Ian Sinha (wheezylikesundaymorning)
@wheezylikesund1
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Respiratory paediatrician (never a member of a political party, my own views and tweets etc). Up The Boro. #RightToFood #StopTheStink
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Tony Chambers, former CEO at the Countess of Chester Hospital, actively impaired paediatricians from involving police when they suspected babies were being murdered
If this doesn’t constitute criminal negligence, and doesn’t warrant a jail sentence, then I don’t know what does
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One of the amazing privileges of being a paediatrician :
every August , parents of my patients send me exam results , sometimes kids who people didn’t think would survive … sometimes kids with debilitating chronic respiratory illness. they do so well, against all the odds 👍🏽✊🏽
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@mspanish
To try and shame a group of *actual ED workers*, without context of either photo, is inappropriate and unnecessary. Nobody in the comments has any idea of their professionalism or otherwise.
Please don’t do things like this. ED teams are under enough pressure without a pile on
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Before Twitter dies, I must stress again how much I endorse
@IanByrneMP
, and hope Labour members in Liverpool see what I see -
A man who puts his neck on the line for his communities, and especially for children. No other MP has been so forceful that food is a human right
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One man will be made the most superior man in the country, because of his birth circumstances
That day 4.2 million children will be in poverty, in his country, because of their birth circumstances
Royalist or republican - surely we all agree that this is obscene
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With my wonderful, amazing nursing colleagues
So privileged to work with them, and honoured to support their important strike
#FairPayNow
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Done, home, and going to sleep for 6 days
#tcslondonmarathon2022
Thanks for all the donations, and the good wishes. It’s a lonely man’s game doing a marathon virtually, really appreciate the love x
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Please say happy birthday to Oreo 🥰
My puppy is 4 today
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THIS. 200% THIS ✊🏽
Watch
@IanByrneMP
outline the catastrophic effects of food costs in an impassioned and evidence-based parliamentary debate
Our children are living in a humanitarian crisis- as paediatricians we must say Enough is Enough
Ian ✊🏽♥️👏🏽giving a voice to children
I called a debate in Parliament on the cost of food.
Food inflation is at 16.4% - the highest since 1977 - and a 1/3 of West Derby are going hungry.
I spoke about appalling profiteering by companies, and what the Government could do to solve this catastrophe.
#RightToFood
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@SueMoffet
@sainsburys
Quite right Sue, people are absolutely allowed to hold racist views
All these guys are saying is take your racism and shop elsewhere.
So they are happy, and you are happy, what’s the issue ?
“What about those of us who don’t like diversity” she says, chewing on some gammon
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Please please please please vaccinate your children against measles
Those who have seen little ones at the sharp end of measles infection are dreading this .
it can be so devastatingly serious that I’ve thought some of these kids had cancer
absolutely preventable
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I hate cold weather … but I loved seeing this on my car!
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I once met Mark Lawrenson in a bar in Newcastle when I was a student
He knocked my pints over, and couldn’t have cared less,
The absolute *legend* that is Gary Speed was mortified, he replaced my drinks, and we chatted for ages.
The worst and best of football
Mark Lawrenson claims BBC dropped him because he is ‘65 and a white male’
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This is spine chilling:
Just heard from Lorna
@ChildrenNE
:
A teenage girl needing to use her mums bus pass to ride the Newcastle buses every evening , in order to access Wi-Fi, in order to simply do her homework
What a ridiculous society we have created .
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As it’s the start of September , this is just the annual friendly reminder that babies with bronchiolitis can have a temperature, so you can put the LP needle down 👍🏽
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We have a sick country, not a sick note culture, and this government and its policies are one of the drivers
They decimated mental health services, and now they want doctors to downplay the importance of mental health
Not an ounce of compassion
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My piece in
@RCPCHtweets
milestones.
We must poverty-proof our services, and try and mitigate against the impacts of child poverty….. but the best answer is to eradicate it.
#RightToFood
#PovertyKillsChilldren
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These are stories we heard in our respiratory clinics this year
@AlderHey
Half a million pounds on
#bigbenbrexitbong
is obscene when we make children with severe lung disease live like this. These quotes are from children who will die in their 40s and 50s
#povertykillschildren
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Obesity in childhood . One of the scariest graphs you’ll see… the pandemic didn’t help
#PovertyKillsChildren
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Had a lovely afternoon doing a joint radio interview with
@IanByrneMP
about
#RightToFood
and how
#PovertyKillsChildren
We need a new vision of how the country could be for our babies and children - not sticking plasters, or trickle down nonsense… meaningful investment in kids
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Shameful
Poverty kills children.
@NCMD_England
@RCPCHtweets
“These awful figures should be a wake up call for political leaders” says
@RCPCHPresident
.
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Why should free school meals be universal?
1) it’s not cost effective to means test- it’s cheaper to offer to all
2) the stigma of free school meals means that uptake is low… removing the stigma of poverty is one of the most important things we can do
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Asthma = ill health
Mould = cause of ill Health
Poverty = cause of cause of ill Health
Governmental choices = cause of cause of cause of ill Health
To paraphrase Desmond Tutu: either keep pulling people out of a river, or go back and see who the bloody hell pushed them in
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Sunak is right that children in Scandinavian countries have more life chances
Imagine the arrogance of arguing that the reason for the difference isn’t that Scandinavian countries invest better in health, children and social care, but that they have national service.
This bold new model will open up a world of opportunity.
It will make sure young people in the UK get the same chance in life as their peers in allies like Sweden, Norway, Denmark and France - which have all recently introduced or announced new forms of national service.
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15 miles in, stopped for a break. Hurts everywhere ... it’s a lonely mans game running a marathon with no crowd....
Thanks for the love, it’s really helping right about now x
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Sir
@MichaelMarmot
is one of the greatest people in my lifetime - and yet the most humble man you’d ever wish to meet
He’s not a paediatrician, but I consider him to be a honorary one! His advocacy for children has been an inspiration
congratulations!
We at
@marmotihe
are so proud of our Director
@michaelmarmot
for this award in recognition of his global leadership in reducing health inequalities - it is an absolute privilege to work with you
@michaelmarmot
!
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@JackieD86388657
These days Jackie you’ll get thrown in jail for saying you’re English, thrown in jail - actually thrown in jail. Just for saying you’re English. Thrown. In. Jail. Just for saying that you’re English. You can get thrown in jail for it. For saying you’re English, Jackie. Jail.
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I have THE best job ever, DM me, come shadow us! Resp is best!
This week-
4 MDT Clinics:
Asthma
Babies
Breathlessness
Gen resp
Bronchoscopy list
Meetings:
NICE
RCT
Hospice trustee
National audit
Housing legislation
Teaching:
4th yr
Work exp
Poverty study day
PhD supervision
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Doctors have no place moaning at patients about the carbon footprint of
#asthma
inhalers
If you understand the basic science behind HFA and global warming, and can with a straight face tell someone their inhaler is part of the climate emergency, you are part of the problem
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“*extra* jumpers”
I know vulnerable children in Liverpool and Teesside who only have one jumper which was given to them. A lovely gorgeous toddler I’m thinking of only had a Christmas jumper from a charity which she wore through the year.
Child poverty is grotesque.
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When I worked at Wrexham Maelor Hospital in 2004, Ronaldo used to drop in, without any press/media, to visit a teenager who was dying from leukaemia. Just saying.
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#povertykillschildren
I’m a respiratory paediatrician
I spend my life treating the direct manifestations of
#poverty
in children
I promise you
@MarcusRashford
will do far more than me, for far more children.
Only a heartless selfish idiot would think he is virtue signalling
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@RoshanaMN
This absolutely is not the forum for people to speculate about the characteristics of the babies and families who were victims of this heinous crime and cover up. Some of the parents are likely on Twitter and don’t need to see every man and his dog having these conversations
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again
There isn’t a hospital canteen better than Alder Hey’s anywhere in the country - not a chance
Our fantastic catering team are bringing a taste of India 🇮🇳 to Alder Hey today as we continue to celebrate
#InternationalNursesDay
How amazing does that curry look?! 🤩
#IND2024
#InternationalNursesDay2024
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We have failed in our responsibilities to children
This figure depicts an absolute failure in our society
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Our amazing Parent Champions, working in Childrens Centres in Liverpool, who are finalists at the
@HSJnews
awards in London! They educate about respiratory illness in babies and advocate for thousands of them ✊🏽
So proud 🥲🥰
@EarlyYearsMVRP
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No, let’s be clear, nurses *were not furloughed*
They worked in horrendous conditions saving other people before going home to look after their own
Many nurses are forced to use foodbanks btw, so you can shove the cake part of the tweet
@StephenJamesGBR
#NursesPayRiseNow
Let’s be clear, people who were furloughed and now striking from the jobs they wouldn’t have if it wasn’t for a Conservative Government are:
🧁 Pro cake.
🧁 Pro eating it.
🧁 Pro eating my cake.
🧁 Pro eating your cake.
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“Trickle down economics” is a grossly offensive term - as if working class people should be grateful for the dregs they receive
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This one (in the striped hat) will be five tomorrow !
100% daddy’s girl
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I think doctors shouldn’t run any elective work on strike days that would usually involve a nurse
We have nurses because they add value to the care we give - they’re *essential*
Running services without them will (a) be substandard and (b) completely undermine the strike
Unpopular opinion.
GPs and other doctors / clinicians shouldn't cover for nurses and paramedics going on strike.
What do you think?
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You may see this on the news - our PhD student Dr Alice Lee, first author on a Marmot review about cold homes and fuel poverty
@marmotihe
...
@Pharmaforkids
@clairej32
and I are very proud of Alice and are grateful to Sir Michael and his amazing team
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SAVE THE DATE!**
3rd
#PovertyKillsChildren
Hot Topics Study Day (virtual, free)
9th DECEMBER 2022
Further details and booking later this weekend….
It’s a hell of a speaker line-up… 😬
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@MarcusRashford
- legend
Child poverty is THE most pressing issue for the NHS
Mr Rashford has had far more impact than I ever could, but here are 25 of my slides for a recent
@alderhey
talk on
#covid19
,
#lockdown
and
#Childpoverty
in the UK
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I couldn’t be more proud to be part of what I think is the best asthma team in the world ... great to see my colleagues get the recognition they deserve
we’ve won the only double that counts on Merseyside this year
@MDASAsthma
@AlderHey
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Inequality strategies in kids all focus on workarounds which get people through the day
Foodbanks and warm spaces are only sticking plasters
PEOPLE NEED:
Fairer rights and pay for workers
Fairer benefits
Fairer cost of living
#EnoughIsEnough
#PovertyKillsChildren
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1. Sticking to principles is not a “revolt”. I never in my life apologised if I don’t mean it. I tell my daughters the same
2. Denouncing dehumanising language doesn’t “diminish” the holocaust, it shows what we learned FROM the holocaust
@GaryLineker
one,
@SuellaBraverman
nil ✊🏽
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Absolute pleasure and honour to do a podcast with the wonderful
@AtasNatalija
Hers is definitely a name to watch out for in the fight against child poverty
Yesterday I conducted an interview with Ian Sinha, a Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital for
@PRAN_Action
podcast. Ian vividly described links between poverty and health. A must listen segment for everyone! Coming soon on
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give me ONE good reason why we would prioritise cozying up to bankers over universal free school meals for children
Why universal? (1) remove stigma, (2) costs less than means testing, (3) cut offs are too low and (4) parents can reinvest in their kids
@IanByrneMP
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Without hesitation I endorse
@IanByrneMP
No MP is more focussed on the needs of children. THIS is the kind of politics we need. He’s willing to stick his neck out, eg for
#RightToFood
.
Liverpool needs Ian Byrne. He’s a man of principle and compassion. ✊🏽
#IStandWithIanByrne
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Poor housing kills children
Thanks Prof Semple✊🏽🙏🏽
Cold damp poorly ventilated housing is damaging our children's health. My friend and colleague Professor Ian Sinha
@wheezylikesund1
is The doctor forcing landlords to act on mouldy homes
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Nearly three years ago we told the council that poor housing is a major determinant of ill health in children
We literally have to wait for children to die before taking notice
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So proud - these 4 women presented at the European Respiratory Society Conference
@ERSpublications
today
Their work was done as medical students with us: CDH, school air quality, allergen management
Lovely to work with
Definitely bright futures 👍🏽
@AlderHeyCharity
@AlderHey
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Absolutely loved speaking to the
@LMI114
today - such a fantastic group of people
The key take away messages:
Poverty kills children
Poverty is a political choice
#RightToFood
#StopTheStink
Prof. Ian Sinha
@wheezylikesund1
recieving his President's Medal after speaking to the
@LMI114
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I’ve been told by several mums that the use of the term “mum” in clinical practice is seen very much by mothers as us saying “don’t worry dear, we don’t need to know your name” …
and even if we don’t mean to , it’s perceived as “just mum”.
Really important
Stop using “mums”
@mariacaulfield
- it’s one of terms many hate most when used in health care. HCWs ruin it as a term for new parents by using it as an act of condescension and peppered within various bits of obstetrics violence (and this continues when child goes into hospital)
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Excellent work by
@asthmalunguk
Thanks
@swoolnough
for being so tenacious with this
Asthma attacks in more than 1m people linked to UK cost of living rationing
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It’s abundantly clear that children are better than adults, and would make better decisions about practically every binfire in the world today - they’d ban landfill sites, end wars, and make the world a loving caring place.
They’d just get it right.
Because they’re class.
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On my 26.2 mile jolly, I saw beautiful countryside, stunning coastline, and then some parts of Bootle with disgusting air, and a docker’s strike.
I had a LOT of time to think about how I’m proud of our environment and our people
both deserve better than the Tories
#ToriesOut
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10 And living in poverty fundamentally changes the molecules in your DNA. Let that sink in.
Epigenetic changes associated with poverty change the very way in which your frigging DNA works. Being poor is shackling children from before they are even born
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Without doubt
@trussliz
has done a horrendous morning’s work, showing herself up as an ill-prepared chancer on local radio
However it HAS shown the importance of local radio, local presenters, and local approaches to politics and that’s a good and overdue thing
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Dumping toxic and carcinogenic crap where people live is not acceptable
The fact we do this shows how little respect our government has for our residents, and our children.
We shouldn’t have to say this in 2022 🤦🏽♂️
#StopTheStink
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HELLO!
#PovertyKillsChildren
Online Study Day. Register here.
9/12/22
All welcome
Speakers - me, Dave Taylor Robinson,
@Simonkenny14
@rloopstra
@CamillaKingdon
@ProfImogenTyler
and others TBC!
Free, but we ask for donations
@SFoodbanks
✊🏽
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@SandraLeeMD
What an arrogant, old-fashioned and disrespectful thing to say
Its 2020 and some doctors (none that I work with) still underestimate and undermine nurses.
I have a nurse in *literally* every clinic I do, because they know different things to me and have different skills.
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As we enter bronchiolitis season I’m looking forward to a plethora of new RCTs with results showing that hypertonic saline doesn’t work, and that HFNC is no better than LFNC, but concluding that we should use these nonetheless
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Some of the biggest names in respiratory paediatrics, globally, are dismayed/angry at the societal/political threats to the lungs of children
Privilege to coauthor this
European Respiratory Review: Social determinants of lung health are of pivotal importance across the life course and across the world. Political action is essential to address these, and thus improve adult lung health and all-cause morbidity and mortality.
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WATCH THIS SPACE!
Later today
@AlderHey
will be sharing our clinical guidance for medical management of children admitted with COVID-19.
It’s about being sensible and pragmatic, and about involving parents in caring for their kids. It’s not about using drugs that dont work.
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Delighted to be running this study with the absolute dream team!
#asymptomatic
- we want children with
#asthma
to live their best life and we need research to help that happen
A new
#Liverpool
-led national clinical trial aiming to find the best treatment for children with mild
#asthma
has been awarded £1.5m from
@NIHRresearch
More here 👉
@AlderHey
@asthmauk
@AUKCAR
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I’ve unreservedly signed this. The voice of paediatricians is important in this debate, pleased that so many of my colleagues agree
Childhood hunger is an issue that should transcend politics. Few would disagree that one of our most basic human responsibilities is to ensure children have enough to eat.
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✊🏽 alder hey is a family
So amazing that our chief executive and senior management team showed their support.
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The message is right, the picture is wrong
Please
@SWLNHS
, change this to a brown inhaler, but thanks for the important message
SHORT ACTING BRONCHODILATORS ARE NOT PREVENTER THERAPIES IN ASTHMA
Hospital services across South West London are under pressure this week due to weather conditions and the junior doctors strike. We're seeing higher numbers of people coming in with breathing difficulties and older people who are dehydrated. Find out more:
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To me, Coffey is the most dangerous person in the cabinet , and wow that’s saying something with Braverman there
Government by trolling. Literally.
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I’ve been in awe of this man for two decades - an absolute giant, and a master of clinical paediatrics and lung health
CV and achievements second to none
And yet one of the humblest men you could ever wish to meet
Well done Prof Bush
We’re delighted to award Professor Andrew Bush the James Spence Medal 2024!
Huge congratulations and thanks for your outstanding contribution to paediatrics.
#RCPCH24
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Our paper on
#childpoverty
in print in
@bmj_latest
My mum was mainly proud because my name is in the same paragraph as
@MarcusRashford
#children
have been sidelined by
#Covid19UK
They have taken the hit to protect adults - now it’s our turn to pay this back
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Proud to call Calum Semple OBE a member of my team, but even more proud to call him a friend.
I’ve seen first hand the sacrifices Calum, and, crucially, his family have made. It’s such a nice moment to see this being recognised 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Alder Hey are proud to announce that both Prof. Calum Semple & Hilda Gwilliams have been recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday honours 👑🎖️ Professor Semple has been awarded an OBE & Hilda awarded an MBE 👏 Find out more ➡️
@RoyalFamily
#amazingstaff
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Entire classes of school entry children are under Speech and Language therapy. They simply can’t speak.
We’ve been saying this for literally years.
Our country hates children, and has no regard for their present or future situations.
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@JimMFelton
It wouldn’t have surprised me if she said “heat the foil and wrap a child in it”
Horrendous woman
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educational consequences of child poverty are just as heinous as physical ones
Children’s opportunities are ripped away because of the circumstances in which they are born
Education is a human right - and an effective way out of poverty
#EnoughIsEnough
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It’s not just about MORE GPs, it’s about distribution
For every child registered to a GP in the richest IMD decile, a GP in the least rich decile has 6… (these are kids with more chronic and acute problems). other factors eg n of elderly but inverse care law clear to see
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NOT HAVING CHILDREN IN CRAP HOUSING IS GOOD FOR THEIR ASTHMA - really good paper in
@JAMA_current
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It’s my little Lauren’s 8th birthday today!
This year she’s having a zoom party with her little pals... and she can’t wait!
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Our
@bmj_latest
editorial on the impact of COVID-19 on child poverty and well-being.
We must act now before children get left behind
They aren't the face of the pandemic, but will be hit hard
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This December 10,000 children will die from HIV in Africa (1 every 5 minutes)
People in the US and UK who call post-COVID immune dysfunction “airborne AIDS” should consider how utterly disrespectful they are being to the avoidable suffering and death of these children
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My 2022-25 priority areas for the Lab-to-Life Child Health Applied Data Research Group (I co-lead with
@clairej32
@AlderHeyInnov
):
1 universal free school meals
2 landfill
3 parent champions
4 wealth inequality
5 poverty-proof paediatrics
6 poverty and childrens rights
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People in the least wealthy decile spend, from every £ in pocket after housing:
**70 p on food (ie nutrition according to Govt guidelines)
**70 p on fuel
i.e. £1 is meant to stretch to £1.40 *just on eating and heating*
It’s immoral that we prioritised saving rich folks cash
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I’ve got real concerns about Wes Streeting’s plans for primary care
We should invest in services and focus on retaining staff, build MDTs, improve the interface between primary/secondary care and end poverty
Anything else just shifts the problem round the system
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Absolutely. Buzzing.
Zoom call with
@SFoodbanks
,
@IanByrneMP
, and
@Kartik__Raj
#righttofood
(wow)
These guys are REAL heroes and they dont even know it - their hard work and passion keeps families afloat, and dignity intact, and here's a thread about the importance of this:
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Charging anything for people to access the NHS , however “small”, will only exacerbate the disgraceful inequalities that are worsening before our eyes.
This suggestion is immoral
‘The NHS at the moment is an all you can eat buffet’
Dr Dean Eggitt tells
#Newsnight
a small charge is needed in the NHS to be used as a ‘disincentive to contact a service’
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Huge news
The amazing community who live around this disgusting landfill have deserved some proper action for such a long time
They’ve fought, and fought, with dignity and skill and it’s been a privilege to watch them
#StopTheStink
Walleys Quarry landfill has been issued with a suspension notice by the Environment Agency.
It requires the operator to take immediate action to remove the risk of serious pollution and to stop accepting and disposing waste, except for waste which doesn’t add to the odour.
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A friend told me she didn’t accept free school meals at school.
She pretended to have an eating disorder, and that’s why she wasn’t eating - it was easier than explaining why she got free school meals
The stigma of child poverty is the machinery of lifelong inequality
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Timeline cleanse:
My dog confused about a raindrop on her nose
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I don’t trust many MPs, regardless of party.
I’ve met some good ones though
This guy
@IanByrneMP
is the *absolute pick of the bunch*. He cares about children and families, and is willing to stick his neck out when others recoil.
Solidarity Ian, privileged to work with you ✊🏽
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Middle-aged wets moaning about nurses’ work-ethic is so pathetic
“Grr they made a TikTok. I have to wear a mask and can’t go to the pub😡”
Try wearing PPE & staying at a bedspace for a shift. While you forage for apples, some nurses will need to use a foodbank on the way home
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I’m no physicist, granted, but I think putting foil behind a cold radiator won’t heat up your room
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