I tweeted yesterday about clinical engineering and the vital role they play and had a reminder about all the other incredible staff in the NHS that no one ever hears about and so to try and change that

NHS Covid unsung heroes list

Perfusionists - magicians. From the crucial role they play in cardiac surgery to the unbelievable role they have in providing ECMO (using the machine below) to the sickest covid-19 patients. Barely anyone knows about them but they are an incredible profession.

Estates - built new high dependency and intensive care areas almost overnight in hospitals up and down the country. They make what often seems impossible happen and we would not be able to treat as many patients without them and their vital work.

Laboratory scientists - I dread to think how many samples they receive and process each day but we absolutely cannot care for patients without them and their technical skills. Their workload has soared and they are working consistently flat out.

Porters - the backbone of the hospital. The transferring patients, running samples, getting blood, making the impossible happen staff that simply keep the hospital running.

A request for comment from people living with life-limiting diagnoses:

I am developing a workshop for the general population on creating a healthier relationship to mortality- and I want to amplify the voices of those engaged in the confrontation.

If there is something that you feel you want the wider culture to understand about living with life limiting illness, but is hard to get others to hear or withstand,

and you want me to share it in workshop- please contact me here or through my

What do you feel the culture does not understand about the labors of confronting mortality? What do you have to protect others from about your experience? What do you have to edit away from people who think this will never happen to them?

So much of what is talked about in these space, is offered by people who are vicariously impacted, or who are trying to stay near

What would you want your wider community to integrate and understand about your experience that they turn away from?

I will attribute your comments to you in the workshop, or I can keep them anonymous if you prefer.

“Sexual & reproductive health” is a euphemism for abortion and contraception I run into constantly, so too is the topic of vaccines which are now a hot topic, but have you ever heard of contraceptive vaccines whose use for population control is never off the table for globalists?

The Special Programme of Research, Development, and Research Training in Human Reproduction was started by the WHO in 1972 to conduct research basically targetting developing countries. Abortive vaccines were developed as a result of this programme. Interesting, eh?!

Enter the 'Good Club', a group of billionaires who agreed to tackle population growth as a threat to industry, society and the environment. Here's some of their prominent figures: Bill Gates, George Soros, Oprah Winfrey, Rockefeller, Eli+Edythe Broad, Warren Buffett, & Ted Turner

Billionaire globalists love to tout the 1970's myth of overpopulation, using it as a scare tactic to promote/further their own agendas which, coincidentally, props up $$ makers like abortion, eugenics & sterilization as solutions. Another money guzzler they also fund are vaccines

Talking points elites use to sell the need for their vaccines are starvation levels, coming catastrophes & climate shifts (climate change is most common). Children are painted as pollutants, therefore, people "need" to have smaller families. Humanity is now painted in this light.

LONG TWEET. The WGN report by Rich McHugh set off a firestorm. The American Association of Nurse Practitioners(AANP) is on the defensive, claiming it disparaged NPs. Doesn't matter that WGN's anchorman clearly stated it was about transparency in health care, which all HCPs should

2)support. Nope, they had to resort to the predictable victimhood role and gaslighting to which we all have become accustomed. No comment about the parents and the fact that they were lied to, didn't even register on their radar. What became apparent after that story is that Full

3)Practice Authority(FPA) aka: "independent" practice aka: practicing medicine w/o a medical license should never have been an option in the U.S., because it represents two-tiered care. Now the AANP has set out to prove they are being discredited because physicians had the

4)unmitigated gall to question their "evidence". Something lazy a** legislators should have done but didn't. There is no "alarmist" agenda or conspiracy by "organized medicine". There is simply presentation of facts and disputation of alleged "facts". The high quality care the

5)AANP claims they provide is indeed disputable(https://t.co/ik0LfLYHAI). NP education USED to be of high quality. Not anymore. Why? Because the nursing educational system chose not to maintain their former excellent standards. When one devalues their own education, the

A day in the life of a junior doctor on covid ward. By Jane Smith (not her real name) in the UK. /thread
"I begin my shift at 8am. Before I can even head to my allocated bay, a nurse is already asking for a doctor to help her. One of the patients won’t put on his mask

and his oxygen levels are dropping. It takes me a few moments to get on my PPE before I can get to him. I try to talk to the man, but it’s difficult for him to hear me through my mask and the noise of all of the CPAP oxygen machines. He tells me that he’s tired of fighting,

and that he wants to be left alone. I have to be sure that he understands the risks, so I ask him to explain to me what he expects will happen if he takes off his mask and doesn’t put it back on. He says he doesn’t know. I tell him that he has to understand that he will die

and that he needs to say those words to me if that is what he really wants. Eventually we compromise; he will put his mask on for another hour, then phone his wife and tell me his decision. This man is 61.

I am allocated B Bay, in which there are five patients. My patients are mostly men, ranging from their early 30s to their 60s. This is younger than normal on HDU because — as I explained to the man — we only have beds for people with a fighting chance.

A lot of talk about NHS comms
I’m not sure sure that showing pictures on the news of busy ICUs or Ambulance queues will convince the naysayers and covid deniers of anything
They would still say it was staged or a hoax
Of course we need robust and honest information

But having a communications strategy based purely on images to fight the conspiracy theorists and covid hoaxers is a recipe for disaster
What we need is a high profile, properly funded public health campaign, but perhaps more than that we need ...

To accept that nhs isnt t a film set and patient confidentiality is important
Everyone says they love the NHS - show it by following advice

When working in nhs Comms I always took the view that media access and cooperating with media requests was important, this was often unpopular and at times I was a ‘lone voice’ often fighting both medics and the ‘corporate’ NHS side of things on the issue

And I think most health or other journalists who know me will say that I was fair and arranged access where others refused
One thing I never did was to forget it was a hospital/clinic/etc and patients were at the centre of it all

A lot of brands will be making statements today about what happened at our nation's capital yesterday. Most will run the range from "insincere" to "oblivious."

We debated if we should. But as a mental health platform, we feel we have a responsibility to say a few things.

1. White supremacy is not a mental illness.

The attempted coup that happened yesterday was not the product of mental illness.

We cannot deflect the responsibility of those involved by labelling them "unhinged," "crazy," or "sick."

As a platform that is dedicated to unpacking ableism when we see it, we feel a strong responsibility to name this quite clearly: a legacy of racism, woven through and through in this country, is not the product of mental illness.

It may be unfathomable to those of us who have had the privilege of not seeing it. It may be shocking to those of us who had more faith in our democracy than this.

That does not mean we should label what we do not understand an "illness." It means we should educate ourselves.

2. Yes, what we collectively experienced is trauma. If you find yourself struggling to "go back to normal," that is understandable.

It is our hope that you will extend grace to yourself, and to those around you who are having a hard time today.

Vitamin C; more than just a sweet vitamin

Boost immune system and protect you from heart disease

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For the first time ever in my life, I actually did something that I'm very proud of.

I always wanted to make a difference. And now I just helped send medicine for 50 children in Africa.

Destiny fulfilled! @foodforhungryFH

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A lot of people are asking about @NightingaleLDN and the current response. Having spent a lot of time there during the last wave, we are proud of all the energy that went into the response. The NHS in London has adapted and changed since the first wave, with hospitals such as 1/

vastly increasing critical care capacity. It was always clear that care would be better delivered within the confines of an established NHS hospital although at the time this capacity was just not there. With the creation of a 170 bed critical care unit 2/

the current efforts are in bringing all that new resource online to help people needing critical care, and this is progressing. One of the challenges @NightingaleLDN was around public information, and this was tricky to overcome. The other challenge in 3/

providing staff was also well documented. NHS staff, especially in the numbers needed to staff a critical care bed are not ‘spare’ when an incident hits and all hospitals, Nightingale or not, are grappling with the staffing challenge. This current wave is huge, and who knows 4/

if the resources of @NightingaleLDN will be needed, even if in a different operating model. It would be silly to say this won’t happen, as the new variant wave is shocking for us all. But the focus on firstly using the additional new capacity within @NHSEnglandLDN is the 5/