Richard Kirk (@rtkirky) 's Twitter Profile
Richard Kirk

@rtkirky

GP, Clinical Director Healthcare in Prisons @setrust, @RCGP_NI @ADR_UK ambassador, @RCGP SEG. Interests-people on the margins.

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calendar_today06-03-2009 17:09:21

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Mandy McAuley (@mandy_mcauley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Spotlight - Nowhere To Call Home - BBC iPlayer It’s not only EDs that are becoming refuges for some of those seeking a bed. Vulnerable young men told ⁦BBC Spotlight NI⁩ they want to go to prison - “you get heat, 3 meals a day & a warm shower.” bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Stephen Mcgarrigle (@stephenmcgpt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

come along today at Ulster Hospital and meet the amazing HIP team .. as Ted Lasso says be curious. that chat might take you places you never would have imagined & give you opportunities to stretch & grow !! Richard Kirk South Eastern Trust Rachel Gibbs David Robinson Ruth Gray Fiona Linehan

Therese Rytter (@thereserytter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

England & Wales’ prison system is in a state of chronic crisis: Overcrowding, rampant levels of violence, self-harm and suicide, and high reoffending rates. CPT was pleased to meet James Timpson and explore how best to tackle the systemic challenges. coe.int/en/web/cpt/-/c…

Fiona Linehan (@listen_hear) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Your life could change forever and you can help others change. Join all that is HiP as an addiction’s practitioner. Posts in Magilligan and Maghaberry. Look HSC recruit, South Eastern Trust, Clinical Addictions Practitioner band 6. Open to nurses SW and OTs

Richard Kirk (@rtkirky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are delighted to be part of this success story Hydebank, one of only 2 prisons to ever receive top marks from a CIJINI/HMPPS inspection. Welcome recognition for yrs of hard work by NI Prison Service and South Eastern Trust Healthcare Teams Hydebank prison to top ratings bbc.com/news/articles/…

CPT (@coe_cpt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎙️ Podcast For the 35th anniversary of the Convention for the Prevention of #Torture, Therese Rytter, 2nd Vice-President of the #CPT, and Hugh Chetwynd, Executive Secretary, share their view on the challenges and alternative solutions for prisons in Europe bit.ly/415Ydj8

🎙️ Podcast
For the 35th anniversary of the Convention for the Prevention of #Torture, Therese Rytter, 2nd Vice-President of the #CPT, and Hugh Chetwynd, Executive Secretary, share their view on the challenges and alternative solutions for prisons in Europe bit.ly/415Ydj8
John Podmore (@john_podmore) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Proof that you can incarnate people but do something positive and constructive with a sentence. Nothing imaginative here just a handover to serious organised crime addiction and despair. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

RCGPNI (@rcgp_ni) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Read a letter to the The BMJ co-authored by our Vice-Chair Dr Emma Murtagh and Chair Dr Ursula Mason on the urgent need for a practitioner health service in Northern Ireland: bmj.com/content/388/bm… Emma Murtagh Ursula Mason

Phil Anderson (@dr_philanderson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dr Ian Bownes Obituary - leading Irish consultant forensic psychiatrist, who was tasked with assessing the mental state of Irish republican prisoners in the Maze prison in NI during the 1980s & 1990s ⁦rcpsychNI⁩ ⁦⁦The Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry⁩ theguardian.com/society/2025/a…

South Eastern Trust (@setrust) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“It’s important to look beyond the bars and see the person.” 💙 Our amazing Healthcare in Prison team share why they do what they do, providing compassionate care and dignity every day. #MakingADifference #HSC

Richard Kirk (@rtkirky) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I think we are all shocked as a profession with the words of Mike Nesbitt and his intention to hold long waits personally against GPs (with the lowest funding in Western Europe).

Belfast Telegraph (@beltel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A prisoner who died whilst in custody was given medical care that “far exceeded” what he would have received in the community, a Prisoner Ombudsman’s report has found. ➡️belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/prisoner-… belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/prisoner-…