Martin Lewis has quite a speech here lamenting how the BBC relegated consumer journalism to a section in The One Show, when such issues affect millions of lives

Thank you for everyone who has been in touch. I've had a rough year health wise. Thats why I haven't been working and posting.
Small Snippets of my life in the last six months:
1. Uro sepsis
2. Sepsis
3. 2x sepsis related infections
4. Had my operation (three years of waiting,…

163 Days by Hannah Hodgson was a very worthy winner of The Wordsworth Prize for Literature & Poetry. Congratulations Hannah!

Update and advice needed:

I’m an inpatient in an NHS England hospital (not naming it as it’s not staffs fault…)

A ceiling panel of double thickness plywood fell two metres onto my shoulder a few days ago and dislocated my shoulder. It’s ill-fitting but has important valves…

exchanges like this on tv are so important #DoctorWho

I’m sorry you just can’t get free covid tests on the nhs at ALL now?? Even if you’re CEV?? (I don’t have symptoms my family has had it, no contact it’s just a precaution)

The Daleks appeared on BBC Breakfast just before the regional news.

The way the regions reacted is AMAZING.

Watch this and remember - most wheelchairs cost more than a second hand car.

I was first in a corridor labelled mini resus, then mini majors… on a trolley for 36 hours. They had to do ward care.

This was in October. It’s way worse now by all reports.

I’m on a ward now, but the thing that haunted me was that on the corridor in the way to the wards is…

Still in hospital:

1. Had covid, it was grim. I felt and was poorly. Dr advised I didn’t cough as I had staples… which I was allergic to. Needless to say, coughs happened.

2. Sternum Fracture healing

3. Had my operation, but because my body is ‘weird’ (agreed upon clinical…

'We are nearly sure that we are alone now. No
one hears us... The problem is to be sure that we can evacuate the neonatal patients because we have
about 37 to 40 premature babies.'

Dr Mohammed Obeid, surgeon at Al-Shifa hospital, shares his testimony from today⤵️

Are you a tv writer who feels kind enough to offer a hospice user and award winning writer some pointers in getting her TV Drama made, please read on! If you know someone, or offer this post a signal boost I would be thrilled. Thank you.

Whilst I'm still very sore from fractured…

Out of hospital arrests kill so many people because to do good CPR you have to do something which goes against what we do for those that we love - break ribs - to pump their heart.

It could save someone you love.

LEARN. CPR.