Asst Addictions Lead for The Salvation Army. Also GP working in homelessness. In awe of my primary care colleagues! Personal views. #harmreduction #homelessness
Norwich, England
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18 people die each day due to drugs. This is a growing crisis in the UK. We’re at No 10 Downing Street today to deliver our petition signed by thousands calling for the government to declare this crisis a public health emergency. Find out more: salvationarmy.org.uk/news/tw…
ALT Two images of Lizzie, bereaved mother, handing a red and white box with our petitions inside to the police officer on the door of Number 10, Downing Street (left image.) Members of our addiction support and Public Affairs Unit standing outside the prime minister's residence holding the petition boxes.
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It’s changeover day when the doctors start jobs, so here’s a belated reminder of this gem from @drphiliplee1.
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It’s increasingly hard to see a Doctor
Policies made by NHS leaders & Governments have lead to fewer GPs
Many GPs finishing training next month will not have jobs to start, with many unemployed or working less than they would chose
All due to policies & lack of funding for GPs
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I’m afraid the Govt’s reformed welfare bill offer does not go far enough:
- They’re still imposing £3bn in brutal cuts
- Creating a two-tier system
- No time for MPs to scrutinise changes
The bill needs to be withdrawn and genuine consultation with disabled groups initiated.
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In 1945 Attlee used 150 majority to create a Welfare State...in 2025 Starmer 170 majority will ask awful Tory party to help him destroy it....Shameful
Kemi Badenoch offers to rescue Starmer’s welfare reforms as Labour rebellion grows independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Watching Starmer and Lammy dance on the head of a pin when asked if this is illegal tells you all you need to know:
They know the attack was illegal (their own legal advice says so) but don’t have the moral clarity nor guts to say so.
There will come a time, soon enough, when the UK will depend on international law, and it won’t be there for us because we will have destroyed it.
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MPs vote on the assisted suicide bill tomorrow. I desperately hope MPs vote against; it’s dangerous & deadly, especially for vulnerable people who often don’t have a genuine choice about their end of life experience. We should be prolife. I cannot and will not support this bill.
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Sick of saying it. Asylum seekers can’t claim benefits. You need an NI number. Asylum seekers can’t work. You need an NI number. They get £49.18p week to live on. Could you live on that? NO. So stop pretending these people come here to be lazy or take your jobs. It can’t be both.
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The Terminally Ill Adults Bill doesn't protect the vulnerable: those who are socially isolated, on the lowest incomes, battling poor mental health etc. It could easily lead them to feeling they have a ‘duty to die.’ This isn't the intention but the consequences could be terrible.
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1 in 5 of the UK’s care workforce have a non-British passport.
Starmer would have us believe these carers are the “squalid” result of a “failed experiment”.
I say they do vital, necessary, humane, skilled work and they are worth their weight in gold.
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The Assisted Dying Bill risks creating a two-tier system where those who can't pay for care are forced to opt for an early death. Instead, palliative care should be government-funded so it's accessible to all & doesn't leave people choosing between suffering or assisted suicide.
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This hardly ever works. Honestly, dipping face in ice water is a bit better I have found over the last 20 years. Valsalva is not bad also.
The coolest ER trick is probably the parent’s kiss… bead stuck up your kid’s nose? Don’t bring them to the ER, just close the contralateral nostril, and blow in the kid’s mouth!
The bead pops right out, and it’s super satisfying.
I have accumulated hundreds of these little tricks over the last 25 years!
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Could someone explain to me in a polite and rational way why we expect disabled people to use gender-neutral toilets but are outraged at the concept for everyone else?
#gender
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The harm reduction approach adopted by our addiction support services aims to minimise the negative impacts of an addiction e.g. drugs, without requiring someone to stop this behaviour as a condition for receiving support. Find out more: brnw.ch/21wRGDE
ALT Quote: You can't recover if you're dead- Will Pearson, Assistant Territorial Director of Homelessness Services Unit. Black and white bricks frame the quote and at the bottom are the words: Rebuilding lives, saving futures.
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There is a mental health crisis in the UK, with people waiting for more than a year to access services.
8000 doctors have applied for ~500 posts that train them to become psychiatrists.
We have enough doctors wanting to train, the UK just refuses to train them.
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@BBCHughPym
The taxpayer's wasting their money on training GPs when there are no jobs waiting for them.
Yet patients can't see their GP as there aren't enough appointments.
We have newly qualified GPs needing a job & patients needing a GP.
Will you help us get the message out?
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There is a significant difference between the words “should” and “must”.
Associate roles are not equipped to substitute for doctors, because they do not have equivalent training or qualifications.
Please consider changing this
word to “must”.
england.nhs.uk/long-read/ens…
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I’m a doctor who will be unemployed in August.
Change that.
Change is hard, but the NHS needs reform.
With far more change to come, I know there will be cautious voices warning us to slow down.
But we inherited an NHS going through the worst crisis in its history. There’s no time to waste.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03…
