Theresa Nicol

MSc, RN, SCPHN, Health Visitor. Passionate about reducing health inequalities, public health nursing and attachment. All views my own!

[John O’Brennan @JohnOBrennan2]

“You’re not going to like this package if you care about the poor”

They are now saying openly what they normally conceal.

[Sir Michael Marmot @MichaelMarmot]

Poverty is literally a matter of life and death for those on the margins, and the government has so far failed to step in. https://t.co/BO3SIQtNR2

[The Guardian @guardian]

Child deaths are linked to social deprivation in England – NHS report https://t.co/DcdNGAnlMQ

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I basically want to cry. You can’t imagine what we’re seeing inside hospitals today. The scale of the suffering. The horror of it all. No-one who saw it would EVER dismiss the dying for being too old or too unwell. Never. They’d do everything they could to help. This is so wrong.

[Anne Longfield @annelongfield]

Whoever thinks it is ok to send out bits of vegetables and fruit like this AND scraps of other food in what seems to be money bags is very wrong. Imagine thinking that the saving to be made on half a carrot was worth it or that it might be hygienic enough to send out fish in bags

[Alison Baum OBE 💚 @AlisonBaum]

As we enter the 3rd #nationallockdown please spread the word about the free online group support @bestbeginnings is providing to #mums #dads & all new & expectant parents struggling at this time. We’ve women only, men only & mixed groups. To sign-up 👉🏼 https://t.co/WQPvrFYjrb

[Abdul Razaq @BWDDPH]

@felly500 In summary:

Covid Vaccination will provide you with individual protection

But even after getting a Covid vaccine jab one MUST continue to adhere to NPI's such as face masks, social distancing and hand washing

It's not one or the other, do BOTH

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

BREAKING:

Today I have declared a major incident in London because the threat this virus poses to our city is at crisis point. One in 30 Londoners now has COVID-19. If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die.

[Dr Dom Pimenta MD @DrDomPimenta]

So I've come back from my Twitter break to address this 👇

In England and Wales ALONE there have been over 7,400 COVID deaths in the under 65s, and nearly 8,600 EXCESS deaths compared to the 5 year average. /1

[Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 @DoctorChrisVT]

Infant formula is a £50 billion industry. It’s growing because manufacturers are using the kind of marketing techniques you might expect from the tobacco industry to exploit COVID fears.
Here’s our publication in @TheLancet
and a thread
https://t.co/Wiq6LRpDjc

[Alice Allan (find me on bluesky) @alicemeallan]

@DoctorChrisVT Here are the gowns that Danone donated to the extremely low resource hospital I worked at in Ethiopia, knowing full well that none of those desperate mothers of prem babies could afford to continue formula feeding if they lost their own milk supply. I've never forgiven them.

[ICON @ICON_COPE]

Great Ormond Street Hospital have reported a marked increase in the incidence of abusive head trauma (AHT) at their institution.

Please use the link below to go to a page where you can download the full article.

https://t.co/tm36qkLdAM

#covid #safeguarding #iconcope

[Darshna Soni @darshnasoni]

“As a nurse, I encounter structural racism every day" Donna Kinnair on #bbcqt.

Her full title is Professor Dame Donna Kinnair, but this was missed out of her name tag.

Hugh Pennington’s title - Professor - was not missed out.

[R A Z D Y @razdy]

“The way out of this pandemic cannot, surely, entail the sacrifice of those deemed less worth saving?” - ⁦@doctor_oxford⁩

A moving piece written about the UK govt’s failure to heed the advice of many countries and let the elderly die of neglect.
https://t.co/T1sHtcVHY9

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

as 8pm clap happened across the country, these doctors silently took a knee outside downing street and displayed a sign stating “doctors not martyrs”. it’s reported that over 200 nhs staff have died from coronavirus so far.

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

Never forget. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻