Holly Yandall

Public Health Lead for alcohol/drugs, licensing, workplace health& MECC. System leader. Author. Coach. Nature lover. 🌳🌻🐾

[Holly Yandall @HollyYandall]

Why has the use of bee-killing pesticides in England been allowed again? @NickGibbUK will you ask @DefraGovUK & @VictoriaPrentis to listen to the experts & @WildlifeTrusts & reverse this terrible decision?❌🐝☠️ #NoMoreNeonics

[Holly Yandall @HollyYandall]

@elaineaddison13 @MartinSLewis @itvMLshow The same has happened to me and EDF say the prices won't be the same, but don't provide details of the new tariff! Just been notified, but they started providing my energy 3 days ago so presumably I'll have to pay their rate until I can switch (if that's the best choice for me).

[Adam Briggs @ADMBriggs]

1. "In less than five years, Public Health England has, under strong and visionary leadership, transformed a geographically and functionally siloed group of 129 bodies into a strong, capable, coordinated, united and efficient public health agency that rivals any in the world."

[Tim Elwell-Sutton @tim_esPH]

10/ Finally, I'm thinking of all the PHE staff, many working flat out on the front line of the pandemic response, who've read about this in the papers and are wondering what it means for them - a tough day for them.

[Tim Elwell-Sutton @tim_esPH]

9/ If this decision results in a hollowing out of the national infrastructure as well, it will be a huge loss and a perverse response to a crisis which should be teaching us the value of investing in the nation’s health stock.

[Tim Elwell-Sutton @tim_esPH]

8/ The local public health system has been decimated by >20% cuts (in real terms per cap) to the public health grant since 2015.

https://t.co/PCRJhTTNYA

[Tim Elwell-Sutton @tim_esPH]

7/ What comes next?
Clearly there are plans for PHE’s role in the pandemic response to move to a new agency but nothing apparent on everything else PHE does. As @harryrutter points out, lots of policy and analysis needs to be done at national level!

https://t.co/2IDIqa9jG7

[Tim Elwell-Sutton @tim_esPH]

6/ Key errors in the pandemic response were strategic (eg not locking down sooner). I happen to agree with @cjsnowdon analysis suggesting govt followed scientific advice which was (with wonderful hindsight) faulty - but PHE was only a bit-player in that.
https://t.co/uRk2yBBvB7

[Tim Elwell-Sutton @tim_esPH]

5/ Lack of independence cuts both ways. It’s disingenuous (a kind word) to blame PHE for failings in a pandemic response which has been led by ministers.

[Tim Elwell-Sutton @tim_esPH]

4/ PHE has never had the independence it needs to tackle some major challenges- e.g. on health inequality, it hasn’t been able to question (or in my view, meaningfully influence) govt policies which hit the poorest hardest BUT...

[Tim Elwell-Sutton @tim_esPH]

3/ Is this blame shifting? In short – it looks like it is. PHE is far from perfect (which organisation is?) but, as it often does, govt is restructuring its bureaucracy instead of tackling thorny issues.

https://t.co/Ic3uFc9jJ0

[Tim Elwell-Sutton @tim_esPH]

2/ PHE employs 5,500 people doing a huge range of public health functions across the country – make no mistake, it will take years for the system to recovery from this decision. Abolishing it now is massive disruption at the worst possible time.

[Vincent Rajkumar @VincentRK]

There are at least 4 possible reasons why some people with COVID have little or no symptoms.

1) A rapid immune response that conquers the virus
2) Pre-existing cross reactive immunity
3) Genetic factors
4) Low viral load at time of infection

We have emerging data for each. 👇

[DrinkCoach @DrinkCoach]

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[DrinkCoach @DrinkCoach]

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[UK Health Security Agency @UKHSA]

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[Crawley Wellbeing @CrawleyWB]

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