Amanda Vardon-Cardy

In a world where you can be anything, be kind. - Accountant/Invigilator - family woman.

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@swsportsnews Hi Ros. @CliftonRobbies 3-1 Nottingham Hockey L1s today 🙌🙌🙌 great match to watch!

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@swsportsnews @KingIan @CliftonRobbies @BristolSportGT @MemEnglandhokey @uonmhc Ladies 1s drew 1-1 with Loughborough L1s - exciting game to watch.

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@RooneyRachel @MyBodyIsMeBooks 👧

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week.

I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me.

His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding.

This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need.

In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric.

@CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's.

Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are).

These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government.

So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices.

I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye.

So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting.

We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch?

Thank you @channel4news for covering this story.

#palliativecare
#hospicecare
#NHS

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@Liz_ORiordan Wonderful news ❤️❤️❤️

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I see the @EnvAgency are up to their old tricks again.

They sit back and allowed, no licensed, three tonnes of uranium to be dumped into the River Ribble.

The Ribble by the way, and its estuary, are one of England's most heavily protected sites listed as a site of special scientific interest, a special protection area and a Ramsar site.

And the @EnvAgency does what exactly? Err, nothing!

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

Good luck to @CliftonRobbies L1s today at Surbiton 🙌 @JadeVardonCardy @swsportsnews

https://t.co/RZZd3ssbGQ

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@swsportsnews Congratulations Ros! 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

Great (if stressful) final match of @EnglandHockey Women’s Prem League phase 2. Congrats @CliftonRobbies L1s taking a 2-1 win vs Sutton Coldfield L1s. A battle all the way! A grandfather’s very exciting 89th birthday experience 🤣 @JadeVardonCardy @swsportsnews @AlanCardy857528

[South West Sports News @swsportsnews]

WOMENS HOCKEY
(another) brilliant result for #Bristol hockey's #Clifton W1s yesterday, winning 2-0 @HolcombeHC to again cement their status as one of the top #womenshockey teams in the country...
https://t.co/s0tYMH30qn #WHLPrem @CliftonRobbies ♀️🏑 🔵

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@swsportsnews Good morning Ros! Thank you and you too - we will not be following on the road but biting our nails from a distance 🤣

[South West Sports News @swsportsnews]

WOMENS HOCKEY
another important Premier Division win for #Bristol's @CliftonRobbies yesterday
https://t.co/Sb7hyepqCv #womenshockey #WHLPrem

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@sharrond62 We did this and it’s amazing! ❤️❤️❤️

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@MissZesty_ @Wessex_Internet Same in Wheathill.

[South West Sports News @swsportsnews]

WOMENS HOCKEY
Tomorrow's top free-to-see national & #regional #womenshockey fixtures today...
https://t.co/QSPalOK5T0 #SWwomenshockey #WestHockey #SouthHockey ♀️🏑

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@Liz_ORiordan Liz, you are amazing and you have helped me so much to cope with my lobular breast cancer and recovery. You’ve done it in such an uplifting way. An inspirational person ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@Liz_ORiordan Thank you Liz ❤️❤️❤️

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

The sun shone on @ExeterUniHC ladies today. A 4-1 win against Harleston Magpies L1s. Great match to watch 🙌 @swsportsnews

[Dr Liz O'Riordan @Liz_ORiordan]

Metastatic breast cancer has been relabelled as ‘MODERATELY Severe’ meaning life-extending drugs are now too expensive for people who aren’t in Scotland according to @NICEComms

Metastatic breast cancer KILLS every one who has it. It is INCURABLE. How is that only moderately severe?

One day my own life could be cut short be sure NICE has enforced a postcode lottery. Do we all need to move to Scotland to get extra months of life?

@BreastCancerNow

[Amanda Vardon-Cardy @AjVardon]

@katonahprod @neilmustard Thank you so much. A 50th birthday present from a lovely friend - perfect size 🤣