Cathy Ormston

Retired occupational therapist (still fascinated by occupation & its relationship with health) who’s given it all up to spend more time with her harp).

[Cathy Ormston @fullyOccupied]

@Karensm03757774 @kaiav11 Maybe share the joy? xx
https://t.co/pAgIPerYIj

[Cathy Ormston @fullyOccupied]

@Failandblue @kaiav11 https://t.co/pAgIPerYIj
Maybe share the joy? Xx

[Cathy Ormston @fullyOccupied]

@kaiav11 https://t.co/pAgIPerYIj
Maybe?

[Caiti H @caitiho]

Had a lovely Christmas? Enjoyed the lights -bright challenges to the dark days? Filled bellies with beautiful food shared with family and friends around your table?
Hope so ❤️ We did ❤️. We are the lucky ones.
Perhaps you can support others too?
#Leith
https://t.co/sVK65qr2Ks

[Known As @Debeneesse]

@Shrink_at_Large The threshold today to be admitted is so high I can not see any benefit in this, only potential harm. It definitely underestimates (for their own purpose?) What seriously ill is. And in medium secure, a complete waste of time and money. And where's the evidence?

[Cathy Ormston @fullyOccupied]

@Shrink_at_Large Can you please prepare some kind of formal, evidenced response @theRCOT ?

[Caiti H @caitiho]

@DrAmirKhanGP As an occupational therapist (well, retired, so technically ex-occupational therapist), I concur. A basic activity analysis shows that this particular occupation has some unnecessary dark and unhealthy elements; it can be made more therapeutic by the removal of, well, killing. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Cathy Ormston @fullyOccupied]

@MogsyMorg @alzheimerssoc I've been watching a programme tonight and the advert has been shown to me four times. Four times. It is not at all helpful. It simply adds fear and distress. ( And not every person will have this trajectory btw). Seriously flawed campaign.

[Christine Parra @ChrissiePM]

@alzheimerssoc I just heard your “Dying Again” radio advert while driving just now and all I could think of was THANK GOD I did not have an Alzheimers sufferer in my car at the time. What an ugly confronting message to the patients with the disease.

[louis appleby @ProfLAppleby]

Hearing commentators saying the problem is we closed the old hospitals but never created care in the community.

Simplistic & poorly informed.

In early 2000s, 700 new specialised community teams were created inc 220 outreach teams.

Question is how this progress was lost.

[louis appleby @ProfLAppleby]

Much discussion about benefits of outreach teams in mental health.

And promises to “learn the lessons” from the Nottingham tragedy - a phrase that infuriates families.

But the real question is why we unlearned past lessons & what this tells us about future safety. 🧵

[UoL_OT @UoL_OT]

@NHSEngland @BeverleyHarden @PaulChapman09

[Caiti H @caitiho]

This.
This is how we can be. Kind, fair, respectful and properly inclusive. Passionate.
This is just what I needed to hear this morning, though p, not going to lie, I’m in tears. Can we all just #BeMoreDarren?
Please listen though the full seven minutes and share ❤️

[Carnegie UK @CarnegieUKTrust]

Following the results of #GE24 our Senior Policy Advocate @Hannah_Paylor considers what a Labour government might mean for Collective Wellbeing.

https://t.co/a9RfAlzRyS

[Caiti H @caitiho]

Super-duper important message here from this wise wee chap.
https://t.co/zP6RKu0RSt

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Just voted for the independent candidate in Islington North.

I heard he’s alright.

[Hannah Crush Hiles @HannahHiles]

My mum’s book group read @DrMichaelMosley’s Just One Thing recently and one of them produced this summary of his brilliant, sensible, achievable advice (that we could all benefit from following!) #MichaelMosley #RIPMichaelMosley

[Caiti H @caitiho]

Really important piece, relevant in Scotland, of course, but equally pertinent across the UK- especially as we consider whom we next want to send to work for us in Parliament.
@CatSmithMP @LizziCollinge @Keir_Starmer

[Cathy Ormston @fullyOccupied]

@SoVeryBritish @Hannah_Paylor Definitely a very British exaggeration generally, but most specifically a very Northern one! (Applies particularly when the ‘big light’ has been left on. 😉