Paula

Involved in Love Gorse Hill, and Stret Foot Forward. I think this means I love where I live, and want everyone else to love it too. :)

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

A DOCTOR WARNED THEM IN 2003.
62 WOMEN ARE DEAD.

In 2003, Dr Andrew Stockdale, a consultant oncologist at Heart of England NHS Trust (@uhbtrust), walked into a multidisciplinary team meeting and told colleagues what he was seeing. Women who should have had one mastectomy were coming back for two, three, more.

He had figured out why: Ian Paterson was leaving cancer tissue behind on purpose, running what he called a "cleavage-sparing mastectomy" that nobody had approved and nobody was questioning.

Stockdale reported it. To the GMC (@gmcuk). To meetings. To anyone who would listen.

The meetings, by his own description, were not exactly open forums. Paterson was, quote, "a forthright individual who held firm views."

The chest walls of women he had operated on still had enough breast tissue to fit a bra. Stockdale, an oncologist, knew that was wrong. He referred them.
They went back to Paterson. Paterson operated on them again.

Nothing happened. For seven more years, nothing happened.

Paterson was not suspended until 2011. By then he had treated 11,000 patients.

The 2020 public inquiry estimated more than 1,000 of them were actively harmed. In October 2024, Stockdale gave evidence to a coroner's inquest covering the deaths of 62 women.

The inquiry found that Heart of England NHS Trust and Spire Healthcare (@spirehealthcare) had received multiple warnings and failed to act on any of them.

The 2013 Kennedy Review put it plainly: whistleblowers do not fare well in the NHS. It described the institution as inward-looking, over-defensive, and prone to destroy those who suggest the emperor has no clothes.

Dr Stockdale was not destroyed. He was just ignored, which in the NHS is apparently the next best thing.

Paterson is in prison, serving 20 years.

The system that let him operate for a decade after the first warning received a report with 15 recommendations.

The government said it would respond.
Then COVID happened.
Then they responded in December 2021.
Then they published a progress update.

And somewhere in that bureaucratic relay race, 62 women's families are still waiting for a coroner's conclusions expected in 2026.

One doctor. One warning. 2003. The rest is institutional arithmetic.

Sources: @itvnews, @BBCNews, @guardian, @PSLearning, minhalexander_com, Ian Kennedy Review 2013, Paterson Inquiry Report February 2020.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Tunnocks got the sponsorship deal again I see

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Wishing all of our fans celebrating a joyful and peaceful Bandi Chhor Divas 🪔

🤝 @StretfordSikhs

[Paula @PaulaP270]

Cheers to all procrastinators of the UK! We, who currently can access the internet via their phone, because their home internet is Vodafone, and their phone is someone different purely because they procrastinated, and never made the decision to move it all to the same provider.

[Paula @PaulaP270]

@BeeNetwork Hi! Ive just looked at the online live departures. Thank you so much for making it clear and easy to understand the disruptions and redirections. Thank you for making it a much better user experience.

[Paula @PaulaP270]

Hi @BeeNetwork the 255 bus isn't stopping at urmston railway station. Its taking a different route. I have been told because of roadworks. Its not mentioned on the app, or at the bus stop, and still shows its stopping there. I was told its for a while. Can you update the app pls.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is brilliant.

[Paula @PaulaP270]

@BeeNetwork Hi, but this is what shows when looking at the bus stop. Its live timings.

[Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 @ClaudetteGGibs1]

This is fascism…this is Becky Burke she was on a back packing tour of North America and crashed into Trumps immigration pogroms.

Her father writes
“Our daughter Becky, a 28-year-old British tourist, has been caught up in the recent immigration crackdown in the US. What was meant to be a life-changing four-month backpacking trip across North America has turned into a nightmare.

Despite being a tourist with no criminal record, she was handcuffed and taken to a detention facility in Tacoma, Washington.

Becky’s current conditions are deeply concerning. She is sharing a cell, surviving on a diet of cold rice, potatoes, and beans (she is vegan), and has limited access to phone calls. Visitors are restricted to speaking through a glass screen via telephone.

All her possessions have been confiscated, and she feels isolated and desperate to come home.

We are doing everything we can. We are in touch with the British Consulate in London and San Francisco. An American friend is helping by sending funds to her inmate account so she can buy basic necessities like tea. But progress has been slow, and we urgently need more support.

We are asking for your help. Please share Becky’s story widely through your networks. We hope to connect with experts, legal professionals, or anyone who can offer advice or assistance. Becky is a kind, adventurous young woman who simply wants to return home to her family.”

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

What my grandparents story taught me is that what we should remember on this Holocaust Memorial Day is not just the horrors of Auschwitz - the planned , mechanised & industrialised attempt to wipe out an entire people but also what led up to it. 

That was, quite simply, the willingness of ordinary people to ignore, go along with or, worst still, applaud the idea that all their problems were due to another group of people who deserved to lose their dignity, their freedom and, ultimately, their lives simply for being other.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

[James Timpson @JamesTCobbler]

Today I chaired the first Women’s Justice Board which will look at how we steer women away from a life of crime.

Many women in prison are victims themselves. More than half are mums. Prison often fails to address what lies behind their offending.

https://t.co/HwDEA8tJiQ

[James Timpson @JamesTCobbler]

Our Mental Health Bill will end the inappropriate use of prison for people in desperate need of psychological care. These reforms will ensure they, and others facing acute mental health problems, get the urgent specialist help they need.

[Ipswich Fans Supporting Foodbanks @ITFC_FSF]

From Merseyside to Suffolk, fans are united against food poverty.

FanZone and opposite Planet Blue.

#itfc #efc

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Following the riots, the government should be standing up — unequivocally — to the far right.

Shamefully, they are taking lessons from them instead.

Our common humanity offers a different lesson: refugees who have fled violence should be treated with compassion & respect.

[Patients Association @PatientsAssoc]

Today marks #WorldPatientSafetyDay, a campaign run by the World Health Organisation. The theme for this year is 'Get it right, make it safe!', focusing on the importance of on improving diagnosis. You can read our blog on the campaign now: https://t.co/9RinKPecff

@WHO

[World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific @WHOWPRO]

Today is #WorldPatientSafetyDay.

Everyone has a role in reaching a right and safe diagnosis.

Get it right, make it safe! https://t.co/acIVvVJpFd

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Kamala, very calm and cool, looked trump in the face, told him the world was laughing at him, and that he was confused and lacked the temperament.

trump is COOKED.

[Philip DeFranco 👊🏻 @PhillyD]

Taylor Swift just endorsed Kamala Harris after the debate and signed off as Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady. 🤣🤣🤣