Zac Fitzgerald

Formerly Manchester city-wide Lead Consultant Psychiatrist for inpatients 2012 - 2017 (MMH/GMMH). Retweet/ Follow - not endorsement

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

There is a desperate need for there to be an independent review into mental health services in Greater Manchester.

The numbers are horrific

For @GMMH_NHS alone;

26% of ligature deaths for the whole country in 2022
9 enforcement notices
25 breaches of provider license

[CHARMentalWealth @CHARMManchester]

Prevention of Future Deaths: CHARM finds a clear growth in the numbers of people dying for avoidable reasons in Greater Manchester #socialjustice

https://t.co/sx18n650cK

[Jamie Wallis @jamie_wallis]

This story is so horrific and the worse thing is he is still working as a doctor in Ireland 😡

https://t.co/DH7WtLTrAe

[Minh Alexander minhalexander.bsky.social @alexander_minh]

Extraordinary

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust's Brighton and Hove Mental Health Rapid Response phone line has reportedly been running on 35% staffing, and all staff are now apparently off sick

https://t.co/RTRfKCwZXT

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@alexander_minh There have been 5 of these incidents in Gtr Manchester in the last 6 years. On 2 occasions the Coroner raised suspicions that all ward staff were fabricating observations.

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

Mum woke to find man stabbing her in the chest before he turned vicious knife attack onto daughter https://t.co/rFuNE9venI

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@integritycdn

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@medicalmodelbri It could and should be much clearer. The GP trainee has done a ridiculous amount of training to get to that stage in their training.

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@HeldinEU Lazy way to get around

[TIVA Tim @TheSnoozeDoctor]

‘The nurse, whose only medical qualification was first aid, suggested he should be positioned on his front to sleep, despite advice that babies should always be placed on their backs.’https://t.co/dCBLKXhizr

[TIVA Tim @TheSnoozeDoctor]

‘National audits are being muffled and constrained, their authors forbidden from making recommendations to the hospitals in which they find problems.’

I’ve removed the paywall here 👇🏼
https://t.co/0Ztla03qOb

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@HeldinEU The retirement age will be 90 by then. Haha

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Andy Burnham said the funding of palliative care and social care needs to be fixed before assisted dying is considered in the UK.

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@HeldinEU @ragefighthouse We did it at Liverpool

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@snufflewort Cruel illness

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@muddy_gas_doc What an amazing photo.

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@medicalmodelbri Great analogy

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@drcmday @ArturNadol7566 When training doctors we put a lot of emphasis on the importance of reflective learning and continuous improvement but the structure of NHS is designed to to crush any such attempts and destroy the person making them.

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@nuwandiss Absolutely

[Zac Fitzgerald @DrZacFitzGerald]

@hannahmary31 It explains a lot. It’s no wonder the NHS can be such an Orwellian and Kafkaesque organisation to work in

[Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @SarahLudford]

This important revelation by @ShaunLintern appears to show @NHSEngland acting in total contradiction of the principles of the ‘Hillsborough’ Bill, & I will raise this at Lords Second Reading on Sep 1.
Ethical standards of behaviour need to be front-loaded, not just at inquiries.

[Adam Kay @amateuradam]

Turns out the biggest suppressor of whistleblowers in the NHS is the NHS itself.