Adrian Chamberlain

#tescomobile web chat clearly asleep this morning!

John McKay worked at Marylebone in the 1980s but at weekends he was a driver on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex. A gentleman of the first order, it was my privilege to join him on the footplate for a day.

#portrait #filmphotography #35mm #traindriver #railwayphotography #steamtrain

After the siege, with the UN Protection Force in place. A throwback picture from the 1990s.

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Last night’s gig, discussion on getting early COPD diagnosis and intervention out into the community.

Unprecedented yes, but I wouldn’t say unexpected.

Warsaw Noir

#warszawa #warsaw #polska #poland #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #artdeco

When aGP practice sends an AccuRx/Systmone invite to book an appointment in the next 7-14 days, and there’s none available for over three months…it tells me that the IT and process needs a rethink, not that they don’t have appointments.

#nhs #primaryhealthcare #healthpolicy #gpsurgery

So @gwr.com could you explain to me why, when I turned up at 00.16 at Bath Spa for the 00.20 train towards Westbury, that the entire station was locked and I had to take a taxi?

#railtravel #rail #trains #bathspa

I’m getting my head around things like this in the context of it having been published around the time my house was built. 😳

One of the challenges of fixing NHS dental care is that few of the directors/managers based in in ICBs (responsible for commissioning dental services) have much understanding of dental providers and their NHS contract. Dental is now crudely lumped together with pharmacy and opticians (POD).

#NHS

Como

#streetphotography #peoplewatching #lagodicomo #como #italy #leica

Gotthard Pass

#airolo #gottardpass #switzerland #minicooper

Strasbourg

#streetphotography #strasbourg #leica #france

I can’t access the article but I will dig and ask around

The whole sorry affair has left me back where I was on that fateful morning in 2016, wishing I’d left this country while I had the chance.

I’m now starting to wonder where Andy Burnham stands on these matters - just over a week ago he was at an NHS Confederation gathering as a speaker and quite interesting…future PM?

I did consider making a speech about tackling poverty, taxing the rich, nationalising utilities and properly funding the NHS and social care, but then I thought... nah, just go full Enoch Powell.

“I could play with myself at the Pope’s funeral and not lose a single vote.”

I suspect that I (and various colleagues) could provide an answer to their quest in 5 minutes, not 5 years.

I remember it well, their HQ was on my patch and it tied me up for almost a week preparing damage limitation material for the CEO of our fledgling ICB 🤓

Just shared that with our clinical directors, hopefully it won’t cause them too much sleep loss

Measles has now hit 800+ cases in the USA across 24 states. Montana has reported its first case since 1999. Should we be requiring visitors to the UK from the USA to provide evidence of vaccination before boarding flights?

#healthpolicy #publichealth #DoHSC

Throwback…La Bête Humaine, Jean Renoir 1938 😉

#classicfilm #frenchfilm

Title reads: "It Didn't Start with Gas Chambers." Text below reads: "It started with one party controlling the media. One party controlling the message. One party deciding what is truth. One party censoring speech and controlling the opposition. One party dividing citizens into "us" vs "them" and calling on their supporters to harrass "them". Below it states: "It started when good people turned a blind eye and let it happen." Beneath the text is a picture of Nazi Germany.

Never forget.

RFK Jr. is literally setting the foundation for some Hans Asperger-level Nazi euthanasia campaign and my #ActuallyAutistic Jewish ass just can’t.

I can’t come up with anything more cogent than this: “burden to families” and “a life not worth living” are the exact arguments that the Nazis used.

'Good chance' of US trade deal with UK, says Vice-President Vance The Trump administration's trade policy shakeup has caused global economic turmoil.

'Good chance' of US-UK trade deal, says Vance.

Please repost if you want the UK to rejoin the EU or Single Market rather than do a trade deal with Trump's America.
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Some walls , windows and doorways in Bački Petrovac, a Slovak village in northern Serbia.

#architecture #pastel #serbia #vojvodina #easterneurope #balkans #35mm #filmphotography #design

The year is 1991 and I had just driven that borrowed grey #Moskvitch 5 hours east of Prague to the town of #Zubři in #Moravia - bald tyres and double de-clutching on a completely shot synchromesh. When #travel was an adventure 😁

#czechrepublic #easterneurope #europe #1990s #car #throwback

Throwback to Maidan Square in Kiev, early 2014

#streetphotography #kiev #ukraine