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because science reporting and decision-making should be evidence-based. NB: statistics can have a social life and unspoken biography behind them.
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I know a fair number of people who were made redundant and are now Royal Mail workers on PT contracts. Many of them share the public's frustration about the workload and the failings it entails.
Some depots can't keep new starters because of workload and conditions.
Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag 4d
The use of Royal Mail, who are now systematically delaying postal deliveries, by @NHSEngland for delivering appointment letters is now a clear and serious patient safety issue. A new way has to be found
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O'Hara J, Martin G, Dixon-Woods M. Looking back at failure and forward to improvement: Will Wes Streeting’s proposed maternity plan lead to change? BMJ 2025 390 :r1459 doi:10.1136/bmj.r1459

Prescient opinion piece alerted readers to the potential for further harm to families.
Jonathan @jabberwock951 Nov 1
@DrLKVaughan Absolute disgrace. If it was worth the time for a person to write, it's worth the time for a person to read.

Not to mention these are deeply personal, traumatic stories being fed into the emotionless plagiarism machine to be boiled down into slop.
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Thanksgiving but my all time favourite story about chihuahuas. Features a chihuahua with a healing ministry, a glass eye…
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sassysundry.wordpress.com Thanksgiving with the Dead (and a Chihuahua) Bless her heart, my mother is a kind woman. And around the holidays, she is even kinder. She takes it upon herself to invite people to Thanksgiving dinner who have no place else to go for the holid…
LAnDo NIFFIRG™️ Verified account @llandoniffirg Oct 31
Watch out for evil chihuahua's. They are switching "Ferrero Rocher's" with Brussels sprouts! 🤣🤣
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Why are these "life-saving?" (No qualifier used here.)

Which point of care test is in use and is it robust? (Thinking of @ukfuturehealth's difficulties with the rapid cholesterol tests.)

ourfuturehealth.org.uk/news/our-futur…
ourfuturehealth.org.uk Our Future Health is investigating inaccurate cholesterol readings Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, which aims to recruit a representative cohort of up to 5 million participants and enable research that will promote earlier...
NHS England @NHSEngland Aug 31
From this autumn, more NHS pharmacies in England will begin offering life-saving cholesterol check-ups.

This pilot is part of a wider effort to reduce deaths from heart disease and stroke by a quarter over the next decade.

Read more ➡️ england.nhs.uk/2026/08/high-s…
Photograph of a patient with a pharmacist. Text reads: 'NHS expands the free cholesterol check pilot to more pharmacies.' The NHS logo is in the top right corner.
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