Emily Fraser

Proud to work in the NHS. battling to help it work! OD professional and former teacher. Military Spouse. Views all my own. Permanently exasperated.

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@stivevans @haynesdeborah @RachelReevesMP No. Lots of Other Ranks take up CEA because they too are required to move for their jobs and most have children! It is these serving personnel who will be most affected by this new policy as they are most likely to be scraping by in order to provide stability for their children.

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@JustRowena They came up big on me and my OH and we had to size down. Love them now they're worn in though!

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

The NHS may be broken, according to @UKLabour @wesstreeting, but here’s how to fix it.

Prevention, Prevention, Prevention, Prevention….

1. Prevent poverty. It’s the single biggest determinant of ill health, and health and social care demand, both now and in the future. Blair and Brown made good progress in reducing it. So it can be done.

2. Prevent illness, with a relentless focus on living well, self-care, mental health support and tackling the commercial determinants of illness. Dental disease is the commonest cause of childhood operations, and yet it’s almost 100% preventable.

3. Prevent existing risks and diseases getting worse, with evidence-based screening and a substantial shift in resources to primary, community and social care

4. Preventing waste and medical harm, by ensuring patients receive the right care, in the right place, from the right people at the right time. This is the toughest nut to crack, as it requires adequate numbers of well trained and well rested staff working in safe, clean environments with the right equipment. We currently spent three times as much litigating harms from maternity care than we do on maternity care. This is a permanent disaster and would be a very good place to start. Instead of repeating our mistakes, we need to learn from them.

For more detail see @PrivateEyeNews and come to the shows @edfringe @theSpaceUK Aug 2-17

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[The King's Fund @TheKingsFund]

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[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@gaswomancometh I like my Melitta Solo. Simple and relatively cheap to use!

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@MartinSLewis @pollymackenzie I'm not sure this question is framed right. As a working parent of U18s, I think the summer holidays are too long, but actually think we need to restructure the academic year. It's currently very unbalanced with a long autumn term, and a spring term oddly dependent on Easter.

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@drjanaway And it would be good to avoid the sexist stereotyping too!

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@bobbiejjohns @RevRichardColes Yes, just as us, although my mum was originally from South Wales (Dad a native Lancastrian). We grew up near Preston though, so clearly beef infiltrated fairly widely!

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@MPFTodl @NeilCarrMPFT @LisaWhitehous14 @MMS_Psych @abcharlesworth_ @ClaireBrawnOD @SaraBondOD @woodskellya @NatalieDGordon @mpftnhs Amazing. Well done 👏👏👏

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@MartinSLewis Walkers are the only cheese and onion crisps worth bothering with. The rest can go in the bin along with prawn cocktail and chicken flavoured crisps!!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Scotland's Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@jk_rowling This is brilliant and also sad at the same time. None of this should need saying. Thank you for always speaking up for women and children.

[BBC North West @BBCNWT]

A rescued baby hedgehog turned out to be a hat bobble
https://t.co/xSohqZVhDl

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@MoniqueAC @alanclarkeGI @RobKnell1 @trishgreenhalgh Ever!!!! She's awesome.

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@youngvulgarian Yes, that was me. Didn't eat loads of veg until I was un my 30s and now actively enjoy cauliflower, sprouts, beans, cabbage etc. Even a salad sometimes! No idea what changed but I was the world's fussiest child and now eat everything!

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@mod_dio @TheStoicSailor @PinnacleSF @VIVODefence Please can you tell us how you expect Ideal to know who to write to and why you are not getting involved directly? This feels like you are passing the buck to the occupiers who do not hold the responsibility for maintenance of SFA.

We have not received a letter!

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@PinnacleSF @TheStoicSailor @VIVODefence @mod_dio Well we haven't been. Not sure why it's our responsibility to find out that our boiler is affected and then to deal with it. I don't own the wretched thing (and yes, we've had issues with it!)

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@AdamRutherford My very first experience of GCSE English Lit was writing an essay on the first chapter of the Mayor of Casterbridge. Put me off for life!

[Emily Fraser @emkfraser]

@Andymb28 @MilitaryBanter Utter b*ll*x. I've had dry rot, damp, water in the electrics, asbestos, shot double glazing, trees undermining the garage (which I was lucky to have tho!), fences falling down... and the list goes on. All SFA is poorly maintained. We have been shouting about it for years.