Penny Lea @PenEscapes

Parent experience in barriers to school attendance, SEND system, mental health. Advocate of therapeutic, trauma-informed, attachment-aware approaches. Joined October 2018

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tern @1goodtern

2 months ago

I've just written and deleted a few versions of a thread about how there are some health conditions that are socially acceptable. The people who have them are somehow almost canonised just because they have those conditions...

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lemn sissay OBE FRSL @lemnsissay

2 months ago

Trigger warning. This is about Care Leavers dying. I've been stationary for two hours on a train in Retford. Someone's been discovered on the tracks due to mental ill health. Police and ambulance services are attending to the person. While here I received this news item from my friend Terry Galloway. It's about the high death rate of young care leavers. A care leaver is seventy percent more likely to take their own life. Two care leavers die each week. Nick Martin is in the news item. He is the journalist who made a sky doc about "Nonita" a care leaver who took her own life via train tracks. Terry Galloway is brilliant. . My train is still stuck in the station. I am tired.

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Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal

2 months ago

Dr Evans is absolutely right: the question is whether when a GP of years of medical training and experience seeks specialist advice will the person providing that advice (or rejecting the referral) be an actual specialist? Or even a doctor? Labour doesn’t know or care

Dr Luke Evans MP @drlukeevans

2 months ago

Your GP says you should see a hospital specialist for your condition Labour’s new Single Point of Access now decides whether that GP referral goes through They have a target to "redirect" 25% of referrals I wanted to know: who is making that decision? I asked the Minister 👇

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Dr Luke Evans MP @drlukeevans

2 months ago

The Government was asked a simple question by @drcarolinej - could the Government show evidence for mandating a Single Point of Access for GP referrals to be reviewed. The answer: "We trust GPs" 🤔 So why is Labour bringing in a system that literally overrides GP judgement?

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Penny Lea @PenEscapes

3 months ago

@Keir_Starmer

Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson

3 months ago

Please share with the Prime Minister. Thank you. Back on shift at 22:00. Goodnight. #SOSNHS

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Roger Gustafsson |bsk.social @RogerGustafsso2

3 months ago

1/ New evidence confirms that SARS-CoV-2 can reach the fetus through the amniotic fluid. This isn't just about maternal health; researchers have now detected the virus directly within fetal organs, including the lungs and intestines. Here’s why this changes the conversation. ⬇️

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tern @1goodtern

3 months ago

Please read and repost the thread below, and like it and comment on it. The Cat has had her account visibility restricted by twitter, and the way to undo it is interact with her. Please follow, and bookmark, and quote tweet. I'll go through later and retweet any quote tweets ❤️

Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat

3 months ago

COVID INQUIRY: MODULE 3 REPORT “Fundamental flaws in the UK’s approach to IPC [infection prevention & control] guidance, for example in relation to the use of PPE, put patients and healthcare workers at risk.” — Baroness Hallett, Chair of the Covid Inquiry Read more here… ⬇️

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4 months ago

Yesterday, the WHO European Region said people continue to develop Long COVID after new C-19 infections “In the lab, COVID is a Level 3 biohazard. In schools, it's no big deal. I don't think you can reconcile those two statements”Colin Furness, infection control epidemiologist

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Penny Lea @PenEscapes

4 months ago

@ZackPolanski @TheGreenParty

Dr Dave Triska @dave_dlt

4 months ago

📝 GP partnership is a double life: clinician for the patient in front of you, steward for a whole community with finite capacity. “Dunkirk in the Waiting Room” - the managed retreat of general practice, and why we’re blamed for the tide. 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetriska…

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Steve B @75ThunderRoad

5 months ago

Three years ago, when my daughter had become consumed by anxiety, her mobile phone was a lifeline for her at school. She was in a mental health crisis. In school, at breaktime and lunchtime (not during lessons), she would sometimes use her phone to message me or her mum. 1/

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros

5 months ago

Appreciated my discussion on the bold and pragmatic steps being taken to address the health threats of indoor air pollution by health experts and advocates @DrBronKing and @glagoudas during the @WEF Annual Meeting. I am particularly impressed by their efforts to boost global support for increased action to protect people from the harms of indoor air pollution, which kills and sickens millions a year, and impacts economies and workplace productivity around the world. The Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air is one such initiative to increase awareness and commitment to address this threat. airclub.org

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Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag

5 months ago

This is VERY important

Rob Galloway @DrRobgalloway

5 months ago

When people accept the unacceptable, it quietly becomes acceptable. And that, to me, is the most unacceptable thing of all. Right now, in A&E departments across the country, patients who should be in proper hospital beds are being cared for in corridors. This isn’t a rare

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Rachel A-S @Chuffin_ell

5 months ago

After caring for my daughter 24/7 during a hospital admission, the DWP has written a year later to say I should have phoned on day one, wasn’t entitled to Carer’s Allowance - and must repay it. That admission cost me my health petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7522… 👉 gofundme.com/f/help-rachel-…

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Rachel A-S @Chuffin_ell

5 months ago

The only thing that changes when someone goes into hospital is the setting. The caring role doesn’t stop — it escalates. Unpaid Carers are already exploited more so when they go into hospital . This petition explains why the 28-day rule must change: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7522…

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tern @1goodtern

5 months ago

What if I told you there was a virus that makes every other health condition worse, and that you can catch it repeatedly, and each time you catch it it makes every other condition you have worse.

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Penny Lea @PenEscapes

5 months ago

@wesstreeting What are you doing about this?

Dame Sa 🐝 3.5% @LongCovidHell

5 months ago

There are currently ZERO plans for N95s in UK healthcare. Despite flu and Covid being transmitted through the air. Despite outbreaks causing critical incidents in hospitals across the country. Despite patents and staff literally dying every day. The apathy defies belief!

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tern @1goodtern

5 months ago

Oh my word, these people are so dense they are in danger of causing the earth to collapse in on itself and form a superdense singularity. Wear a mask (FFP2+/N95+) that prevents airborne particles you ignorant numpty.

Nottingham University Hospitals @nottmhospitals

5 months ago

As we remain in a Critical Incident, Medical Director Manjeet Shehmar is asking for public support in getting medically safe patients home and out of hospital to recover as soon as is safe to do so. Thank you for your continued support - nuh.nhs.uk/news/critical-…

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev

5 months ago

Ventilation maintenance is an essential part of IPC. @AshleyDalton_MP @jenni_minto and @JenMurnaneOConn as you are responsible for Public Health and Prevention will you act to reduce airborne risks?

Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne @PeteUK7

5 months ago

Picture of extraction vent in the supposed isolation cubicle my mum is in on an NHS ward. I wonder what you'd find if you swabbed it. Some nasty stuff I'll bet; mould, fungus, viruses, bacteria etc:

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tern @1goodtern

5 months ago

You will be fascinated by this video on the sickness absence *rate* of ***young*** doctors. Covid isn't just about the acute stage of illness, it's about what it does to you afterwards. Thank you for listening and sharing ❤️

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Penny Lea @PenEscapes

6 months ago

@wesstreeting

Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat

6 months ago

No, @wesstreeting. Let’s be clear: You’re NOT doing all you can to arm the NHS with the latest tech to manage intense winter pressures. What you SHOULD be doing is using tech to stop airborne viruses spreading like wildfire in hospitals: ▪️Ventilation ▪️Air filters ▪️FFP masks