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“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better” Albert Einstein Stunning sunset at Paddy Freeman, Newcastle upon Tyne

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A memory from four years ago when my son was an inpatient in hospital. He wrote this note & the play specialist in the ward laminated & attached on curtains around his bed in a bay. Evidence suggests that protecting patients’ #privacy during hospitalisation is an important element of #dignifiedCare

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Where are all wood burners in England & Wales? Urban areas outside major cities are likely to have the worst #airpollution from wood burning. New mapping highlights #Worthing, #Norwich, #Reading, #Cambridge & #Hastings. Study led by @ucl.ac.uk. Story by me. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Vaccine Disinformation Dismantling of Public Health Very limited primary care infrastructure Falling routine vaccination = Measles Resurgence And an outbreak that will be very difficult to stop www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

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Important & timely paper #AMR #ArmedConflict #Displacement #ClimateEmergency #Disasters #Poverty www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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A gorgeous morning more so as my marshalling volunteering position in Parkrun could not have been more perfect: I was in a sunny spot opposite the picnic field & next to a field of wild garlic. Being here I get a positive dose of hope & energy that will last for a week. Wishing all a joyful Easter

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Ah that is lovely! www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/foo...

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“It makes complete sense [to treat it like defence], particularly as we have various state actors engaged in grey zone hostile activity. A good example of that is antibiotics. We don’t make any antibiotics in the UK: that’s not a resilient situation to be in.” www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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Integrated care board cuts – what does it all mean? Is the complete overhaul of the function and purpose of ICBs a seismic shift or a trivial tweak? We asked our policy experts how the cuts to ICB running costs might play out in reality. Read the full blog. buff.ly/Y8Kebp3

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I can help the government predict who's likely to kill, but they won't like the answer www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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A great thread #vaccines #Immunisation #VaccinePreventableDiseases #Outbreaks #Policy #AntiVaxxers #MMR #PublicTrust #PublicHealth

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Once again, the short termism of administrative cost cutting. Yes, you can have a workforce that is entirely made up of clinicians, but who will communicate with patients? Make sure people turn up to appointments? Fix things when they go wrong? We are in this situation because we did this in 2012

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This is madness. Administrative staff are essential to allow clinical staff to do their jobs. All initiatives like this do is add more admin tasks to the workload of clinical staff who are already being asked to look after more people for less and less. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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“the UK spends just 1.9% of its health budget on administration costs, the sixth lowest out of the 19 comparable countries measured”. “In the drive to raise NHS efficiency, national politicians need to be aware that cutting cost is not the same as increasing efficiency”

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"It's essential that we keep doctors in the NHS - and when this is students' first experience with NHS employment, it increases the risk that they'll join so many of their colleagues in moving abroad." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The impact of👇can be easily predicted, especially if no measures in place to enable patients to attend appointments #Inequity Quoting the article “He went on to say that if patients missed appointments "twice or more, then people do risk being referred back to their GP".” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“Happy Assyrian New Year 6775! The Akitu festival marked the Assyrian New Year in ancient Mesopotamia. Today April 1st marks a conclusion of the 12-day Akitu festival & the vernal equinox, signifying the beginning of the Assyrian calendar”. ܪܫܐ ܕܫܢܿܬܐ ܐܫܘܪܝܬܐ #Assyrian #Akitu #AssyrianNewYear

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Everyone believes they will be the exception. That chronic illness, homelessness or tragedy won’t befall them. We can’t all be the exception. Life can change in an instant, and most will experience tragedy at some point in their lives. We should all fight for better social supports & safety nets

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This is literally a war waged on public health..

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Starmer under fire over cuts to welfare benefits www.channel4.com/news/starmer...

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WH Smith name to disappear from high streets after sale www.channel4.com/news/wh-smit...

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This is sad to read and worrying. I am lost for words!

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No one should take for granted civil peace. Samajo Bešo was the lived experience speaker in training today. Listening to him tell his family’s story of surviving genocide in Bosnia I was in tears. Why can’t humans never learn from history & genocides continue to happen? hmd.org.uk/resource/sma...

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Ah…Who knew? Scary when one has a loved one with a chronic illness and reliant on reliable supplies of medications. #Brexit #MedicineShortages www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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👇photo from 3 years ago came on my feed: my son recording his rap song that tells the story of his sudden relapse after 5 months in hospital & what was seen as a miraculous recovery. Everything reversed & more💔 Keeping #hope was hard but he did. We did. This is Twice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c2S...

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What a moving thread. Unbelievable 5 years already passed since the announcement for lock down!

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We’ve spoken to disabled people and the groups that support them about the government’s proposed cutbacks to benefits - safe to say there is a great deal of concern and anger www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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“These proposals risk deepening hardship and pushing even more disabled people, carers and families into crisis, which could result in higher long-term costs for local authorities, the NHS, housing services and other support systems” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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In which I highlight the incredibly unequal impact of the pandemic on ethnic minority populations in the UK Click on the image to listen! (30 seconds long)

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New film on Greater Manchester delirium pathway. Hearing from systems leaders and international visitors.... m.youtube.com/watch?v=iwMH...

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“A House of Commons committee has revealed a damning picture of wide-scale #accessibility failures that it says are “systemically ingrained” across every mode a& network of travel across the UK” #DWPBenefitCuts www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Between 2006 and 2024, smoking rates in the North of England fell faster than the national average, narrowing the geographic inequalities in smoking prevalence Regional tobacco control programmes! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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lessons from the North? “The study, published in the journal Addiction, found that smoking increased 10% in southern England between 2020 and 2024. In contrast, rates decreased by 9.7% over the same period in the north”. #SmokingRates #FundingCuts www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Wow shocking data @bmj.com: “In 2023, 302 black candidates applied to anaesthetics, with only five offers made, meaning only 1.66% of applicants were successful. For white candidates, 47% of applications were successful.”

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"…doctors had been turned into "factory workers" in an effort to deliver ever-increasing productivity." A NHS doctor dies by suicide every 3 weeks. A nurse attempts suicide daily. Who cares for the carers? The lonely death of Dr Jagdip Sidhu www.the-londoner.co.uk/nhs-doctor-s...

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My attempt to wear black & white to support the Toon in #Parkrun I was among the last runners but does it matter? For me parkrun is about social connectedness in a world that needs it more than ever. My message “Just be kind”, including to oneself-a lesson I recently learnt the hard way #selfcare

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Earlier: volunteered at my local Parkrun-my happy place (Notable lack of fashion in photo; hugs from a colleague as we mourn the loss of a mutual friend who tragically died last Saturday; walk at Whitley Bay-breathing the sea. Gratitude🙏 for living in a special place. Now I take nothing for granted.

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I can’t begin to describe how we feel: on the edge 💔 Fear as armed groups reach close to the town where my husband’s family live. Hundreds of innocent civilians-some individuals/families known to us have been slaughtered since yesterday, processions looted & properties burned. youtu.be/3mx5i-ksFXQ

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Maya Angelou’s quote I mentioned below corrected “Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space”. So true.

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#InternationalWomenDay 🙏 to the women who inspire me everyday. Thank you to colleagues who nominated me to be among 100 inspirational women in Newcastle just for being me. Bitter sweet feelings I wrote about yesterday👇 Heartbroken. How to keep hope? ‘Hope & fear cannot the same space’-Maya Angelou

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Just received a message from my trainee who is on a train back home: it is over. So relieved on her behalf & all who sat the FPH Diplomate exam this week: it is over. Freedom-all the time one gets back. It is definitely the worse exam I have ever sat. I still get nightmares when I think about it.

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