@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2024-03-14 14:01:57
extended hospital visiting times for Ramadan
Saw yesterday or the day before that one of the London trusts was doing this. Good to see it's happening in Nottingham too.
#Nottingham #Ramadan #NHS
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2024-03-14 14:01:57
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2024-04-17 06:45:06
I had eye surgery yesterday, to clean out the filters in the drainage ducts of my eyes. I was (obviously) nervous about it. The experience was unpleasant but not terrible, and greatly helped by a surgeon with a great chair-side manner.
This morning my eyes feel not much worse than an average morning, and I have an only-slight headache. So (so far) this has been a much less bad experience than it might have been.
Many thanks to Scotland's NHS!
@kcarruthers@mastodon.social2024-04-06 04:56:22
We do live in an age of miracles! NHS rolls out artificial pancreas in world first move: Tens of thousands of children and adults living with type 1 diabetes across England are set to receive an ‘artificial pancreas’ in a world-first initiative being rolled out by the NHS.
https://www.
@MrBerard@pilote.me2024-05-18 04:46:39
Yes the same Palantir now in charge of NHS data...
The Guardian: ‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapo…
@pre@boing.world2024-04-11 17:45:43
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2024-05-15 01:01:10
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2024-04-11 17:41:30
NHS, heart treatment waiting lists
"The number of patients with serious heart problems forced to wait more than 18 weeks for care has risen fivefold since Covid struck"
"Likely factors include “severe cardiac staff shortages” in the NHS, the ageing population and widening health inequalities"
And heart damage from covid, one might expect? But no mention of _that_ possibility!
Covid probably killed or disabled some of the heart experts as well.
#covid #CovidErasure
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2024-03-09 18:51:16
"We call for an urgent, robust, and independent review of the links between the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS. We call for a system that does what was demanded by the health committee two decades ago , , ,"
Terrific piece by #MargeretMcCartney et al
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social2024-04-02 16:19:26
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2024-03-06 13:43:12
Content warning: UKpol, budget
So Jeremy Rhyming-slang did go ahead with cutting off 2p from NI.
I really don't think that's going to have the effect on the polls that the Tories are hoping for.
Everyone up to and including the middle class is desperately worried about the NHS, and a lot of people think that NI money goes direct to the NHS (it doesn't, but they're very closely associated for many people). So people are going to think this NI cut makes the NHS even worse.
I think if you went out and grabb…
@johnleonard@mastodon.social2024-03-28 13:46:31
Ransomware group shows 'proof pack' of data from NHS Dumfries and Galloway
INC Ransom threatens to release full data unless demands met
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4190676/ransomware-group-proof-pack-nhs-dumfries-gallow…
@zimpenfish@social.rjp.is2024-04-15 08:31:30
Also the Medicaid segment on this week's #LastWeekTonight is a pretty good warning about what the UK is looking at with the Tory (and now apparently Labour) plans for (semi-)privatising the NHS.
And it is not good.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2024-04-30 15:20:41
Sex is biological fact, NHS declares in landmark shift against gender ideology (Laura Donnelly/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/30/nhs-sex-biological-landmark-shift-against-gender-ideology/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240430/p29#a240430p29
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2024-05-08 11:45:52
Stolen children’s health records posted online in extortion bid https://therecord.media/scotland-nhs-children-records-posted-extortion-ransomware
@yaxu@post.lurk.org2024-05-10 06:12:16
"the biggest 6-month fall in NHS waiting lists in over 10 years" say the Tories. This is plain untrue, and the graphs are the clearest demonstration of how voting does actually matter. This stuff is killing us
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2024-04-19 10:45:05
Interesting blog about OpenSafely , a platform that allows research of medical data in a secure and privacy friendly way.
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-to-use-nhs-data-for-scientific
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza2024-02-26 11:40:06
Come on, be fair, it's not just the Tories, Labour politicians are at the trough and being bought too.
https://labourheartlands.com/selling-out-the-nhs-the-shocking-links-between-labour-mps-and-private-h…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2024-05-13 18:44:48
miscarriage of justice, maybe
Article making a plausible case that the babies in Lucy Letby's case may have died from mistakes, not from murder - & that the underlying cause was understaffing on the unit & not enough people trained to do things.
"The public conversation about the case seemed to treat details about poor care on the unit as if they were irrelevant."
#NHS #justice #LucyLetby
@markhburton@mstdn.social2024-03-04 09:46:14
I read the headline thinking "poor old fellow", then woke with a start to the fact he's just a year older than me.
"The #NHS has been systematically underinvested in for 14 years, you generate a system that becomes unsafe, and those cracks in the system are so apparent."
Salford Royal patient's 'nightmare' after he was left lying in urine - BBC News
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2024-05-07 11:02:40
NHS data stolen in cyber attack published on dark web
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cglvpnpxx87o?mid=1#cid=1853653
@simon_lucy@mastodon.social2024-03-27 08:30:19
GP practices shouldn't have to contract separately for providing services to the NHS, separate negotiations, separate terms and conditions, separate and additional costs on both sides.
All of the GP practices should be nationalised and brought into the NHS in all four countries, governance should be local, very local.
#GPPractices
@chfloudas@mstdn.social2024-04-01 16:20:09
Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2024-04-28 11:30:12
Speaking of dental problems, it's very sobering living with someone who can't eat or speak properly in large part due to losing lots of teeth. I haven't had an #NHS appt since before Covid and have with extreme reluctance made a private appt at my surgery, for £60. It very much goes against my principles but seeing the results in old age of preventable problems is quite shocking. Will I lo…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2024-03-01 16:05:21
«By the end of the year I was asking: “To what extent is the UK a failed state?” Gareth told me: “I think the country is at breaking point. Especially with the NHS and mental health.”»
Check out the brilliant work that Kirsty Mackay’s did with her project «The Magic Money Tree», documenting alongside working-class communities how the UK’s cost of living crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/01/uk-cost-of-living-crisis-tipton-south-shields-bristol-photo-essay
@keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org2024-03-31 12:34:34
Cases of dysentery and Weil’s disease are soaring, and marine species are “full of cocaine, amphetamines and MDMA” due to sewage dumping. #ToryBritain #PlagueIsland
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2024-05-07 13:29:53
Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Chinese hack of UK Defense Ministry resulted in massive military personnel data breach
--State Department unveils new strategy for securing cyberspace,
--Germany recalls its Russian ambassador following hacker attacks,
---Ransomware group released large volume of NHS patient data,
--Technique shows VPN users can connect to rogue servers,
-- Kronos hacker sends $25m to Tornado Cash,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/chinese-hack-uk-defense-ministry-resulted-massive-military-personnel-data-breach
@chfloudas@mstdn.social2024-04-01 16:20:09
Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2024-04-28 11:30:12
Speaking of dental problems, it's very sobering living with someone who can't eat or speak properly in large part due to losing lots of teeth. I haven't had an #NHS appt since before Covid and have with extreme reluctance made a private appt at my surgery, for £60. It very much goes against my principles but seeing the results in old age of preventable problems is quite shocking. Will I lo…
@mia@hcommons.social2024-02-19 23:56:03
I read 'The irony of AI in a low-to-middle-income country' - 'why are they prioritizing AI technology when, in fact, other more pressing technological issues need to be addressed first?'
You could ask the same about AI in the NHS - faster diagnostics are great, but it needs more humans
https://
@cjhearn@mastodonapp.uk2024-03-29 14:48:31
(Sadly, that school closed in 2010 and, when it was taken over as a "free school", I believe those special resources were removed and the residential unit transferred to the NHS as a children's respite centre.)
@simon_lucy@mastodon.social2024-03-27 08:21:03
I have no idea why GP practices need appointments for unplanned visits, it wasn't true in the 50's or 60's there was none of this chain of triage which only delays treatment.
Health Centres are large buildings, they have massive waiting areas and they are empty.
#GPPractices #NHS
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-18 17:43:31
DOCTOR FOUND GUILTY OF PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT AFTER BEING IMPRISONED FOR UPHOLDING A SIGN
Dr Sarah Benn, a GP and NHS doctor of more than 30 years,
who served the British public on the frontline during the COVID pandemic,
was 💥imprisoned for 32 days💥 after breaching
👉an injunction against all acts of protest 👈 obtained by #Valero,
a US based oil company,
Follo…
@dominiksteiger@swiss.social2024-03-25 08:40:16
#Covid #Influenza
Ongoing pandemic, update:
The burden of disease by Covid is much higher than the burden by influenza, as evident by UKHSA/NHS SARI Watch data.
Note the scale on the ICU/HDU figures.
Sources:
@jneill on Twitter
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2024-03-25 12:06:40
NHS, ambulances, reversing privatisation
Useful explanation from @…:
#NHS
@ScriptJoy@Mastodon.online2024-02-19 10:50:22
Rehabilitation after an operation is just as important as surgery.
Sign the petition calling for there to be rehab leadership in every UK hospital and NHS trust.
#CSP
@threeofus@mstdn.social2024-03-20 13:23:36
My #mentalhealth is spiralling down again. My 8 weeks of NHS person centred talking therapy ran out about 3 weeks ago and I’m really missing it. I’ve been struggling with lots of different emotions and intrusive thoughts and I feel like they’re dragging me under. Think I need to pay for some private help.
@pre@boing.world2024-04-19 10:22:27
re: #ukpol #sicknote
😡: There are too many people off sick. What can we do?
👿: We could give the NHS doctors the pay-restoration they've asked for so that they don't all quit?
😡: But how would that make our corporate sponsors more wealthy?
👿: Ah, good point. Perhaps we can give billions of pounds to Crapita and ask them to assess the sick?
😡: Brilliant! But they have no expertise on the issue and no prior knowledge of any of the patents.
👿: No problem, we'll just tell them to find half those assessed are lying malingerers, you don't need expertise to do that.
😡: Brilliant, call the press, I'll do an announcement.
@simon_lucy@mastodon.social2024-04-20 08:05:23
Isosorbide mononitrate is in short supply in NHS England, again.
#DrugsShortage
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2024-05-09 07:21:43
drug shortages, UK
“We should not be putting patients under this stress, they’re already ill... Worrying about whether their tablets are going to be there just doesn’t help them get better.”
“I’ve been a pharmacist 25 years, but I’ve never ever experienced this level of shortage that I’m seeing now. Any one day, we could have up to 10% of the drugs that we’re ordering not being available.”
#NHS #drugs #pharmacy #DrugShortages
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2024-03-07 14:14:07
good overview of UK health stats
... inc health service stats, like how many doctors or how many scanners, and people stats, like how many people off sick.
"The number of people economically inactive due to long-term sickness is at a record high of 2.8 million in the UK."
From Bob Hawkins.
#UK #health #stats #covid #economics #NHS
@pre@boing.world2024-04-19 10:14:14
#ukpol #sicknote
And now let's find out what's going on with with Normal Island's Nasty Party, how are they doing?
These young depressed sick malingerers are too woke, the woke doctors are signing them off sick too easily, we''ll set up corporate death panels to make the decisions instead, get these skivers back to work 😡 🤛
Alrighty then, gonna suck even more to be sick on Normal Island in the future.
Join us again next time when the Nasty Party will be taking a wrecking ball to the country while scapegoating some other distressed minority in a desperate attempt to drum up some votes from their reactionary base.
#ukpol #nhs #sickNote