Kate Jarman
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I am my mother’s savage daughter | haunted bookcase | co-founder @flexnhs | campaigning to improve working lives | human rights law fan | Personal views
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Speaking on behalf of women in their 40s and 50s, deploy us. We are full of rage and we already have to sort everything out anyway.
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Like this tweet if, as a woman, you’ve walked home with your keys in your hand in case you need to use them in self defence. If you’ve faked being on the phone as you walk past the man coming towards you. If you’ve changed your route. If you’ve started to run in fear.... 1/2
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And like THIS tweet if that’s been because of the behaviour of men. Whether it’s men’s behaviour that needs to change, not women’s. 2/2
#SarahEverard
#Clapham
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I was taught to drive by a retired police office and every time we saw a cyclist during my driving lesson he’d say ‘there’s a cyclist, what are they’ and I’d have to say ‘my responsibility’ and 20 + years later I still think this every single time I see a cyclist on the road. 🚲
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It’s just an IUD fitting
It’s just period pain
It’s just a heavy period
It’s just an early miscarriage
It’s just morning sickness
It’s just pregnancy
It’s just early labour
It’s just your age
It’s just one of those things
It’s just menopause
It’s. Not. Just.
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Hey Siri, explain structural misogyny, patriarchy and sexism in a headline.
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The young couple had paid for my parents lunch on their way out of the restaurant!
They told the staff they were paying because my parents are adorable (they really are).
There are lovely people in the world. Just busy being beautiful humans. Thank you to the lovely people 💕
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To my NHS colleagues watching today’s event.
They didn’t bear witness to what you did. They didn’t hold the hands, make the calls, risk their lives. You did. You carry the burden of that trauma.
Their words are vile. Your actions were courageous & compassionate
#gotyourbackNHS
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My parents are in Italy and were just having lunch and started chatting to young couple from Texas.
A young couple they’d never met before, because my parents are very friendly and sociable.
Anyhow off they all go. My parents go to pay for lunch and…
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The Margaret Atwood quote: ‘Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them’.
Has never felt more apt.
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I am incandescent with rage that a Black woman stood up to be heard 46 times and was ignored. She stood up to speak 46 times. FORTY SIX TIMES. When you’re told to try harder as a woman, when you think you just need to work a little bit harder, remember this. Forty six times.
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Thanks to your comments, I’ve drafted a list of the people who should be called up for Britain’s civilian military duty first.
1. Women in their 40s/ 50s - furious, absolutely sick of everyone & everything, used to surviving in harsh conditions - i.e. their own bodies
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If you work in the NHS & describe someone by their band or as ‘just a band…’ or ‘just admin…’ imagine how much more difficult your working life would be without them. Without porters, cleaners, receptionists…no one is ‘just’ anything. Everyone in the team is vital & valued
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I desperately wish the messaging was not protect the NHS - that the NHS was not caught in the constant exhausting loop of hero and villain. That the messaging was protect each other - protect the people you love, and the NHS will do everything possible to look after you.
#NHS
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In my occasional sanitary bin rage series, if you are designing toilets we don’t want to sit on the bin or have a thigh pressed against it. JUST MAKE THE TOILET CUBICLE BIGGER.
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I might create a club for perimenopausal women called the 2am gang where we can just complain about being awake/ boiling hot until falling asleep for eight and a half minutes at 5.37am.
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@goueeik
Oh hey, my parents are British. My da is nearly 80 and still works. I was just celebrating a random act of kindness, because we need kindness of every sort in a world so often without it. I’ve made a donation to Feeding America to pass that kindness on.
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Me going about my life not paying much attention to my diet.
Perimenopause: I see you thought about bread there, you will inexplicably gain a stone overnight. And you had wine? No sleep for six months. That moisturiser you’ve used for 10 years? You’re now allergic to it…
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Basic guide on how to make the working lives of NHS staff better:
- free parking
- free tea & coffee
- staff rooms
- subsidised healthy food around the ⏰
- shift friendly affordable childcare
- flexible working
- time for a breaks
- IT that works quickly & well
#NHS
💙
We really need to stop making it so hard for NHS staff to go to work
A huge number of NHS workers have to cope with inadequate public transport, insufficient and unsafe parking for cars and bikes, and exorbitant costs
Something needs to be done urgently - please RT if you agree
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This is my favourite time of day in the hospital because everywhere smells like toast. And as we all know, NHS toast is, for reasons no one understands, the best in the world.
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I think one of the difficult things in the NHS is the erosion of hope.
We are brilliant at getting through a crisis. But there has to be an end. A break. A getting back to normal. There cannot just be relentlessly more. There has to be a horizon. There has to be hope.
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Nurses are not angels or heroes. They are people. They are people who work incredibly hard in physically, mentally and emotionally demanding jobs. They are people we have all & will all rely on at our most vulnerable moments. They are people with mortgages and families & bills 1/
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If you work in admin or management in the NHS, please know that your job is valued & valuable. That your job makes the jobs of clinical staff easier & that you too make a positive difference for & to patients. Hold on to the knowledge that what you do matters. 1/2
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I’m sorry I’m part time
I’m sorry I have to go then
I’m sorry I’m not here that day
I’m sorry I can’t get in that early
I’m sorry my child is ill
I’m sorry it’s the school holidays
Stop apologising. You don’t need to say sorry for being a working parent. You are enough.
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“I’m a nurse. I had to leave my job in the NHS because my flexible working request was declined. I now work the shift pattern I was turned down for through the bank because they can’t fill the gaps.”
Change the story.
Say yes to flex.
@FlexNHS
#flexibleworking
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Men - I am a medium sized human and therefore a medium in all clothes shops.
Women - I am a medium sized human and therefore one of eight dress sizes depending on which shop I am in, the position of the sun and whether or not I have vexed an ancient deity in charge of jeans.
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4. Teachers - can control unruly groups prone to violence with a single AH and fierce eyebrow
5. Parents of teenagers - their entire life is a battlefield so they wouldn’t notice being on an actual battlefield. Also have fond memories of wearing combat trousers in the 90s.
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Thank you Meghan Markle, for every new mum, for every woman who is expected to always be ok..
For every woman who has has answered ‘fine’ when asked how they are. For every woman who hasn’t been fine and who hasn’t felt they could tell anyone.
Thank you.
#WeLoveYouMeghan
"Not many people have asked if I’m ok ... it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes."
Meghan reveals to ITV's
@tombradby
the intense media spotlight has left her struggling to cope while becoming a mum
#HarryAndMeghan
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Think it’s important for healthcare workers to know they don’t have to feel heroic. They can feel scared & sad, & cry & feel anxious. And they can still laugh and feel hope & joy as well as grief. That they are heroes in big ways and small. And moreover, they are human.
#COVID19
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Huge respect to those getting their first covid vaccine. It’s easy to scoff at people, but it takes real courage to overcome legitimate fears, or to pull yourself out of the rabbit holes of conspiracy and disinformation. Bravo. Keep getting those jabs
#NHS
💉
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2. Women in their 60s/ 70s - can kill you with a single look, armed with wooden spoons & slippers, can rustle up enough food for an army from a single potato
3. Mothers of toddlers - used to dealing with dictators, no longer need sleep, consider being drafted a lovely rest
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77% of NHS staff are women.
One thing we can do in the NHS in the wake of the murders of women, to put all this feeling into action, is a pan-NHS project to improve the safety of women getting to & from work & when they are at work. You in?
#NHS
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Stop saying wellbeing and start saying decent working conditions.
Stop saying wellbeing and start saying making working lives better.
Stop saying wellbeing and start saying caring for staff.
Stop saying wellbeing and start saying keeping staff working in the NHS.
#NHS
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It was because her skirt was too short, she was drunk, she laughed at me, she didn’t love me enough, I loved her too much, I couldn’t live without her, I couldn’t live with her, she was asking for it…
We’re told it’s our fault all the time Alan.
But it isn’t.
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Retention is more cost effective than recruitment.
But why is recruitment what we hear most about?
Well, retention is hard work. It means holding up a mirror and seeing what’s wrong and fixing it so people stay.
That’s basic stuff - a chair not a bin to sit on 😒
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A woman so powerful she can make the patriarchy rage just by smiling through an open car window? More of that please. 💪🏼
#MeghanMarkle
#MeghanAndHarry
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Facts about heating systems in the NHS.
There are two settings:
1. Hotter than the surface of the sun
2. Off
No one knows how it’s turned on or off or why it gets turned on and off when it does. IT ANSWERS TO NO ONE.
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You work in the public sector if:
- it’s either hotter than the core of the earth or you have to wear your coat inside
- at some point today you will eat a yoghurt with a knife
- you’ve just washed up using your hand as a dishcloth
- you are VERY VERY TIRED
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So much of what was normalised for young women in the 90s and 00s was utterly abhorrent. The
overt sexualisation of teenagers (Britney Spears, Charlotte Church…), the fanatical public body shaming, the constant misogyny and it’s forced acceptance through ‘ladette’ culture 1/3
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Women.
It’s not what you wore, what you did, what you said.
It’s not the height of your heel, the cut of your blouse, the length of your dress.
It’s not what you do for a job.
It’s not that the tea was burnt, that you spoke your mind, that you have a mind
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As the UK enjoys a heatwave, shout out to everyone working in full PPE in the NHS. Thank you for doing what you do for all of us
#NHS
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Look you just can’t work a paid job, maintain a house, have kids, have hobbies, have a social life, eat healthily & do exercise without signing over your immortal soul to Satan or being a billionaire. So just do what we all do, which is some of it, ok-ish, some of the time ❤️
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Admin staff in the NHS who book & manage appointments are doing a really tough job at the moment.
They are absorbing frustration, anger & distress from patients and working flat out at the complex job of appointment scheduling.
I’d like to say a sincere thank you to them 1/2
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Remember you’re not just a HCA, or only admin, or ‘the band 3.’
You’re not your pay grade.
You are not just or only anything.
You are vital and valued and valuable.
The team doesn’t work without you.
You are more than your band.
And you are more than enough.
#NHS
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When we talk about Covid-19 waves and the NHS, can we keep in mind how many of our staff are being pulled under by tides of grief and anger and burn out. And the waves are still crashing over them. We can’t forget the health needs of our own workforce too
#NHS
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Thank you to the NHS staff who carry on. Who didn’t hesitate to put on masks to face an unknown virus. Who put their own safety second to the safety of the sick & dying they cared for. For whom you clapped as they carried on. For whom now no one claps, yet still they carry on.
We don’t even know where to start with this…our Prime Minister not wearing a mask in an NHS hospital. While elsewhere in the same hospital no doubt people lay sick and dying from COVID 19 as staff held their hands.
Is this sheer arrogance or just plain contempt for NHS staff?
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Happy birthday NHS. Still the greatest of social endeavours. An institution with flaws, but also filled with the greatest of humans and the best of humanity. Part of the fabric of all our lives. Thank you to the 1.3million people who make up our NHS
#NHS
#NHSBirthday
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My regular tweet to say that retention of NHS staff is as important than recruitment (I’d actually suggest more so…) and NHS staff are on the same side as NHS patients… NHS staff are NHS patients.
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Historical texts tell us that the most likely reasons for a Princess to be suddenly absent are:
1. Magical curse - by far and away the most common reason for a Princess to vanish. You say planned abdominal surgery and a right to privacy, the literature says angry witch 1/3
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If you have a day off, please try & avoid the following:
- checking your emails - twice a day MAX if you must because of THE FEAR
- saying ‘I’m off but I’m around’ - no, you’re off
- phoning in to ‘check everything’s ok’
- just doing a ‘quick bit of work’
Please have a break
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I reckon one of the best things the CEO of this hospital could do today is find this member of staff and say a massive thank you because this is absolutely lovely. 💙
#NHS
A domestic has found the little room with a fold out chair that we sleep in on breaks on nights and has started making it up with fresh sheets every day, and honestly it’s done more to make me feel like a valued employee than anything else this week. I even got a towel tonight!!
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I was given this today by someone who was given it at another hospital and both shall remain nameless due to my jealousy of not thinking of this idea in the first place because THIS IS A GREAT IDEA!
#NHS75
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When NHS staff said they were scared they would die in an unknown pandemic, they were asked to get on with the job. After when they said they were scared they couldn’t afford to live, they were told to get on with the job. There are the consequences to both. And they are here.
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There are currently SEVEN teaspoons in the kitchen. AN NHS STAFF KITCHEN. And they have been there all morning. I just felt this needed reporting somewhere.
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Remember getting ready for school in the 90s when you put your PE kit in a good carrier bag and also judged people on their carrier bags. I had a Top Shop bag once. Strolled in like an absolute legend.
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More ‘what women can do to not be murdered by murdering men’ from the Mail’s misogyny stable.
Women being able to exist as human beings without being murdered by men is a low bar, but the Mail still can’t quite manage to fall over it.
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Vocation doesn’t pay your mortgage.
Love for the job doesn’t buy your food shopping.
Nursing is a highly skilled, safety critical profession.
Nurses deserve to earn a decent wage.
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Providing free tea and coffee costs about £10 a person each year. It is the cheapest thing you can do to make a difference to someone’s working day (or night). The free parking, food and food subsidies we provide costs more, but it all costs less than failing to retain staff
#NHS
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It is a FACT that there is only one teaspoon per 10,000 NHS workers.
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Why can I remember every character in Hairy Maclary but not my diary for tomorrow? Answer me that, Hercules Morse (as big as a horse).
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It’s pretty hard to find a reason to hate a woman for writing a book about the love between a father and son but some of you seem to be managing it.
The Bench looks tender and glorious. Kudos to the feminist, activist talent that is Meghan Markle.
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It’s not because you bring out the worst in him.
It’s not that you asked for it.
It’s not what you didn’t do.
It’s not because you walked home in the dark.
It’s not because you went running.
It’s not you.
It’s not your fault.
It has never been your fault.
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It bears repeating that the NHS should not be run on the expectation or mantra of heroism, goodwill, selflessness & sacrifice.
It should be run with the expectation that staff are paid well, treated well, invested in & cared for as the assets they are
#NHS
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I filled in my GP’s new online triage form earlier today with a v poorly child; got a text for a f2f appt within an hour; was seen within the following hour & he was admitted directly to our local hospital’s children’s ward where we remain. So the system can also be amazing
#NHS
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Shameful. I am sorry to our healthcare family who come from across the globe to work in our NHS and wider care system. They are our colleagues and friends, and those we look to in times of greatest need. They deserve so much more than to be treated like this.
Today in Parliament we have laid an order to ban overseas care workers from bringing dependants.
This is just one part of our plan to deliver the biggest-ever cut in migration 👇
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I’ve seen two high profile doctors leave Twitter in the last week because of abuse & threats. It doesn’t just happen here. NHS staff are assaulted & abused every day at work. Every. Single. Day. Report abuse. Everywhere you see it.
#NHS
@NHSMillion
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Perhaps Kate Middleton has done what every woman in their 40s wants to do, and that is to give into the perimenopausal urge to disappear into the woods and take up life as a witch.
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In the NHS we don’t put ‘foreign’ in front of your job title. You’re a doctor, a nurse, a pharmacist… Our workforce is a global family, with a shared purpose. That people come from across the world to work in the NHS is a privilege & to our great benefit 1/2
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I feel tired & I really want to go to my mum’s with my sister & eat cheese & sausage rolls & drink an inadvisable amount of wine & sing meatloaf songs & dance around her kitchen & I can’t & it sucks & I just had a little cry about it even tho I’m 40 & have a responsible job.
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Free toast and cereal now available for all staff in the
@MKHospital
staff hub. We’ve introduced this to make sure no one starts the day hungry. Also because the NHS = excellent toast. Subsidised food and community pantry also available
#NHS
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The idea that women should just crack on with health issues that affect their ability to live because it’s ‘a natural phase of life’ is rooted in misogyny and patriarchy and frankly makes me want to combust with rage 1/4
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Perimenopause is a real gift for your skin isn’t it? Like it’s not enough to feel like a 4,000 year old hollow tree, you must also be bright red and spotty and at the same time your skin must be so dry you may actually turn to dust or combust if you stand too close to a candle.
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If this isn’t how you ‘sterilise’ mugs and cutlery, do you even work in the NHS?*
*this might also be my contamination OCD, sometimes I think everyone does a thing then people tell me that no, no other people do that thing… 😬
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Shall we take moment to recognise the emotional exhaustion NHS staff are no doubt feeling going into winter? The uncertainty & the surge/ ebb nature of Covid demands a huge amount from everyone mentally. It’s ok to feel knackered. That’s basically what I’m saying.
#Covid19UK
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My idea for saving the NHS £££ is a central department that produces one patient leaflet/ info sheet about every procedure/ condition (etc) & it’s all online for patients to access (or printed on demand for those who can’t access online) instead of 000s of places doing their own
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Working from home in a pandemic while home schooling kids isn’t flexible working.
Working all night to make up time for looking after yr baby in the day isn’t flexible working.
Working nights cos yr homeschooling all day isn’t working flexibly.
Do what you can. It’s enough
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If I’m ever in charge of the NHS (perhaps because I am the only NHS manager to survive an apocalypse of some kind) then I am going to create a national policy library where single policies on everything exist and must be used by every organisation.
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You can start the day feeling ok about yourself but Microsoft Teams is always there to remind you that you look like a 400 years old relic with weird hair and misguided eyebrow shading.
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A little reminder if you work
@MKHospital
that you can access:
- free breakfast of cereals, milk, toast, jam - available 24/7 in the staff hub
- free evening meals in the staff hub
- subsidised food in the staff restaurant (£2ish healthy meals & soup)
- free tea & coffee
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If you are the parent of a child who is tall for their age other parents must inform you that your child is tall and you must confirm that yes they are tall and then you both must stare at your tall child and their shorter child for a short period in accordance with the law.
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I guess at some point many NHS workers may decide it’s not worth the endless hours, exhausting themselves to fill the gaps. They could earn more working somewhere that doesn’t need them to care…then what? They are the NHS. If they go, that’s what we lose.
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We have a daily £2 hot healthy meal for staff, free breakfasts and free meals for night staff. And free tea and coffee and free parking too
@MKHospital
- investing in basic provision is and always will be vital.
£6.50 for a coffee and a sandwich in my hospital.
Enough to sustain a doctor for a 12 hour shift?
@NHSEngland
@NHSScotland
@scotgov
@GOVUK
why are you continuing to extort doctors?
Meals for NHS staff should be free, or heavily subsidised. They should be healthy, and 24/7
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What is becoming a regular tweet to say how wonderful I think
@BootstrapCook
is - as a campaigner, writer, and human and who does not, in any way, deserve the abuse she gets on here.
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I cannot imagine reading this visceral bile as Meghan. And the thing is, when you print this, you normalise misogyny. You make it ok to think women deserve this because they are living their life in a way you don’t like. You make every woman more unsafe.
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Retain your staff as enthusiastically as you recruit them.
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Obv there’s going to be loads of this sort of thing on the back of the NHS workforce plan.
I’m actually v proud to be a pen-pusher. The pens I push do meaningful, vital things for staff and patients. If you’re a pen-pusher know that you are valued and your work is critical 🖊️
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It strikes me that industrial action is a roar of ‘I want to stay’. If nothing changes that shout becomes silence as people walk away & leave. The fissures & fractures in fragile rotas become chasms. The gap between the workforce we have and the one we need becomes unbridgeable.
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It isn’t going to get easier/ better for a long time and we have to find a way to get 1.5m people working in the NHS through that without breaking them. When we talk about well-being, retention, resilience, whatever, that’s what that means. We have to do everything we can.
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People often ask me about the price of providing free breakfast, free tea & coffee, subsidised food, free parking…
I’d like to pose a question back… what’s the cost of not doing it? Of increased sickness, high turnover, failing to recruit?
The price is less than the cost…
We provide free fruit at the office. Last year we spent £17,000 on this benefit…well worth it in my book!
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Thinking of nurses across the country tomorrow on what will doubtless be an emotional, challenging day. Today, tomorrow & always, you are our colleagues & friends. The skilled, critical roles you do & all you do is seen, heard, valued & appreciated. We are always one NHS team. 💙
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Couple of little FACTS on GPs seeing 27.9 million people in one month.
So every 10 weeks or so GPs see the equivalent of the population of the UK.
This data is freely available at NHS Digital my friends.
THANK YOU TEAM GP
#NHS
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Imagine if there was a single suite of policies and patient information for the NHS so that 200+ organisations didn’t all write and produce their own for the same things that happen everywhere in exactly the same way. IMAGINE.
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People in comms and marketing. If you were kidnapped and your family had to tell the kidnappers what you did for a job, would you
A. be held hostage forever
B. There is no B, they don’t know, they’ve never known, even though you’re 45 and have told them 109 times
#comms
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When the Government was in apparent chaos, the NHS carried on. Local authorities carried on. Supermarkets carried on… the people working in key services carried on. They faced down their own fears. They carried on. For all of us. That is public service.
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Sundays have been incorrectly branded as a day of rest when in fact they are a day of doing relentless housework until your untimely death from rage while putting away the Big Shop.
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Lots of you ask me about cost for the stuff we do
@MKHospital
Retention costs less than turnover. Losing skills and experience, and needing to recruit or use temporary staff to fill gaps costs the NHS billions every year.
Invest half that in retention and see what happens.
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Dear
#NHS
staff. It’s ok to feel angry, upset, scared, exhausted. You don’t have to feel heroic. You’re human. You can feel furious, like sobbing, fine, terrified, anything else in between. You can feel all that in the five minutes before your shift. We’ll care for you too. ❤️
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Yes, why doesn’t the woman in charge of one of the largest employers in the world, with a budget of around £192 billion, responsible for the healthcare of the country DO IT FOR FREE. 🙄😒
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