Simon Lennane is on bluesky instead

NHS GP, Ross-on-Wye.
Sustainable, demedicalised healthcare through community development.
@simonlennane.bsky.social
Book:

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@LowimpactOrg My book 'Creating Community Health' looks beyond #socialPrescribing to #communityDevelopment, producing health rather than healthcare, with a wonderful foreword by @CormacRussell.
https://t.co/H3nsYcT1Vz

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@LowimpactOrg My book 'Creating Community Health' looks beyond #socialPrescribing to #communityDevelopment, producing health rather than healthcare, with a wonderful foreword by @CormacRussell.
https://t.co/H3nsYcT1Vz

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I haven't been active on here for a long time now, but I'm reluctant to close this account because it's mentioned in my book as a way to get in touch. I'm far more likely to see messages on @simonlennane.bsky.social or https://t.co/VFFP197y7H or via https://t.co/H3nsYcT1Vz

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Anyway, I've recently written something for @lowimpactOrg about billionaire-free local communications using #meshtastic #LoRa
https://t.co/5EvFnHpPUG

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@pash22 @KristinaMFiore hoping you'll come over to bluesky too @pash22 - your posts one of my few reasons to visit twitter now

[Shibley @dr_shibley]

It’s clearly immoral to blow a hole in the overall dementia budget by funding drugs which cost a huge amount for very limited benefit. I can’t emphasise enough that social care and continuing health care need this money now.

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@DrLindaDykes common in Norfolk too

[Cormac Russell @CormacRussell]

📕📗📘📙Book announcement:

*Drop the Disorder + Do Something* is ready to pre-order

Order here: https://t.co/LZ6zsPxseE

I am honoured to be one of the many authors of this powerful new book. We join in challenging the dominant culture of psychiatric diagnosis that causes so much harm, while hiding behind a mask of love.

Among the authors are high-profile names such as 'V' (formerly known as Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues), child therapist Kate Silverton and Canadian physician Gabor Maté (The Myth of Normal), leading researchers and writers, including professors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (The Spirit Level) and Joanna Moncrieff; Robert Whitaker of https://t.co/DoDi94jfpN, and frontline campaigner Jacqui Dillon, alongside a host of other activists, service users and refusers, poets, artists, counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists and other practitioners and leaders in the mental health and homeless sectors who are trying to do things differently in their own spheres.

*About the book:
The culture of psychiatric diagnosis causes harm. It labels people in distress. It silences them. It takes away their individuality and agency. At its worst, it removes their human rights. It only asks, 'What's wrong with you?' and doesn't ask, 'What happened to you?' (Perry and Winfrey, 2021) It fails to acknowledge the complexity of an individual's story and their social context.

This book's message is 'do something', and its hard-hitting and inspiring chapters tell us why and how.

https://t.co/LZ6zsPxseE

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@cwfrith @hoopleltd We've been asking for PCs that actually work for years.

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More importantly, today is international red panda day! #redPanda

[Jim Reed @jim_reed]

The #covidinquiry was back up and running this week and quickly into what some people think is one of the biggest scientific or policy mistakes (or 'misunderstandings' depending on your POV) of the whole pandemic. And it's all to do with how Covid is spread in the first place. 🧵

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@cwfrith Juat logging in to Windows! I'd found another PC, seen the patient & finished writing my notes by the time this one was working.

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Some NHS IT is woeful - it took 8 minutes to log on to a PC on Friday. AI may well offer great things, but yes, sort the basics out first.
https://t.co/coXgedB5pS

[Tim Cook @doctimcook]

COVID INQURY tweet 2

Yesterdays the @covidinquiryuk @TheBMA opening statement focused on

-preventable harm to healthcare
-poor IPC decisions
-lack of aerosol protection, persistently
-inequity in risk

It quotes the @HSJnews as a source of the latter

These three articles from April to May 2020 brought to light the high proportion of non-white ethnicity & migrant healthcare workers who died at that time - a disproportionate burden

https://t.co/qj66xJkeDR

https://t.co/MztOHj5zZe

https://t.co/4tYrpbVuRk

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@olliehart7 @profchrisham @BBB_Health have forwarded you a copy Ollie

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@profchrisham @olliehart7 @BBB_Health Thank you Chris - very proud to see Ross-on-Wye mentioned alongside leaders in community health such as Frome & Fleetwood, who inspired us. @Ross_CDT

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Green prescribing works, and is cost effective: https://t.co/3gKmx2qFgt

[PlayfulAnywhere @PlayfulAnytime]

Some of my favourite women on Twitter do unbelievably good things in & with their communities.
They write wonderfully too; heart felt, reflective & authentic.
@angelafell writes on ‘resistance’ https://t.co/D09fJJqneG

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

Ultimately you can still be annoyed that you have to drive a bit slower.

But it is getting increasingly hard to argue that this policy isn't saving lives.

Evidence based policy seems to work - who'd have thought it?