Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛

An NHS working, shiatsing, menagerie keeping, life loving, farmers daughter and hippie at heart

[Brexit Bin 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🕊🇺🇦 #BrexitHasFailed @BrexitBin]

Please listen to this speech by @GovPritzker. It perfectly explains both the cruelty and stupidity of the people now ruling Brexit Britain.
#BrexitHasFailed

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

clever....

[Tobi @TobiFrenzen]

What has the #ECHR ever done for us anyway?

[Viewsfromtheomnibus @MrsLScotland]

From FB 😢

Post from a Beekeeper 🐝
“Its late, and maybe in the morning I'll delete this post, but I've just got home and for now I need to write this down.
Earlier this evening I received a message from a home owner to say they had a swarm of bees in their hedge, but they were worried about them because children had been throwing water at them.
By the time my fellow beekeeper and I arrived, what had been a beautiful prime swarm was reduced to a few hundred drenched bees, huddling limply around their queen.
I've already deleted the photos of the puddles of water, the dripping wet hedge, and the many, many dead and dying bees that hadn't been able to escape the attack; sharing those pictures serves no purpose.
We gently placed the bees that had survived into a collection box, and hopefully tomorrow, when they've had chance to dry out and settle, we'll check on them and if necessary feed them; they'll be exhausted and possibly (understandably) defensive. They've been through a lot.
Please, please, help me to educate your children, your grandchildren, your neices and nephews, your neighbours, your colleagues and your friends that a swarm of bees isn't dangerous - they're amazing creatures that are just looking for a new home.
Please don't let anyone harm them.
Just call a beekeeper who will gladly rehome them.
Please help me to spread this message and hopefully save any more bees from being unnecessarily harmed” 😢
Sad and unhappy Beekeeper

[Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛 @DrFranSmith]

@mouseter_chef @catherineroyuk This better for you? Potentially reducing cesareans sounds worthy of more research to me.

https://t.co/dlFsLhn8qB

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

My goodness ! Quite the letter in today's @thetimes

(Important to read it right to the very end !) 👇

[Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛 @DrFranSmith]

I just signed the petition calling on Boris Johnson's resignation honours to be blocked. Will you sign too? https://t.co/d3n8dJ8dvq via @38degrees

[Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛 @DrFranSmith]

@drruthannharpur Women less likely to have a cesarean doesn't sound like quackery to me. How about calling for more research?

https://t.co/LTruEO0Q2Y

[Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛 @DrFranSmith]

@catherineroyuk @AmandaPritchard @mariacaulfield @katebrintworth @PennyEmNHS @JohnKPHT Women maybe less likely to need a cesarean.... sounds worthy of more research to me https://t.co/LTruEO0Q2Y

[Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛 @DrFranSmith]

@drruthannharpur @TomPMarshall Have you actually reviewed the literature for evidence?

https://t.co/jdxYcLtz9T

[Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛 @DrFranSmith]

@drruthannharpur Rather than assuming all is quackery, how about calling for some decent research? https://t.co/J6uD3EwL8f

There's scant research and little evidence either way, with some indication that CAMs have some potential
https://t.co/vPtvcn4QVu

[The Man of Hidden Shallows @Richiemuso]

Please like and follow me to help make sure that SIR Michael Fabricant doesn't get back in again in #Lichfield and #Burntwood at the next #GeneralElection...making this pitiful man a Knight is an utterly disgusting abuse of power by #BorisJohnson and the #Tory Government

[Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛 @DrFranSmith]

@HelenBevan The most important thing about improvement is a focus on Quality of care, Quality of job (looking after staff) and Quantity of work carried out. It doesn't matter what the approach is as long as improvements are made in these areas with no long term steps backwards.

[Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛 @DrFranSmith]

@secrettory12 Simon Baynes?

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Literal shit is pouring into our seas. Every single UK river is chemically polluted. Yet last year private water firms almost *trebled* shareholder dividends, meaning less money invested in upgrades. Time to bring water back into public hands. @We_OwnIt

https://t.co/1BcdInhaO5

[Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛 @DrFranSmith]

@CharlotteCGill The NHS is an enormous part of the British workforce. Various governments have failed to produce and publish an NHS workforce plan for decades. This would be a good start.

[Dr Fran Smith 💙💚💛 @DrFranSmith]

@Tee18Matthew @KyleKnight609 @CharlotteCGill Perhaps because as well as investment in people, productivity also requires an investment in equipment?

[Paul Johnson @paul__johnson]

Two numbers

1.75m - number of hours raw sewage discharged into rivers and seas last year

£1.4bn - dividends paid by water and sewage companies

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Rishi Sunak says there are 2,000 more GPs than there were in 2019.

Right: BBC Reality Check, "there are 823 fewer GPs now than there were in 2019."