shaunlintern.bsky.social
Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety
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Makes it easy for people to spot me around the conference!
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That looks great.
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You just can't trust em. Knowing that site now I'd end up at a far right rally
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It surely is possible to do both. Managers have avoided proper accountability for too long. This doesn't need to be an either or. Kark laid out the path pretty clearly.
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Why not do both? Kark made good recommendations to professionalise managers and have strong accountability.
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Vaccine fatigue is real but more hard core anti-vax sentiment is also on the rise. Are children paying the price for their parents misguided beliefs? Great to work with @joeydurso.bsky.social for this Sunday Times piece:
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I suppose we can't know the harm done to men put off by the threat of a DRE either? BAUS and PCUK pretty clear the evidence shows DRE isn't of use and scrapping would save lives. Your point about MRI scans is of course spot on. We are woefully behind on scanners.
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Vaccine fatigue is real but more hard core anti-vax sentiment is also on the rise. Are children paying the price for their parents misguided beliefs? Great to work with @joeydurso.bsky.social for this Sunday Times piece:
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The HSSIB now exists with quite strong powers to do exactly that sort of work. It has yet to really make an impact sadly.
Whistleblowing absolutely needs sorting.
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In 2021, I reported on how a “Teflon team” of managers at Nottingham allowed staffing shortages to reach dangerous levels, while pleas from midwives were ignored by the trust board and incidents “swept under the carpet”
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Apparently the flu champions were in Barts - yet its results are dire. So that alone isn't enough...needs a lot of intensive work, discussion, by peers and role models etc. Will take time and money.
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Yes, there needs to be real work done on this. Interestingly the Prof warned against top down campaigns and demands as a way to tackle vax fatigue...which is a lot of what the NHS does in this space I think. A new approach needed.
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The Vaccine Confidence Project tracks public sentiment towards vaccine and has since 2010 I think.
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Trusts are required to make an offer to 100% of staff in their NHS contract with NHSE. But on the ground, how that is incentivised, funded, staffed etc varies.
But the trend is clear and can't all be explained by bureaucratic failures. There are choices being made by a large number of staff
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Heidi Larson, professor of anthropology and director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at LSHTM said vaccine fatigue is a global phenomenon since Covid.
"What I see is a sort of societal PTSD and within that some people are now saying they won’t get vaccinated as a reaction.”