The NHS is currently suffering from a fall in blood donors. Please donate if you can 💉 #giveblood

Following on from our message to you all yesterday, here is a few words from Karina Punia, an FY1 doctor working in Wales on a haematology ward. If you're eligible, please contact your local donor centre and give blood 🔴

Proud to be supporting this campaign! #SupportNursesAndMidwives ❤️

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Facts

PETITION: Medical schools must include BAME representation in clinical teaching #MedTwitter change.org/p/gmc-medical-…

Teachers: students don’t need a special one-off lesson on Black Lives Matter. They need a curriculum and a school that clearly demonstrates this - consistently and continually.

So important to read!

PETITION: The British Association of Dermatologists must include BAME representation in resources - Sign the Petition! @HealthySkin4All chng.it/Y8Qgcqhj

Please sign this petition to increase diversity in medical teaching! I worry the lack of patient representation means we as medical professionals are ultimately endangering our patients. Now is the time to make change. #MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter change.org/p/gmc-medical-…

*PLEASE RETWEET* I’ve been a part of a group of over 15 medical students who have co-written an open letter to the (pre)clinical Faculty of the Cambridge Medical School, to be signed by both medics and non-medics on how racism is ingrained in the NHS and medical education

The Immigration Health Surcharge should be scrapped completely. #ScrapTheSurcharge

Hard to express my joy and gratitude right now as I completed my Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree at Oxford. I don’t know what’s ahead. For now, it will be Netflix, reading and sleep. 😴

Last night 🇯🇲Candice Carty-Williams🇯🇲 book #Queenie won the prize for best best book 2020! Candice is the first black author and black woman to win this since it began in 1994 🙌🏾🎉

Meet the medical student creating a handbook of clinical signs on black and brown skin itv.com/news/london/20…

Anyone crossing the Channel in a rubber dinghy is in a state of acute desperation. I'm proud they think Britain is a place of hope. I feel sorry for those so incapable of empathy that they see them only as invaders.

“Food poverty is not caused by personal, or in this case, parental mismanagement and negligence, but political decisions which deepen social inequality" Food writer Camilla Anvar on why food is and always will be political bit.ly/2HBB7e4