Bit of patient knowledge/experience 2 transplants 39yrs Dx Wilson's disease. Creaky joints. Complex illness Coproduction. QI #RareDisease #Candour. Like history
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In past 2 weeks I was dropped at the door of BCH Tower Block, Belfast.
Made my way to the 11th Floor.
A nurse walked me down to my family 5 days later after a second kidney transplant.
Again indebted to a donor, their family & the magnificent BCH multi-disciplinary renal team.
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This is a problem.
Please read and please consider blood donation (quickly)
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๐ | The Health Minister has ordered a pause on the withdrawal of the Phone First triage service.
Last month the @BelTel reported use of the service had reached record levels in September.
Belfast Trust has already cut the service and redeployed staff.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/โฆ
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Disgusting people at Mar-a-Lago at the CPAC Circle Retreat and Gala.
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Yes. And lack of compassion compounds trauma and also lasts a life time.
"Acts of compassion during a period of trauma may last a lifetime in a personโs memory."
Brian Kulp describes the lasting effects of compassion and humour from healthcare professionals during a medical emergency
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026โฆ
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I think you'll find that it's the rape that he is getting punished for...
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Waiting wearily for the usual suspects to deny that we need NHS managerial regulation.
'You can't regulate them. They're not a profession etc...'
In the private sector, directors of companies can be banned cf Winterbourne Hospital scandal
nitter.cf/SkyNews/status/2118711โฆ
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๐ฅ Weโve always said the #Eljamel scandal goes far beyond one butcher surgeon.
Damning evidence raises serious questions about potential criminality within @NHSTayside
Past and present senior leadership must face intense scrutiny. No one should be beyond investigation.
#PatientSafety
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BREAKING NEWS! Serious Disorder breaks out on the London Underground Northern Line this afternoon๐๐คทโโ๏ธ๐
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Why should the organisation responsible for a patient's care also control the evidence used to investigate that care?
When the institution under scrutiny holds the records, controls the audit trail and verifies its own account, who independently verifies the truth?
#PatientSafety #addresstheharm
I can be quite affable when a big fat lie about my diagnosis and inappropriate attacks on my character, are not being accepted.
This is where being given the silent treatment does not work.
Iโm not shutting up until there is #,Candour about what happened.
Vive la rรฉvolution
MLA inaction enables the practice of overlooking concerns raised & is dismissive of the Independent Neurology Inquiry findings @RobbieButlerMLA
This is how people are harmed & scandals evolve
#HopeNotFear
@mcguigan_philip
@DannyDonnelly1
@NualaMcAllister
@DianeDoddsMLA
@ColinSDLP
Have you found out if Dr Hagan still insists on accepting complaint findings given what he knows about them @RobbieButlerMLA
Gives a very negative image of his Trust.
And I have witnesses
#HopeNotFear
@mcguigan_philip
@DannyDonnelly1
@NualaMcAllister
@DianeDoddsMLA
@ColinSDLP
Iโll still see the dental hygienist
I also have a broken back tooth. Not giving bother but dentist said it could lead to an infection in the nerve. Theyโll only know if another type of x-ray is carried out.
All on hold.
So, much for transplant patients looking after their teeth๐ก
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Vulnerable patientsโ long dental waits โburiedโ ift.tt/El0YbA6
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Absolutely agree, #whistleblowing protection is just smoke and mirrors. #FTSU just part of the facade.
The Protection for NHS whistleblowers is supposedly there but really it is a Pied Piper situation to make you think you were safe when really, once you blew the whistle you were identified as an 'Enemy' IMO
@CompassnInCare @TheHonestDr @DrMohammadIAdi1 @DrTeckKhong @jem
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The time is now. RFK Jr. must resign or be fired. End of discussion.
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Covid damages the heart. Even mild infections can do so. ๏ฟผ
Media and government seem unwilling to make it clear.
The BHF acknowledges this itself.
Iโm afraid weโre living in a time of collapsed public health and an unwillingness to treat the public like adults and tell them the truth about scary things.
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Still no response from MLAs
#HopeNotFear
Your silence is putting people at risk.
I donโt know if itโs due to fear. Only you can explain.
However, you're not protecting patients & until you speak up it's not candour
@RobbieButlerMLA #HopeNotFear
@mcguigan_philip
@DannyDonnelly1
@NualaMcAllister
@DianeDoddsMLA
@ColinSDLP
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NHS MADE HER SIGN A GAG ORDER. PARLIAMENT PROMISED TO STOP IT. BOTH LIED.
Sue Allison was a breast radiographer at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust (@UHMBT) for nearly two decades. In 2012, she reported a senior radiologist who was repeatedly failing to diagnose women with breast cancer.
Two of those women died from cancers that should have been caught.
What happened next is the NHS playbook, start to finish.
She was ostracised. Bullied. Pushed out of her department. Blacklisted across the NHS so thoroughly that job applications in hospitals as far away as Kingston triggered questions about her whistleblowing.
She described her reputation as "absolutely destroyed."
After 34 years in the profession, she will never work in it again.
In 2015, with no legal advice, she was pressured into signing not one but two NDAs. The trust used those agreements to try to stop her from ever bringing a claim against them.
An employment tribunal later ruled both NDAs void. The judge found she had a clear case of whistleblower detriment.
By 2019, her case had reached Parliament.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) personally cited Sue Allison's NDAs in the House of Commons and declared he was "determined to end" the injustice of gagging NHS whistleblowers.
The ban was never enforced. Six years later, it still hasn't been.
She eventually settled her detriment claim in 2020 for financial compensation after admitting she would have had to sell her house to fund a full tribunal.
The trust thanked her for raising concerns. The same trust that silenced her for eight years.
She wasn't done. She became a governor of the same trust, trying to hold it to account from the inside.
In May 2023, she resigned. The bullying culture, she said, had never changed.
Governors asking legitimate questions about patient safety were being suppressed and eventually dismissed.
This case runs from 2012 to 2023. Eleven years. Same trust. Same culture. Same result for the people who spoke up.
The Morecambe Bay maternity scandal. The urology cover-up. The disputed emails. Peter Duffy. And Sue Allison, running through all of it, trying to hold the line, watching the institution close ranks every time.
Sources: @ComputerWeekly, @BylineTimes, Lancaster Guardian, @IndexCensorship,
