Gemma Ireland

Mum. Nurse.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Rhodes is burning...What really matters is not that a Tourist playground burns, its the animals burned, wildlife lost and Nature destroyed...but out headlines talk of cancelled flights and holidays. If we think this is inconvenient..you wait to see the inconvenience of climate refugees, lack of food and water....floods, droughts and war....but lets just carry on leave that to our kids to deal with.

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

Mornin’ folks.

We’ve had a lot of people enquiring about and commenting on #bumblebees asleep on #flowers, especially at this time of year, so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on.

Please retweet so more are more informed.
Thanks good people.
#bees
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[Joseph Cosgrove @JosephCosgrove7]

Just in case you thought that it was industrial action by nurses & doctors that created waiting lists for hospital treatments, here's something from @FinancialTimes

[Roshana 🦴 @RoshanaMN]

The Consultants of Dorset hospital have written a letter to @SteveBarclay

They strike tomorrow

This letter is incredible

I challenge anyone to refute a single point in it

Worth a read for you too @wesstreeting

[Carol Griffiths 💙 @carolgriff66]

Job Advert. Come & join the amazing team in Acute Medicine - fabulous opportunity https://t.co/G55x1lxbjg

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

No, I’m sorry, you don’t get to do this. If it was *our* plan, it would address staff retention. What special kind of madness is it to pretend you care about the long term health of the NHS while NOT addressing the factors driving existing - precious - staff out in their droves?

[Emily♡ @ItsEmilyKaty]

An essential resource for university staff, health-care professionals and anyone involved in shaping clinical practice environments.

Written by neurodivergent student healthcare professionals for Health Education England. @SSHINE_Students

https://t.co/o8brjcSW6U

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

• HSBC banking profits doubled
• Shell energy profits doubled
• BP energy profits doubled
• BP CEO pay doubled
• Shell CEO pay doubled

And they tell you it is your 18 year low wage packet that is causing the inflation crisis.

Mugged in broad daylight.

[Emma Smart @smartyfish]

5 privileged thrill-seeking men pay £200k to view a sunken boat; navy, air force, coast guard, state air guard rescue, front page news

500 desperate safety-seeking people pay everything they have to risk a sunken boat; 100 kids dead, no rescue, news silent

Humanity is wrecked.

[Sadie Diamond-Fox 💙 @EsDeeEf]

🧑🏾‍🔬 RAISING THE ROOF ON RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS 👨🏻‍🔬

👨🏻‍⚕️ Qualified #AdvancedPractitioners in North East, North Cumbria & Yorkshire region
🗓️ 4th & 8th Sept
⏰ 10-4
🗺️ @NorthumbriaUni City Campus
💸 Free #CPD
🙏🏾 Kindly fully funded by @NHSHEE_NEY
🎟️ Bookings opening soon

[Sadie Diamond-Fox 💙 @EsDeeEf]

Dates for THE #AdvancingPractice event of the year have been released:

@NHSE_WTE Centre for Advancing Practice annual conference

Date: Wednesday 8 November 2023 and Thursday 9 November 2023 

Location: Online/Virtual 

Hashtag: #AdvancingPractice2023

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

“Twice this week, I have watched an elderly individual, fade into the busy life in which we all live. One man just needed Panadol for his wife but the shop assistant simply said it’s in aisle ‘6’. But he struggled to navigate the supermarket and as I watched him go in the wrong direction, I left all my groceries and took him where he needed to go.

Today, I watched an elderly man struggle in the heat, who had obviously had a fall with a huge scrape and blood on his leg. He walked past people in the cafe, while he slowly made his way to his car. Not one person stopped. Or looked. Or acknowledged him. I took him to his car and checked he was ok. He told me he had a fall and wasn’t sure how the air con worked in his car so he just didn’t use it. I sat with him, until his air con kicked in and heard him talk about the old frail body that he is in, that fails him now, every single day.

When you see an elderly person walking down the street, searching in the supermarket or struggling to their car, take a minute out of your busy schedule and ask them if they need a hand. Think about your grand parents and your parents and how pissed you would be if someone didn’t stop to help them. But more, think of them as you.

Once upon a time they were you. They were busy, they had work, they had children, they were able.... Today, they are just in an older body that is not going as fast as it used to and this busy life is confusing. They deserve our utmost respect and consideration. One day it will be you, it will be us. I wish more people gave a sh*t about them and acknowledged them for their admirable existence and geez I hope someday, not that far away, someone does it for me.”

Credit: Adele Barbaro

[Flora @FloraSCooper]

Just remember this...

Never judge someone else's story and never assume that a smile means everything is OK.

Above everything, be kind.

#ShineOn
#BurnBrighter

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Can you afford to lose the NHS? Here are some real-life payments made by patients in America:

$7,500 for A&E treatment of a broken wrist and torn rotator cuff

$1,300 2-mile ambulance journey from supermarket to hospital.

Please read the full article 👇
https://t.co/eDD9ZCPFty

[Anna Riley @annarileyflash]

‼️*SURGICAL ACPs / trainee ACPs*‼️
The abdominal medicine & surgery ACP team @LeedsHospitals are holding a conference for surgical ACPs on 19th October ☺️
Tickets are £50 & you can grab one via eventbrite here: https://t.co/P3pg0Ocw1P
@uclanacp @NHSHEE_NWest @BellaThakglos

[Nicola 💙 @nikpet1]

For those at the back. Without these protests none of this would have been achieved.

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear 🇬🇧,

Your govt would rather waste your hard earned money taking our nurses to court instead of fixing our NHS staffing crisis which harms your family every single day. Wake up. This govt doesn't give a damn about your health.

#SOSNHS
#BullyBarclay
#SteveWontSilenceUs

[Gemma Ireland @GemIre16]

@NurseStandard As someone who entered healthcare later, I wouldn’t have been able to get into nursing without the student bursaries.