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27 Nov 2022
Our @TheLancetPsych article, "No safety without emotional safety", with @drdavidveale, Eleanor Robins and @ProfPaulGilbert is now available online
It's free to download without signing up until 14.01.2023 from this link - please retweet and share:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1g8uX…
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Save the date!
We will be hosting our annual #ChoosePsychiatry X/Twitter Takeover next week, from 7 to 8pm on Thursday 14 November.
Please get involved and share your experiences and questions!
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14 Jul 2024
If privatisation is so efficient and customer-positive let's privatise the roads. And if your response to that notion is "no, it'll be too expensive for an essential common good" then ask why we let it be done to every other essential service in the UK.
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12 Jul 2024
This feels analagous to the current capacity issues in the NHS. What happens when the hospital beds are full? What happens when the S. 136 suites and emergency depts. are full?
12 Jul 2024
Questions even raised in the event of a so-called doomsday scenario as to what exactly a police officer would say to a suspect if they are unable to arrest them because prisons/police cells are full.
Sources fear emboldened criminals committing crimes they would not usually
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12 Jul 2024
True scale of the prisons crisis revealed today - worse than feared.
Senior prisons source tells media:
🔴Just 698 prison places left
🔴Running at 99% capacity for two years
🔴Riot or even bedbugs outbreak could tip balance
🔴Without action, August bank holiday the flashpoint
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18 Jun 2024
Patients and carers are crucial partners in improving care. The impact of out of area placements and the benefit of continuity of care beautifully described in a personal family journey by @lovebillybragg #RCPsychIC
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23 May 2024
Tips please. How to remove the glass without breaking the mug.
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20 May 2024
New fully-funded Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry position available to join our research group in Edinburgh, working on @wellcometrust funded ambientbd.com project.
Enquiries very welcome, please apply below👇 Pls RT @rcpsychTrainees
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15 May 2024
For those interested in patient safety & the need to support whistleblowers (in this case doctors) - there is a free conference @RoySocMed tomorrow afternoon.
#patientsafety #whistlebowers @rcpsych @rcpsychGAP @dredbeveridge @AlexBThomson
Link
To info;
justice4doctors.co.uk
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12 May 2024
In 2007, when every junior doctor in the UK was sacked and had to reapply for their own jobs, and the Government modified recruitment agency law to exempt NHS junior doctor recruitment from the standard safeguards
What experience in the workplace radicalized you?
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28 Apr 2024
Only in psychiatry are the most complex excluded from services (explicitly) because of their complexity. Imagine being turned away from the ED after an RTA because your injuries were too complex
28 Apr 2024
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I worked in an area where dbt was only available for those in primary care. By the time I left there was no specialist intervention for those with a "personality disorder" diagnosis in secondary care.
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21 Apr 2024
My start line and finish line pics from the #LondonMarathon today!
4h09m! The fastest I've run a marathon before was 4h29m so I'm delighted to be 20 minutes quicker today 😀
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8 Apr 2024
When yet another review finds "more leadership required", I wonder what kind is meant? I reckon the default is top-down clarity of direction & control. That's much easier to call for than the messy kind of open inclusive conversation amongst many people that's more often needed.
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7 Apr 2024
🎶Never stopped me dreaming...🎶
6 Apr 2024
Tourists wake up to 3 lions licking water off their tent in Botswana.
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1 Apr 2024
What's this I hear about Raspberry Ripple and Wild Berry Slushie flavoured Irn Bru? How long until they make it south to England, @SameiHuda?
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31 Mar 2024
It's unacceptable that in the 21st Century, residents of large parts of the UK have no access to treatment for life-threatening, disabling, but treatable conditions
We have to end this postcode lottery of mental health service quality and access
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29 Mar 2024
We are counting down the days until the @rcpsychLiaison Conference. We are looking forward to welcoming some brilliant speakers including @pubmentalhealth, Dr Margaret Gani, Dr Emily Peckham. Book now t.ly/zBlCM
#Liaisonconf24
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16 Jan 2024
📢We want to hear from people who know somebody with OCD and have supported or tried to help them:
Click the link to the survey now! psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.c…
Over-30s, UK only
Thank you! 🙏
#ocd #research @ocdaction @OCDUK @TOP_UK_National
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19 Mar 2024
Are you helping or supporting someone with OCD? We need a few more people to participate in this research so we can find out about how best to support those who try to help! Promise James and I will provide info on what we find. Thanks!
16 Jan 2024
📢We want to hear from people who know somebody with OCD and have supported or tried to help them:
Click the link to the survey now! psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.c…
Over-30s, UK only
Thank you! 🙏
#ocd #research @ocdaction @OCDUK @TOP_UK_National
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13 Mar 2024
We're looking for a Director of Legal Services
You'll need to be a qualified Barrister or Solicitor with post-qualification experience
Closes 5 April 2024
Find out more:
orlo.uk/AsVcx
#Job
#JobSearch
#Recruitment
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