Retired RN Enjoying another life.
Cornwall, UK
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Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
1/ For 10 weeks, our fact checkers and data scientists asked five leading AI chatbots the same 22 questions every day: Gemini 3.1, ChatGPT, Grok, DeepSeek and Claude.
None repeated the core misinformation they were tested on. But we found several points of failure 🧵
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
Accessing NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) funding shouldn’t feel like a battle. Sign our petition today: action.dementiauk.org/fix-nh…
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Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
We refuse to pay for more sewage in our rivers, hosepipe bans, service cuts, dividends and bonuses
Andy Burnham must say no to any bill hike. IF private water companies can't survive without it, let them go bust
82% of us want public ownership of water. We've had enough of privatisation
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
Water companies are only really allowed to dump sewage in our rivers and seas when there is heavy rain
But they are on pace to hit record high serious sewage dumping DESPITE the drought this year
This has got to stop. The only way is public ownership.
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
Since Thames Water introduced a hosepipe ban 17 days ago they have now leaked 9,921,459,817 litres of water from their badly maintained, underinvested, cracked old network of pipes.
thameswaterleakage.neocities…
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
And here's the bit that should make your blood boil, the @EnvAgency were charged with changing all of that 23 years ago and what have they achieved in over 2 decades?
Yep, nothing, in fact less than nothing....
The vast majority of England's rivers, lakes and coastal waters are polluted by sewage - according to a new survey by the Environment Agency.
Its research found just 14% are in good ecological health - while not a single body of water is safe from toxic chemicals.
Campaigners said England's rivers were some of the filthiest in Europe - despite repeated Government promises to clean them up.
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
Here we go, standpipes at the ready.
And we’re paying for this nonsense.
Urgent message for customers in Charing, Whitstable & Herne Bay
Storage tanks in your area are critically low. You may lose supply unless demand for water in the area drops low enough for the tanks to refill.
Please continue to only use water for drinking, cooking and hygiene.
ALT A wide-angle shot of two Mercedes-Benz Actros semi-trucks with large silver tanker trailers parked in a high-ceilinged industrial warehouse. The trucks are white and grey, with headlights on, reflecting off the smooth concrete floor.
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
On the physics funding crisis in the UK - there are some issues of nuance, shall we say, in the attached article below.
The reason STFC had 'no choice' but to cut so many projects (Jodrell and many more) was NOT the government's spending review settlement. It was a deliberate choice by UKRI (as confirmed by a UKRI board member on X, you'll find it in my replies) to refocus spend away from STFC science and labs and towards other areas which, it asserts, will lead to more ‘impact’. UKRI have the power to do this. However, as the HoC Select committee pointed out, we have not been able to see a detailed record of the process, impact assessment or consultation that led to such a seismic shift in UK science policy. Who made the decision?
As @ChiOnwurah wrote in an open letter to UKRI / STFC in March: ‘What is clear is that, despite your assertions to the contrary in evidence to my committee and our counterparts in the House of Lords, widespread cuts have been proposed before adequate consultation with those affected was undertaken. This is wholly unacceptable and represents a failure for which DSIT, UKRI and STFC leadership must bear responsibility, and act urgently to address.’
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
I have heard many people in the water industry and indeed some in government repeating the lie, why I wonder?
Of the £91 billion being spent by water companies over the next 5 years £90 billion of it, that's 99% it is being funded directly from bill payers pockets, from your bank account and mine, not shareholders.
Which raises the obvious question, what actually is the point of the shareholders, why do we need them?
Interview starts 2 hours 45 minutes into the programme.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002zg…
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
Jodrell Bank is the most visible causality of UKRI’s short sighted ‘vision’ for science, but as you’ll see below, there are many other valuable UK facilities and collaborations at risk. We became aware of the problem in the autumn of last year. It is not a result of the overall funding settlement for science after the spending review, which was quite generous I would say in the circumstances. Neither as far as we can tell is it a direct decision by ministers (all of whom have now gone in any case). Rather the problems appears to have been caused by senior management at UKRI focusing on short term economic ‘impact’ (whatever that means) rather than doing their job as custodians of the foundations of science. What must happen now is that the new ministerial team make the time (and space ;-)) to review the upcoming catastrophe, and instruct UKRI to do their job and focus on making Britain the best place in the world to do science, now and in the future.
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
🚨 EXC: NHS England has suppressed the work of investigators carrying out dozens of national clinical audits. NHSE has stopped investigators alerting media, watered down recommendations and limited the way their reports are written, published and used: thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
A renegade polymath with binoculars and a beard , Bill was invariably funny and occasionally furious . He loved birds and loathed those who harmed them . He was delightfully unpredictable , sparky , smart and at times a bit spiky . Critically he really knew his stuff , and his passion was true - he didn’t just pick up his binoculars on telly , he went birding whenever he could . So he was genuine and that’s why we loved him , he never needed a script , and took scant interest in any he was given . He didn’t like rules and often neglected to play by them . This may have frustrated the serious and the worthy but it always amused his audience - he was an utter joy to be with . I recall finding a Black Woodpecker in a damp Dutch park with him once , he gazed at it intently , sighed , put down his bins , turned to me and just smiled . A massive grin . No words , just a beautiful childlike bliss . That says all you need to know about Bill Oddie .
Sadly we’ve not only lost a goodie , we’ve lost one of the besties .
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
This is the result of many bad legacy decisions taken by UKRI hastily and without proper consultation, overseen by a government department that no longer exists. Surely the new @andyburnham government will want to take time to review this.
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
Extreme heat events have increased in frequency, duration, and severity.
What are the effects of extreme heat on physiology, morbidity, and mortality?
Includes a #BMJInfographic
bmj.com/content/391/bmj-2025…
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
Where does the American Diabetes Association incident and the reaction leave us?
Compromising editorial independence is bad for the society and the journal, writes @KamranAbbasi
bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2026…
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
This really worries me
A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood
But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one
I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x
One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency
Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home
He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E
He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor
As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit
If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't
I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system
This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal
My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption
A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus
It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad
Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention
Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
You’ve all heard of biopsy. But what happens after?
Biomedical Scientist Yolly takes us inside a lab, where science turns cells into answers.
Together for health. #StandWithScience.
NOTE: Gloves are required when handling fresh tissue. Once the tissue is fixed and processed, it is no longer infectious and can be handled safely without gloves.
Meriel Chudleigh retweeted
Many clinical guidelines are based on research in younger, healthier patients; making it difficult to apply them in people with frailty and polypharmacy. We need to move away from single-disease trials toward studies that include complex, older populations with multimorbidity.
