Katharine Tylko

Early diagnosis WOMB CANCER; Consumer Reviewer Cochrane Gynae Cancer Gp; Campaign Against Painful Hysteroscopy; Anglo-Polish history; Kresy; Bath; Harpsichord

[Cat @catdeans]

This is awful. The last ever Denby Pottery going to the kiln. Why is there not uproar? Where’s the government in this?? We all have Denby in our homes, in family heirlooms, as our history and now it’s closing through lack of support, such a sad sad day. #SaveDenby @denbypottery

[Katharine Tylko @Tylko]

@John_Dabell Me too!

[Katharine Tylko @Tylko]

@John_Dabell You’ve reminded me to water my blessed plot. Please look after yourself!

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C
Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C
Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C
It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

An historic day, as the River Wye becomes the first river in the UK to have its rights recognised by local authorities across its catchment.

Hundreds of people gathered on the banks of the river to watch as representatives from Monmouthshire, Forest of Dean & Powys Councils, Herefordshire County Council, the Wye Valley National Landscape & Bannau Brycheiniog National Park signed the pledge recognising the rivers rights and then spoke about why they had done so what it would mean for the relationship of their organisation to the river. It went beyond legal formalities into something of a service of thanks & honour to the river, with poetry, a choir singing songs, & offerings to the river.

It has been a real honour to witness & be part of the surging movement towards river rights & guardianship on the Wye. Four years ago I met & advised Herefordshire Councillor Elissa Swinglehurst, who wanted to put a voice of the river on the Wye Nutrient Management Board. A year ago I sat around a fire on the banks of the river with other Wye guardians & Earth lawyers as the idea of a charter was first mooted. To see it become a reality, & supported by 6 public bodies, in just a year is astonishing.

Now, of course, comes the hard work of making those rights a reality. But given the hundreds of active river guardians, & increasing public pressure to protect & restore the river, if it can be done on any river, it will be done on the Wye.

[Katharine Tylko @Tylko]

@John_Dabell Please look after yourself.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

He set the bones in his broken leg himself: the story of a British volunteer who fought for Ukraine and ended up in Russian captivity.

A former British soldier is now serving a 15-year sentence in a Russian high-security penal colony. And he says it feels as if his own country has forgotten him.

His name is Hayden Davis.

More than a year and a half ago, he volunteered to join the International Legion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. But he was captured by Russian forces.

Russia labeled him a mercenary — claiming he fought only for money, as nothing more than a “contract soldier.”

Last December, a court in occupied Donetsk sentenced him to 13 years in prison.

And last week, a Moscow court added another two years because the original sentence was considered “too lenient.”

Britain’s Foreign Office says it condemns the sentence and remains in contact with Hayden’s family.

In letters sent from detention and obtained by the BBC, Hayden described how he was captured after being severely wounded on the front line.

His radio had stopped working.
His partner had been killed.

He had only two options:
lie there and die —
or keep moving.

He crawled around 150 meters toward a place he recognized. The journey took him an entire day.

The pain in his leg was unbearable.
Bones were protruding from it.

Eventually he reached a ruined building with a basement. Inside, he found canned food — enough to survive.

There, completely alone, he treated himself the only way he could:
with his own hands, he pushed the exposed bones back into his leg.

He says he had never experienced pain like that before.

He made a splint and crude crutches out of wood.

He survived in that basement for two months before Russian soldiers finally found him.

For an entire year he was held in solitary confinement before later being transferred to a cell with other prisoners.

Now, he says, he feels deeply isolated. During all this time, no one from the British government has contacted him directly behind bars.

He gave 12 years of his life serving in the British Army.
And now, when he needs help and medical treatment most, he says it feels like nobody cares.

British officials, meanwhile, are reportedly given almost no access to prisoners held in Russia, and are completely barred from occupied territories.

All letters are read and censored by Russian authorities.

Hayden allowed his letters to be published publicly. His family declined to comment.

International organizations say Russia systematically denies prisoners proper medical care. Moscow denies the accusations.

The Red Cross has also stated that it does not have unrestricted access to prisoners held in Russia — despite this being required under the Geneva Conventions.

[Katharine Tylko @Tylko]

#FlowersonFriday Leaping Salmon - should have read the label.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS OFFERED A MAN £41,000 TO FORGET 90 PEOPLE DIED

Paul Calvert was a former police officer working as a coroner's officer for North East Ambulance Service. His job was to prepare reports on patient deaths for coroner inquests.

What he found instead was a systematic cover-up. Paramedic errors linked to more than 90 patient deaths. Evidence withheld from coroners. Families lied to. Bereaved people who never got the truth about how their loved ones died.

He went to The Sunday Times in May 2022. The story exploded. @BBCNewsnight, @BBCNews at Six, BBC Sounds. The country watched. NEAS panicked.

Their response?

A £41,000 offer, on the condition he stayed silent and handed over his evidence.

He called it a "bribe to shut up and go away." He refused to take it. He also refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

MP Grahame Morris @grahamemorris raised his case in the Commons and described it as: bullying, harassment, blackmail.

After that Calvert was signed off sick for 17 months with depression and anxiety. Then sacked in December 2022 for what NEAS called an "irretrievable breakdown of trust."

The man who wouldn't accept a bribe to cover up 90 deaths was fired for failing to return to work at the organisation that tried to bribe him.

Makes perfect sense, when you think about it from the perspective of an institution trying to save its own skin.

The Information Commissioner's Office @ICOnews later had to force NEAS to publish a suppressed internal report it had been sitting on since 2020.

The Trust's medical director and safety director both resigned. Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced a new independent review.

Calvert described it as "empty rhetoric" and demanded a full public inquiry with compelled evidence.

He never got one. The review that did eventually take place, led in 2023 by NHS insider Marianne Griffiths, was so limited in scope that Calvert refused to participate on principle. It spoke to four families.

Four, out of ninety-plus deaths.

This is what institutional accountability looks like in the NHS. Not justice. Not transparency. A suppressed report, a bribery attempt, a sacking, and a review designed to speak to the minimum number of people necessary to call it a review.

Paul Calvert lost his career for doing his job correctly. The people who tried to buy his silence have moved on.

Sources: @BBCNews @SundayTimesNews @alexander_minh

[Katharine Tylko @Tylko]

@John_Dabell Please keep being bloody minded!

[Katharine Tylko @Tylko]

@John_Dabell Thank you for inspiring thousands of us.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I don’t mind my data being used my for research to help the NHS etc, however, because the government have now allowed Palantir access, I have withdrawn my consent using this link:

https://t.co/OZpVijLzMB

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

While russian politicians party in Venice, waves of missiles & drones have pounded Ukraine. People are under the rubble of an apartment building in Kyiv this morning. Important for the world to see this footage and stop inviting this terrorist state back into civilised society

[BSGE @TheBSGE]

Build practical confidence in operative hysteroscopy with a focused, hands-on workshop combining expert lectures, case discussions and practical stations.

Registration open now: https://t.co/jJfnfjxUcI

#NurseHysteroscopists #Hysteroscopy #MedicalTraining

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[mesh injured patients 🕊 @SusanMorgan19]

🚨Two landmark studies expose the truth about polypropylene (#PP) #mesh:
• Sheffield University 2024 (sheep model): PP mesh fibres begin degrading within 60 days — surface oxidation, stiffening and debris accumulation worsen by 180 days.
https://t.co/omEVgHzZEk
• Comparative human explant studies (BJU International & related research) confirm similar degradation patterns in patients years after implantation.

PP mesh is not inert. It breaks down in the body. https://t.co/JEuUyEJAEY

🚨Why is this still being implanted?

Time for full recognition, mandatory recall & proper redress.
#MeshScandal #PatientSafety #PolypropyleneMesh #redress
#oncology
@MHRAgovuk @DHSCgovuk @hmtreasury

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

I recently spoke to migrant care workers at UNISON Eastern Region’s office about proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain.

This country could not function without care workers. They are the people who washed someone's mum. Who sat with someone's nan. Who held a stranger's hand in the last hour of their life because nobody else was there. They are the load-bearing walls of this country's care system. And this country owes them more than it has ever given them.

I will always stand with migrant care workers in the face of proposals which would damage their immigration status.

Read my full speech here: https://t.co/jt1oKA67Ak

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

😁 Their faces are absolutely priceless. A group of young kestrels saw a butterfly for the first time.

[Dr Katie Cairns @kiityc]

@BirthEthics @sandydoc79 @mlchealth @mikenesbittni @niexecutive @clarky_on 100%.
I read letters EVERY DAY for OGDs and colonoscopies and cystoscopies and brinchoscopies with IV fentanyl &Midazolam.

Hysteroscopy: “Areyou going anywhere nice on your holiday”, two paracetamol, a photograph of a beach and a stress ball is considered pain relief!

[Hysteroscopy Action @HysteroscopyA]

Leading @TheBSGE consultant gynaecologist Nadine Di Donato @Womanfirst_endo praises conscious sedation immersion course taught @ChelwestFT by Irina Stankeviciute & Dr Richard Flint.

Will hysteroscopy patients finally be offered safely monitored colonoscopy-style sedation?