Simon Lennane is on bluesky instead

@LowimpactOrg My book 'Creating Community Health' looks beyond #socialPrescribing to #communityDevelopment, producing health rather than healthcare, with a wonderful foreword by @CormacRussell. communityhealth.uk

@LowimpactOrg My book 'Creating Community Health' looks beyond #socialPrescribing to #communityDevelopment, producing health rather than healthcare, with a wonderful foreword by @CormacRussell. communityhealth.uk

Anyway, I've recently written something for @lowimpactOrg about billionaire-free local communications using #meshtastic #LoRa lowimpact.org/posts/friends-…

I haven't been active on here for a long time now, but I'm reluctant to close this account because it's mentioned in my book as a way to get in touch. I'm far more likely to see messages on @simonlennane.bsky.social or @SimonLennane" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mas.to/@SimonLennane or via communityhealth.uk

@pash22 @KristinaMFiore hoping you'll come over to bluesky too @pash22 - your posts one of my few reasons to visit twitter now

Physicians Flock to Bluesky, Hoping to Leave X Behind: Many compare it to the early days of Twitter via @KristinaMFiore medpagetoday.com/special-report…

It’s clearly immoral to blow a hole in the overall dementia budget by funding drugs which cost a huge amount for very limited benefit. I can’t emphasise enough that social care and continuing health care need this money now.

@DrLindaDykes common in Norfolk too

Do I know any linguists with expertise in English dialects here? Something striking about #Herefordshire is that locals call objects “he” or “she”… e.g. “she’s working well now…” [about a mower]. Is this a local curiosity or did English used to ascribe gender to objects?

📕📗📘📙Book announcement: *Drop the Disorder + Do Something* is ready to pre-order Order here: pccs-books.co.uk/products/drop-… I am honoured to be one of the many authors of this powerful new book. We join in challenging the dominant culture of psychiatric diagnosis that causes so much harm, while hiding behind a mask of love. Among the authors are high-profile names such as 'V' (formerly known as Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues), child therapist Kate Silverton and Canadian physician Gabor Maté (The Myth of Normal), leading researchers and writers, including professors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (The Spirit Level) and Joanna Moncrieff; Robert Whitaker of madinamerica.com, and frontline campaigner Jacqui Dillon, alongside a host of other activists, service users and refusers, poets, artists, counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists and other practitioners and leaders in the mental health and homeless sectors who are trying to do things differently in their own spheres. *About the book: The culture of psychiatric diagnosis causes harm. It labels people in distress. It silences them. It takes away their individuality and agency. At its worst, it removes their human rights. It only asks, 'What's wrong with you?' and doesn't ask, 'What happened to you?' (Perry and Winfrey, 2021) It fails to acknowledge the complexity of an individual's story and their social context. This book's message is 'do something', and its hard-hitting and inspiring chapters tell us why and how. pccs-books.co.uk/products/drop-…

@cwfrith @hoopleltd We've been asking for PCs that actually work for years.

@SimonLennane @hoopleltd Is it a lack of investment in the cottage hospital’s hardware, software, updates, coms or maintenance? What do @hoopleltd say?

Were other practices affected in your locality and nationally last Friday morning? How often does it happen in your practice? @hoopleltd

More importantly, today is international red panda day! #redPanda

The #covidinquiry was back up and running this week and quickly into what some people think is one of the biggest scientific or policy mistakes (or 'misunderstandings' depending on your POV) of the whole pandemic. And it's all to do with how Covid is spread in the first place. 🧵

@cwfrith Juat logging in to Windows! I'd found another PC, seen the patient & finished writing my notes by the time this one was working.

@SimonLennane @HereforHereford Were you trying to access a United Heathcare product (the patient record software used by most GPs in the country) or simply log in to Microsoft? If the former open source GP software might now be the best solution both medically and financially for the U.K. Hope it is OK today.

Some NHS IT is woeful - it took 8 minutes to log on to a PC on Friday. AI may well offer great things, but yes, sort the basics out first. theguardian.com/society/2024/s…

COVID INQURY tweet 2 Yesterdays the @covidinquiryuk @TheBMA opening statement focused on -preventable harm to healthcare -poor IPC decisions -lack of aerosol protection, persistently -inequity in risk It quotes the @HSJnews as a source of the latter These three articles from April to May 2020 brought to light the high proportion of non-white ethnicity & migrant healthcare workers who died at that time - a disproportionate burden hsj.co.uk/workforce/at-l… hsj.co.uk/exclusive-deat… hsj.co.uk/comment/younge…

@olliehart7 @profchrisham @BBB_Health have forwarded you a copy Ollie

@profchrisham @SimonLennane @BBB_Health Many thanks Chris. It’s behind a paywall….do you have a full version….or photo, I can see . Many thanks . Appreciate your support. It feels like a crucial time to ensure person centred approaches not forgotten

name checking innovations in general practice and community involvement - the future we need @olliehart7 @SimonLennane @BBB_Health hsj.co.uk/service-redesi…

@profchrisham @olliehart7 @BBB_Health Thank you Chris - very proud to see Ross-on-Wye mentioned alongside leaders in community health such as Frome & Fleetwood, who inspired us. @Ross_CDT

Green prescribing works, and is cost effective: theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Some of my favourite women on Twitter do unbelievably good things in & with their communities. They write wonderfully too; heart felt, reflective & authentic. @angelafell writes on ‘resistance’ northernheartandsoul.co.uk/author/angela/

Ultimately you can still be annoyed that you have to drive a bit slower. But it is getting increasingly hard to argue that this policy isn't saving lives. Evidence based policy seems to work - who'd have thought it?