Doctor, scientist: psychiatry, psychology, public health; ex immunologist. Chair @TukeInstitute, Co-founder, Patron @THTorguk
Joined October 2010
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29 Mar 2025
Please donate to support the new PSIIQC.org's mission to champion inclusivity and equity in psych practice, research, and policy for LGBTQ communities ππ Your contribution will make a difference! π justgiving.com/crowdfunding/β¦ #Psychology #PSIIQC
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
11 Feb 2025
We're VERY close to 60,000 complaints.
Help us make this complaint the biggest in Ofcom's history π
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
7 Feb 2025
π¨ NEW π¨
On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful.
Join us in writing a complaint to Ofcom to force them to take action π
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
7 Feb 2025
This. A thousand times this.
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17 Dec 2024
The replies are telling examples of physicians trying to claim exceptional abilities/duties/challenges, when in fact any clinician who has responsibilities to patients experiences the same. It says more about physicians' exclusionary self-regard than their competencies.
16 Dec 2024
Seeing undifferentiated patients in specialties such as general practice and emergency medicine is very challenging. To an outside observer, much of the work may seem routine or straightforward but this is only the case if the clinician is well-trained and highly experienced.
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17 Dec 2024
Another small but powerful example of how physician-culture in the NHS can be changed
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
25 Nov 2024
β€οΈ Ribbons have started going up today at Grangeway Community Centre and the bandstand at the Heath Park. Tomorrow will be the Town Hall and Victoria Park. Help us to stamp out stigma @HaltonBC @HaltonHour @hwhalton @StephenYoung74 @RupertWhitaker
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
25 Oct 2024
We have organised the first meeting suggested by β¦@RupertWhitakerβ© to talk Collaboration in Halton with other organisations. Please see link Eventbrite to book β¦@StephenYoung74β© β¦@hwhaltonβ© β¦@HaltonBCβ© β¦β¦@HaltonHourβ© eventbrite.com/e/the-halton-β¦
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23 Oct 2024
It was great to meet you all and have such a good discussion afterwards. Thank you all for your openness and the warm interest. I look forward to hearing how the Halton model of collaboration develops! Seriously, go for it.
23 Oct 2024
@RupertWhitaker @StephenYoung74 @HaltonMayor @hwhalton @hwhalton @HaltonHour @HaltonHousing @WEcic_
A wonderful afternoon with @RupertWhitaker who gave a fantastic talk. Thank you to everyone who attended and we are sorry if we didnβt get to talk to you β€οΈ
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19 Oct 2024
The BMA claims Phys Associates to be unsafe. But over 90% of GP diagnoses of mental illnesses and treatments I reviewed for Courts over 10 years were wrong. It's GPs who are unsafe. We need integrated, primary services not under GPs control. @wesstreeting
18 Oct 2024
The BMAβs General Practitioners Committee for the UK has voted in favour of stopping hiring physician associates in general practice and for existing roles to be phased out
bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q230β¦
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19 Oct 2024
This is a classic example of physicians punishing patients for having illnesses they couldn't understand. A long, dark history of abuse, linking sexism (eg 'hysteria'/FND), racism, and anti-LGBTQ (eg conversion 'therapy'). The profession needs reining in v badly @wesstreeting
18 Oct 2024
This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. theguardian.com/commentisfreβ¦
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
17 Oct 2024
@RupertWhitaker @StephenYoung74 @HaltonBC @HaltonHour @hwhalton last few tickets remaining for this amazing event. We look forward to seeing you there
eventbrite.com/e/inspiration⦠@Eventbrite
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15 Oct 2024
Please read and kindly share this letter from American physicians and nurses working in the Gaza catastrophe. I trust it far more than any media reporting for its depiction. Israel - and the USA - must be called to account for this atrocity. gazahealthcareletters.org/usβ¦
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16 Sep 2024
Some GPs are now refusing collaborative treatment agreements from private specialists around ADHD, so patients have to wait up to 5 years to get treated. Who benefits? GPs. Obstructive? @TheBMA isn't credible @WesStreeting @ShaunLintern #healthoutcomes #patientsafety
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
2 Jul 2024
There are 16 million disabled people in the UK but during the six weeks of campaigning, thereβs been little focus on how the main political parties are going to help them.
Ruben Reuter went to find out what they have to offer.
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
10 Jun 2024
A positive commitment to increase the public health grant in the @LibDems manifesto.
Sexual health services have borne the greatest burden of public health cuts, while STIs soar and many wait months for PrEP.
We urge all parties to commit to action on HIV and sexual health.
ALT Help people spend more years of their life in good health by: Increasing the Public health Grant, with a proportion of the extra funding set aside for those experiencing the worse health inequalities to co-produce plans for their communities.
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11 Jun 2024
Love this.
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
14 May 2024
Here's a video from @AnilvanderZee on living with severe ME, plus an interview about why he made the film and how being unable to move--he is a former dancer--makes him feel like a part of himself has been amputated: virology.ws/2024/05/14/trialβ¦
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