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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 17/04/2026
Over 4 million people in the UK are battling an eating disorder. No one is untreatable, but currently too many are being failed & lives are being lost. This must change. Sign Dump The Scales’ petition for a Government-led National Eating Disorder Strategy👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/partnerships...
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Please repost if you agree that the BBC has been undermining democracy and enabling foreign interference in our politics by promoting and protecting Farage.
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Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
A cardboard bird . . . made entirely from recycled cardboard tubes. "You don't need a mountain of materials, or expensive tools and equipment to make something that is sophisticated and beautiful" DW www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky
A bird made entirely from recycled cardboard tubes
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Oxehealth is launching in Australia this month under the new name, LIO. From the marketing material it seems they are doing what they initially did in the UK, before our campaign, and not mentioning the word camera. www.alpha.global/blog/news-in...
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Alpha Global Partners with LIO to Transform Mental Health Care in Aust
Alpha Global teams up with LIO to bring advanced mental health technology to Australia, improving patient safety and clinician support.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Police saved the UK from 890 retired and disabled terrorists and a mannequin this weekend
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Police saved the UK from 890 retired and disabled terrorists and a mannequin this weekend
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Before I begin this article, I must point out that I fully support the police dragging away old ladies on zimmerframes.
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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I think if your surprise conference stars are Nadine Dorries, Andrea Jenkyns and Lucy Connolly it’s probably time to put the bottle down and have a good old think about how life is going.
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Luke Taylor MP @luketaylorld.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
@samcoatessky.bsky.social hi Sam, this morning you stated “…the main opposition parties, the Cons and Reform UK…” Unless I missed 67 Parliamentary by-elections since July, the Lib Dems are very much the main opposition party with the Cons, not Reform. Do we have to keep doing this?
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
PEG - Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, a group formed by women for stitching and swearing #WomensArt
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Paula McGowan OBE @oliverscampaign.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
#OliversCampaign I am angry @NHSE_WTE have always been clear: people with a learning disability & autistic individuals delivering Oliver’s Training should be paid Band 5 rates Yet many charities with contracts to deliver it are paying minimum wage Not On My Watch Please retweet
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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Please share! 💚🍀 forestofimagination.org.uk/foi2025
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Forest of Imagination 2025, Entry Hill, Bath | Forest of Imagination 2025
Forest of Imagination, Forest of Imagination 2025, #playfulbath, collaboration, Bath events, Entry Hill, Assemble in the Forest, Grant Associates, House of Imagination, FOI, FOI 2025, Imagining the Fu...
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Keir Harding @keirwales.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New blog. How my faith in “Personality Disorder” was shaken. Do share if you like it. www.beamconsultancy.co.uk/the-blog/202...
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Why I Stopped Believing in "Personality Disorder" — Beam Consultancy
In 1988, Louis Appleby wrote “Personality Disorder: The Patients Psychiatrists Dislike.” It’s difficult to read it without concluding that many psychiatrists label the people they dislike — rather t...
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I'll be announcing a winner at 6pm today. Share the post below to enter. ⬇️
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We Care Campaign @wecarecampaign.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Help make young carers’ lives better. Give them a break. Any person or organisation in a position to help young carers can sign Young Carers Covenant. It’s a great way for MPs, MSPs and Members of the Senedd to show their commitment to improving young carers’ lives. carers.org/campaigning-...
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The Young Carers Covenant
It's time we all came together to make a change and create a Fair Future for Young Carers.
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Rightful Lives @rightfullives.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Rightful Lives is co-hosting an event on 4th March at Doughty Street Chambers. It will look at the implications of the Mental Health Bill for autistic people and people with learning disabilities. Why not come along! www.doughtystreet.co.uk/event/deep-d...
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A deep dive into the Mental Health Bill 2024
A deep dive into the Mental Health Bill 2024Detention and treatmentThursday 27th February 2025 | 18:00 - 19:30Location: Online via ZoomIn the second webinar of this series Sophy Miles and Elizabeth Cl...
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Centre for Mental Health @centreformh.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"Unsafe discharge and non-evidence-based treatment are impacting people with eating disorders all over the UK daily" This #EatingDisorderAwarenessWeek @hopevirgo.bsky.social sets out the urgency of improving support for people with eating disorders: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/a-right-to-h...
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A right to health: Fighting for better eating disorder treatment  - Centre for Mental Health
Hope Virgo sets out the urgent need for change to tackle decades of neglect and improve support for people with eating disorders.
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Basic, unsexy sh*t that’s been lost but would make a massive difference for us as patients: - Day centres - Volunteer work without DWP pressure - Community rehabilitation teams - Having the same careco for more than a year - good supported accommodation
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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 10/02/2025
These stories are hugely distressing, and paint a picture of how woefully inadequate eating disorder care is. The last thing children should feel is neglected by those meant to support them. It's beyond clear - we need mandatory training for front-line workers and better accountability mechanisms.
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Teenagers mocked by nurses at Skye House children's psychiatric unit
A BBC investigation finds some nurses were verbally abusive and cruel towards unwell teenagers.
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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
To those of us who have lived experience of MH units, either personal or loved ones incarcerated, this comes as no surprise at all. MH in-patient units are cruel places and the cruelest people seem to be many of the staff. It’s an ingrained toxic culture. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Teenage psychiatric patients told they are 'pathetic and disgusting'
A BBC investigation finds some nurses were verbally abusive and cruel towards unwell teenagers.
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Prof Linda Gask @suzypuss.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Why aren’t we talking about what’s happening to women in mental health care?
It was utterly shocking to read Scout Tzofiya Bolton’s description in the Guardian a week ago of how she was re-diagnosed from having bipolar disorder to having a diagnosis of emotionally…
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Children and young people in England with serious mental health problems are still being sent for treatment many miles away from their homes because bed shortages in some areas remain so severe, despite a pledge to end such practices eight years ago. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Children still being sent far from home for mental health care in England
Figures show practice continues eight years after pledge to end it, potentially impeding young people’s recovery
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We're proud to be 1 of 10 UKTEPoP partners who today published a joint statement pledging our commitment to diversity, equity & inclusion in UK species monitoring schemes: jncc.gov.uk/our-work/ukt... We need to better understand how biodiversity loss is impacting under-recorded areas & communities.
Botanists surveying an urban/ post-industrial site in South Wales
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We're hiring! Could you help create a resilient future for the Botanical Society, working across our teams to support staff and volunteers? Apply to become our first ever Administration Officer: bsbi.org/vacancies/ad... Not applying yourself? Then please help us spread the word! Deadline: 2nd March
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Vaccines do not cause autism. Keep saying things that have been demonstrated by robust science and are the subject or organised disinformation. Don’t just ignore the attempts to brainwash. #academicsky
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Hope Virgo @hopevirgo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A lead clinician in south England is putting more and more people with eating disorders on palliative care each day - how @nhservice.bsky.social is allowing this happen on their watch is absolutely disgraceful
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This column has been the second most read on the whole Guardian site today and it’s all credit to Rosy who literally used her last voice to speak out about this country’s care crisis. Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
PD DX should imo be abolished. For many women the pejorative dustbin diagnonsense results in permanent child removal, severing mother/child ties, destroying lives. For unprofessionals the DX is a way of justifying maltreatment & abuse #TraumaNotPD www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Personality disorder patients let down by 'misleading' diagnosis
Jessica Matthews was 21 when she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"Scout Tzofiya Bolton painfully illustrates the neglect and brutality that can arise once mental health difficulties are understood as a “disordered personality”. Great letter by @keirwales.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The painful consequences of personality disorder diagnosis | Letters
Letters: This diagnosis is a label given to survivors of abuse and should not be used with children, writes Keir Harding. Plus a parent writes of how medical professionals abandoned their son
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you create a system in which schools are judged on exam results, academic subjects are prioritised, curriculum is narrowed and zero tolerance approaches are promoted, you're basically creating a system that becomes less inclusive by design.
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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Please remember that being “healthy” isn’t a moral superiority. It’s down to luck/chance, and a privilege that many don’t have.
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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 22/01/2025
There were 30,000 hospital admissions for eating disorders last year - but many were discharged with dangerously low BMIs. The revolving door of admissions must end. I'm glad the Prime Minister will look at the Eating Disorders APPG report's recommendations, published today👇@hopevirgo.bsky.social
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The BED Post Blog @thebedpostblog.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Last year I gave evidence to the APPG on Eating Disorders. Today, it published its report: one that actually highlights BED, the need for treatment, and the damaging impact of current ob*sity strategies. Thank you for taking lived experience on board. Read the report here bit.ly/TheRightToHe...
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APPG Report_ The Right To Health_Final one all checked
1 Read more about disorders, disorder, nervosa, anorexia, intervention and funding.
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The BED Post Blog @thebedpostblog.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A reminder that any person in any body can have any eating disorder. Thin people can have Binge Eating Disorder, and people in larger bodies can have anorexia or bulimia. Just as you can't tell if someone has an ED by their body size, you also can't tell WHICH ED they have.
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Dr Agnes Ayton @agnesayton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Important APPG report published today about the dire state of eating disorder services in the UK. Massive thanks to all contributors who have been involved in this work. @werahobhouse.bsky.social support @psychgenomics.bsky.social @hopevirgo.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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MPs say woefully inadequate eating-disorder care is costing lives
The alarming rise in disorders such as anorexia and bulimia is now an emergency, a cross-party group says.
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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 22/01/2025
Our report makes a range of recommendations, including... 1️⃣ a national strategy for eating disorders to ensure patients get the care they deserve, 2️⃣ mandatory training for all Front-Line Workers, 3️⃣ a confidential inquiry into eating disorder-related deaths. You can read the report here👇
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APPG | Dumpthescales 2
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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 22/01/2025
Today my Eating Disorders APPG launches a crucial report on the dire state of services across the country. In the past 6 years, I've campaigned tirelessly to improve services- in that time they've become worse, not better. We must start treating eating disorders as the national emergency they are.
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Too many people with eating disorders are being failed, say group of MPs
MPs said there has been an alarming rise in eating disorders in the past decade and there is ‘widespread neglect’ in services.
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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 21/01/2025
As the Chair of the Eating Disorders APPG, I know all too well that one of the biggest barriers to support is stigma. Often binge eating disorder can go hand in hand with obesity. We need to move away from stigmatising obesity and better understand our relationship with food to make real progress.
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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 21/01/2025
One of my hopes for 2025 is to make real progress to improve eating disorder services. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rates among mental health disorders, despite being treatable. Tomorrow my Eating Disorders APPG will launch a landmark report highlighting the severity of the crisis👇
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If as a professional you are thinking to yourself ‘oh, it it must be evidence-based’ read this: “ There is currently insufficient evidence to suggest that surveillance technologies in inpatient mental health settings are achieving their intended outcomes” tinyurl.com/bdcc29md
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The use and impact of surveillance-based technology initiatives in inpatient and acute mental health settings: a systematic review - BMC Medicine
Background The use of surveillance technologies is becoming increasingly common in inpatient mental health settings, commonly justified as efforts to improve safety and cost-effectiveness. However, th...
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“It felt like this invisible person was following me. It became really frightening and I got really unwell. I didn't feel safe... not knowing who was watching me or when” We spoke to BBC about why we are calling for an end to Oxevision, CCTV and other systems on wards www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Call for Oxevision cameras to be banned in mental health patients' bedrooms
Former mental health patients are worried camera surveillance is being used without explicit consent.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Did you know that authors get paid every time you borrow one of their books from the library? Well they do! (11.76p per time 🤗) And this can really add up. Given that the median author income per year is about £7000, this is an incredibly important revenue stream for authors. Go get borrowing! 📚📚📚
Screenshot of Public Lending Right statement from the British Library showing income of £1060.51
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
As we enter a new year, here's a message to all my trans followers, readers and friends. You are valid. You deserve respect. You deserve healthcare. You deserve love. You deserve to live in a world in which people are treated as individuals, and without prejudice. You deserve acceptance.
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Keir Harding @keirwales.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It will blow peoples minds to know we had no response from private providers to debate the ethics of "specialist" residential 'personality disorder' units. Abstract Submission for #bigspd25 closes in a week. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Revealed: NHS spent more than £2bn on private mental health hospitals
‘The NHS has seen its own bed capacity dwindle over decades with significant re-investment unlikely,’ report warns
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Don't forget to repost the things that make you smile because there isn't an algorithm to do that for you. 😊 #bluesky
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I'm doing a free giveaway to celebrate the publication of my latest book! Like and repost to enter (UK only). Winner announced on Sunday. See the link below to find out more about the book. #freebie #giveaway
The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation in the Classroom, book by Sue Cowley
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I'm an advocate of high expectations but actually I think it's more important for children, young people and educators to be happy at school (or at the very very least not unhappy). I was a school refuser as a child and I'll never forget the knot of terror in my stomach approaching school. #EduSky
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is both sad and infuriating. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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'Refused service again with my guide dog, I'm done speaking out'
Sean Dilley is inundated with abuse on social media whenever he posts about discrimination issues.
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