Lara-Rose

Corpse Servant. Contrary to popular opinion, not like 'that one from NCIS'. Only occasional tweeter, but when I do, I mean it. She/Her

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

Shout-out to fellow death care professionals. I see you all doing the best you can for families under exceptionally difficult circumstances. Let's all help each other out, yeah?

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

@LucyGoBag Always wondered what else I could do if my current career went south, and EP has always been at the back of my mind

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[MBRRACE UK @mbrrace]

The latest MBRRACE-UK Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care report on women who died during or up to a year after pregnancy between 2020 and 2022 released today.

Read more:https://t.co/fFx5yHMOyk

@marianfknight @npeu_oxford @oxford_ndph

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

This thread with devastating testimony of @Kevin_Fong 💔

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.

The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope.
Please watch this 2min clip.

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

@LucyGoBag @Kevin_Fong I've just watched the parts of his testimony and it's harrowing. My job was hard, but the ward staff did an unimaginable job

[Imogen Jones @Imogensjones]

It's been a while, but I am back with @Johnnygcake to talk about what it means to 'respect' the dead. This is a musing blog and reflects the early stages of a collaboration. We're keen to engage with others on this and to get your thoughts: https://t.co/yE1PfueeYt

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

@AnatomicalCat I squealed when I saw these! Instantly recognised the work and never thought I'd see any in the wild

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

@LucyGoBag It came up recently in conversation, and I was reminded about how funeral directors appear on the list of people eligible to countersign a passport photo. For such an unregulated profession to be included in this list, I'm now realising how it might not be that unsurprising...

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

Not big on April Fools generally, but The Owl absolutely nailed this 😂 I urge you to watch the trailer, click the ticket link AND click to buy a ticket. Every step is a bit of magic

[Duolingo @duolingo]

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Buy tickets at https://t.co/y04jnohct6

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

@alianderson65 @LucyGoBag @AAPTTweets @DeathRef @cendeathsociety Yep. And I don't know how you even begin to explain it to families either 😔

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

And again at the end of this are families having to wait unacceptably long times for a post-mortem and face having their child taken miles away for this to happen.

I hope that next year I'm not back here saying things have gotten worse 7/7

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

Oops, here I am quoting myself. I wrote this thread over a year ago. I work in a different mortuary now (still Up North) and today I had a coroner's officer call from *250 miles away* to refer a paediatric case 1/7

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

A drum I will continue to bang. When talking about post-mortems, the default deceased seems to be an adult. There has been a lot in the news about the strain on post-mortem services affecting adults recently - lack of pathologists, service pressures. A muddled thread 🧵1/15

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

I asked the coroner's officer today when do you think the Chief Coroner for England and Wales might step in to do...something? Or RCPath? Apparently I was not the first person today to say that. But what can they do? You can't conjure up pathologists 6/7

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

@DrLKVaughan @AAPTTweets It's very interesting to see the parallels. Out of interest, from your research do you see a difference in complexity between extending regulation and scope in an already regulated profession (like nursing) Vs having an unregulated profession obtain statutory regulation?

[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

Excellent thread. Just one of the issues we face as an unregulated profession ourselves as APTs. Been having convos this week at work about this - minimum standard of skill/remit of APTs expected by our pathologists; who should set out scope of practice etc @AAPTTweets

[Louella Vaughan @DrLKVaughan]

There has been lots of discussion about Scope of Practice recently.

I spent several months trying to understand concepts of scope and regulation for a piece of funded research.

So here is a bit about what I learnt.
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[Lara-Rose @OnTheArrow]

@graciemaybe @LucyGoBag @AmyCortvriend @KandidaPurnell @mtthwhgn Oh wow!!!