Ex-Telegraph Health Writer. Founder @esmesumbrella - awareness of Charles Bonnet Syndrome. Member @womeninvisionuk Winner Times Sternberg Award 2025
Joined June 2010
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1 Nov 2025
A great day at The Low Vision Day @StThomasHospital London raising awareness of Charles Bonnet Syndrome. Thank you @gsttOrthoptist for asking me to speak and open the event. Thank you yo @marenkaras too. @JudithPotts wears a pink jacket, multicoloured skirt.
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18 Jun 2025
Please will someone from @JustGiving @JGhelp reply to my email. The reference is JGA0194855 (#1775425
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19 May 2025
Today’s @SheffieldStar was among @NationalWorld’s titles to carry my piece about The Times Sternberg Award. Picture shows Baroness Altmann, wearing a red jacket and flowered dress, @JudithPotts in a pink dress and Michael Sternberg KC.
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Judith Potts retweeted
16 Feb 2025
My friend Jade Marshall-Walker is fundraising for Esme's Umbrella. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/jade-mar…
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17 Feb 2025
A huge ‘thank you’ to Jade Marshall-Walker who will be running the Kew Half Marathon on 30 March for @esmesumbrella To find out why - and to donate - this is the link:
justgiving.com/page/jade-mar…
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4 Feb 2025
Protecting our pharmacies is vital: Crisis in shortages of medication and closures of pharmacies app.nationalworld.com/story/…
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Judith Potts retweeted
14 Jan 2025
📢 New paper in @ADC_BMJ!
We explored children's experiences of Charles Bonnet syndrome & worked with @esmesumbrella to co-create child-friendly resources for patients and families @MariyaMoosajee @LaraDitzel_Finn @L_Galrissian @PocklingtonHub
Learn more:
adc.bmj.com/content/early/20…
ALT A collage of images including the Esme's Umbrella logo, the Archives of Disease in Childhood journal logo, the title of the paper, and the front page of the information sheet on CBS for children.
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Judith Potts retweeted
15 Nov 2024
It is always a pleasure seeing @JudithPotts and lovely to be involved in raising awareness of Charles Bonnet Syndrome.
15 Nov 2024
Charles Bonnet Syndrome Awareness Day. I am at @Moorfields Paediatric Clinic to hear children’s experiences of CBS. Pictures show smiling Ophthalmologist, @AnaCatalinaRod7 Psychologist, @jones_lee1 and Family Support Specialist, Jean Cavanagh
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Judith Potts retweeted
16 Nov 2024
We’re excited to launch our new Children & Young People webpage, offering resources for those affected by Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) and their supporters.
📲 Learn more here: charlesbonnetsyndrome.uk/chi…
#CharlesBonnetSyndrome #EsmesUmbrella #CBSAwarenessDay #CBS
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Judith Potts retweeted
16 Nov 2024
This CBS Awareness Day, please consider making a difference by donating. Your support funds research, raises awareness, and provides vital resources for those with CBS.
💛 Donate here: charlesbonnetsyndrome.uk/don…
#CBSAwarenessDay #EsmesUmbrella #CBS
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Judith Potts retweeted
16 Nov 2024
We’re honoured to share a message from Esme’s Umbrella patron Richard Hawley, known for his Coronation Street role as a character experiencing Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS). Richard explains why raising awareness and supporting those with CBS is so vital.
#CBSAwarenessDay #CBS
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Judith Potts retweeted
16 Nov 2024
🎉 Today is Charles Bonnet Syndrome Awareness Day!
We’re excited to share Aspectrum—a film raising awareness of CBS, a condition causing vivid visual hallucinations in people with vision loss. Watch now: youtu.be/s6CdM6XwX2I
#CharlesBonnetSyndrome #CBSawareness #Aspectrum
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Judith Potts retweeted
16 Nov 2024
Meet Em, Esme’s Umbrella’s CBS monster!
Em helps children and young people understand CBS and find ways to manage it.
#CBSAwarenessDay #CharlesBonnetSyndrome #EsmesUmbrella #CBS
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Judith Potts retweeted
16 Nov 2024
@esmesumbrella Was there for me at the beginning of my CBS journey when I didn’t know anything about it or where to turn. This charity is a small but mighty one and support people of any age living with Charles Bonnet syndrome. Please do share Post to help create awareness. 🧡
16 Nov 2024
This CBS Awareness Day, please consider making a difference by donating. Your support funds research, raises awareness, and provides vital resources for those with CBS.
💛 Donate here: charlesbonnetsyndrome.uk/don…
#CBSAwarenessDay #EsmesUmbrella #CBS
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Judith Potts retweeted
15 Nov 2024
Charles Bonnet Syndrome Awareness Day. I am at @Moorfields Paediatric Clinic to hear children’s experiences of CBS. Pictures show smiling Ophthalmologist, @AnaCatalinaRod7 Psychologist, @jones_lee1 and Family Support Specialist, Jean Cavanagh
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15 Nov 2024
He will. Have a lovely time.
15 Nov 2024
He’s doing alright,thanks to my friend Katy up there at Wigmore Abbey.Wish he was coming with me on the cruise tomorrow.Maybe he will be there,in spirit?
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15 Nov 2024
Ready with booklets and biscuits for Charles Bonnet Syndrome Awareness Day.@Moorfields Paediatric Clinic. Children can develop CBS in the same way as adults.
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