Dr Sarah Henshaw

Photos of The Quarry park in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Beautiful Wednesday walk in Shrewsbury.

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social I have been made aware of 6 GP’s across Shropshire who have resigned their posts since 1.1.2025. All trained locally by my GP trainer colleagues and I. All of them have accepted jobs in Canada. We need news NOW of a more rosy future in GP in England. Please 🙂

My mum does this for me.. age 49🙈😅

Shropshire 🥰

#Shropshire

Good morning to everyone who doesn’t dismiss women and their very real complaints.

The alternative dog walk was a delight however. If you’ve never ventured to #shrewsbury it’s a special place. We are very lucky to call it home.

Beautiful Shrewsbury is rather waterlogged this morning. The golden retriever is a dog of routine, our altered route is taking persuasion.

We loved watching this, completing it this weekend. Joyful puzzling with a bit of detectiving. Perfection.

👇 racism kills in healthcare. E.g the MBRACE report 2019-2021: there was nearly 4 fold difference in maternal mortality rates amongst women from Black ethnic backgrounds & ~2 fold difference amongst women from Asian ethnic backgrounds compared to white women. These differences have persisted

Thursday in team GP.
Phones not working. Staff sickness ++
No golden retriever today.

Crisp, brisk walk in beautiful Shrewsbury this morning. Pensive golden retriever.

Crisp, brisk walk in beautiful Shrewsbury this morning. Pensive golden retriever.

It is obvious that Gisèle Pelicot is very tired. Since September, she has sat in court most days listening to graphic descriptions of the alleged rapes of which she was the victim, and has withstood some aggressive questioning from defence lawyers. Today, one of the last questions that was put to her had to do with her choosing to keep the Pelicot name despite divorcing Dominique Pelicot. She answered that she wanted her grandchildren to be proud of it - because it would be associated with her and this trial, rather than her ex-husband's crimes. More than 100 people were sat in the courtroom, yet you could've heard a pin drop. Gisèle may be exhausted and carrying an enormous amount of trauma, but her voice was calm and very assured as she said this. It was also her first acknowledgment of the global resonance this trial has had.

Gisèle Pelicot is an absolute boss.

There is no end to the respect I have for her.

The strength and dignity she has shown in the face of what must be a devastating and torturous personal trauma, is awe inspiring.

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Helen Salisbury: Early warning scores and medicine by numbers “Do you remember that child you saw two days ago?” All doctors dread what might come next: we fear that something bad has happened because we missed a clinical sign or made a poor judgment. This kind ...

"Assessing acutely unwell children isn’t something that can be done by algorithm or by following a protocol. And it’s yet another reason why acute and urgent care should remain an integral part of general practice."

@helensalisbury.bsky.social latest column www.bmj.com/content/387/...

This is a truly amazing achievement.

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a man is dancing on a piano in front of a crowd in a store . ALT: a man is dancing on a piano in front of a crowd in a store .

We have just watched this, all cosied up with fire lit. It was wonderful.

Deaths caused by vaccine-preventable diseases, World The estimated annual number of deaths caused by several vaccine-preventable diseases, based on statistical modeling. Estimates come with wide uncertainties, especially for countries with poor vital registration' The chart shows the cumulative deaths has dropped from over 4 million per year in 1980 to less than 2 million in 2021 1. Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system: A Civil Registration and Vital Stati stics system (CRVS) is an administrative system in a country that manages information on births, marriages, deaths and divorces. It generates and stores 'vital records' and legal documents such as birth certificates and death certificates. You can read more about how deaths are registered around the world in our article: How are causes of death registered around the world?

Rate of cases and deaths from measles in the United States The reported annual rate of new cases and deaths from measles, per 100,000 people in the population. Chart shows decline of cases from 100 to less than 0.1 and deaths from 10 to less than 0.001.

I will NEVER stop advocating for vaccines.

For the vast majority history, childhood diseases meant 50%+ of our kids would die before aged 5.

Now, for the first time in the history of humanity, the loss of a child through disease at that age is a tragic rarity.

AND YET SOMEHOW PEOPLE ARE ANTIVAX!?

OBESITY On leaving primary school 28.9% of children who live in England's most deprived areas are obese, which compares with 14.7% of children in the least deprived areas [Institute for Public Policy Research]

Another snippet in the @bmj.com, this time referring to work by the @ippr.bsky.social.

Obesity is strongly correlated with deprivation, though I think some people still struggle with that concept.

We already know this fact, but the challenge is how to improve the situation?

#SDOH
#EndPoverty

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So then, a starter pack(et) of crisps for new followers.

Your essential guide to the best potato and corn based snacks.

Strap in. A 🧵

Let’s start with a simple basic cheese’n’onion.

I make no apologies for this. You don’t start a wine course with a Pomerol 1/15