Dr Alison Pearson

We created this as a way of mapping #wellbeing and #mentalhealth interventions for doctors, but this will also be of interest to anyone doing wellbeing research, or trying to improve the workplace.

What strain is the outbreak in Kent though? If it’s meningitis B, there is no NHS option for anyone born before 2015. The NHS left the most vulnerable age group unprotected. And despite this outbreak, teenagers in Canterbury are STILL not being offered any meningitis vaccines!

Evidence consistently shows that women, particularly older, disabled, or economically vulnerable women, face a disproportionate risk of coercion, pressure, or internalised obligation when end-of-life decisions are framed through assisted suicide. Any system that fails to fully guard against that risk and others cannot claim to be safe to enact as law. 3/5

The names of the UK personnel who died in Afghanistan: George, Darren John Busuttil, Robert Gregory, John Kitulagoda, Jonathan Sherwood, Steven Cridge, Mark Craddock, Peter Edward Philippson, Jim Bartlett, Paul Patten, David Hashmi, Jabron Thorpe, Peter Jackson, Damien Raymond Eida, Alex Johnson, Ralph Nicholls, Ross Cutts, Andrew Barrie Reeves, Leigh Tansey, Sean Budd, Bryan James Hetherington, Jonathan Draiva, Anare Andrews, Gary Wayne Beattie, Stephen Bell, Gerard Martin Davies, Adrian Dicketts, Oliver Simon Johnson, Steven Knight, Benjamin James Langton, John Joseph Mitchelmore, Leigh Anthony Nicholas, Gareth Rodney Quilliam, Gary Paul Squires, Allan James Swarbrick, Steven Windall, Joseph David O'Donnell, Craig McCulloch, Luke Muirhead, Paul Wright, Mark William Wright, Gary Wigley, Jonathan Watson, Richard J. Dwyer, James Curry, Thomas Ford, Mathew Holland, Jonathan Summers, Scott Clark, Ross McLaughlin, Liam Reddy, Benjamin Smith, Michael Gray, Chris Davison, Simon Davey, George Russell Probyn, Daniel Bonner, Darren Gilyeat, Mike Sandford, Paul "Sandy" Downes, Neil "Tony" Wright, Thomas Dolan, Sean Wilkinson, Dave Hickey, Daryl Hawkins, Alex Atherton, David Keen, Barry Jones, Michael Rawson, Tony Hicks, David Foster, Robert Graham McClure, Aaron James Thrumble, John Bridge, Christopher Ford, Ben Wright, Damian Botha, Johan Brelsford, Craig Violino, Ivano Newman, Phillip Tunnicliffe, Brian Roberts, Alexis Alderton, Jake Mcdermid, John Sadler, Jack Johnson, Lee Gardiner, Darryl Lawrence, Damian Stephen Mulvihill, Damian Marsh, David Thornton, John Livingstone, Graham Keter Thompson, Gary Pearson, Robert Babakobau, Ratu Thompson, James Christopher Gostick, Dale Cuthbertson, Nathan Gamble, Daniel Murray, Charles David Bateman, James Doherty, Jeff Bryant, Sarah Larkin, Richard Reeve, Sean Robert Stout, Paul Whittaker, Joe Williams, Michael Shirley, Dan Johnson, James Barnes, Jason Stuart Rowe, Kenneth Michael Mathews, Jonathan William Cowton, Peter Joe Bland, Wayne Dempsey, Barry Cupples, Justin James O'Donnell, Gary Rawstron, Jason Lee Mason, Nicky Munday, James Rai, Yubraj Dunstan, Neil David McKibben, Robert Joseph Dura, Krishnabahadur Lucas, Alexander Evans, Tony Sparks, Georgie Birch, Marc Davies, Damian Fellows, Steven Manuel, John Henry Lewis, Aaron Nash, Stuart Deering, Robert Whatley, Benjamin Elms, Liam Reed, Chris Mackin, Travis Sawyer, Tom Herbert John Winter, Danny Robinson, Richard "Robbo" Nield, Daniel "Danny" Smith, Darren Kingscott, Stephen Gaden, Tom Gunn, Jamie Laski, Michael "Mick" Upton, Paul "Uppers" Harkett, Christopher John, Dean Stiff, Graeme Fasfous, Tobie Binnie, Sean Pun, Kumar Ross, Ben Sheldon, Adrian Evison, Mark Lawrence Mackie, Jason Suesue, Petero "Pat" Rossi, Jordan Richards, Robert Martin Hill, Kieron Bolger, Stephen Moffett, Nigel Thatcher, Cyrus McLaren, Robert Mervis, Paul Birchall, Sean Hammond, Joshua Thorneloe, Rupert Dennis, David Laws, Robert Elson, Dane Babington Browne, Ben Whiteside, Christopher Brackpool, John Hume, Daniel Aldridge, William Backhouse, James Horne, Jonathan Murphy, Joseph Scott, Lee Simpson, Daniel Toge, Aminiasi Etchells, Joseph Shepherd, Daniel King, Christopher Hopson, Craig Lawrence, Phillip Upton, Sean Lombardi, Anthony Mulligan, Kevin Hopkins, Dale Thomas Adams, Kyle Williams, Jason George Hale, Mark Wild, Daniel Hatton, Matthew Valentine, Simon Hunt, Richard Fullarton, James Annis, Simon Carter, Louis McAleese, Paul Young, Johnathon Bush, Shaun Houltram, Lee Andrew Millar, Stuart Elliott, Kevin Brandon, Richard James Elliott, Gavin Harrison, John Dunn Bridgeman, Jason McGrath, Stuart Hall, Brett Lockett, Michael Prosser, James Wojtak, Marcin Janes, Jamie Hill, James Oakland, James Mason, Thomas Schmid, Olaf Chant, Darren Telford, Matthew Major, James Boote, Steven Webster Smith, Nicholas Scott, Phillip Allen, Phillip Bassett, Samuel Fentiman, Andrew Marlton Thomas, Loren Loughran Dickson, Robert David Amer, John Paxton Drane, Adam Paul

@alanbarnard1 Even teaching the staff about ventilation would help. I've been visiting a ward for nearly a month & the ventilation is often terrible. Nobody seems to care or understand or monitor or act. Much improved ventilation is possible with very simple actions, knowledge & CO2 monitors.

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children. Roald Dahl, 1986

Florence Nightingale's 1859 book 'Notes on Nursing'. Chapter 1 focuses on ventilation. "The very first canon of nursing… : keep the air he breathes as pure as the external air, without chilling him." Fast fwd 166 years and all has been forgotten. UK hospital ward 2025: 1/🧵

You do not need to work to have value. You do not need to produce for capitalism to have value. We should not make ourselves the arbiters of another person’s worth, and we certainly shouldn’t base their worth on their job, bank balance or health status. Everyone has value.

Doctors’ Association UK: DAUK is calling for urgent, practical steps to protect staff and patients, including: ▪️FFP2 and FFP3 masks for frontline healthcare workers ▪️Free flu & Covid vaccinations for healthcare workers who want them ▪️Implementation of clean air standards 👏🏻

Measles: 1 in 4 will be hospitalised. Complications include blindness and brain inflammation. Most of those who die from measles are less than 5 years old. To protect against the threat of this airborne disease, the NHS has installed big posters in hospitals… Just posters. 🤦‍♀️

@SmartairUk @MayorofLondon @ThisHouseFresh The great thing about air filters is that they don’t only reduce indoor air pollution, they also reduce the spread of infectious airborne illnesses (like Covid, flu & measles). This can make a BIG difference in reducing illness absences in classrooms for both pupils & teachers.

Perhaps unsurprisingly - this isn't getting the traction it deserves. Please help by retweeting if you care about learning lessons from the appalling mismanagement of the COVID19 epidemic in the UK. We had FIVE TIMES the death rate of East Asian countries.

@dave43law When did British people become hateful to the poor and the disabled? I don’t want to meet the I’m not getting anything so why should you? brigade. I prefer to meet the good people in Britain those who volunteer at food & clothes banks who never criticise those down on their luck

About time someone with some influence said it

Your worth is not determined by your job, your bank account or your ability to produce for capitalism. Disabled people have worth. Children have worth. The elderly have worth. The homeless have worth. Those in power want you to de-value others so you will accept atrocities.

@Chuffin_ell Agree

@alisonpearsonSW And maybe if some doctors with media presence called this out might get some in power listening

And this is why unpaid carers are more likely to develop their own health conditions 🙄

Doctors on TV /radio stress how essential sleep is — but stay silent about carers who get none. And the charities meant to represent us must speak out too. It’s time for honesty: unpaid carers are propping up the system at the cost of their own health. @CarersUK @CarersTrust

Imagine a baby who never sleeps. Exhausting — but temporary. Now imagine 10, 20, 30 years later it’s still 24/7 care, no nights off, no real rest. For many unpaid carers, it’s not a phase — it’s a lifetime. And the impact on our health is permanent🪡

I’m always struck by how often doctors go on TV/radio reminding everyone how vital sleep is, 7–8 hrs for immune function, memory, heart health, emotional stability Yet this basic biology doesn’t apply to unpaid carers, who are left doing 90+ hrs a week with no guaranteed sleep🪡

This report on the state of palliative care was published yesterday. It’s hugely important, not least in the context of the assisted dying bill. It’s had almost no media coverage.