Tuesday is #WorldRefugeeDay!💙
Today & every day, we recognize the contributions refugees make & the benefits they bring to their host communities.
Join us in celebrating refugees around the world. https://t.co/beqF6jVscf via @Refugees
A moment of elation, relief… and shock.
In her first @BBCSport column, @JazminSawyers reflects on the moment she won European gold, how she has coped with setbacks in her career, and discusses what success at the World Championships would mean to her.
https://t.co/ur5IuXblHt
Last week a horrendous video emerged which showed a Greek Coast guard forcibly pushing back a group of asylum seekers, including a baby, and leaving them stranded in the middle of the sea.
https://t.co/wYuHadKovx
Congratulations on your #AcademyAward win Ke Huy Quan!
With more than 100 million forcibly displaced people around the world, you’re a shining example of what refugees and forcibly displaced people can accomplish when given the opportunity.
#Oscars
Harrowing words from a senior emergency medicine doctor showing the despair at not being able to provide the level of care every doctor hopes to for their patients. Every doctor, nurse & HCW can empathise with this right now.
Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.
NEW: the collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week, a close match for non-Covid excess deaths
Let’s look at how we reach that conclusion, by taking a deep-dive into non-Covid excess mortality and its possible causes
https://t.co/VTsPbc2ajH
EXCL: This is the NHS as you’ve never seen it.
19 patients crammed on trolleys in corridors unable to get into a full A&E.
92 year-old May has been stuck on hers for 3 days.
Outside, ambulances queue, delayed getting to other calls.
Patients have died waiting. #ITVTonight
In more “country totally prepared for hot weather” news: Blackpool Victoria Hospital has propped its doors open to keep the building cool, but now the hospital is full of seagulls 🏥🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦
“This decision is hugely disappointing given that COVID-19 clearly hasn’t gone away, and nursing staff continue to be disproportionately affected."
Read our response to changes to #COVID19 sickness and isolation related absence for NHS staff in England. https://t.co/b1TUr3kgLW
For the people who went to Hillsborough and made it home, life was never the same again.
Many have barely talked about it since.
To mark the anniversary, some have taken the brave step of discussing how they still try to cope with the fallout.
@Simon_Hughes__ listened
BREAKING:
Clinical director & several senior managers warns A&E patients are having to wait over TWO DAYS to be admitted to a bed at Royal Preston Hospital -- in internal letter leaked to HSJ
Along with multiple other patient safety concerns...
https://t.co/eDBMaqugs3
Blackpool NHS Trust has declared an internal critical incident as it is experiencing "very high demand" for its services
For more on this and other news visit https://t.co/8OWd2TvLrt
New report reveals shocking number of excess deaths caused by crowding in Emergency Depts. last year
A new RCEM report ‘Crowding + its Consequences’ has found that at least 4,519 patients have died as a result of crowding +12 hr stays in Emergency Depts. in England in 2020-2021.