Over 150 million lives. Saved by vaccines. Since 1974. Together for health. Stand with science. Image shows a group of schoolchildren with an adult, smiling.
More than 150 million lives. Saved by vaccines. Since 1974. That is health and science in action.
This #WorldHealthDay, Together for Health #StandWithScience 💙
No one should start and end their career on the same band.
New commitments and additions to Agenda for Change strengthen your access and rights to a job evaluation.
Read our explainer, find out the details and get involved. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3OqVr3N
@atls.city !set GB-SCT
I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year.
I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Sunday Highlight Read 📚
What does ICU delirium actually feel like for patients?
Meta-synthesis of 9 qualitative studies exploring ICU patients’ memories, perceptions and coping during delirium.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
#ICUdelirium @baccnuk.bsky.social
Can a tracheostomy care bundle improve ICU nursing practice? 🫁
Tracheostomy care is common in ICU and complications remain a key patient safety concern.
This Quasi-experimental study evaluate’s a tracheostomy nursing care bundle.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
#CriticalCare @baccnuk.bsky.social
Constant threats and backlash undermine women's rights around the globe, but women still continue to fight against repression.
This International Women's Day, we honor the courage of those working to improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. #IWD26 #InternationalWomensDay
🔔Our next webinar🔔
Drs Sarah White and Hannah Richards have developed resources for their local department on supporting children facing bereavement in the adult ICU.
Join us to hear about this wonderful work with space for discussion. Link will be in our free member’s area www.epcin.uk.
🚨New podcast alert
CPR: when does it save a life & when does it spoil a death?
Listen in to hear Dani & I share commonly held myths & misconceptions & share valuable resource.
🎧https://speakforme.co.uk/podcast-episode-153
@drkathrynmannix.bsky.social #DNACPR #AdvanceCarePlanning #PEoLC #EoLC
Well done this is fantastic news
Fantastic news
This might be the most incredible road safety video you'll ever see.
Every critical care area is different, so it’s important that patients and their loved ones understand each step of the process.
Visit the SICS website for information on how to help offer support throughout ➡️ www.scottishintensiv...
#IntensiveCare #IntensiveCareSociety
We will never forget how nursing staff and their patients were failed by those at the highest levels of government during the pandemic.
This report must mark a turning point in how health emergencies are responded to and how the voice of nursing must never be ignored again. #CovidInquiry
Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
COME ON SCOTLAND! 🏴⚽️
Scotland is in the World Cup for the first time since 1998 after a historic 4-2 win against Denmark 🏆
A flyer advertising the To Absent Friends 2025 event listings. The To Absent Friends logo with a tree is at the top left corner, and the background photo is of an open diary showing a calendar grid.
This year's To Absent Friends (1-7 November) activities include beach bonfires, remembrance cafes, live music, and more. Find out what's happening near you and online by checking our #toabsentfriends listings:
www.toabsentfriends.org.uk/blogs/festiv...
The 2025 Resuscitation Guidelines emphasise the importance of correct defibrillator pad placement - a simple step that gives someone in cardiac arrest the best chance of survival.
🎥 Watch the video to learn more
🔗 Read the full Guidelines at resus.org.uk/2025-guidelines
Breast cancer symptoms, early diagnosis of cancer generally increases the chances of successful treatment. Nipple changes, bloody discharge, lump in the breast, change in breast colour, pitting of the breast skin, breast or nipple pain.
Symptoms of #BreastCancer can include:
A breast lump or thickening, often without pain
Change in size, shape or appearance of the breast
Dimpling, redness, pitting or other changes in the skin
Change in nipple appearance
Abnormal or bloody fluid from the nipple
100% agree with this
breastcancernow.org
October is breast cancer awareness month 🩷 If you don’t already check your breasts then now is a really good time to start
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Let’s make breast cancer history (breast cancer is striked out in the creative)
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
#BreastCancer is the most common cancer among women globally and represents approximately a quarter of all cancers that occur in women every year.
Let's get this to 2 million!
Do not introduce Digital ID cards - Petitions share.google/yrbJu69IDd3s...
Tomorrow's front page 📰
Empty room for Netanyahu
Have you made your organ and tissue donation decision known? Don’t leave your loved ones in doubt.
Find out more at www.organdonation.scot
#LeaveNoDoubt
Were you in ICU, or are you a relative of someone who was? If so, the Intensive Care Society wants to hear from you, the patients and families, about your experiences of ICU, in order to identify their top research priorities. Take part here: bit.ly/JLAPSP-ICU
Me today…
"I hope there comes a day in Afghanistan when women can do whatever they want."
It's a year since we helped bring 19 female Afghan medical students to Scotland to continue their studies.
Omulbanin Sultani reflects on her life before and since then: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🛌 Preventing ICU-Acquired Weakness
This umbrella review of seven systematic reviews found that starting rehabilitation within 1–3 days of ICU admission was associated with a 13% lower risk of ICU-acquired weakness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
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