Brenda Kelly

My So Called Life ❤️

Vaccinations Find out about NHS vaccinations for babies, children and adults, including why they're important and how to get them.

Here's the NHS's excellent vaccine information.

I have no agenda - except wanting patients, people, to be as healthy as possible. I have no links to Pharma, make no money from Pharma. But I've seen patients die because they didn't get vaccinated - & this is heartbreaking.

www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/

Brexit led to rise in hospital death rates because EU nurses were replaced by less qualified staff, academic study says - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

How to save libraries and what to do with them next Libraries are vanishing – but Essex fought back. Now, they're evolving into vibrant community hubs for the 21st century

Libraries are vanishing – but Essex fought back. Now, they're evolving into vibrant community hubs for the 21st century.

There have been 800 library closures nationally since 2010 – nearly a fifth of the total. In Essex, however, vigorous public campaigning stopped it. ❤️🙌

The left map shows the parts of Germany with the highest percentage of Syrian refugees.

The right map shows public support for the anti-migrant AfD.

Something to keep in mind when reading stories that posit a direct link between refugee numbers and support for the far-right.

Because there's no need for trusted global news that isn't owned by an oligarch. No need at all.

When a team of doctors, scientists and engineers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge placed an air filtration machine in COVID-19 wards, they found that it removed almost all traces of airborne SARS-CoV-2.

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I’m recovering from a ‘failed’ hysteroscopy. It’s the only ‘oscopy’ performed without anaesthetic because forcing women to endure pain saves the NHS £££ each yr. The leaflet said take paracetamol. I almost threw up/passed out from severe pain. Pls sign: chng.it/YwCzLdfyTP

A flyer which says: We would love to hear from you. Are you Over 18? Living in the UK? Have you experienced pain during: smear test, colposcopy, hysteroscopy, IUD (coil) fitting, assisted conception or abortion? If so, please follow the QR code to complete an online survey which will help us to improve understanding of pain during these procedures. For any questions about the study please contact the lead researcher carrie.purcell@open.ac.uk. The Open University logo.

📢Launched today: The Gender Pain Gap consultation on Pain in Sexual & Reproductive Health Procedures (UK).

Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures.

openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

"Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men for how to live your life is even sadder."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Screenshot of a phone setting highlighting the “learn from this app” invasion of privacy, courtesy of Siri, toggled on. The app is a password manager, which is concerning.

Welp. Apple snuck something dirty in our phones last night.

Settings > Apps > (pick an app) > Siri > Learn From this App

TOGGLE OFF.

You have to go through each app. My garage app, my BANKING APPS, others had that turned on automatically. 😡

In 50 years worth of inquiries into catastrophic failures in healthcare the normalisation of poor care features greatly.
People then ask how this happens. This is how it happens. No red line.

New company recorded on Companies House, X.AI London Ltd

Elon Musk is listed as the sole person with significant control

As others including Carole Caddwaladr have flagged, X/Elon Musk has registered a new UK company

Having a UK company (which is trading) is essential to being able to donate to a UK party

Could be other reasons, but the timing is a significant red flag...

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

WaPo cartoonist resigns after Post rejects her cartoon of billionaires paying tribute to Donald Trump, one of whom happens to be her boss, Jeff Bezos.

Satire has literally died.

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Takes a few seconds to vote. No need to tick boxes or add emails

I can’t believe there are all these idiots who want to go back to when people just used to shit themselves to death 75 percent of the time

Merry Christmas!

Thinking of my amazing colleagues working in the NHS this Christmas, but also those trying to save lives in unimaginable circumstances elsewhere.

Wishing for peace in 2025. 🙏

Beautifully written as ever @katlister.bsky.social ❤️

Call me suspicious, but I want to hear they’re going to increase “health visitors” (ie - a regulated, statutorily protected term, denoting high level of qualification), not “health visiting” (which I rather suspect might be about to be done by someone less qualified…).

Is Elon Musk Planning To Make A 'F*** You Starmer' $100 Million Donation To Reform UK? The tech billionaire has been at war with the PM for months.

I mean this obviously can't stand. You can't have a foreign extremist, who used social media to encourage & facilitate far-right violence, plough huge donations to his favoured British political party.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/is-elo...

Can we function without Nurses?

No.

Can anyone get a job as a nurse?

No.

Do we have enough nurses?

No.

Should we pay nurses fairly, retain staff and improving staffing levels.

Yes.

YouTube video by politizane Wealth Inequality in America

Wow.

This video is truly eye-opening.

Take a couple minutes to watch this.

A mind-boggling visual representation of wealth inequality in America.

This sh*t ain’t workin’, folks. #TaxBillionaires #UnionsForAll

I just don't have the time or the energy for Elon Musk discovering UK parliamentary petitions.

"Lower turnover rates for nurses and senior doctors at hospital level were associated with better health outcomes for patients with emergency hospital admissions."
The question for me is why we have to keep spelling this out.

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

The propaganda machine is at work again I see. It's hardly like we are out here driving Porsches and carrying Chanel bags to lunch at Claridges 🤦

Wow. According to this image it looks like nurses - whose real-terms pay has declined by at least 20% since 2010 are responsible for driving up UK borrowing. Thanks for clearing that up BBCNews

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

So y’all know that the lead investor in this place is a crypto company founded by Steve Bannon’s ex-business partner, right?