Calling healthcare professionals working in the NHS. I am offering 12 WOMEN the opportunity to join me as I host a retreat in Carcassonne, France 3-7th June 2024. Only 8 places left. My company is sponsoring the event so places are only £250 all inc. (exc. flights) DM me

Cervical block at the time of IUD insertion

A post for those who argue (very vocally) that peri/menopause is a time of great opportunity, reinvention and joy - an argument that comes from a place of deep privilege (and luck).

Looking forward to data about vaping and sperm count too

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Can I just say I *REALLY* hate this approach from managers?

There's a time and a place to ask your staff for suggestions. When conditions are dire and they've been SCREAMING at you to pay them more and staff the place properly for years isn't it.

Absolutely tone deaf.

This health secretary thinks it’s fair and reasonable to pay doctors £15/h

Her plan to improve our working lives is to make sure we’re paid that amount accurately and on time.

The uterus being “just” an organ is a huge part of the attitude in medicine that Gynecologic surgery is not surgery.

How can we value Ob/Gyn when we think female organs are throwaways?

An organ sophisticated to the point of growing an entire person.

Who has a birth story in which one of the heroes/helpers/angels was an anaesthetist? 🖐️

Very excited to have started working on a new project with @francescadonner and Josie Cox. The Persistent is committed to amplifying women's voices, stories, ideas and perspectives, and can be found here: thepersistent.com.

Do you want to get involved with the BESt Study? We are looking for bilingual maternity consumers/stakeholders who can read/write any of the languages below (except Portuguese as we have that covered). Do get in contact if you're interested 👇🏻

Complete reproductive autonomy.

OK so I guess we're never flying Ryanair again...

Do I know anyone attending the BASHH conference in Bournemouth in June?

Incredibly powerful testimony from Emma Currer The RCM Scotland at the Covid inquiry. Midwives experienced ‘extreme burnout’, moral injury from having to enforce new rules, and deep anxiety around PPE provision.
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Had a student nurse call me overnight about a poorly child on the ward. She gave me an amazing SBAR.
I found her afterwards to let them know and filled out their portfolio with my feedback.
It made me realise how I need to give people positive feedback as a routine

“Are you appropriating or appreciating?”

Gloria Anzaldúa

An important question to ask at all stages of the research process.

This government has a callous disregard for women. Don't believe their spin. This is an emergency.
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Never ever ever tell me that women's health is too much of a taboo to discuss publicly in the same world where Britain's biggest penis gets a jolly old airing on morning television.