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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

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Represented by @_bright_agency 📚✍🏻 Dr, Disability, Gender & LGBTQ+ Activist, Speaker, 2xTEDx. @Motability Guv’nor, FRSA, 🏳️‍🌈 👩🏼‍🦼she/her

Selby, England

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Joined April 2009

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

8 months

I’m rather enjoying my X hiatus, but wanted to pop on to share my exciting news; I’m writing a book, and am now represented by the glorious @KatieBlagden @_Bright_Agency As such, I’ll likely return to doing more social media over coming months, but in the meantime, #AmWriting

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

Train from Leeds full of young people who've clearly had a great day out in various bars. Bit scary when you're alone and in a chair. Get to my stop, and one dashes out behind me in massive heels. "I'm checking they haven't forgotten the ramp for you." The kids are alright.

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2 years

Stop thanking the NHS Mr Johnson. We’re doing this in spite of you, not for you.

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6 years

So I am UTTERLY stunned and amazed (and almost emotional) at how fantastic @EurostarUK have been in terms of #disabled #wheelchair access. Instead of feeling like an inconvenience, I feel like a celebrity!

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3 years

I am exhausted, I am heartbroken, and yes, I am INCREDIBLY angry. However sorry the PM looks, many of these deaths were avoidable. It is incredible that Mr Johnson is still in a job. We deserved better. My colleagues deserved better. My patients deserved better.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

5 years

A few months ago, I was pretty blue, and wanted to by myself a bright suit to cheer myself up. I found one, obsessed over it, and lovely Twitter folk told me to get it. I couldn't afford it. I rechecked the website 3 days ago. Now half price. In my size. Today, it arrived.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Starting to see tweets from people who are finding themselves surprised at their own emotional response to the news today. You may be one of them. Please don’t panic - we’ll be seeing more and more of this in coming days and weeks, and it’s to be expected 🧵

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1 year

My girlfriend; “if we turn off all our devices at the wall when not using them, we could save £170 a year babe”. Also my girlfriend; “the cat looked cold, so I turned the heat pad on your office chair on for him.” The Cat:

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3 years

As a Dr having her ADHD assessment this week, if there is an apparent ‘epidemic’ of adult diagnoses going on now, it’s because we are not taught about it at med school, many (particularly women) have been under diagnosed due to a lack of understanding & we should be using this >

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3 years

Happy to admit that I spat out my tea at this.

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8 months

Why does #AskDontAssume REALLY grate on me right now? I went to a lovely yarn festival on Sunday (middle age is marvellous). It was great until we witnessed a security man asking a woman precisely what her disability was before he’d allow her to use the accessible loo. >

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1 year

One day, I want to roll into a bookshop and find a “Disability” section alongside Feminism, Race and LGBTQ sections. And I want it to be on a reachable shelf.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

Just had an elderly gentleman yell "Are you disabled?!" As I park in a blue badge space. "Well, hang around 2 mins and you can help me get my wheelchair out of the boot!" Funnily enough, he just drove on.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

Young people are blimmin' awesome. So are #disabled people. Given this seems to be blowing up, I should probably suggest you check out my TED talk on the awesomeness of disabled people. I crack #disability jokes and everything. #RollModel

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Disability and work: Let’s stop wasting talent | Hannah Barham-Brown | TEDxExeter

Disability is still a barrier to employment for millions of people – but it doesn’t have to be this way. Drawing on her own experience in the medical profession, Hannah Barham-Brown argues that...

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I’ve cut short my 48 hours off social media by 4 hours to express my unspeakable anger at the PM. Yes, we need to get boosters out. But GPs are broken. We have been for months. The PM has allowed this to happen. Now he’s trying to encourage people when we all know what he did. >

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO IS CARING FOR ALL THE CHILDREN OF ALL THE MALE POLITICIANS.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

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He sees this campaign, and he’ll feel entirely justified in grilling a stranger on her toileting requirements in public. He’ll think he was right, despite many of us telling him otherwise, because the Govt says #AskDontAssume

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1 year

Last week on TikTok I was asked (v sweetly) why as a GP I would need to see a GP. Today my GP took one look at me and signed me off for a fortnight. I’d planned to go into work straight after seeing her. That’s why.

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2 years

Today I’m applying for an NHS job that I worry people won’t consider me ‘senior’ enough for, and this is requiring a lot of bashing down of my rampant imposter syndrome, so send positive thoughts my way please!

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4 years

When I worked in hospital, if I was finding it tough, my makeup would be pristine. It was my protection, my war paint. This lass is doing an incredibly tough job at an unimaginably difficult time & should be applauded not vilified. Love a card-carrying, T-shirt wearing Feminist.

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Proud to be a paramedic 🥰🦠

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3 years

>as an opportunity to reflect as a profession on health inequalities, impacts of late diagnosis & the paternalistic attitudes that still pervade medicine where we often assume a greater level of knowledge of conditions we’ve barely been taught, despite our patients researching>

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

I’ve taken cabs I couldn’t afford. I’ve faked more phone calls than I can count. At 33, I have an app on my phone so my parents know exactly where I am. I’ve tried to hide my walking stick in the shadows so I’m not ‘easy prey’. We deserve freedom & Safety. #EnoughIsEnough @WEP_UK

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

I have literally never been excited to receive a Barbie before. I turned 33 today and I finally have one that looks like me (if only Barbie was a redhead!)

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

I get the feeling there’s gonna be a fair bit of crying in the work carpark down the phone to my Dad in the next few weeks. I’m ok, but exhausted; day off tomorrow will be spent in bed, resting up for the rest of the week. Please, help your NHS. #StayHomeSaveLives

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

WHAT KIND OF ANSWER WAS THAT TO A SCARED PERSON ABUT SHIELDING, MR JOHNSON?! “I hope you’re not being asked to work.” Of course people are being asked. Because you didn’t plan a way to protect and support them. You let them down and put them at risk. Again.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

Gentle reminder as I flinch at yet another discharge summary; it’s “wheelchair user”, not “wheelchair bound”. It may seem a small thing, but to those of us who it actually refers to, it really matters. #disability #disabled #access

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Very few of us have never experienced a personal loss. Whilst we mostly won’t have been close to the Queen, or even have met her,the idea of the passing of a figure who has been present our entire lives may well trigger off some of those grief responses we link to personal loss.>

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

1 year

THERE WAS A FIRE ALARM AT MY @premierinn at 0115. Yes, the Premier Inn that had already locked me out. Buckle up, because I’m going to be working out who to discuss this with, if anyone knows any good lawyers. 🧵>

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

Final hospital shift done, and I’m off to GP Land forever. After 4 years of nurse training and work, 4 years of medical school & 5 years of medical training, it’s strange to know I’m unlikely to be back in a hospital as a clinician. Off I go, not with a bang, but with a whimper.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

>them in depth, because they have repeatedly felt abandoned or ‘fobbed off’ by providers. If we are seeing a disproportionate number of private diagnoses, we need to ask whether our systems and funding in the NHS are letting patients down.>

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Even if you are not a fan of @BootstrapCook and all the amazing work she’s done to support foodbanks and fight poverty - why, with so many ludicrously rich people hell bent on screwing over this country, would you choose to troll *her*?! Of all the battles to pick right now…

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

Some people may struggle with #masks due to health conditions; but most people will NOT drop their oxygen levels. To try to prove this, I played Buckaroo with multiple masks, my face, & an oxygen saturation probe. Be kind & don’t judge, but if you can, wear a #mask .

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

5 years

"Why are you in that chair?" "Because my legs don't work very well." "Are you the doctor?" "Yep." "Cool." Kids just get it. #RollModel #disability

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Just for clarity team, “not seeing disability, just the person” is NOT a good thing. Being disabled isn’t a terrible thing we should all pretend doesn’t happen. That’s how we get forgotten and society continues to ignore our needs AND our unique skills.

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"Are you really staying on the bus all the way to the Headrow?!" "SHE CAN STAY ON THIS BUS AS LONG AS SHE LIKES, SHE IS IN THE WHEELCHAIR SPACE WITH A WHEELCHAIR AND YOU HAVE SHOPPING. YOU LEAVE HER ALONE." Ladies of Leeds, thank you. I shall never mess with you.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

Dear A Level Students, I am so so sorry at the utterly shitty hand you have been dealt by a frankly chaotic Govt this year. For those of you disappointed, this isn’t the end of your story, but allow yourself time to process it all. Love, The Doctor with no Science A Levels.

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3 years

I am v grateful to be training in an area where they have acknowledged that Drs themselves are underdiagnosed with NDs & yet there is a disproportionate amount of ND in the medical population, so are offering screening & support. I only hope senior colleagues catch on too.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

This is bloody awful. Don’t pretend to be disabled people. Bloody listen to us instead. If you are so lacking in empathy that you have to literally experience something to care about it, your soul is probably more broken than my legs.

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‘It’s not going to be an easy day’ – celebrities unite to spend 24 hours in a wheelchair

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

If you don’t *need* food deliveries and are able to click and collect, please do. I’m stuck in my house and the next delivery slot I can get is Weds. I should be able to manage on takeaway delivery, but I’d rather cook! #coronavirus

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

If today has brought back feelings you are struggling with, there is support out there. I’m an Ambassador for @goodgrieftrust - who do fantastic work supporting people who have experienced loss. If you want to learn more about grief and how it may change over time, I find the >

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Spoken to a med student who has been told by *Occupational Health* that it isn’t possible to be a Foundation #Doctor in a #Wheelchair . I know this isn’t true because I DID IT. SIX YEARS AGO. Please contact me if you’re an OH Dr struggling with this and I’m happy to explain how.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

This tweet of mine from 3 years ago has been resurrected, so… Dear Neurosurgeon who mocked me for working in a wheelchair, I’ve since been named 1 of the most influential people in Health, & 1 of the most influential disabled people in the UK. I don’t even remember your name.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

6 years

6 months ago, I was working in an ED, when a colleague I didn't know repeatedly stared at my chair and laughed in my face while asking "should you even be in work?!" in the middle of the shop floor. I burst into tears. That is why today matters. #StandAgainstBullying #disability

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4 years

I say this as a Vicar’s daughter; I don’t care about saving Christmas. I care about saving the lives of many patients and colleagues. And I am sick to the back teeth of announcements via media back channels. This only worsens anxiety and confusion at an already stressful time.

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Guardian front page, Saturday 31 October 2020: National lockdown 'could save Christmas'

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2 years

Amidst everything else, I’m keeping the Queen’s medical and nursing team in my thoughts today. An incredibly difficult situation to navigate, I have no doubt.

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Theresa may be a Vicar's Daughter, but I'm a Vicar's Daughter with a medical degree. Trust me, she will break your #NHS . #NHSbreakingpoint

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

If doctors working what is technically part time (but in comparison to other roles full time) is the big problem with NHS staffing, then we should have been training more doctors. This is a system problem, not an inidividual problem. It is not my duty to break myself for the NHS.

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1 year

“Sorry we can’t take your child into hospital, the Paramedics are 24 and 21, so they can save your lives but then you’ll need a taxi.” (I semi-jest but honestly FFS)

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New drivers under 25 could face a ban from carrying young passengers in their vehicles as part of a proposed "graduated driving licence" scheme

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

1 year

Leave me here. I mean so little that I was forgotten. So yes, if anyone knows any good lawyers, I want to chat. I can’t begin to process this, and am mainly writing it all down contemporaneously so I have evidence (as well as the videos I caught).

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

5 years

I really want to start a thread of women doing amazing kick ass things in their big girls blouses... because we do. Every day.

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Johnson’s sexist ‘big girls blouse’ is totally unacceptable in any setting, let alone the House of Commons. Coming from a Prime Minister, it’s especially reprehensible!

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

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“We need to be careful about referring to this as a ‘heatwave’. People hear ‘heatwave’ and think ‘nice, like on the beach’. This isn’t a heatwave, this is a Climate Breakdown” Me, on @SkyNews just now.

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A woman just stared so hard at me that she nearly walked off the platform. I’m telling myself it’s the mask and not the wheelchair.

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2 years

>We’ve also collectively been through an international trauma over the last couple of years - and however much the news cycle may have moved on, that’s going to take a long while to process, if we ever fully do. That won’t be helping. >

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

5 years

Please grant it. That petulant man child who refuses to sign letters because he didn't get his own way really doesn't speak for us. We didn't elect him.

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The extension request has just arrived. I will now start consulting EU leaders on how to react. #Brexit

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3 years

The first time I saw this monstrous waste of £2.6m, I immediately tweeted saying I bet it didn’t have wheelchair access. Turns out, not only did they not have it, they didn’t even consider it. That’s how little representation #disabled people have.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

Just a gentle reminder that a certain failed actor is baiting the NHS in a last ditch attempt to play the Twitter algorithms for free “exposure”. He wants your angry replies, he wants you to rush to our defence, because he honestly doesn’t care, as long as he gets attention.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

It’s really freaking hypocritical to be out there saying how great NHS staff are, whilst at the same time going out for “one last bender” at the pub, or clearing the supermarket shelves of all stock. We are trying to fight this thing, & you are actively making it harder for us.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

I’m outraged that there seem to be no funded support plans for shielding. Leaving people at higher risk at the mercy of their employers when their lives could quite literally be at stake is beyond horrific. #Lockdown2 #disability

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

Amazingly smooth process here @WMPLeeds for #JabDay - and a few happy tears shed. Absolute joy to vaccinate so many. I can honestly say this is the best day at work I’ve had in well over a year.

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My Mum and I agreed that had we been made to continue Maths to 18, we probably would not have stayed for 6th form and gone for vocational routes instead. She graduated from Cambridge in Law. I’m a doctor. Oh Rishi.

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2 years

Your response to the news today may well surprise you, and may last longer than you expected. Similarly, those around you may respond more strongly than you would have expected. You aren’t alone. >

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

If you need a speaker/media commentator who knows her stuff about politics, health & equality, looks great in a #wheelchair & cracks the odd joke about her #disability , hit me up. Here's a TED talk, showing off wheels & my ridiculous sense of humour.

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A couple of years ago, I came out to my parents with a casual “so I’m dating a woman”, in my kitchen. Today I pulled up the carpet on the stairs in the kitchen, and found this sort-of rainbow. I’m choosing to find something poetic in this. 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

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Tried to register with a local dentist. NHS waiting list is FOUR YEARS LONG. Can be seen privately on Thurs. If we don’t properly fight, our whole NHS will go this way, and people will die.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

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“Hi @rcgp - my Dad is seriously unwell and I’ve been signed off. I’m going to need to postpone my exam.” “Soz to hear this Dr Brown [who?!] - we’re going to need 25% of your fee [>£100] to cancel it, despite 6wks notice” “Compassion with Knowledge” is the college Motto. Uh huh.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Literally, a MASTERclass. Come on, not a single woman? For THIS topic?! Sigh. #NoMoreManels

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Shaheen Khazali

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2 years

Putting together the scientific program for this exciting #endometriosis masterclass. We have an exceptional international faculty and places are limited to 15 delegates (9 left now). register here:

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“It’s a challenge - this is what people in healthcare go into that vocation for...” I went into medicine to help people @MattHancock - I didn’t do it to see colleagues break down, systems break before my eyes, & patients fail to access basic care they need in time. @BBCr4today

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

We are 50,000 full-time doctors SHORT in the NHS. FIFTY THOUSAND. When you can’t see your GP, wait for hours in ED, or years for your surgery, this is why. #ARM2021

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

‘Ball In The Box’ explanation really helpful. Here’s me talking you through it; Hope all this helps.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

Why yes I did just fail a £500 exam by 0.5% - 1 mark. Second attempt. And yes, right now I am angry and questioning everything. But tomorrow I’ll go back into clinic, take a breath & then consider my options over the next few weeks. Sending love to GPST colleagues. This sucks.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

So doctors are considering strike action, barristers are voting for strike action, RMT are having more strike action, university staff recently had strike action, nurses have a sizeable strike fund ready, teachers can’t be far behind-is there anyone this Govt isn’t screwing over?

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

I feel physically sick at this. So much anger, towards the Met (yet again) and Child Q’s school, who failed in their duty of care to this young woman. How is she ever supposed to recover from this? Have the officers involved lost their jobs yet?

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Black schoolgirl strip-searched by Met Police officers while on her period in 'appalling' incident

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

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Dear A Level Students, I still have no Science A Levels. Not one. Zilch. Love, Dr Hannah Barham-Brown, MBBS, BA Hons., BSc Hons

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

I'll be on @BBCBreakfast at 0710 tomorrow morning, talking about the frustrations faced by #disabled people trying to use #trains , and why the Govt letting companies miss the deadline for access really isn't acceptable. #RollModel #disability @Tanni_GT @WEP_UK @TGAmobility

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Don’t wanna burst your bubble there Liz, but you’re gonna need doctors for all those “doctors appointments” you promise - and your Govt have done a pretty cracking job of pushing many of us out of the NHS over the last 12 years.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Oh right, so I could have had drinks with the 25 colleagues in the Care Home I was working in, in the enclosed garden there? Rather than going home alone in tears having watched my patients die , night after night? I’m struggling to see why I shouldn’t have, by this logic.

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2 years

Was the Downing Street Party a “flagrant breach of the rules” as #Labour are happily claiming? Sue Gray will decide, but here are the facts: 1) There are 80/90 offices in the Downing Street complex with key workers who were all operating closely together indoors

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

As a disabled person involved in politics, I honestly want to cry watching this. This system denies people like me representation. I’m good enough to work as a doctor during this pandemic, but disabled voices like mine do not matter to this Government.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Just make masks mandatory for those who can. Don’t mutter “ideally in shops and on transport” and move along. Make them mandatory, make it clear. #OmicronVariant

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

My local pub has been making amazing takeout dinners. I just phoned to order for tonight and had a slightly panicked voice on the phone say “oh thank goodness, you’re our third order all day.” I ordered most of the menu because they sounded so sad. Please support small business.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Failed again. Pretty devastated. Liable to be a bit quiet on here as I work through it all.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

If you are the sort of person who lets hospitals know if you need to cancel - THANK YOU. Someone cancelled, so my dad got called this morning for a big test this PM, which hopefully takes us closer to cancer treatment. So SO bloody grateful someone called & hope they’re ok.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

This is devastating. Let’s never forget how #RichardOkorogheye ’s mother was treated following his disappearance by the very people meant to help her. I only hope she knows tonight that many of us continue to hold her and Richard in our thoughts.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

>Get your boosters. Follow the restrictions. But know that he is the reason we are here, the reason the NHS is broken before we even start his new “Mission”. No amount of his sudden “GPs are great” crap is going to fix this.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

1 year

Just had a lovely chat with a genuinely enthusiastic @Waterstones staff member about wanting a “Disability” section - if we can fill a shelf then he reckons we can have a section. So, recommendations of #disabled #NonFiction below please, let’s give them a shelf’s worth!

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

1 year

One day, I want to roll into a bookshop and find a “Disability” section alongside Feminism, Race and LGBTQ sections. And I want it to be on a reachable shelf.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

Kept myself entertained captioning this. Now on a train and safe, but here's why I shan't be travelling by train from my village for a while. @northernassist totally failed my as a disabled passenger tonight. Nearly 2 hours waiting in the cold, mainly hiding from drunks.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

Oh my goodness, how amazing is this?! An incredible artist painted my portrait for #portraitsfornhsheroes - I can’t wait to get it up on my wall. Check out @ dashablaze on Instagram for more of her fabulous work.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Yes I’m tired & yes, I’m probably a bit burnt out, but you know my overriding emotion right now? Anger. Unstoppable, palpitation-creating, anger. We did EVERYTHING we could. We put ourselves at serious risk every single day to try to save lives. They couldn’t even resist a party.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Gave a jab to a deaf patient today, and I was able to introduce myself and wish him Merry Christmas in BSL. I’m no expert (I got level 1 YEARS ago), but it brought us both a smile at a difficult time.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

Drove 40 mins through the snow to find that once again, the blue badge spaces at work are full of cars without badges. Because obviously disabled staff don’t exist, and disabled people don’t need hospitals between Xmas and New Year. Any idea how utterly demeaning this is?

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

Signing myself off work for a bit as all the stress is not healthy for me or my patients. Accepting I’m struggling is really hard, but important to share, as I know others out there will be pushing through as I tried to, and making themselves worse as I did. Baby steps, team.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

1 year

Leave me in my room, in a potentially burning building. I was not a priority, as a disabled person. I was just left there. My amazing colleagues went and got my chair (it was by a lift that the staff didn’t know how to turn on), and wheeled it down in the now-working lifts>

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

There are going to be some people out there feeling guilty for how much they are struggling with the news at the moment - if we aren’t ourselves affected to the same extent as the Ukrainians, then what right do we have to be so terrified, right? Wrong. Let’s break this down.>

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

3 years

They aren’t smear tests. They are vaginal swabs looking for HPV. If found, those patients will be offered cervical screening (known as “the smear”) to check for pre-cancerous cell changes. This stuff matters, Matt, you have a responsibility to get it right. @eveappeal @WEP_UK

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Matt Hancock

3 years

Over 31,000 women will be offered kits to carry out smear tests in the privacy & convenience of their own homes in a trial. Cervical screening is life-saving, so this is a great step forward

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

May have firmly corrected a lady in the queue for the GP. “My husband can’t get his hip replaced for love nor money, but if you come over from France you get whatever you want on the NHS.” LITERALLY WHERE DO THEY GET THIS SHIT FROM?! IT IS CATEGORICALLY UNTRUE.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

6 years

People like telling me I 'inspire' them. They rarely expect my follow up question: "What exactly am I inspiring you to do?" Inspiration without subsequent action is pretty pointless. If you're inspired, do something. I'm not here for your entertainment. #disability

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

I am a person who likes to be in control of a situation. Cancer in the family has an amazing way of removing any semblance of control. So the best thing I have been able to do for my mental health recently? This. #haircut

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

5 years

During my first degree, I discovered the joy of biting both ends off a Twirl, and using it as a coffee straw. I can honestly say that has been the key thing that has got me through today.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

I’m a GP Registrar. I have given hundreds if not thousands of COVID vaccines by now, and was proud to be one of the first jabbed at our centre. My family all told me the second they got vaccinated so I would stop worrying so much. Vaccines are saving lives.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

I have a date tonight. Whilst in #SelfIsolation . We’re doing it via Skype. Basically, I have a meeting with a very lovely person and some wine. I’m hoping she’s prepped the minutes of the last one. #LoveInATimeOfCorona

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

It finally happened. I just tried to drink coffee through my mask.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

TEAM!! Just got the best message ever - my stolen bag has been handed into a local hospital with everything still in it! IT IS AN #IDPWD2021 MIRACLE! Honestly close to tears right now. Thank you SO much, whoever found it.

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

2 years

🧵So today has been a bit of a nightmare. 30 mins before my clinic started, I was dealing with this: car broken into in #Leeds overnight, and my beautiful Doctor’s bag, with my stethoscope and other equipment, gone. As if being a GP isn’t hard enough at the moment. >

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Dr Hannah Barham-Brown

4 years

Happiest of Fridays - I’m Deputy Leader of the best political party! @WEP_UK

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Women's Equality Party

4 years

Dr Hannah Barham-Brown ( @HannahPopsy ) is a Leeds-based doctor & campaigner who tours the UK giving talks on Disability & Equality. A former WEP candidate for local Council & EU Parliament, she’ll lead on Campaigns & Elections. #WEPDeps >

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