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Rituals and Myths

@claire_laurent

Public health consultant. Writer, journalist, nurse, runner. Author Rituals & Myths in Nursing: A Social History - print, ebook & audio. Tweets all my own work.

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A humiliation at the White House and what does it tell us? Trump would make a colony of my country | Andrey Kurkov | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Stephanie deGiorgio (@drsdeg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are now in a position where maternity care as a whole needs a review, not hospital by hospital. The roles of midwives, the roles of medics, the "natural birth" agenda, the care of women postnatally and the racism. All of it. Women and their babies aren't safe

Jill Foster (@journalistjill) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is revealing. Emily Maitlis clearly gets it. But Lewis Goodall talks over her, with classic whataboutery and an almost palpable anger about why women focus on this issue. News flash for Lewis: women are able to think about more than one thing at once. And if we can’t define

LGA Wellbeing (@lgawellbeing) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The suicide-prevention system is not a luxury. It reduces pressure on A&E, mental-health and social care, and it spares families immeasurable grief. Read our latest blog on why we should see funding for local suicide prevention as an investment.👇 local.gov.uk/suicide-preven…

Becky Price 💙 RGN SCPHN-HV & QN (@hvbeckyqn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This👇👏 👏 HVs & SNs are ready & waiting for this much needed investment - passion for profession! Bravo Alison Morton 💙 thank you for using your platform & voice to advocate for all our precious BCYP 🙌

David Frum (@davidfrum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What you saw from Trump in CA this weekend was not law enforcement. What you saw was a test of ways and means for Trump to disrupt and pervert the 2026 elections. My latest in @theAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Around 400 Palestinians, including dozens of children, have been killed while trying to get humanitarian assistance. I don’t recall these incidents (including this weekend) leading many papers or news bulletins. Are we really saying a few chants from a couple of musicians is more

David Oliver (also on Blue Sky) (@mancunianmedic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

and make no mistake a lot of the warped thinking in the 10 year NHS plan around de-professionalisation, taskification, training on the cheap, magical faith in digital "solutions", league tables, illusory "choice" etc is straight out of the consultancy playbook

Richard Lehman (@richardlehman1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have read the NHS 10 year plan. It is perfectly boring, says some stupid and some sensible things and seems to be predicated on a huge increase in primary care without the means to provide it. Reader, I wouldn't bother.

Anisopoikilocyte (@anisocyte) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We should talk about money and value, and what Wes Streeting and Department of Health and Social Care value and spend money on. Last week, the The Leng review found that PAs (medically unqualified assistants to doctors, with no unique skillset) function at a level below F1 (newly qualified) doctors 1/

Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse (@alisonleary1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The very tragic human cost of the #taskification of care and the deprofessionalisation of #Nursing Safe Staffing isn't just about numbers itv.com/news/2025-10-0…