This is brilliant!

Pertussis (Whooping Cough) cases are rising quickly in NI. The Public Health Agency advise that pregnant women get the Pertussis vaccine from week 16 to help provide their newborn infants with protection against serious complications until they can receive their routine immunisations.

Statutory duty of candour gathers pace: Infected Blood; UK-Covid; Postoffice; Muckamore NI; Neurology NI; Bloody Sunday NI; Hillsborough; Hyponatraemia in 2018 - NI A running theme is protecting families as they take on public authorities bbc.com/news/articles/…

Northern Ireland : “According to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, three times as many people died due to delays in emergency departments in 2022 as did during the worst year of the Troubles.” The Economist

Wow! Loads of memories! Wanted to work in radio when I was younger & had a show on a Saturday afternoon in the summer of '96 😎 - remember this because the Euros was on ⚽ We had to go round the wards taking requests... Honestly never heard so much Charlie Landsborough!! #radio

New figures show the number of GP practices in Northern Ireland has fallen by 11% in the past decade. The average number of patients per practice has increased, by around 20%, from 5,500 to 6,586 in the same time period.

🚨 BREAKING: Another 3 infants have died from whooping cough, as an extra 1,888 infections were recorded in April alone. Since Jan there have been 4,793 cases, compared to 858 in the entirety of 2023. A total of 8 deaths My story from Sunday seems particularly important now:

With no The Times and The Sunday Times paywall - here is a story on the Muckamore Public Inquiry - a massively overlooked scandal into industrial abuse of learning disabled patients that has implications for whole of UK: thetimes.com/article/change… Action for Muckamore Muckamore Public Inquiry Tweets

One of several jaw-dropping stats in this Georgia Banjo article on the NI health crisis: Three times as many people died due to delays in Northern Ireland emergency departments in 2022 as did during the worst year of the Troubles. economist.com/britain/2024/0…

Are you +18 and living in Northern Ireland? The PRESENT Study is interested in your opinions about pregnancy loss. If you have a moment, please consider taking our survey: qubpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_02… QUBNursing&Midwifery Dr Áine Aventin Alliance For Choice BirthWise

Looking forward a fabulous programme at the RCM Sands conference Royal College of Midwives 💙 Sands - baby loss charity 💜🧡 Gill Walton @BossGSD Anne Wilson

Congratulations Kerrie 👏👏 Debbie Sweeney

Colleagues at the Tommy's preterm birth centre at QMUL are looking for a post-doc looking at heat stress on the placenta and the role of inflammatory markers leading to preterm birth with Dr. Tina Chowdhury qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…

Our expert midwife Helen Stanley explains the process and how to get the best out of communication after traumatic birth, known as a birth or postnatal debrief leighdaylaw.info/3Xn5A3G

The main symptoms of #ovariancancer everyone should know are: 👉 Persistent bloating 👉 Feeling full quickly and/or loss of appetite 👉 Pelvic or abdominal pain (from your tummy to the top of your thighs) 👉 Needing to wee more urgently or more often than usual (2/3)

Pregnant? Congratulations! From 1st September, you can protect your baby from the single commonest reason infants are admitted to hospital, which is absolutely tremendous news. Speak to your midwife or GP about RSV vaccination. gov.uk/government/pub…

RSV kills 20-30 babies in the UK every year and even milder cases are just miserable, as I know from 2x very sick babies of my own 😢 So great to hear that from 1st September, the UK will be offering an RSV vaccine in pregnancy to protect newborns! 🥳 gov.uk/government/pub…

I tweet quite a bit - but this one is different and perhaps the most important I’ve ever written I hope it gets shared as much as possible, so new parents don't make the same mistake I nearly made (even as a dad of five, having worked in A&E for 23 years and someone who teaches

How incredibly sad

Done ✅👍 First time I was able to bring my dog to the polling station - so just gotta take the photo 😊 #DogsAtPollingStations #GeneralElection2024UK