Renaissance Man in the Making

Disabled Nursing Student & Engineering Graduate. Hoping to include the voices of the disabled and other minorities in the conversation on health.
They/Them

[ElMIRepito @ElMIRepito]

Las guardias de 24h se diseñaron para una época en la que "estar de guardia" significaba literalmente estar disponible en el hospital por si surgía una emergencia real mientras dormías o descansabas.

Hoy son 24 horas de trabajo a destajo sin parar. Ya no funcionan.

[Caroline Lee-Davey @carolinemdavey]

“It is deeply disappointing to read this report, which displays a fundamental misunderstanding of neonatal care as distinct from maternity care and singularly fails to recognise babies as patients in their own right." Read our full comment on Amos Report: https://t.co/VYHrkUjLBy

[Nursing Standard @NurseStandard]

Student loans have been making headlines, with Plan 2 loans – offered between 2012-22 – blighted by high interest rates and frozen repayment thresholds.

We spoke to some nurses who described how money worries are taking a toll on their lives and careers:

https://t.co/OTCqi45Y0q

[Conor Gogarty @ConorGogarty]

NEW: A hospital has admitted breaching its duty of care when one of its physician associates botched a vulnerable patient's lumbar puncture.

Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital initially closed its investigation into the incident without even telling the patient but...

[Minh Alexander minhalexander.bsky.social @alexander_minh]

1) Bipolar patient died after unsuitable triage by worker who was not qualified

Kent and Medway

Coroner concerned about "potentially overconfident" non clinicians making decisions

https://t.co/5otJd8c64x

[platinumpizza™ @Xeon4f145d96s1]

No doctor until she deteriorated.

Young woman ✅
Hypotensive ✅
Desaturating ✅
Prev. DVT AND PE ✅
Recent flight ✅

See a doctor.

Because for all the RCs will tell you about tiers of clinicians, the only tier that matters is doctors and non-doctors.

@BMAResidents @RCollEM

[Nursing Standard @NurseStandard]

Health visitors will strike for two more months after their NHS employer ‘refused to acknowledge’ a job evaluation appeal that would see them get a pay rise of up to £9,000.

https://t.co/gAY8DbGIrG

[BBC News NI @BBCNewsNI]

End-of-life care providers say they will no longer be able to operate effectively after the Department of Health ruled out additional funding for their services. https://t.co/I7xPC9yXTA

[Nursing Standard @NurseStandard]

Have you ever felt ‘body shamed’ at work?

Many nurses shared personal stories with Nursing Standard about upsetting comments they had experienced relating to their appearance.

Read more here: https://t.co/bidQ0z4ZQI

[Nursing Standard @NurseStandard]

Plans to increase the annual registration fee for nursing and midwifery staff by almost 20% are a step closer to reality.

The fee will rise to £143 from £120 if the NMC's governing council approves the move at a meeting next week.

Read here > https://t.co/GTvWfS5SgE

[Luke Mordecai @Shr_Nottingham]

If you half the number of hospital beds it doesn’t require a team of management consultants to work out why patients are stuck in corridors 🤷‍♂️

[Nat Martin @The_HiggsBoson]

Linking GP funding to patient consultation ratings will reward bad medicine.
Good care isn’t always popular.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

So, as a doctor I can’t accept a plastic pen from a pharmaceutical company because it might influence my prescribing decisions, but MPs can accept thousands in cash from those who want to privatise the NHS and it won’t affect their decision-making??? CTFO
https://t.co/ax78s1RSRJ

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Although excluding disabled people is often the status quo, it is not a neutral act.
Excluding disabled people is a hostile act.

[Alastair McAlpine, MD @AlastairMcA30]

If someone is in hospital dying of cancer, and they want a coke… or an ice cream … or whatever

… you give it to them.

Doctor’s orders.

[Hope @hopppernickle]

insurance is a bitch and limiting but as the doctor/physician you are in the position of power always

[Anon Anaesthetist @anaesthetic_spr]

Gov: We need ACPs and PAs because doctors rotate.

Doctors: Remove rotational training.

Gov: No, thank you. You will continue to rotate, but we will train more tACPs and PAs.

[Chantal @ChantalMoniqueC]

I hope I am not the only one who is calling and emailing the employers of these harmful doctors who are out here posting that EDS, MCAS, and POTS are over diagnosed (when it’s the exact opposite) and that it’s all in our heads.

[Neil Floch MD @NeilFlochMD]

Ok. Please call a robot at 3 am when you have appendicitis. It will be nice to sleep.

[Dr Matt Prescott @mattprescott]

Destroying the NHS has been a long term project shared by successive UK GOVERNMENTS. The political leadership of the UK is malign.