Martin Pollard

IT Technical Innovator @SangerInstitute (words my own not official)
Scientist, Software Dev, and PhD student of awkward cancer genome regions. M7POM/2#0THV

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@Jane_Dandoe @Rod__Mason @Drbrodiepaters1 *they're

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@Jane_Dandoe @Rod__Mason @Drbrodiepaters1 The reason we have HCAs doing the bedbaths, etc is because nurses are administering far more treatments, which need far more supervision than before. Spend a few days in a modern hospital and you'll notice there always on the go or putting obs into the records etc.

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@Jane_Dandoe @Rod__Mason @Drbrodiepaters1 Nurses still do all the basic horrible smelly jobs like wound care (the smell of absesses has not changed), catheterising, blood draws, setting up infusions, taking observations, injections.

You want more individual caring time? You'd have to increase staffing : patient ratios.

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@Rod__Mason @Drbrodiepaters1 You'll get a nurse administering chemo, assessing the patient to check they're not currently dying, blood draws, clinical tests, etc, etc. All things where they need to understand the theory behind what they do.

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@Rod__Mason @Drbrodiepaters1 The reason as others have said it's a degree with clinical placements is because the role of nurses has changed. Doctors diagnose and direct what treatment is needed, nurses administer that treatment.

The problem is that treatment is rarely point and shoot. (1/2)

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@acornelectron @CrimeLdn And carved up a minor whilst he was doing it. There's a reason he's in with the child rapists, if his minor victim hadn't managed to get away chances are he'd have killed a 16 year old too.

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@David61780271 @CrimeLdn You're cheering on a guy who tried to murder a minor himself, he's scum too. Rashid "Rico" Gedel killed Sven Badzak just for looking like someone else in a 6:2 cowardly attack. And they carved up his 16 year old mate with him too: https://t.co/G2XoeUgmfi

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@_Zojka @SharklettVT Even non-terminally online people buy travel eSIMs, load it onto their phone and forget about it except for holidays. My 83 year old mum has one because iPhones are dual SIM as standard now.

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@_Zojka @SharklettVT My goodness, for someone who's terminally online you have no idea how people use devices. Haven't you ever heard of IoT? I have at least three active SIMs (phone, watch, hotspot) and I don't even have a work phone or a tablet.

Then you have cars, your smart meter, bus stops, etc

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@DavidHvit @just_vievie_ @LisaForteUK Nope but GDPR subject access request does

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@just_vievie_ @LisaForteUK I suspect GDPR subject access request is what you meant?

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@prestonjbyrne The only way you might have had a point is if content made available to Netflix US's customers was affected, which the UK government is not stupid enough to do.

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@prestonjbyrne The services Netflix provides in the UK is via their UK subsidiary Netflix Services UK Limited. Why should a UK company providing services to UK customers be immune to UK law for its UK activities just because it has a US parent?
https://t.co/gbNkAOQLJZ

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@okwhatever1875 @prestonjbyrne Ever looked into how it works? You are most certainly not hitting a US Netflix server for UK content, the transit costs would be ruinous. You're being served transparently by UK based mirrors.

You're also paying a UK subsidiary Netflix Services UK for the services provided.

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@Notaschill @DGClarke1 @adamfare1996 Except they really don't. "NHS England workforce figures show a 33% fall in the number of school nurses between 2009 and 2022" https://t.co/WvyhrotFt7

And besides I don't think you are you seriously suggesting the nurse is going to be in the classroom monitoring the CGM?

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@Notaschill @adamfare1996 What school nurse? Few schools have those anymore. And it's not to make phone calls, the CGM actually streams data and alerts directly to the phone. Jobs would actually be quite proud, the point of iPhone wasn't to be a phone, it was/is your personal pocket computer.

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@DGClarke1 @adamfare1996 @Notaschill We send T1D's on rigorous training courses to ensure they know when to treat and how much. It's a personal responsibility because you're trusting the person holding the CGM with their life. Training every teacher in their secondary school to that level is not feasible.

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@DGClarke1 @adamfare1996 @Notaschill No, Type 1 diabetics need to know in real time what their blood sugar is. That's what we spend ages developing CGM for.

Also you want to make teachers liable for their healthcare of their student? Cause that's what you've just suggested and they really aren't qualified for that.