, are:
👗 Paid 3p per item
👚 Working 18-hour days
👙 Given no weekends + only one day off a month
@Channel4 findings shared with @theipaper:
inews.co.uk/news/consumer/sh…
My great grandfather was fatally injured in a pit explosion and carried home on a old door to die at home as he was penniless. This speech could have been made by any of my grandparents (or my husband's in Ireland) who lived in abject poverty. History is repeating itself.
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To make it easier to get medicines, @theresecoffey has announced a trough of drugs close to their use by date will be available outside all GP surgeries and pharmacies, with a sign saying "help yourself". People will also be able to deposit their unwanted drugs in the trough.
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Perhaps if we add water to the trough and stir it round a bit we could create the human form of sheep dip? How about that @theresecoffey
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We lead by example. Drs & Nurses would strongly advise against handing out your own drugs to friends & family. Most have seen A&E admissions, addiction and worse due to this. Very open to more professionals trained to prescribe. Atm we need leaders fit to govern.
@doctor_oxford – at Mottram in Longdendale, England
Reminiscing about the good old days. We have reached a brand new, despicable low. 100 hour waits for beds, sick elderly on chairs for over 24 hours. This has been orchestrated over the past 12y. @theresecoffey @doctor_oxford @wesstreeting @PeterStefanovi2 @danielgoyal
23 yrs a Dr, 14+ yrs an EM consultant. Never have I seen patients receive such suboptimal care and be at such risk. They are coming to serious harm as are ED staff who feel overwhelmed, broken, abandoned. This was predictable and preventable. @NHSMillion @RCollEM @doctor_oxford
It's an absolute, bloody abomination. Same tonight except the wait for a hospital bed reached 93 hours. The human suffering in Emergency Departments is sickening with respect to both patients and staff. It didn't need to be this way. It was entirely predictable and preventable.
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I never thought my job would regularly entail comforting nurses & junior doctors in tears at the sheer weight of human suffering we ask them to witness & manage.
But here we are.
Over capacity.
Understaffed
Underpaid.
Excuse me while have a little weep before going back to it.
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Last night I was on call. My post on call headache started about 6hours before I was due in the building. I’ve felt like my head wants to implode for the last 35+hrs. Give me a functioning Emergency Department and I bet my headache wouldn’t be half as bad. #KW5years
Very difficult listening on R4 this evening.
Doctors recruited from some of the world's poorest countries to work in UK hospitals say they're being exploited
Paul Kenyon reports from 8pm @BBCRadio 4
Full programme available @BBCSounds from 20:40
bbc.in/3ywKse2