Doctor, scientist: psychiatry, psychology, public health; ex immunologist. Chair @TukeInstitute, Co-founder, Patron @THTorguk
Manchester
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Please donate to support the new PSIIQC.org's mission to champion inclusivity and equity in psych practice, research, and policy for LGBTQ+ communities 🌈💙 Your contribution will make a difference! 👉 justgiving.com/crowdfunding/… #Psychology #PSIIQC
Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
We're VERY close to 60,000 complaints.
Help us make this complaint the biggest in Ofcom's history 👇
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
🚨 NEW 🚨
On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful.
Join us in writing a complaint to Ofcom to force them to take action 👇
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The replies are telling examples of physicians trying to claim exceptional abilities/duties/challenges, when in fact any clinician who has responsibilities to patients experiences the same. It says more about physicians' exclusionary self-regard than their competencies.
Another small but powerful example of how physician-culture in the NHS can be changed
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Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
❤️ Ribbons have started going up today at Grangeway Community Centre and the bandstand at the Heath Park. Tomorrow will be the Town Hall and Victoria Park. Help us to stamp out stigma @HaltonBC @HaltonHour @hwhalton @StephenYoung74 @RupertWhitaker
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We have organised the first meeting suggested by @RupertWhitaker to talk Collaboration in Halton with other organisations. Please see link Eventbrite to book @StephenYoung74 @hwhalton @HaltonBC @HaltonHour eventbrite.com/e/the-halton-…
It was great to meet you all and have such a good discussion afterwards. Thank you all for your openness and the warm interest. I look forward to hearing how the Halton model of collaboration develops! Seriously, go for it.
@RupertWhitaker @StephenYoung74 @HaltonMayor @hwhalton @hwhalton @HaltonHour @HaltonHousing @WEcic_
A wonderful afternoon with @RupertWhitaker who gave a fantastic talk. Thank you to everyone who attended and we are sorry if we didn’t get to talk to you ❤️
The BMA claims Phys Associates to be unsafe. But over 90% of GP diagnoses of mental illnesses and treatments I reviewed for Courts over 10 years were wrong. It's GPs who are unsafe. We need integrated, primary services not under GPs control. @wesstreeting
The BMA’s General Practitioners Committee for the UK has voted in favour of stopping hiring physician associates in general practice and for existing roles to be phased out
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This is a classic example of physicians punishing patients for having illnesses they couldn't understand. A long, dark history of abuse, linking sexism (eg 'hysteria'/FND), racism, and anti-LGBTQ+ (eg conversion 'therapy'). The profession needs reining in v badly @wesstreeting
This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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@RupertWhitaker @StephenYoung74 @HaltonBC @HaltonHour @hwhalton last few tickets remaining for this amazing event. We look forward to seeing you there
eventbrite.com/e/inspiration… @Eventbrite
Please read and kindly share this letter from American physicians and nurses working in the Gaza catastrophe. I trust it far more than any media reporting for its depiction. Israel - and the USA - must be called to account for this atrocity. gazahealthcareletters.org/us…
Some GPs are now refusing collaborative treatment agreements from private specialists around ADHD, so patients have to wait up to 5 years to get treated. Who benefits? GPs. Obstructive? @TheBMA isn't credible @WesStreeting @ShaunLintern #healthoutcomes #patientsafety
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There are 16 million disabled people in the UK but during the six weeks of campaigning, there’s been little focus on how the main political parties are going to help them.
Ruben Reuter went to find out what they have to offer.
Dr. Rupert Whitaker OBE retweeted
A positive commitment to increase the public health grant in the @LibDems manifesto.
Sexual health services have borne the greatest burden of public health cuts, while STIs soar and many wait months for PrEP.
We urge all parties to commit to action on HIV and sexual health.
ALT Help people spend more years of their life in good health by: Increasing the Public health Grant, with a proportion of the extra funding set aside for those experiencing the worse health inequalities to co-produce plans for their communities.
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Here's a video from @AnilvanderZee on living with severe ME, plus an interview about why he made the film and how being unable to move--he is a former dancer--makes him feel like a part of himself has been amputated: virology.ws/2024/05/14/trial…
