Joined March 2013
People with adrenal insufficiency deserve safer adrenal crisis care. Adrenal crisis is a life-threatening emergency that needs a time-critical injection of hydrocortisone. Other life-threatening conditions have auto-injectors or pre-filled syringes. Adrenal crisis doesn’t. (1/3)
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Michael forgot this "Although [Calder Hall] was promoted as generating electricity too cheap to meter, it produced relatively little during its working life...[it] was in fact primarily intended to produce plutonium for the UK’s atomic weapons programme" ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-eng…
A big anniversary - 70 years ago Calder Hall made history as the first commercial nuclear power station, shaping the community and creating jobs. The UK continues to build on that legacy with the Gwyndod SMR project, Sizewell C, Hinkley Point C and advanced nuclear projects.
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"The uncomfortable truth is nuclear reduces and delays climate action. The very long nuclear development and build times means much longer fossil fuel burn. Nuclear is just too slow, too hazardous, and too costly for the climate and energy crises" radiationfreelakeland.substa…
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UK govt mooted new nuclear 20yrs ago- has splurged £bns of public ££s on it Yet to date ZERO electricity generated. Sizewell C has devastated vast areas of Suffolk countryside, much in the National Landscape- 1000s of trees felled, miles of hedging ripped up & wildlife eradicated
Sizewell C construction site - aerial video from October 2026 #SizewellC #Suffolk #coast #construction
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Replying to @BBCNews
youtu.be/RiwX9Y0NbiQ?si=oA3q… As a psychiatrist I would like to recommend that all my colleagues in medicine, nursing and allied health watch thus. I’m with @GeorgeMonbiot - this is the greatest scandal in modern medical history.
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Nuclear's revolving doors exposed by @PrivateEyeNews "...Austin is now working for the company she was previously negotiating with as a civil servant. Those negotiations went rather well for Sizewell C's private shareholders...the taxpayer who will pick up the bill if costs grow"
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Women with autoimmune disease nearly 50pc more likely to report misdiagnosis ift.tt/1PHwSeF
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This #WorldMentalHealthDay, watch our webinar with @RaremindsUK, which offers practical tools and advice, and covers a range of key topics. 💭 Feelings around your diagnosis ❓ Uncertainty of the future 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Impact on closest relationships Plus, much more! youtube.com/watch?v=YPnmRkmk…
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I’m no lawyer but this decision is disheartening. Someone accused of failing to cooperate with the #PostOfficeInquiry because innocent people suffered devastating harm - is being allowed to give evidence from Australia. My dad was dragged to court in crutches. #PostOfficeScandal
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Joshua Rozenberg interviews the president of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. Today the tribunal holds three POL case management hearings, one of which involves its former general counsel, Jane MacLeod: rozenberg.substack.com/p/fir…
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Just totally fed up/broken hearted at the appallingly feeble efforts to help #ME patients over decades. Research, care, education. We are nowhere. 💔
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Says the party that partied while people died. They wasted £15 billion on faulty equipment PPE contracts alone. They cost the country hundreds of billions, much of which went into corrupt crony contracts. Now they want the vulnerable to die, to cover their losses...
We must cut welfare to fund defence.
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It seems to have stuck. Terrible shame. Her small majority is going to vanish at the next election.
Tory MP Helen Whately is a millionaire on a £98,599/yr salary. Yet taxpayers cover her London second home expenses. Council Tax, water, electric, everything! Meanwhile, she wants to cut benefits for disabled people living on just £7k to £11k a year. Look how much she claims....
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The fact that most of us #ME patients didn’t have the energy or cognitive function to respond to Monbiot’s article in the Guardian speaks volumes too. How can we promote change when speaking or writing beyond a short post is beyond us? ‘Angry advocates’ you bet but silenced by ME
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With job vacancies at a 5-year low, the Govt will only tackle the NEET crisis at its root by growing our economy and creating jobs. Those who can work need to be supported into employment but we can’t see a repeat of last year’s attempt to unfairly slash help for disabled people. The UC health element has already been halved for new claimants and PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. Young people need to feel valued and part of our community, not persecuted.
EXCL: Ministers are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping key disability benefit for under-25s & replacing it with multibillion pound package of support to get into work. Whitehall sources said changes under debate were much bigger than previously thought, as Andy Burnham’s government hopes to persuade more people on benefits back into work. But the move could be fraught with political danger after last year’s dramatic welfare rebellion by Labour MPs. Ministers have spent weeks trying to persuade them the plans are about reform not cuts & feel confident opposition has waned. By @rowenamason @patrickjbutler & me theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Reminder: Milburn & other politicians saying comparative countries do a better job at reducing unemployment for ill/disabled via benefit restrictions are hoodwinking "analysis found no significant relationship between reducing benefits & higher employment among disabled people"
Welfare reform in comparative countries targeting ill/disabled have seen marginal employment impacts Denmark: 2.9% Australia: 1.5% Netherlands: 1.2% Reforms like these "may increase no. of unemployed disabled people who also no longer qualify for disability social protection"
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