Passionate about women's rights in healthcare.
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Pam Howe retweeted
1 Jun 2020
@morris_ep this is the third cake we have seen celebrating outpatient hysteroscopy procedures you don't celebrate 500 testicular biopsies. I and others find this kind of celebration offensive
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Pam Howe retweeted
3 Jun 2020
Why is an expensive equipment manufacturer giving an award to a NHS clinic ?
Who provided the cake ?
Having surgery on the #womb without anaesthetic is barbaric.
Ablation destroying the lining of the womb is excruciating painful.
Not something to celebrate
@RCObsGyn @RCoANews
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Pam Howe retweeted
international-journal-of-gynโฆ Molecular triage of potential endometrial cancer could speed up diagnosis; save the NHS time and money; spare 1 in 3 outpatient hysteroscopy patients acute pain and distress. What's not to like? @NHSEngland @AliWrightObGyn @rebeccamallick @GillianMerron
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Pam Howe retweeted
If you're due hysteroscopy @BlackpoolHosp please know that this can be done under a general anaesthetic if you prefer not to be awake.
This victim of DV was unaware of this option. careopinion.org.uk/1440506
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Pam Howe retweeted
Melbourne, Australia is providing Green Whistle aka Penthrox at all its IUD health hubs.
Please, if you've chosen to have NHS outpatient hysteroscopy, do ask if Penthrox is available & suitable given your medical history.
We've reports it's much more effective than Entonox.
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Pam Howe retweeted
Sandwell & West Bhm Trust don't seem to have a clue about their hysteroscopy service. If you're due hysteroscopy at S&WBhm please know you have the options of inhaled analgesia or general anaesthetic. Please discuss pain control upfront.
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Pam Howe retweeted
May 15
โค๏ธ RLB has dedicated his nomination for the Manager of the Season award to his staff, the players and the Club.
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Pam Howe retweeted
Apr 22
and allarmingly gyneacologist with such mysognynictic views are still allowed to treat patients, allowed to be RCOG fellows and even train and evaluate medical students and futur gyneacologists...
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Pam Howe retweeted
Apr 22
Sadly not surprised at this at all. Medical misogyny perpetuated by women too - socially conditioned to expect fellow women to be hysterical and to accept invasive painful procedures as a normal part of womenโs life. #fallofeve @RCObsGyn
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Pam Howe retweeted
23 Jan 2024
Could this explain some of the traumatised women who contact the Campaign Against Painful #Hysteroscopy?
10 years ago NHS audits showed that 1 in 4 OPH caused severe pain.
Today @RCObsGyn reports 1 in 3 severe pain.
Is that because PAs don't give local anaesthesia?
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Pam Howe retweeted
It has taken me more than 24 hrs to finish reading this article and Iโve spent that time with varying degrees of distress, anger and despair. I am however grateful to the authors for their research. I post the link with a trigger warning.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.โฆ
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Pam Howe retweeted
Congratulations @ChelwestFT
If anyone reading this is due hysteroscopy to rule out womb cancer, please ask about the WID-Easy vaginal swab womb cancer biomarker test. It's now available at Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust.
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Pam Howe retweeted
Thank you immensely @SusanneCromme ! Really looking forward to reading the whole paper about hysteroscopy pain gaslighting and the opportunity for the NHS to make structural reforms. @DrNighatArif @gillianmerron @lynbrownmp @wesstreeting @TheBSGE journals.sagepub.com/doi/fulโฆ
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Pam Howe retweeted
24 Nov 2025
Dr Pick - please let's work together.
Gynae patients & gynae doctors share 2 common goals.
To end patients' acute pain, humiliation & distress caused by NHS policy.
To end the moral distress suffered by @RCObsGyn medics obliged to inflict acute pain.
hysteroscopyaction.org.uk/hoโฆ
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Pam Howe retweeted
Apr 18
There are somethings that can be done immediately
Like stopping the @NHSGIRFT ridiculous targets for the outpatient hysteroscopy without adequate anaesthesia
Removing the cartoon that understates the pain and over states the risk of anaesthetics from YouTube
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Pam Howe retweeted
'Action 7' from the renewed Women's Health Strategy: "Women with lived experience will co-develop a standard of care for the delivery of gynaecological procedures such as hysteroscopy, ensuring women have informed consent and choice of pain relief." Timeframe 0 - 3 years.
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Pam Howe retweeted
16 Dec 2024
Surly anyone wanting to specialise in Gynaecology should have some sort of psychological profiling. Not doing any certainly explains a lot. Now Prof Dame Lesley Regan is the Womenโs Health Ambassador has she supported the Mesh Women ? Is she helping #Hysteroscopy victims ?
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Pam Howe retweeted
Apr 12
I am VERY proud of @SunderlandAFC Regis, itโs been an unforgettable season.
Thank you for putting this together @AndyKerrtv what a great surprise for my final PL studio ๐ค
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Pam Howe retweeted
What a surprise @Jeremy_Miles
Natalie Dyke thought that the PA who botched her Lumbar Puncture was a Doctor . He didnโt introduce himself as a PA.
@AneurinBevanUHB you can ignore @TheBMA guidance but you cannot ignore the @RCPhysicians guidance on this .
Woman shocked as she discovers her botched operation was not done by a doctor ift.tt/2Diw4kc
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