Dear Reform-voting ladies… Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to: ❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay ❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn ❌ Vote AGAINST the bill to stop workplace sexual harassment ❌ Stack the party with anti-abortion politicians - some opposing termination even in cases of rape ❌ Push “pro-family” policies that put women back in the home I guess the question is… Do you hate immigrants more than you love your rights?

The @MHRAgovuk confirm that taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children. Read more in their latest update. ➡️ gov.uk/government/news/mhra-…

Paracetamol is the first choice of painkiller if you're pregnant and is still considered the safest choice of pain relief during pregnancy. There is no evidence it causes autism in children. Kate Brintworth, our Chief Midwifery Officer, explains more 🎥

An unexpected honour at the House of Commons. Proud to be a NICU nurse @ASPHFT

Exciting new opportunity within Paediatrics at Wexham careers.fhft.nhs.uk/our-vaca…

Children face ‘catastrophic’ waits for care, leading doctors warn buff.ly/AYFIZjZ

Just finished watching @Schofe Cast Away on Chanel 5 and omg it’s great. Phil I agree with the big burley fella from Cornwall Hospital. I hope you have got rid of those toxic feelings because karma deals with those for you

Today was a good day, I find it difficult talking about loosing my brother but sharing his story I hope will help others. Being told your loved one’s death could have been prevented is not something anyone should hear #harmfree

Yet again @AldiUK have excelled…..Adlidas sliders (Christ I see a law suit coming)

Please can you help and spread the word Our lovely Billy from DIY SOS had his car stolen a few days ago, with a rather obvious number plate. Can you RT and see if we can find it for him, as it’s made him awfully sad Thank you everyone

Mary Seacole Trust Chair @trevorsterl meeting with @MayorofLondon to express thanks for support following the recent vandalisation of the Mary Seacole statue - the statue has now been repaired. #Seacole

Shame on you

We have the best educators in Paeds/NICU 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

A wonderful British woman (Julia) who lives in Venice is going to the hospital now to try to see mum because we haven’t been able to get through. The kindness of strangers. Incredible.

RT if you think the Greens quadrupling their seats should have as much media attention as Reform!

Thank you for asking me this question I generally refrain from comparing medical scandals because they are all tragedies in their own way. The Bristol heart scandal arose because the unit had demonstrably worse results for paediatric cardiac surgery than other units, but was telling parents the UK average mortality rates rather than the unit’s actual rates. To compound matters, the problems in Bristol were widely known amongst the profession, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Society of Cardio Thoracic surgeons, the Department of Health specialist commissioning group etc. Everyone knew apart from the parents, until a very brave whistleblower called Steve Bolsin spoke up. The public inquiry, which finished nine years after I broke the story in Private Eye, concluded that around three dozen babies might have survived if they’ve been operated on elsewhere over a set period. Over a longer period, Professor Bolsin puts the number at around 170. The real tragedy of Bristol is that it made 198 recommendations, many of which have been subsequently repeated in all the other health scandal since, most notably the Mid Staffs inquiry and more recently the infected blood inquiry. The UK is a world leader in public inquiries, and then we ignore the findings so we can have another public inquiry. The physician associate scandal may not progress to a public inquiry because so many people have raised concerns early, both here and elsewhere. Various Royal Colleges and the GMC have egg on their face and are reversing, or may shortly be reversing, their positions. Far more NHS staff are speaking up for patient safety and, with a new government in charge, constructive changes are more likely to happen and people will continue to speak up if they don’t. There have been some well publicised disasters where PAs have either voluntarily or forcibly been put in positions that were beyond their competence, and serious harm and death has resulted. However, this clearly doesn’t just apply to PAs. In the Bristol Inquiry report, it was estimated that around 25,000 people die every year in the NHS from either substandard care, or failure to access care. More recently we seem to have settled on a number of 11,000 avoidable deaths a year. Only a tiny fraction of these will have anything to do with PAs. I guess what I’m saying is that we need to look at patient safety in the round, and speak up forcibly about every aspect of it. My big lesson from Bristol was that how you raise concerns matters as much as the concerns you raise. I did it in a very aggressive way, that made people pull up the drawbridge and probably delayed constructive change and adversely affected the mental health of surgeons trying to do the hardest operations on some of the sickest children. There are plenty of competent PAs out there doing their best in very difficult circumstances, and suicide rates are high enough amongst NHS workers without making things worse. If we see everything through the prism of patient safety, safe staffing and skill mix levels, it gives us something to unite around as healthcare workers. As Steve Bolsin famously said about the Bristol case, “if you want to prevent future scandals, never lose sight of the patient.” And the lesson from Bristol for PAs out there is that you have to be very explicit and honest with patients about who you are and what your levels of expertise are. If you give misinformed consent, there is no defence. And hospitals and professional bodies that misrepresent the expertise of PAs are equally culpable. Does that answer your question?

Another great HCSW training day today with them all practicing their BLS skills