some work news: thrilled to say that I've been appointed as the @guardian's new health and inequalities correspondent.
I'll be covering disparities within healthcare across the UK but also health more widely too, so please do get in touch! [email protected]
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%: @theRCN calls on UK government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour https://t.co/tIGB1fguFR via @tobithomas_
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵
Our report "Breaking the Silence: Fibroids, Black Women & Time for Change" has been featured in The Guardian today by @tobithomas_ - Health and Inequalities correspondent.
The findings are stark: 27% of women surveyed received no treatment after diagnosis. Over half waited 2+ years for answers.
The article features the views of Prof @fayeruddock , Prof @RaneeThakar , Dr @PauletteHamilto MP and @DHSCgovuk .
Black women deserve better.
Read The Guardian's coverage: https://t.co/uhekAara40
Full report shared here tomorrow.
For the Guardian, I explored the weird and wonderful world of New Labour edits, a subculture on TikTok of teenagers making ironic montages of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and the rest of the crew — set to Charli xcx, Chappell Roan, or Taylor Swift songs.
https://t.co/meKNu1v4cW
Nikki Packer is a brave and brilliant woman who has been through absolute hell.
This is her story; it’s not one she ever wanted to be telling, but she hopes that by doing so, no other woman will have to go through what she did:
https://t.co/JiXjM6055O
This landmark survey confirms what Black women have long known, that our reproductive health is in crisis.
We need targeted research, culturally competent care, and an end to structural racism.
@APPGBlackHealth continues to expose this injustice.
https://t.co/oG6PmMrDEJ
🇬🇧 A Quarter Of Women Live With Serious Reproductive Health Issues
▫Exclusive: Racial disparities highlighted as researchers estimate 10 million women have conditions such as fibroids or endometriosis
▫@tobithomas_
▫https://t.co/3838a4o7bg
#frontpagestoday#UK@guardian
Fantastic to see Heal-D, a healthy eating and physical activity programme created with, and for, people of African and Caribbean heritage living with type 2 diabetes in the @guardian 😃You can read their full story, written by @tobithomas_ here: https://t.co/NsxSxaIrW5
#type2diabetes #coproduction @NIHRinvolvement
Syrian asylum seekers who have been waiting more than a year for an outcome to their applications have told BBC News they are "depressed" and "terrified" by the Home Office's decision to pause claims.
My first story with @BBCNews 👇🏽
https://t.co/jr9TxJonHX
Today is my last day at The Guardian as Community Affairs Correspondent. It has been an incredible nine months covering @aamnamohdin
From reporting on the domestic impact of the Middle East conflict to the riots that spread across the UK, here are a few highlights 🧵
1/20
Hello! Looking to talk to single people about the cost of living alone v in a couple. Drop me a line if you'd be happy to chat about how much more rent, bills, life costs in general as a single person...
Delighted (and proud) that me and @JoshHalliday 's reporting on the carer's allowance scandal https://t.co/XLRi8PU8Hq has been shortlisted for a press award https://t.co/DCkPSQT60l
Guinness World Records just released its 70th anniversary edition this month.
From 2013-2022, @GWR received ~7,000 record applications from west Africa. It’s been roughly the same number since @hildabacicooks’s record attempt last year.
https://t.co/5UavadQCyX
EXC: Firefighter, disability and Grenfell groups have criticised the existence of a “dangerous postcode lottery” as data revealed an “inconsistent rollout” of emergency evacuation plans for vulnerable people across London
https://t.co/C2NEyHuMGm
My first piece for @iPaperSport. The Black ArsenaI book is out today and is such an engrossing read. I explored the phenomenon and its wide-reaching organic impact on black British popular culture and beyond with the book’s co-editor @CJNwonka.
https://t.co/AciB7t7If3