@AnnaBatchelor @LikeOldTat @Coldstream_HP @RuberslawWild Everything is probably much the same, just a bit closer to the front door & much more urgent! Your ward looks nicer tho.
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sarah brown
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sarah brown
@drsarahbee
Liaison psychiatrist & medical leader/manager @CNTWNHS. Champion for holistic, integrated care - no health without mental health! Opinions mine.
United Kingdom Katılım Ekim 2011
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@AnnaBatchelor @LikeOldTat @Coldstream_HP @RuberslawWild I also have oodles of courgettes. sometimes think I should be a Consultant CommonSense-ist, (like all good liaison psychiatrists.)
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In Scottish Borders, the sun is blazing down, I might have just opened a cosmopolitan cocktail in a tin. Life is good
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Latest Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey is out. Most important UK data on mental health trends. I’ll be looking at it closely in the coming days.
digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor…
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Our Chief Executive’s Award goes to... Angela Glascott
Angela’s dedication is nothing short of inspiring. She started the Recovery College with the intention of providing a safe space where people can connect, gain knowledge and develop skills.
#CNTWstars
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Our second Chief Executive’s Award goes to... Hope Haven.
Hope Haven is a community transformation project in West Cumbria. This is the first time clinical services have joined forces with multiple external organisations to provide a solution to community mental health.
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@PME_Politics It’s one thing to support assisted dying ‘in principle’ but quite another thing to support this specific Bill in its current form….
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*That said*
Brits are very split on whether the Assisted Dying Bill itself is the right or wrong thing for the government to be focusing on right now, indicating that while the general idea is popular, the passage of this specific bill may not be what the public are looking for,
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A reminder as we go into the third reading of the bill today that the principle of assisted dying remains popular among the British public.
@YouGov polling in mid-April found that 78% supported "In principle... assisted dying being legal in some form in the UK".
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@LikeOldTat Not til I’ve built it myself!! (Off to find staples…)
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@NCL_Uncovered I moved to Newcastle in 1992 & that’s what it looked like! Anyone remember the concrete ‘Lego’ figures around Haymarket before they did it up? There’s one or two in a garden as ornaments in Kenton….
Tho apparently that was 1999
theguardian.com/uk/the-norther…
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Back when you could park on Northumberland Street.
What year do you reckon this was?
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Physician associates and anaesthetic associates in UK: rapid systematic review of recent UK based research
Timely work by @trishgreenhalgh that reveals the lack of evidence for the safety of PAs in the UK
#lengreview bmj.com/content/388/bm…
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If we concede that taking your own life in some circumstances should be not only allowed but assisted, suicide prevention more broadly is undermined.
My interview with @jessicaelgot for @guardian. theguardian.com/society/2025/f…
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Our 2025 @NCISH_UK report is published today. It presents new figs on suicide by mental health patients, inc inpatients.
It identifies key risks that should be the target of prevention.
There is a focus on
•bipolar disorder
•patients who are losing contact
•bereavement.
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Most consultants I know have never used a Section 4
I work in Assertive Outreach and I have. More than once
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“In the case of an emergency, the application may be made by the nearest relative of the patient or a medical practitioner under section 4 of the Mental Health Act.” A medical practitioner cannot make an application (NR can also make app for ss. 2 and 3).
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@kimleadbeater In my experience (Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist) is that yes, most doctors can tell you how to assess capacity, but they struggle to put it into practice. And ask 6 or 7 doctors in a complex case -you’ll get a range of views. Eg. bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP…
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The Mental Capacity Act is the right place to start in terms of determining if a patient can make this decision. It's been tried and tested. It's used every day. Doctors are confident using it and it strikes the right balance - protecting both them and their patients. 4/7
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Having had the weekend to reflect on the wealth of info from oral witnesses last week for my Private Members' Bill on Choice at the End of Life, I keep coming back to five things that really stuck with me 🧵 #AssistedDying 1/7
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Adjustment to divorce not ‘hormonal balancing’ via a ‘Love Doctor’….🤦♀️
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2/2 And measuring the gap (dotted line) with our most natural comparator (ONS: professional, scientific & technical) we are still WAY WAY behind where they are vs CPI inflation (consultants 26.5%⏬; residents 29.2%⏬)
RT if you want to continue jouney towards #PayRestoration
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@silverhills64 @r_renforth Even thinking about the spectacular Red Bounty brings a tear to my eye….
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Red Bounty and Caramac defo 😋
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The @MentalHealthPRU has published a systematic review on surveillance technologies in inpatient mental healthcare settings. In this thread, my colleague Dr Jess Griffiths and I will outline the study and the main results and implications. 1/7
GIF
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The message needs to go out across frontline NHS staff that suicidal patients who have mental capacity are *not* outside the scope of MH care or, if needed, the MH Act.
This applies to patients presenting with self-harm, personality disorder, anorexia nervosa & many more.
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