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Eve Thompson obituary Other lives: Chair of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship who pushed for better mental health provision in the UK

Thanks to the @theguardian.com for publishing this about my Granny who died in April.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Rethink Mental Illness says goodbye to a dear friend We are sad to say that Rethink Mental Illness has lost a dear friend and former trustee. Eve Thompson was a well respected carer and leader of the charity known for her compassion for users and carers...

Lovely words from
@rethinkcharity.bsky.social about my Granny, Eve Thompson.

www.rethink.org/news-and-sto...

Alan Milburn on his style as SOS

Alan Milburn on Lansley reforms

Alan Milburn on Lansey reforms

The announcement re NHSE and DHSC feels very influenced by Alan Milburn.

Two relevant quotes from his interview in www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

The second is regarding the Lansley Reforms.

2024 marked 70 years since the tobacco industry, faced with mounting evidence of the harm caused by its products, issued their “Frank Statement” to smokers reassuring them that the link between smoking and lung cancer was yet to be proven.🧵

UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’ Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’

“This is bad, full stop. It creates a class of person who are forever excluded from civic life no matter how long they live here. It’s also a clear breach of the refugee convention.” Damn straigt, @colinyeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NHS provider deficits are back: how bad is the situation? The fragile state of NHS provider finances has often been well publicised, even if those finances have not made quite the same headlines in the past few years. As Sally Gainsbury and Sophie Julian poi...

NEW ANALYSIS: #NHS trusts reported a £1.2bn overspend last year. 💷

Trusts in areas of greatest deprivation saw the steepest declines in their finances in the year ending March 2024, with the North West and Midlands recording the deepest overspends.

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nh...

Argh!!! GP admin why are you so frustrating!

I message about something via the online portal this AM. Tell them it’s not urgent + I can’t take a call today anyway.

They send me a text for more info. Great, happy to do that when I get home this PM.

Open my messages to find another text saying …

Can anyone give me the reason why, in England, the onus is not on the seller of a home to get a building survey. That way they and all potential buyers know any issues at time of sale and avoids multiple surveys being carried.

Is there a big surveyor lobby I don't know about?

The Swimmers in Islington

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Also does a gluten free draught lager.

given that the USAID website has just gone offline, I feel it is profoundly misguided for public health experts to be giving this administration any credit whatsoever

Should alcohol come with a cancer warning? The link between alcohol and cancer is back in the spotlight and America’s surgeon-general is calling for health warnings on bottles.

“It’s kind of ridiculous that you buy a bottle of orange juice with all this nutritional information and ingredients on it, but a bottle of wine is exempt from that.” - Jem Roberts, IAS.

Alcohol labels should include nutritional information and health warnings.

www.thetimes.com/article/17e8...

Any chance of Casey accelerating the social care timetable has surely just gone up in smoke

I'm sure your groan was heard across East Finchley.

I was explaining this to someone today who hadn't really followed it before and they honestly couldn't believe it.

Health and Social Care Committee Chair Comment - Committees - UK Parliament

That grinding sound you hear is Sir Andrew Dilnot sharpening his stiletto for next Wednesday

committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...

There will be no National Care Service..another report concluding in 2028 is too close to the next election for any ‘consensus’. In this potentially historic policy area the government- stifled by Treasury orthodoxy and fear of making a case-has wasted its landslide majority.

Just finished and thought this was fantastic!

The Wallace & Gromit is an absolute treat and the last twenty minutes are RIDICULOUSLY GOOD.

to an extent but Mcnulty's plot line is so farcical I can't really get past it.

My best TV of all time (ignoring quite a bit of season 5)

A sunrise in front of a shingle beach

Good morning

Poor you, it's horrible 😟. I kept not getting round to it last year when I was pregnant with my second and ended up in hospital for three nights. Felt so silly.

Lots of great academics/organisations in this starter pack that look at commercial determinants of health regarding alcohol, tobacco, junk food, fossil fuels etc.: go.bsky.app/6nKKEeh

Gambling giant deliberately hid identities of high risk customers, financial crime watchdog alleges in unique court case Entain, which runs Ladbrokes and Neds, did not have appropriate oversight of its anti-money laundering program, Austrac alleges

Gambling giant deliberately hid identities of high risk customers, financial crime watchdog alleges in unique court case - @henrybelot.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them We need to redesign social media and other digital platforms so that these spaces are safer and healthier, writes Louise Holly Across the globe, countries are grabbling with how to shield children f...

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them

Doability
Benefits and harms
Won't make platforms safer
Detracts from wider (and larger) harms

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Most areas across Great Britain have experienced a fall in life exp.

All publicity is good publicity for alcohol industry as it uses zero-alcohol products to circumvent public health rules - Alcohol Action Ireland Introduction Alcohol is advertised to us in a variety of ways. Sponsorship at sports and music events, products promoted in our favourite movies and TV shows, and displays in shops to celebrate Valent...

In an awards submission for Heineken 0.0, the company noted that:

“success of the Heineken 0.0 campaign has compounded growth for the brand overall in a shrinking market.”

Read Alcohol Action Ireland's blog on how the alcohol industry circumvents marketing ban.

alcoholireland.ie/all-publicit...