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@DrRJSimpson @NHSForthValley These walking aids are collected, checked and those fit for repurpose are cleaned and re-issued. It has been a hugely successful system which has cut down on the need to buy new walking aids thus saving NHS forth valley money.

I was at our Stirling recycling centre and saw this. Anyone who is looking for waste of our taxes ⁦@NHSForthValley⁩ ❌this is an egregious example crutches walking sticks zimmers in huge the numbers❗️I was outraged😡

@thefallguyUK @acpivr @SynnottEoin @EdTankPhysio @susannahcorbet3 @suharkin @JoinJudith Really enjoyed the course and got so much out of it - looking forward to putting it into practice. Thank you!

Final BPPVII course in Glasgow today. It’s been a great roadshow @acpivr thanks @SynnottEoin @EdTankPhysio @susannahcorbet3 @suharkin @JoinJudith for being amazing hosts! #vestibularwarriers

@scotrefcouncil Whenever I click on the link it says server not found. I'm not sure if it's an issue my end or with the link. Is there another way?

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@Teesbeesandcees Grandma always liked her on countdown. I say almost single handedly going after the corrupt government is on a par to the approval of Patricia J Mc!

Is Carol vorderman the best investigative journalist in Britain?

@_dawnwillbreak I think the confusion is the difference between occupation health and occupational therapy. You could potentially self refer yourself to occupational therapy depending on which area of Glasgow you are in. glasgowcity.hscp.scot/find-service/s…

@GlasgowPam @Maryhill_SNP @MSLabour @glasgowgreens That's what I did through GP and she said she'd never heard of it. I will go back and ask for a different GP thank you for confirming it is real 😂 convinced myself it wasn't

#glasgow GP has told me they've never heard of occupational health before. Does anyone know who I ask or where I go for help? Please 💕 I'm so lost and in pain. #fibroawareness #Fibromyalgia #cfs #Disability @GlasgowPam @Maryhill_SNP @MSLabour @glasgowgreens

@physiotalk I don't think anyone in our community service feels we are delivering the rehab we want or that patients deserve. Too often we feel we are fire frightening to prevent admission, or carrying out work on behalf of other services. Long waiting lists not helping #physiotalk

Q2: Can you deliver good rehabilitation in your service at present? #physiotalk

@fnd_me strategies and improving the care we give (which is incredibly variable)

@fnd_me Well done! I just realised you must be in the same year as my friend Kat. I know you'll be exhausted after a week of placement but when you're able would you mind if I chatted to you about your FND experience. I'm a physio who is really passionate about improving our treatment..

a tired disabled med student who’s finished week 1 of placement ✅ Was SO nervous for my first placement in the wheelchair 🦽But it has been amazing! The staff in the GP practice have been so supportive ❤️ trying to combat fatigue but excited for next week. FND isn’t stopping me

@guardiannews If hotels are being used as care facilities then surely that's to relief the pressure from care providers and not the NHS. If you purely require a care package then you don't need the NHS surely.

Hotels being used as care facilities to relieve pressure on NHS #Echobox=1639411783" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/society/2021/d…

@DeclanOKane92 @william_cuham @ChrisGreenNews What would your exit strategy be out of this? I appreciate you dislike vaccines and dislike lockdowns, so just curious as to what your alternative would be?

Breaking: Statement on Covid vaccine at Holyrood - 4.4m over 18s will be eligible for vaccination - First delivery of vaccine to Scotland expected in December - Frontline NHS staff, care home staff and care home residents and over 80s will be among the first vaccinated

We've been identified as a "cluster" and have been told to ensure social distancing but given the space we work in, it's extremely difficult

@jasonleitch Community therapists with an office base that makes social distancing near on impossible -would the government advice be masks in the office? Many thanks for all your hard work

@AvrilKilkelly @Maybemayo @AdamMeakins Thank you, it's at least something I can raise with our managers to explain there is some merit to our concerns. Hope you guys are coping ok down there -good luck!

@lucymcf84 @Maybemayo @AdamMeakins GSTT! Local policy currently

Or another way of saying this is... there ISN’T enough PPE to go around so we want our brave NHS staff to work harder and take more risks! 🤨 And can someone please tell me why a COVID patient coughing during rehab isn’t classed as a high risk AGP that doesn’t require full PPE?

@AvrilKilkelly @Maybemayo @AdamMeakins Can I ask which trust you are please @AvrilKilkelly? We are having the same thought process in the community (seeing only urgent patients to prevent hospital admissions). Being inches from their face and mobilising with questionable PPE is making us nervous!

@Maybemayo @AdamMeakins It wasn’t obvious initially- took a lot of lobbying from CSP and our clinical leads to get physio recognised. My first week on COVID wards we only had basic PPE- apron, gloves, surgical masks with no eye protection- and patients coughing continuously with any sort of mobility

@SpillaneBrid Really helpful thread and thank you for link to guidelines re CPAP in covid.

1/6 Lots of news coverage today of the use of CPAP and NIV after Mercedes F1 announced their production of 10k machines for national effort, but very little coverage of the significant problems with CPAP bbc.co.uk/news/health-52…

@StirlingCouncil @scotgov If myself (a physio redeployed to acute hospital) and partner (a doctor) didn't qualify for a place, can I ask what criteria did qualify?

All Stirling Council schools will now close with the exception of education settings providing temporary care to the children of key essential workers. The decision comes after today's announcement from @scotgov News: 🔗stirling.gov.uk/news/2020/marc…

@DavieBoy79 @N1JYX @chris_sutton73 You have summer clubs to put kids into over summer. Plus families divide up their annual leave to provide care for holidays. This is not the same.

@N1JYX @chris_sutton73 I never realised that hospitals shutdown for 6 weeks in the summer #newstome

No mass gatherings but send children to school ( which is a mass gathering) is quite confusing...

@TheBabyExpert The disparity is because education is a devolved power.

Writing a new book & annoyed about the HUGE diff in Starting ages in the UK. Eg in England a child may start school days after they have turned 4 (& defer only to days after their 5th birthday), whereas in Scotland they can be almost 6 years old! Why the disparity?! #education

@BBCRadio2 @theJeremyVine If the Queen can give an actual solution to this absolute mess then jump on in hen. Otherwise your words are useless. There is no common ground, we are completely polarised.

🗞 Coming up on @theJeremyVine Show before 2pm 🗞 1️⃣ The country is still split down the middle over Brexit - but did none of us hear what the Queen said last week about finding ‘common ground’? bbc.in/2Ud15oH

@lisaed92 I'm in awe of you!