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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

I didn’t know you could wear a coat more than once. This will save me a lot of money.

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Kate Middleton re-wears blue Alexander McQueen coat for fourth time

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

@Prof_Marciniak No, that would be going too far.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

3 years

I am so honoured and grateful to receive a CBE. Thanks to all the @rcpsych members who elected and supported me. Thanks also to my patients and their carers who have inspired me to do my best to improve the services that they receive.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

This is very interesting. Staff in China dealing with COVID didn’t want psychological intervention, they asked for more rest without interruption and enough protective supplies.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

10 months

Visited @AuschwitzMuseum and Birkenau today. “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

3 years

This is a junior person in the NHS. A senior person such as myself can shake exactly the right amount of coffee into a mug without difficulty. ☕️

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

2 years

What a view to wake up to.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

2 years

Look what I got today.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

10 months

What a historic moment. @DrLadeSmith becomes the first black woman to lead a UK Royal College as she starts as President of @rcpsych .

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

2 years

RIP 🌹

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Pleased to announce that I have started with @NHS_HealthEdEng as a National Mental Health Clinical Advisor. Will be working on recruitment, training and workforce. Looking forward to collaboration with @rcpsych .

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

1 year

Yesterday was my son’s wedding at St Paul’s Cathedral. A magical day. The sun came out just as the ceremony finished.☀️ 🎉 🎉🎉

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

3 years

My son and his lovely girlfriend have got engaged! So pleased and excited. 🎉👏💍💒

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@wendyburn

3 months

Simba 19.11.10 to 16.2.24. He really was a very special cat.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

@CamBike1 @JoannaEE Oh never thought of that.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

9 months

I clicked on a link that was sent out by the Trust IT department to see if I could be tricked into clicking on dodgy links and now I have to do a special training course. 😭😭😭

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

2 months

Someone has managed to email 477 people in NHSE trying to book a car parking space and now everyone is replying all…

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

6 years

Very special evening. @Number10cat actually let me stroke him.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

This isn’t the Mothers Day I hoped and planned for. My son is in Manchester with all the symptoms of the virus. Even while ill he arranged to send me these lovely flowers. In solidarity with all other mothers who can’t be with their children today. #MothersDay

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 months

It’s so wonderful when someone who wasn’t eating, was paranoid and suicidal, comes to see me looking completely well with exciting plans for Christmas. I will never get bored of this job.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

2 months

Trying to write a talk on Academic Psychiatry but my two new helpers aren’t making it easy. 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

My last day as President of @rcpsych . Up early to put finishing touches to my report for the AGM. Hand over to @DrAdrianJames at 5pm today.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Never ever describe a patient as “manipulative “. Not only rude and disrespectful but gets you nowhere in terms of helping them.

🚀Hattie Taylor RN DN QN🌈

@hattierocket

4 years

I’d really like to work on encouraging uptake of more respectful language at clinical meetings. We need to bin some of the old phrases used historically and change the words we use to be more inclusive and person centred. Please could you help me by providing examples in replies

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Induction morning for those commencing senior roles at @rcpsych . Notice anything?

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Three years ago today my mother died. She loved orchids and I learnt how to look after them from her. This little one lived with her in her nursing home. I like to think it’s flowering in honour of her. 🌺

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

8 months

Don’t normally post swear words but this is my favourite response to *that* letter in the Times.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

3 years

Just signed up for my shifts in the @LeedsandYorkPFT vaccine hub for the next 2 months. We will he doing 12 hours a day 6 days a week. #DocsforVax 💉

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

#louistheroux would make a wonderful psychiatrist. He is so good at listening and drawing people’s stories out of them. #choosepsychiatry

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

3 years

On #MothersDay I remember my mother Patience. First woman in her family to go to University she trained as a doctor in the 1940s when this was unusual for women. She taught me that women could do anything.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

2 years

Powerful piece from ⁦⁦ @doctor_oxford ⁩ who says “My rage is reserved for the charlatans who use their platforms to sow mistruths at such terrible cost. These people are liars and cynics with blood on their hands.”

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

I am in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

6 years

Remembering my mother, Patience Burn, who died exactly a year ago. She was the first in her family to go to university and combined a career as a doctor with a family at a time when that was rare. She taught my sister and I that women can do anything. 🌺🌻🌹❤️❤️❤️

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

2 years

Fewer ethnic minority doctors are referred to GMC after cases are anonymised. This needs to be rolled out nationally.

Fewer ethnic minority doctors are referred to GMC after cases are anonymised

Setting up independent panels to review anonymised case information before doctors are formally referred to the General Medical Council has helped to reduce the disproportionate rate of referrals of...

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 months

Unexpectedly starting a new chapter of my life today. Have been moved from the memory service to work on a functional inpatient ward. Sad to say goodbye to patients and team (and parking). Wish me luck. 🍀

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

1 year

Good morning

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

7 years

This is the proudest moment of my life. Huge thanks to all those who voted for me.

Royal College of Psychiatrists

@rcpsych

7 years

Congratulations to @wendyburn – the royal college’s next president. @wendyburn won the college presidential elections after a 33.1% turnout.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

@DrFulli @Jade_Paterson9 Shouldn’t talk too much about an individual patient on Twitter but I have seen it in elderly people. Have taken whole histories from people who haven’t washed or eaten for days.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

1 year

RIP Twinkle, beloved family pet. 20.3.07 to 14.4.23. She will be missed. ❤️

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

Keep forgetting I’m in the North and its normal for strangers to smile and talk to me.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 months

As the NHS goes up in flames #MedTwitter spends the whole weekend arguing about a door sign in a perfect example of displacement.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Urgent studies needed into mental health impact of coronavirus. Mental health research is significantly underfunded, lagging far behind funding for illnesses such as cancer.

'Urgent studies needed' into mental health impact of coronavirus

Effects of lockdown and of Covid-19 itself could be deep and long-term, say researchers

www.theguardian.com

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

❗️I’m being told that all mental health trust CEOs can now request PPE which is being distributed by the army. Let me know if you have any problems and I’ll feed this back. ❗️

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

10 months

I’ll listen to people who say they have been harmed by psychiatry and am trying to help. But I won’t tolerate being sworn at or personal insults. That leads to blocking.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

6 years

Twitter is a sad place at present but does not represent reality. For those of you watching in horrified disbelief please remember there are thousands of psychologists from @BPSOfficial and psychiatrists from @rcpsych working together and supporting each other to help patients.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

#hellomynameis Wendy. A2 I have been a psychiatrist for over 30 years, I am also President of @rcpsych . I want to improve care in mental illness. I believe we must spend more time listening to clinicians on the ground and to patients, Twitter perfect for this. #OurNHSPeople

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

❗️Read new @rcpsych document on the impact of COVID-19 on BAME staff in Mental Healthcare Settings❗️

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Had to choose between entering a Twitter quarrel or washing the floor. Made the right choice. 🧼 🧹😇

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

A very sad and difficult day at @rcpsych . No-one hopes more than me that we have overreacted by cancelling events. Stay safe everyone. #coronavirusuk

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

People waste huge amounts of time completing risk assessments when actually they don’t help us to predict suicide. Totally agree. Maybe this time would be better spent listening to patients? #psychconf

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@wendyburn

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The use of mood stabilizers in bipolar disorder was significantly associated with decreased risks of all-cause mortality. Among the individual mood stabilizers, lithium was associated with the lowest risks of all-cause mortality.

Mood stabilizers and risk of all‐cause, natural, and suicide mortality in bipolar disorder: A...

Objectives People with bipolar disorder have an elevated risk of mortality. This study evaluated associations between the use of mood stabilizers and the risks of all-cause mortality, suicide, and...

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Be this psychiatrist.

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@wendyburn

4 years

From @Rebecca99LT “ I thought mental illness meant I'd never be a doctor. Now I'm a consultant psychiatrist”. Not only a consultant, she is a Fellow of @rcpsych .

I thought mental illness meant I'd never be a doctor. Now I'm a consultant psychiatrist | Rebecca...

Going from patient to doctor hasn’t been easy, but I ignored people who said I couldn’t do it – and hope others do too, says consultant psychiatrist Rebecca Lawrence

www.theguardian.com

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

Exciting news ! In 2019 we will be starting our @rcpsych Twitter book-club @rcpsychReads where we will discuss books of interest to the Mental Health Community.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

3 years

A politician who can actually dance. 💃

Anupam Bordoloi

@asomputra

3 years

Presenting, the next US vice president @KamalaHarris

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

2 years

“Unknown Burn”? @Tesco we have known each other for many years. Had our ups and downs but I thought you knew my name…

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

28 days

More people will die if we don’t do something about the number of beds. Not everyone can be safely cared for in the community, even with the best of the intensive home treatment teams.

Surrey: Shortage of psychiatric beds led to man's death - coroner

Jonathan Harris, 52, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, died by suicide in June 2022.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

@cmackenzies Saved you some money there! 🧥

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@wendyburn

5 years

“Psychiatrists all over the world are becoming predominantly prescribers and need more psychotherapy training”. #WCP19 #wcp2019

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

Lots of intakes of breath in the room when @ClinpsychLucy talks about people being restrained and forcibly medicated. I have wildly underestimated the effects of this in my treatment of patients. #adisorder4everyone

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

@richardfarlie @bengoldacre Not socks I’m afraid.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

We won!!! #choosepsychiatry @rcpsych #memcom20 👏👏👏

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

As I enter the final few weeks of my presidency I’m giving myself permission to occasionally retweet a tweet with a swearword in it. Only if I think the tweet is really good of course.🙊

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

This is me with my wonderful mother at my graduation from @unisouthampton . Their teaching inspired me to #choosepsychiatry . Read the @rcpsych guide for medical schools to see how other medical schools can do the same: #medicalschools #medicalstudents

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@wendyburn

5 years

This can’t go on. We have written to @MattHancock asking for his intervention.

Inspectors discover poor standards at 28 mental health units

Psychiatrists call for inquiry after report on private units, many occupied by NHS patients

www.theguardian.com

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Dreamt I was trying to visit a patient while wearing a large cardboard box. I was having to travel by bus but didn’t know where I was going and none of the buses would stop. Kind of sums up what it’s like practising psychiatry at the moment.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

This is not my duck. 🦆

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@wendyburn

4 years

Walked past my poor @rcpsych College. All dark and closed up. I will be back there in happier times.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Who knows what will happen this Christmas? In a triumph of hope over experience (have been in lockdown for every bank holiday this year) I have bought 4 robin napkins hoping my children will be able to come home. 🎄

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Patient feedback today “I was terrified of coming to see you but you aren’t at all frightening”.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

“Brain zaps” due to missing/stopping antidepressants are definitely real, heard about these from many people now. Please tell your doctor if you get them, don’t keep them secret.

Men’s Minds Matter

@MensMindsMatter

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@ClinpsychLucy @PCGroot @markhoro @jf_moore @ReadReadj @CEP_UK While on a psychiatric ward a couple of years back (as I patient) I was told the 'brain zap' I was experiencing due to suddenly stopping medication was "imagined and part of my illness". Very happy to see this is now being taken seriously.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

Very excited by this new challenge. 😊👍

Centre for Mental Health

@CentreforMH

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We're delighted that @wendyburn has been welcomed as the new Clinical Group Chair of @EquallyWellUK ! Full story: #EquallyWellUK #MentalHealth

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

11 years ago today I joined Twitter. Has bad points as well as good but couldn’t imagine life without it. Connects me to so many people.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

2 years

@kimcatcheside @rcpsych What a week I am having. “Soft” unveiling of my @rcpsych portrait by @AlastairCAdams today. Sad that party had to be cancelled but lovely to see it on the wall.

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

Had enough of people upsetting anyone I engage with who is positive about psychiatric treatment. Time to use the block button.

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@wendyburn

2 years

This is why we get vaccinated.

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@wendyburn

3 years

It’s that day! Thanks @LeedsandYorkPFT for giving me an extra day off for my birthday. Going to make the most of it. 😊

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

5 years

From my son..... 😕 #MothersDay

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

3 years

⁦ @rcpsych ⁩ guidance on writing clinic letters is out! Huge thanks to ⁦ @BipolarBlogger ⁩ and the other patients who completely changed how it was written. 📮

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

4 years

The letter circulating with my name on, apparently from @rcpsych , that mocks unwell people is an illegal forgery. Our lawyers are involved. Please do not share.

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@wendyburn

5 years

Patients with SMI who are known to services should be able to self-refer back. I allowed this when I ran a community service. Better to catch people quickly when they are relapsing.

Mental Health

@Sectioned_

5 years

So, to get referred back to the specialist #mentalhealth team that's known me since 2015, I have to make an appointment with a GP I’ve never met to decide whether to refer me back to the specialists for a new assessment. It’s the same ongoing health issue. #mentalhealth

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Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)

@wendyburn

2 years

Wonderful day watching my son graduate from @OfficialUoM . He completed his PhD at the start of the pandemic when his lab closed with a few hours notice. So proud of him.

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@wendyburn

2 years

Let’s have a woman in the picture to pour the tea.

William Wragg MP

@William_Wragg

2 years

🫖Results to be announced at tea time🫖

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@wendyburn

4 years

Opinion piece from me: Medical community must ensure that those needing support to come off anti-depressants can get it -

Wendy Burn: Medical community must ensure that those needing support to come off antidepressants...

In 2018, while I was still President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych), I co-signed a letter to The Times which stated that “in the vast majority of patients, [...]More...

blogs.bmj.com

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@wendyburn

6 years

Please retweet if you think mental health as important as physical.

Royal College of Psychiatrists

@rcpsych

6 years

Govt has repeatedly promised an additional £1b for #mentalhealth . @NHSEngland say budget means we may not get this. Join our campaign to #StopMHCuts - retweet and say how it will affect you if £ does not come through. 7 days to make a difference.

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@wendyburn

5 years

The surprising benefits of talking to strangers. This is usual behaviour in Yorkshire .

The surprising benefits of talking to strangers

We consistently underestimate the benefits of interacting with strangers, research suggests.

www.bbc.com

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@wendyburn

5 years

Back on Twitter after a few days reflection. I want to engage but it’s just not possible with everyone.

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@wendyburn

2 years

Psychiatrists who are not writing to patients or sending them copies of the letters to GPs, why is this?

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@wendyburn

9 months

@DrAnnieHickox I’m going to ignore the link to the special training course in case it is dodgy.

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@wendyburn

2 years

We are here! A bit damp but fabulous views in the Scottish Highlands.

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@wendyburn

5 years

Making a stew and remembering my mother. She learnt this recipe at a cookery class in the 1950s. I wrote it out when I left for medical school at 18 and have used it regularly ever since.

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@wendyburn

6 years

Today was a fantastic day. ⁦ @UniversityLeeds ⁩ presented me with the degree of Doctor of Medicine honoris causa. Very proud. ⁦ @rcpsych ⁩

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@wendyburn

5 years

Can’t believe I’m saying this but what would members of @rcpsych think about our working lunches going vegetarian? This would be on the grounds of sustainability.

John Crichton

@JohnHMCrichton

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Working lunch ⁦ @RCPsychScot ⁩ with ⁦ @johnmit68657860 ⁩ - and NO PLASTIC

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@wendyburn

1 year

RIP Professor Andrew Sims, Past President of @rcpsych . Influenced so many psychiatrists, I was lucky to be taught by him. Remembering his knowledge, his wisdom and most of all his kindness.

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@wendyburn

4 years

OK, no more jokes, I’m deadly serious. DO NOT TEST YOUR EYESIGHT BY DRIVING. 🚑 ⚰️

LBC

@LBC

4 years

Michael Gove has told LBC he has 'on occasion' driven to check his eyesight, but the Minister said he was 'not an authority on driving.' @NickFerrariLBC

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@wendyburn

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What a shame that the man who pushed so rudely in front of me has left his charger on the train.

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@wendyburn

4 years

I say this so often. Once had a patient who lived entirely on trifle for years. 🍧

Nutrition Doc

@Leicnut

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For patients with dementia a balanced diet is far less important than an enjoyable one. #Happiness

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@wendyburn

3 years

There is a parallel universe where Trump got re-elected, there is no COVID-19 vaccine and we have a No Deal Brexit. Be grateful we aren’t in that one. 🪐 #HappyNewYear2021

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@wendyburn

5 years

Trainee doctors were asked what would encourage them to continue working in the NHS @ManMetUni