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Imogen Dempsey

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Cats, books, food & flowers! Covid cautious. Just arrived from the other place! European. All my own views.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The MILLIONS of people who were denied vaccines are suddenly realising. @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social this was a terrible idea. Not only will the NHS struggle this autumn / winter, but people will suffer and die unnecessarily. It isn't too late for a U-turn!
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Pharmacy teams have reported major issues to us over the last two days related to large numbers of patients booking COVID-19 vaccinations via the National Booking System (NBS) who are not eligible for the vaccine this winter.

We are working with NHS England to try to address this unacceptable situation and to get more NHS communications issued to help people understand whether they are eligible for the vaccine.

In the meantime, we have created three posters that pharmacy teams can use to help explain about vaccine eligibility this winter:
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Labour MP Richard Burgon raises looming welfare cuts during PMQs, criticising the “easy option” of cutting benefits for the poor and vulnerable: “So instead of cutting benefits for disabled people wouldn’t the moral thing to do…introduce a wealth tax on the very wealthiest people in our society”
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
MY JOINTS: If you DON'T move me around, I'll stop working properly MY JOINTS: If you DO move me around, I'll stop working properly MY JOINTS: Haha. Fuck you.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Check this out — American stocks were on par with global stocks up until late January — and have now dropped terribly since then Gosh I wonder what happened in late January?
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Cass Macdonald @cm7505.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Please do us a solid and complete this if you’re a uk Keyworker with long covid thanks! #longcovid @longcovidadvoc.com @angryhacademic.bsky.social @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longcovidsos.bsky.social
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
CVF are deeply saddened by the heartbreaking news of the loss of Ondine Sherwood, co-founder of Long Covid SOS, a fierce advocate and a true force for good. Her dedication to protecting health will not be forgotten.
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
My latest @bmj.com piece . Having spent much of Tuesday in a severely overcrowded ED with corridor/waiting room care galore & much of Monday on a ward unable to discharge patients waiting for community services that they absolutely *do* need - policy meets real life. www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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David Oliver: Losing too many NHS hospital beds has been an act of avoidable self-sabotage with predictable consequences
In recent decades we’ve surely lost too many general and acute hospital beds in the UK, without creating sufficient alternative capacity outside hospital. This has resulted in entirely predictable ris...
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
♻️ 1.5 days left! ⌛️(ends Thursday afternoon) 💙💜💗 Please help if you can 🙏 💕 Thank you to all those who have kindly helped so far. Your support is very much appreciated! 💕 Please help to share even if you cannot donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/clinically...
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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Now would be a good time to protect workers & children, elders & vulnerable members of our communities from preventable airborne infections like #Flu & #Covid A win:win for public health & pandemic planning. ✅ Clean indoor air ✅ Informed public messaging ✅ Compassion ❌ Ignorant hubris
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
H5N1 is airborne and @uklabour.bsky.social are still ignoring the guidance from @WHO from August for long COVID, which is to currently mask around others. Where is the prevention? Why haven’t you rolled out clean air? www.lancs.live/news/uk-worl...
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Everything to know about bird flu as restrictions put in place
The strain confirmed in the UK has been known to infect humans in the past
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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
At some point #BirdFlu will crack the 1-step evolutionary obstacle to becoming an airborne human virus & potentially the next pandemic. Or recombine with a human virus in farmed pigs or in a human host & achieve the same outcome. Upgrading indoor air quality standards would be a sensible precaution.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
What we are witnessing is the normalisation of extremism. If we allow the right to pretend that the German AFD is just another conservative party... or that Donald Trump is just another president... or that Elon Musk was just getting carried away with that salute are on a distinctly dangerous path.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Don’t underestimate the impact you’re making when you choose to wear a mask. You’re protecting your health & the health of your community. You’re helping ease the burden on our healthcare system. You’re standing in solidarity with disabled people & telling the government that no one is expendable
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🚨 Prof Dani Prieto-Alhambra - vaccine expert on vaccine safety 💕Credit to the scientific community for their work to save so many lives.💕 "The most recent [study] says that the vaccine saved over 14M lives"
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Voice of Reason @raggapegs.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Resistance is strong! #Resist
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House Have🦋 @pfhave.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Word of the day….
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"The Prime Minister would not be happy with a member of his Government doing a Nazi salute", says Keir Starmer's spokesman
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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It should matter to @uklabour.bsky.social that clinically vulnerable children have been treated unequally by the government and continue to be treated so.
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
In terms of long-term outcomes, these must not be ignored. Clinical vulnerability: 💔 Is an accessibility issue 💔 Is an equality issue ⚖️ Our rights must be legally protected 7/
Clinically Vulnerable Families are missing essential exams

29%

46%

23%

Changed subjects due to high Covid risks

Unable to sit one or more GCSE / A-level or equivalent

Have missed out on all of their exams

Clinically Vulnerable Families
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Important context is required: NOT offering vaccines to Clinically Vulnerable children and those in CV families had a huge impact on health, mental health, socially, and educationally. 3/
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/01/2025
absolutely brutal
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
And here is an updated starter pack for science accounts I follow! go.bsky.app/VVUVUmX
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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Maine Coon Alert---her expression is all of us this morning.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. And the fastest way to 'achieve' this, is not to teach it. #education #TeachHistory
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Wes Streeting is tweeting today about children’s health and well being and yet he hasn’t once listened to parents of clinically vulnerable children on #COVID. It’s not just enough to say you care as a party about all children. You have to actively show you are leaving none behind.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Good question.
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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is what happens when public health policy fails; Flu and COVID: ⬆️ NHS staff sickness, ⬇️ staff vaccination uptake and of course little or no airborne protection for staff in hospitals. Data for week to 15th Dec showed 54,165 NHS staff off sick. Who suffer the most? Patients.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I knew Shakespeare would have a line for today.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hugo Keith, "Are the lessons and points you seek to make related to the reduction in levels of funding?" Dr Jenifer Dixon, " Tangible and intangible assets.. Expertise.. Relationships that need to be built.. Skills.. Data.. Staff" "Skills can be disrupted by reforms.. And also Brexit"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I see that Melania chose to wear her Hamburglar hat to honor the criminals in the nation--and next to her.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Let’s do it
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 21/01/2025
A colony of red squirrels 🐿️ 🐿️ found in Cumbria (or the Yorkshire Dales?) The exact location has not been revealed. It is good news, wherever exactly they are! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Red squirrel colony discovered in North Yorkshire
The squirrels have moved in at a sitka spruce plantation in a western area of the Yorkshire Dales.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Wish I could say that the people normalising Trump this morning will regret it, but they won't. It's like being in Groundhog Day. They already normalised him, then acted shocked when he tried to overthrow US democracy, and now, with the memory of a fucking goldfish, they're doing it all over again.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The news is awful right now. We’re all exhausted Please don’t underestimate the effect that this cascade of overwhelmingly awfulness has on your nervous system. Especially if you’re chronically ill. Take breaks. We will be here when you return. Give yourself grace. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
It’s nearly impossible to explain to non disabled people the hope we had at the beginning of the pandemic. Hope for inclusion & accommodation. For better awareness & treatment of chronic illness. Having that hope ripped away and replaced with increasing ableism, eugenics & hatred? Its devastating
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Sounds like a plan
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
🚨After 5 long years, the most vulnerable are still unable to simply "Learn to live with Covid". 1.8M people remain locked up, having committed no crime.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
No, SARS-CoV-2 isn’t a little bit airborne. It’s not “situationally” airborne. It’s an AIRBORNE VIRUS, spreads via the air. I’m granting an amnesty on people who said (5y ago) that it wasn’t. I won’t say I told you so if you finally acknowledge the evidence. Let’s just get this right and move on.
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
🧼 “You can’t hand wash your way out of this quad-demic because it is mainly spread by what you breathe in and what you breathe out." - Dr @evonnetcurran.bsky.social retired infection control nurse. inews.co.uk/news/health/...
'I was an infectious disease nurse, I've never seen a crisis like the quad-demic'

A retired infection control nurse says she has never known a situation in hospitals where four viruses are rife at such high levels

Winter flu pressures continue to rage at hospitals across England with an average of 5,408 patients a day in hospital with flu in the first week of January, new figures show (Photo: Jeff Moore/PA)

Aasma Day
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Prof Raymond Agius @profraymondagius.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
5 years after covid-19 hit us,& after spending £billions on personal protective equipment, health care workers are still not given respirators as protection against aerosols of influenza or other viruses. Instead surgical masks are worn as fig leaves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hospitals in the west reintroduce masks after rise in flu cases
Health chiefs have urged people with colds or coughs not to visit loved ones in the hospital.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Latest update on the NHS this winter - flu has just about peaked, but December was another terrible month for the NHS emergency services. This has consequences, with thousands of people dying each year due to delays in access to emergency care. christinapagel.substack.com/p/december-w...
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December was bad for NHS, but the Flu wave has thankfully (just) peaked
Hopefully the worst is over for the NHS this winter, but thousands of people are dying each year due to ambulance and A&E delays.
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Inclusive New Normal @inclusivenew.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"Improving indoor air quality...would save £8bn annually...The CLASS-ACT trial showed that air filtration reduced overall absence from school by 20%...a similar approach eliminated SARS-CoV2 and other pathogens from Addenbrookes Hospital." We could do better. So why on earth aren't we?
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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Thanks, Steve! It's past time for powerful people controlling IPC policy to drop the droplet dogma & mandate mitigations for airborne infectious diseases. Let's hope Labour will grasp this really soon! #CovidIsAirborne @gwynnemp.bsky.social We need RPE & #CleanAirInHealthcare
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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Please take a look at our latest @independentsage.bsky.social substack...feels somewhat pertinent at present!!! open.substack.com/pub/independ...
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Learning lessons from the COVID pandemic…we could do SO much better.
We must mitigate, vaccinate, and communicate...
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BigBlueWaveUSA2026® ….. 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦🦋🏳️‍🌈 @bigbluewaveusa.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
THIS is why I’m on BlueSky. I suspect this is why most decent people are on BlueSky. Follow the Blue themed Starter Packs and follow back those following you. Let’s make this place bigger than any of these ⬇️
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 07/01/2025
Wondering how to spend International Women's Day (Fri 7/3/25)? Join @rebecca99.bsky.social , @suzypuss.bsky.social & me by the fireside at The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh from 6pm, as we discuss their new books, An Improbable Psychiatrist & Out of Her Mind www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/conve...
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In Conversation with...
Join us for an evening in the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on two important books for psychiatry, women’s health, and reflections on being a medical professional.
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