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Joined May 2011
“We did our best with the staff and resources available, but it wasn’t enough.” That is the seed of a moral injury. @ProfNGreenberg @bmj_latest Recommended reading today for the weeks ahead when grappling with myriad doubts of being 'good enough' as individuals and systems
A key paper from @ProfNGreenberg et al. setting out measures that healthcare managers need to put in place to protect the mental health of healthcare staff having to make morally challenging decisions during the Covid-19 pandemic doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1211
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The challenge will be that even if AOT is reintroduced widely (which I hope it will be)…that it must be resourced to deliver for all who meet the criteria, rather than a caseload cap. The college have been unable to provide guidance on caseloads for cmht.
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We have been recommissioned to study patient homicide having not done so since 2018. Key messages from our previous studies highlight that addressing comorbid alcohol/drug misuse & delivering deliver the care plan as intended is crucial to reduce risk #NCISH2026 @ProfLAppleby
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Some of you on here will have known Dr Tony Zigmond who sadly died yesterday. He worked for many years as a psychiatrist in Leeds and was an Hon Fellow and former Vice President of @rcpsych. He will be greatly missed. RIP Tony.
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Replying to @asifamhp
But then they'll bring in the s2/s3 amendments and there will be fewer admissions - all part of the master plan to detain fewer and fewer people. It's expensive you know - easier and cheaper to push costs to CJ system and just promise that lessons will be learned.
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In fact, consultant psychiatrists have in reality also been displaced from leadership of community pathways. They are only nominally consultant led. Key pathway decisions no longer necessarily rest with consultants. Admitting rights removed. xitter.cf/Megsenmumdr/status/205…
But for OP work we still need Consultant Psychiatrists (for now) It’s only when these patients are most sickest who have to be IP & sectioned under MHA & liberty deprived, then they don’t need Consultant led care, Brilliant RCs who have done robust portfolio can takeover 😬
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Replying to @NeilDotObrien
Excellent piece - there is a conversation nobody has been wanting to have about why the police and Crown Prosecution Service are reluctant to prosecute mentally unwell people who commit more serious offences; and how initiatives like "Right Care, Right Person" contribute to that.
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The most beautiful thing you will hear today: Nina Simone plays The sound of silence
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The moment a rescued chimpanzee thanked Dr. Jane Goodall in a way no one expected
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GP referrals will now be ‘assessed’ by a ‘Consultant led’ Single point of access 1 in 4 is the target to reject GPs & patients must insist on Jess’s Rule in referrals Any rejected referral must have a Consultant name & GMC number This is the only way to ensure patient choice
Solution to this could be whenever a patient's referral gets rejected, write to hospital asking for name and GMC number of consultant that rejected it. Shift burden back into secondary care > becomes unworkable > drive reform back the other way.
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This is a photograph of Albert Einstein with an unassuming Indian man you probably haven’t heard enough about. He spent his life working on one idea: women should be able to live with dignity and make their own choices. Thread. 1/14
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Frightfully British ways to respond to anyone who objects to your dog in a public space.
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"Hour by hour, the fire spread through the space between the arch’s inner and outer layer, which was designed to keep a hermetic seal. Four days after the strike, it was completely ablaze. Worse, the fire had spread deep into an interior membrane made of polymers and other materials — wrapped all around the arch — that firefighters could not reach. There was only one way to fight the fire, and it involved cutting even more holes in the arch." ... Read this terrifying and well presented @FT story about the hole punched in Chornobyl's rooftop by a Russian drone that the @EBRD says will cost €500 to fix. via @JohnReedwrites @samjoiner and Henry Esterson ft.com/content/c0f1ff87-cd28…
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Silence is the language of the gods, music and poetry is its translation. @sufimusafir in conversation with @georginagodwin @voices_of_faith
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This math joke is nice. Happy pi day.
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Thora Hird's performance in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads is always singled out, and quite right too. But Patricia Routledge's performance as Irene Ruddock in A Lady of Letters breaks your heart. I've never forgotten this scene. Patricia was an incredible dramatic actress.
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Use of 'insight' in medicolegal settings to help in decisions about involuntary treatment and decision-making capacity. Conclusion: can be useful if done in the right way and contra NICE, insight and capacity are NOT 'distinct concepts' authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti… @rcpsych
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R K Laxman was a true visionary. This was published in 1978.
What are the ways the traffic in Mumbai can improve? Improving public transport? Last mile connectivity? Car pooling? Flyovers?
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"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." ― Tom Stoppard quotesgram.com/tom-stoppard-…
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