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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

No, Mr Fabricant We did not party We did not meet We stopped having coffee together as we feared we could all go down together leaving noone to look after our patients We stuck to the letter & the spirit of the law because people were sick & dying from an infectious disease

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

Can I ask @MattHancock to come & do a shift on our phones, ringing our 80+ pts to explain that their 2nd dose of vaccine has been cancelled? Our PCN needs to cancel 1160 appts & rebook another 1160. At 5 mins per phone call, that's 193 hours work. Not to mention the grief & anger

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

If "the government did everything it could to minimise deaths" can I politely suggest that we need a different government?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

What we need is vaccine supply We don't need vaccination hubs We don't need army logistics We just need more vials delivered to GPs - we have great databases of all our patients, we can contact them Just give us the vaccine - we can do the rest Vaccinations - it's what we do

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

Nobody could have predicted that putting someone with no knowledge of infectious diseases or public health in charge of testing and contact tracing in a pandemic would lead to world's highest death rate.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

I was asked to talk on the radio yesterday about what might contribute to living to 96. Statistically speaking, wealth is almost certainly the most important factor. I declined the invitation as I don't think that was what they wanted to hear

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

'Ten grand a day, every day, since the end of the Bronze Age. That's how much this government handed over to Dido Harding to deliver a Test & Trace system that doesn't work' Thanks to @Steve__Paxton for this nugget. Cronyism & incompetence is expensive - in money and lives

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

1 year

In case you were wondering why junior doctors on £14 per hour are striking:

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

Thérèse Coffey says she is 'positioning herself on the side of patients' What does she think NHS staff are doing? Going to war with them? Our enemies are disease, suffering, and untimely death. She needs to convince us she is on this side too.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

Where's Witty? If he has resigned, we should know, and know why. If he is still in post, he must speak up now.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

The Pfizer/BioNTech and the Oxford AztraZeneca vaccines have both been tested on >20,000 people. The normal number of people tested for medicines licencing is anything between 300 and 3,000 These are not untested vaccines.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

We vaccinated nearly 900 of our patients and colleagues today - the last group in were care home workers. Such a good feeling - no bad reactions, everyone happy. Just a bit tired now.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

I hate to be gloomy but cases are up by 25% and deaths within 28 days are up by 38% this week compared to last week. We are not over this pandemic yet - but it won't go away just because we are all so bored of masks and restrictions

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

Covid isn't over Double vaccinated staff are off with symptoms awaiting PCR results There's a teenager being ventilated in the local ICU We have a new health secretary who knows and cares about money but not health Anyone have any good news for me?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

We took a few measures to reduce the spread of Covid They are showing signs of working so now we're going to stop, although rates of infection are still really high, and rising in children Not making sense to me.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

@chrischirp People are talking about Covid 'becoming endemic' as if this is a good thing. TB and smallpox were once endemic in the UK - it doesn't mean mild, it just means widespread. Other countries aren't throwing in the towel - why has our govt given up trying to protect us?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

Today we confirmed that staff at our practice will continue to wear masks & we ask patients to so too. Our local hospital has decided patients & visitors don't need them- but with an infection rate of 1 in 70 & lots of frail/immune compromised people around, that seems foolhardy

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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4 years

As a GP, I still have no way of accessing testing for my patients who have possible Covid19 symptoms.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

@traependergrast Pt reply : Please don't confuse your one lecture at medical school with my 20 years of lived experience of this condition'

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

I keep hearing the problem is that the UK is testing too much: 312,891 UK cases in the last week vs 37,054 in France Trouble is, we are also dying too much 942 deaths in UK vs 202 in France We really do have much higher rates of Covid infection, hospitalisation & death

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

If any Conservative MPs still have a moral compass, I think they'll find it is directing them to cross the floor, or possibly to Graham Brady's office to hand in their letters of no confidence. End this farce now - we can't afford to prolong the agony

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

As duty doctor today I've phoned 48 pts and seen 4 F2F. 11 hours after starting I'll embark on the prescriptions, results, referrals, emails & letters. You know that feeling when you keep trying to fit more things into a suitcase but you know the zip is going to break soon?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

Nice man at the ticket office explained that reason our rail fares are so high compared to mainland Europe is that we subsidise their trains as they own ours. Don't you just love privatisation?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

This cheered me up - surely the best employment contract ever. Thank you @PrivateEyeNews

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

4 years

Serco track and trace is not working Can we have NHS track and trace instead?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

What should I say to staff at my practice about Covid testing from next week? What about staff on the oncology ward? Who's paying for the tests? Is there a plan @sajidjavid ? Just crossing our fingers and hoping won't be enough.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

9 months

Forwarded from a friend - a reminder that Covid is still out there and you'll need to look after yourself because nobody else is

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

A fully vaccinated GP colleague is in hospital with Covid The plan to relax isolation rules for NHS staff seems foolhardy - as an immunosuppressed patient would you like to be treated by someone with asymptomatic Covid? How many of your staff do you want to infect?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

Why have vaccines been moved to mass hubs, leaving GP practices which are ready, willing, local and trusted, without supplies? Inappropriate to make our oldest patients travel. Please can GPs have an explanation from NHSE @NikkiKF

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

Dear @GMC , I have been instructed to break my promise to my elderly patients & use a vaccine outside its evidenced and approved schedule, probably placing them at risk Please advise.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

1 year

Just spent a rather cross 10 mins on Sky News talking about why charging for GP appointments is a very bad idea.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

Disappointed to hear Jonathan Van Tam on @BBCr4today equating Covid with flu and saying he doesn't wear a mask. Hospitalisations with Covid as the primary diagnosis are increasing and there were 334 deaths with Covid on the certificate last week.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

It is depressing, disheartening, and totally infuriating, that in a time of crisis for the NHS, and its patients, the health secretary is obsessing about the use of commas.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

Idiot. Covid is nothing like flu. The 950 covid patients who died last week were not safe The cancer patients having their treatment postpone because so many staff have Covid don't feel safe. The rest of us covering for absent colleagues are feeling a bit near the edge too.

Matt Hancock

@MattHancock

2 years

Our strategy - to suppress the virus until the vaccine made us safe - has made us the first major country to exit the pandemic, and we can now live with Covid like we do many other diseases like flu. My piece today on moving past the pandemic 👇 3/3

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

Our local hospital is following the science: 'You will also have seen recent announcements in the news about the lifting of COVID-19 safety measures in the near future – we will not be lifting these measures as we still very much need to keep our patients and staff safe.'

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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1 year

Happy Hanukkah! My daughter's friend was bemoaning the lack of an equivalent to the Christmas jumper, so she made her this. The flames stick on with velcro, so you can light the candles one by one. (I may have shared this before - apologies - I'm still a very proud mum)

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

The pandemic happened to us - our govt handled it badly & many lives were lost as a result, but they didn't cause it Brexit - haulier shortages, empty shelves, panic buying, prices rising - is entirely of their own making. This chaos was not inevitable, they created it. Be angry

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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1 year

Busiest day ever as duty doc in GP yesterday. So many bad chests, so much flu, possibly Covid, fear that a sore throat might be deadly Strep A...No time to listen properly and I hate it when I hear myself say 'really sorry but that will have to wait' Home by 9.30pm. Done in.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

4 years

PPE update: it arrived today, about 4 weeks after the request 100 single use masks 200 aprons 1 box of gloves Our surgery serves 11,500 patients. Luckily we have sourced our own meanwhile with the help of generous friends

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

A bank holiday at short notice is a nightmare for those of us trying to run health services. Loads of patients booked in do what to do? Implore staff to work and pay extra? Reschedule and delay all the appointments?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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1 year

Keir, please, talk to a doctor before you embarrass yourself and your party further by making up health policy on the hoof and talking rubbish. If you do have internal bleeding go straight to A&E, go directly to A&E, do not stop by your GP....

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

1 year

"One of things we've put forward.. self referrals so individuals dont have to go to a dr in order to get referred to specialist help.. if youve got internal bleeding & you just need a test there ought to be a way that doesn't involve going to see a GP" Keir Starmer on #BBCLauraK

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

This new variant of Omicron is reaching parts of the population the others never did. So many people I know infected for the first time, including many of the team at work. Lots of patients won't get to see their doctor today.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

A really interesting account. The only certainty is that countries that locked down hard and fast did very much better in terms of health and economy

What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns

Nature - Restrictions on social contact stemmed disease spread, but weighing up the ultimate costs and benefits of lockdown measures is a challenge.

www.nature.com

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

5 years

People who love the NHS will be very disappointed in the Lib Dems tonight who failed to back the Labour amendment to protect it in future trade deals. They just lost many, many votes. Why?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

Ooh @BBCr4today blaming the fuel crisis on Brexit and a govt spokesman saying he didn't vote for it. Cracks beginning to show? (after the rest of us can see the building is falling down)

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

Last week I asked Where's Whitty? We need his good sense more than ever. If he has no influence at all over government it should be said publicly. Vallance? Even Harries?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

Well over half the (many) results in my inbox yesterday were positive Covid tests. Each person now sick, off work, off school, facing uncertainty about how ill they will be, when they will recover, and their risk of long term health problems.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

We need better masks in hospitals and GP surgeries. I'm told the evidence is lacking. We know Covid is airborne and the omicron variant is much more transmissible. There isn't the ethical space or time to do a trial - we need FFP2 minimum for all clinical work. Now.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

The reassurances I have been offered about the security of personal medical information once it has been downloaded by NHS Digital are about as convincing as the protective ring around care homes. #NHSDataGrab

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

More than a bit irked by the lack of joined up thinking on the approach to omicron GPs to drop everything to give booster vaccs - which take 2 weeks to kick in. Meanwhile no measures to limit the spread in schools, pubs, clubs & parties

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

Heard Priti Patel on the radio last night trying to say Napier Barracks was 'Covid-safe'. They slept 28 people per dormitory and 178 have caught Covid. Putting beds 2m apart does not protect you from an airborne virus. Can she really not know this?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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but was told they must engage in physio first. The diagnosis of a rapidly progressing neurological condition was delayed by many weeks. An avoidable harm. Another illustration of why we need our most expert clinicians on the front line 2/2

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

Yippee! The health secretary now expects patients to be offered a GP appointment within two weeks. That really helps, thanks Therese Coffey. 'Expectations' - the UK equivalent of 'thoughts and prayers'

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

@MarinaPurkiss Every time you learn about more corrupt contracts for faulty goods, remember the health workers who were infected and died from Covid.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

@DrNeenaJha I'll be keeping the appointments my patients made to see me.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

On the train to London. Full, very few masks. At this level of CO2 we are breathing each other's exhaled viruses+++

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4 months

I heard a very sad story yesterday of a patient with leg weakness, diagnosed with sciatica by a non doctor & signposted to physio. A private therapist wrote to the practice pointing out pt had widespread fasiculations & needed urgent referral Pt tried to see GP again 1/2

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

End of vaccine clinic

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

4 years

Our practice has had one delivery of 150 masks a month ago from NHS supplies. We ordered more 3 weeks ago - nothing yet. We have managed to source some ourselves Meanwhile district nurses would have no eye protection at all without donations from 3D printers PPE is not sorted.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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4 months

Suddenly it's newsworthy that GPs are being replaced with 'other roles' ie people with less training and fewer skills. Possibly because it's now happening in the leafy shires - in less privileged areas it's been going on for years.

Molesey and Thames Ditton GP redundancies due to 'new ways of working'

All 11 GPs at the surgery received a letter informing them of "the start of an HR process".

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

11 months

If you had £1.6 billion to spare would you choose to a) restore junior doctors' pay (estimated net cost £1.03bn) Or b) bung it without competition to an Aussie company for 3 barges to accommodate refugees

Revealed: Australian firm awarded £1.6bn contract for asylum barges and accommodation

Exclusive: Fury over astonishing sum to operate barges and run services to house asylum seekers in Britain

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

"We’re being encouraged to accept that 130 deaths a day from a preventable infectious disease is unremarkable and the “new normal.” I beg to differ, and I see trouble ahead."

Helen Salisbury: Trouble with the new normal

We can probably all agree that normality, in medicine, is a good thing. When patients present with symptoms we listen, examine, and can often confidently reassure them that what they’re experiencing...

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

Long discussion just now on @BBCRadio4 about problems with school attendance - no mention at all of Covid, vulnerable families, why some parents don't feel safe sending their kids to school or Covid mitigations. 🤦‍♀️

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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9 months

I missed the chance to reply to this. I used to be an avid @BBCRadio4 listener - the soundtrack of my life until recently. But now it is blatantly biased in favour of govt, failing to report stories that are unfavourable to them, that I no longer trust it as a source of news.

BBC Feedback

@BBCR4Feedback

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We recently found out that @BBCRadio4 's audience has been shrinking - especially in the case of its flagship programmes. But why do you think this is happening? Drop your thoughts in the thread below 👇 #BBCR4Feedback

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

According to this article we have 'emerge[d] from an Omicron wave relatively unscathed.' Relative to what? I think the families of 300 dead a day may beg to differ

Warring scientists fight on as Omicron retreats

As quickly as it washed up on our shores, the Omicron wave appears to be receding — at least according to the politicians. On Thursday, all of England’s plan B

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

8 months

We (general practice) were told don't give any flu or Covid vacc this autumn 1st Oct Sudden volte face - now we are being asked to give Covid vaccs to all >65 and vulnerable starting 11th Sept and finishing within 7 weeks Complete confusion - & the need was entirely predictable

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

4 years

I have been asked to comment (on LBC tomorrrow) on a suggestion that obese people over 50 will be asked to shield and GPs will be called on to advise about who should be included. I can foresee a few problems. Anyone else?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

Schrödinger's cough - one which is simultaneously bad enough to need antibiotics and not bad enough to be Covid. There's a lot of it about Get a PCR test.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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9 months

Handwashing? Have you learned nothing? Repeat after me 'Covid is airborne' Open the window, wear a mask, get a HEPA filter By all means wash your hands too but it won't stop you getting or spreading Covid.

UK Health Security Agency

@UKHSA

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Dr Mary Ramsay, Head of Immunisation at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on this week's report 🔽

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

I don't understand the conclusion reached by JCVI re 12-15s. Vaccines can cause myocarditis (heart inflammation)but Covid causes it 6x more often. If < 1 in 6 teenagers get Covid, the numbers might stack up - but with no masks/bubbles/isolation, they're all going to catch it.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

The nearest PCR tests available are in Wales or Merseyside - I'm in Oxford

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 months

Over 75 or extremely vulnerable? You can have a covid booster. Everyone else? It'll cost you £45 even though the govt has already bought the vaccines & will be thowing them away. Difficult to get our heads around the logic of this when covid is still affecting health & economy.

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I was prompted to write this in response to latest announcement for vaccine plans. The cost benefit analysis underpinning decisions is not available to scrutinise but I fear we are heading for fewer free covid vaccines

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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2 years

Just how effective is that mask if it stays in her handbag? Is this useful messaging? I am not convinced that the health security of the UK is in safe hands.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

1 year

@hardin @cori_crider Twitter binfire aside, here's a quick reminder that insulin is free to patients in the UK. The fact that it isn't in the US, and people lose their sight, limbs and lives because they run out of money is unbelievable to people over here.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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10 months

We're delighted one of our trainees is joining our team as a fully fledged GP next week 5yrs med school 2yrs foundation posts 3yrs specialist training Supervised all the way Physician Associates practise after 2yrs clinical training & are often poorly supervised - it isn't safe

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

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@cv_cev This is irresponsible I do not recommend parents send children with a fever to school, whatever the cause. Sick kids are in no position to learn and just pass whatever infection they have to others.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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4 years

When my very old patients die it is usually clear why, although I sometimes put 'old age' on the cert after a gradual decline. Recently I have lost old & frail patients suddenly & unexpectedly - no virus symptoms, up and about normally the day before. Is this silent Covid19?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

My timeline is filling up again with the faces of healthcare colleagues who have died from Covid19. I am so sad, so grateful for their work, and also angry that we find ourselves here for a second time.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

9 months

Why not increase NHS capacity instead? Privatised services aren't cheaper as they have to include profit.

NHS to expand use of private sector to tackle waits

Ministers in England want to unlock spare capacity, but Labour accuse them of dither and delay.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

Can we deconstruct what commentators mean when they say 'the NHS is unaffordable'? Firstly, healthcare costs a lot - but is there anything more important to spend money on? 1/n

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

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@wesstreeting No relief in scientific and medical circles, just hoarse voices from shouting at the radio, and white knuckles as we hold on for another very bumpy ride. We are in deep trouble with a populist govt - if we have a populist opposition too we are really sunk.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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@Kit_Yates_Maths I'm extremely grateful not to have had Covid - and I am still being careful I am not afraid of dying, but I do fear long Covid and a loss of exercise tolerance & quality of life I wear an N95/FFP2 in public indoor spaces and consult with window open. I still have friends

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

950 Covid deaths in the last 7 days UK averages 1500 flu deaths a year - Omicron is not 'just like flu' Sadly the pandemic is not over and being 'alert' is no substitute for masks, testing, ventilation, HEPA filters and supported isolation Keep getting boosted when you're offered

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@UKHSA

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The #COVID19 Dashboard has been updated: 599,244 cases and 950 deaths within 28 days of a positive test have been reported in the last 7 days, as of 25 March. The data includes the number of people receiving a first, second and booster #vaccine dose.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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4 years

Could someone in our govt swallow their pride & unfounded British exceptionalism for 5 minutes and go and ask Angela Merkel's govt for some tips. It isn't rocket science and we don't need a moon shot.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

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I have nothing against the idea of physician assistants - we could be helped by staff who can do highly protocolised, low risk tasks which are of no training value to junior doctors - our PA does spirometry which is really useful 1/6

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

5 years

If the Lib Dems had not been in coalition there would not have been a Tory govt and we would have been spared the misery of austerity. Saying 'we made it less bad' is no excuse when you allowed it to happen in the first place.

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Credit to this journalist. Finally someone calls out Jo Swinson for backing the Bedroom Tax, scrapping EMA, tripling tuition fees & attacks on the disabled.

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LBC pulling no punches here: 'the next time someone in a hospital tells you “I’m part of the medical team,” it could be a clever lie by omission'

Plan to pump 10,000 fake doctors into the NHS is insane and dangerous, writes James Perkins

You might not have heard of a ‘physician associate’ - and that’s not your fault. They probably won’t tell you. A physician associate walks and talks like a doctor, but they are no replacement for one.

www.lbc.co.uk

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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3 years

First delivery of Pfizer BioNtech vaccine now all given. A few last minute hitches - we received enough (very particular) syringes for 5 doses per vial but then were able to give 6 doses, so county wide search for extra syringes. No vaccine wasted. No allergic reactions reported.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

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@JimBethell None of these people, eminent though they may be, have explained why doctors need 10 years of training to have the skills to see undifferentiated patients in general practice but it's safe for PAs to do this after just 2 years. 1/2

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

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If I was interviewing Victoria Aktins for a job - any job, let alone SoS for health - she wouldn't get through to the second round.

BBC Radio 4 Today

@BBCr4today

5 months

"Two-thirds of hospice funding comes from charity. Is that the mark of a civilised society?" @amolrajan asks Health Secretary Victoria Atkins, who tells #R4Today about a £600m investment into social care, and says the government would like money 'spent as well as possible'.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

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Did you know that the 7.7 million waiting list for NHS care does not include the >1.5 million people waiting for mental health diagnosis & treatment? I was also reliably infomed that the NHS is only commissioning 30% of the MH care it knows is needed. Parity of esteem anyone?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

@Dienekes_ A moving thread - what decent people were doing while the Govt partied.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 months

The sad death of a man possibly due to medical mishap- he underwent a cystoscopy when he had clear markers of infection & died of sepsis The procedure was done by a physician associate (not a doctor). It appears the internal investigation into the incident was done by the same PA

Dr Matt Kneale

@drmattuk

2 months

Family of film make-up artist call for inquest after treatment by physician associate which led to death. @JanetEastham @TheDA_UK @TheBMA

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

Which smells worse - the sewage in our rivers or the corruption in our parliament?

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

Also, we do have lots of tests but we also have a really high positivity rate at 10% This is not a sign of overtesting, this is a sign of rampant infection.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

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This is madness Spread dangerous anti vax info? GMC not interested Attempt peaceful protest to save the planet? Get suspended for 5 months. In what way could this possibly harm patients or the profession? GMC in self -parody mode now

Plan B Earth

@PlanB_earth

16 days

1. BREAKING: Dr Sarah Benn suspended for 5 months following @gmcuk Tribunal 🧵 Hear Sarah in her own words @TheBMA Credit: @notguiltyorguk

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

Rumour has it that all >80 year olds within striking distance of new vaccine centres have been sent invitations - whether or not they've already had it from their GP. Sounds like a recipe for confusion. Just give us the vaccines & we can deliver - as we do with 'flu vac every yr

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

@tnewtondunn This is completely bonkers If you want everyone to spread their infection as quickly and widely as possible, singing is the way to do it Singing, shouting, howling with laughter, panting with exertion - don't do any of these in an enclosed space.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

3 years

I had a lot of positive Covid results in my inbox today. A mix of unvaccinated teenagers and double jabbed elderly who had their second >6 months ago. Please get a booster as soon as you are offered.

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Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

2 years

Not sure people really understand what 'hospitals being overwhelmed' means If this happens people arriving at A&E with Covid (or anything else) won't get the care they need - not enough nurses, doctors, oxygen - so risk being sicker or even dying when they could have been saved

Dr. Deepti Gurdasani

@dgurdasani1

2 years

Ultimately, the growth rate means, despite moderate reductions in severity, hospitals could still be overwhelmed, and we still need to take urgent action to pre-empt this, while we understand more about this threat.

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