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What happened when an impromptu band of all-female funeral arrangers went against a tyrannical government that did not represent them, their dead, or their traditions? orderofthegooddeath.com/article/how-de…

In 2024/25, the specialist homelessness teams: ✅Helped 4,778 patients experiencing homelessness, a 41% increase on 23/24 ✅Reduced returns to rough sleeping by 62% and to sofa surfing by 33% ✅Registered 70% of patients with no prior access to primary care with accessible GPs

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@RoshanaMN I've suggested this here and been told it would impair ability to assess neurological status post reduction, do you think that's a concern?

I can’t believe what I’ve just heard! ED nerve blocks every reduction here 🇺🇸before Ortho reduce! ✨🦴I’m in a parallel universe 🦴✨

Yesterday, the last warning came from Nasser Hospital: “In 24 hours, there will be no formula left for premature infants.” Not a metaphor. Not exaggeration. A clinical fact. And the response? Silence. Not one truck. Not one crate. Just the silence of steel-hearted men, satisfied with the mathematics of infant death. That evening, a mother was brought to the clinic. Thirty-three years old. Unconscious. Skin cold. Breath shallow. A body so thin I could see the outline of her bones as I placed the IV. Her baby still clung to her, unaware that the breast it suckled had nothing left to give but the scent of death. Diagnosis? Dehydration. Acute malnutrition. But in truth, she suffers from something medicine cannot cure: abandonment. We administered fluids, stabilized her vitals. On paper, it will look like we helped her. We did not. We postponed the inevitable. She will return, again and again, until she dies or the world wakes up. And I am not sure which will come first. My colleague, still untouched by this hell, whispered that she should stop breastfeeding. “She must regain her strength,” he said. I did not answer. What could I say? That formula is no longer a product here, but a dream? That a can of powdered milk now costs more than a month's worth of food, if there were food? She cannot buy bread. She cannot buy air. And yet we speak to her as if she had choices. This is the cruelty of war: not just the bombs, but the absurdity of giving advice to the damned. When she left, I saw her husband standing outside. He looked at me with the eyes of a man who has already buried too much. I gave him the money in my pocket. It will not save her. It might buy two loaves of bread. It might buy her three more days of life. But she will return. And when she does, we will treat her again with our empty hands, with our useless medicine, and our unbearable guilt. This is not medicine. This is triage in a mass grave that has not been dug yet. Do not mistake this for a humanitarian emergency. This is not a famine. It is a siege. It is not collapse. It is calculation. It is not neglect. It is intent. And intent, cold and deliberate, makes it a crime. The women who collapse in my arms are not statistics. They are executions carried out in slow motion. And what is the world’s role? It does not pull the trigger. It simply watches the gun fire, again and again, and calls it “complicated.” But I will tell you what is simple: Hunger kills. Thirst kills. Silence kills. And here, in Gaza, all three work together with perfect efficiency. #GazaGenocide‌

TW Suicide x DWP A coroner has found that DWP failings contributed to the mental distress that led to 31-year-old Krissi Hunt’s suicide. She had £2.89 in her account, no food, and rising debts. She was underweight, unsupported, and trying to survive.

This article explores the health impacts of homelessness, barriers to accessing healthcare, and practical considerations for clinicians providing care. Includes a #BMJInfographic setting out advice bmj.com/content/388/bm…

🚨 I spoke to kids from a primary school where 25% of them are homeless, I wanted you to hear directly from them. Education is the biggest opportunity for children from disadvantaged backgrounds to break free from poverty. The housing crisis and inaction from Government is denying more than 164,000 kids of this, and new data proves exactly that. Please share 🙏🏽

The shocking statistic that 80 children living in Temporary Accommodation have died in the last year, shows why action needs to be taken to make stays in temporary accommodation short, safe and healthy NOW

Dear friend Dr Patrick Hart has just been sentenced to 12 months - when questioned by the judge, he said “my whole life has been in service of life, and as long there is air in my lungs I will do what I can to uphold that.” May we be even half as moral and brave 💔

New research makes the case - once again - for distributing GP spend by need to most deprived areas. I hear from one patient whose GP turned their life around How can we close health inequalities? Invest in GP practices and grassroots schemes heraldscotland.com/news/health/24…

𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨 @petermblackburn speaks to doctors from @EMAtTheDeepEnd who say meaningful interventions can help patients in emergency departments – tackling health inequalities + reducing pressure on hospitals. thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/healt…

🚨Homeless children placed in hotels are developing rickets and other diet-related health problems because their parents lack anywhere to cook... theguardian.com/society/2024/d…

I'll be at the Pathways conference next year, and would love to meet with anyone else who might be attending 😊

Do you have experience in HIV/AIDS activism or trans health activism & up for joining a brilliant project (srsly I love this project so much I'd apply if I had the skills)? Two jobs below ⬇️🤓💪 jobs.ac.uk/job/DJW880/pos… jobs.ac.uk/job/DJW892/pos…

UK accounts for 80% of the homelessness in developed countries. 50.5 people per 10,000 are homeless. Low wages, high cost of living, job insecurity, corporate profiteering, high rents, absence of social housing are a political choice. Political ideologies making people homeless

New study @BMJPublicHealth – Throughout life people with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs, e.g. child abuse) have lower trust in health advice and professionals but are more likely to need the information & care they can provide @acestoohigh. bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/bmjph/…

"Trans people will be placed in side rooms" every day I see dozens of patients on a row of trolleys in a corridor

And don't forget you can also download our just-published, first annual report on the programme here 👉bit.ly/3V9H9Ed

Exclusive: 55 homeless children have died in temporary accommodation in the last 4 years. Data from @NCMD_England, taken from official reviews of over 10,000 child deaths, shows 42 were babies under 1. The govt says the findings are "completely shocking" itv.com/news/2024-03-0…