Teresa CDocherty

RGN,RMN, BA(Hons)photography, MA. Holistic wellbeing and mental health Coach, older adult crisis home treatment mental health nurse.

[Teresa CDocherty @TeresacdT]

@SteveP_1975 @SWBHnhs @NHSBeeky @salterscottj @DarenFradgley @MelR4970 You certainly don’t do things by halves!

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

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[maxine o'brien @MaxineOBrien75]

A great opportunity for a PhD studentship at University of Wolverhampton

[🌈Lee Allen 🌈 @leeallen_1975]

I will be at Hope Community Project in #wolverhampton tomorrow as part of Dementia Action Week 2024. Pop in if you are worried about your worry, caring for somebody with dementia or you are wanting to know more.

[Laura Bustin @laurabustin]

⭐️ Amazing opportunity below ⭐️

[Teresa CDocherty @TeresacdT]

@Maggiew56700896 Congratulations 🎉

[Global Justice Now @GlobalJusticeUK]

URGENT: Big pharma is desperately trying to overhaul a key NHS pricing deal. If they’re successful it will cost us an extra £2.5 BILLION A YEAR – money that could be used to properly fund the NHS.

Sign the petition now and demand the UK Government stops this robbery

[Teresa CDocherty @TeresacdT]

@Theoutsider_vpk @Bham_Childrens @GreatOrmondSt We delayed transition to adult services as long as we could for both our girl. Should have been at 16 but delayed to 18 (after a lot of hassle). It was still very traumatic and it’s still unsettling for the girls after 2 years. Hope it settles for you.

[Joe Wicks @thebodycoach]

ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Calling all NHS workers 😀 You can now have FREE access to the Body Coach App 💪

Apply here https://t.co/dazlB2UapR (you will need an NHS email to register) 💙

Please RT to help let others know 🙏🏼

[Sapphire Bates @sapphirejbates]

#BookTwitter we need your help! I run Book Bodega, an Indy bookshop in Ramsgate. Winter is killing us, it’s soo quiet & we need to make £800 by Tuesday to pay our bills. This is my current view = no customers 🥹. Please shop with us and help us stay open!
https://t.co/zeYYTLM7Qz

[The Recovery College @RecoveryColleg3]

Join the @BlackCountryNHS to help us transform the community mental health service.
On the 28th February at 10am -1pm

Register here or scan the QR code! https://t.co/XOKjv5pTzR

[Teresa CDocherty @TeresacdT]

@Maggiew56700896 Take a look at NHS Horizons- school for change agents.

[Teresa CDocherty @TeresacdT]

@LauraMBrookes Chopping down buddleja bushes!!

[Laura Bustin @laurabustin]

It’s #NAW and our vacancy for the Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship is live https://t.co/LSas7Fn4v0 ⭐️ start your #NHScareer today #GetInGetOnGoFar

[Black British Book Festival @BBBookFestival]

We would LOVE to connect with literary organisations, artists collectives, community groups or just AMAZING PEOPLE in the following cities:

1. Peterborough
2. Croydon
3. Luton
4. Liverpool
5. Manchester
6. Wolverhampton

Thanks so much. Pls Reweet ���️

[Teresa CDocherty @TeresacdT]

Remove Bishops From The House Of Lords - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/9FjZ1B0sxC via @UKChange

[kathryn Currah. RSCN BSc NMP MSc PNA @kathryncurrah]

Calling all nurses working with Children and Young People's Mental Health. An exciting FREE virtual conference to be held on the 17/03/23! This is the 2nd Conference and last year had over 400 attendees so register now! https://t.co/U1MTBSJSM0

[Time to Change @TimetoChange]

🚨 New research shows that 1 in 3 adults (36%) never make space in their day for a conversation about mental health.

This #TimeToTalk Day, let's change that!

[Teresa CDocherty @TeresacdT]

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