#nhsuk

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NHS awarded the George Cross

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Thousands of women living with chronic UTIs lasting years due to testing and treatment failures

Doctors say that for thousands of women, an acute UTI can turn into a chronic infection that dominates their lives leaving them bedbound and

A quote from this article:

“Prostates get so much attention and men with prostatitis quickly get given six weeks of antibiotics even if infection is suspected and not yet proven.

“Even when men have a UTI the guidelines advise seven days of antibiotics, as opposed to the three days given to women. I think the degree of dismissal of women is appalling. And it doesn’t just happen in UTI, it happens in other areas of medicine as well.”

~ Dr Catriona Anderson - Focus Medical (specialist UTI clinic), Stoke, UK

This is absolutely shocking, yet not surprising. It just goes to show, and confirms once again, how prevalent unconscious bias against women is in healthcare.

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I’m doing some reconnaissance on the issue of bottom surgery in the U.K. being indefinitely halted on the NHS (source). If there’s anyone better versed in the workings of the NHS who can clarify what is going on and what the community can do about this, I would greatly appreciate it. I’m planning to reach out to St Peters as well.

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“Britain in four headlines

.”-Jim Caris

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Had my top surgery consultation today (6 April 2021)! Hard to believe I started T officially last year (August 2020) and even harder to think by the time I'm one year on T, I could also have a flat chest!

Due to my chest size and position, it's been made clear that I will have to have double incision - knew that from the start, but it feels very real when someone's measuring your chest to confirm it 😅 also been told that I will have one long scar across my chest as opposed to two seperate ones so that will be interesting!

My parents seemed quite happy for me as well, and even said they would take a few days off work to help me recover and make sure I get to the surgery and home safe.

Excited to see what 2021 keeps throwing at me (hopefully it's more positive vibes) 😁

[idkimcj]

sleep paralysis but it’s a CAMHS worker in a floral blouse telling you that you won’t want to OD if you complete all the mindfulness activities

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A doctor once cut me off and laughed at me whilst I was listing symptoms to him. He asked me if I had been feeling pregnant, I said no because regardless of the symptoms I was having I didn’t feel pregnant and am quite familiar with that feeling. So I’m telling him that I was feeling sick, tired, painful boobs etc and he just starts laughing and says “right so you felt pregnant” it really really pissed me off.

I’m sorry sir but respectfully I couldn’t care less what you’ve studied, how many times have you been pregnant? Because I’ve been pregnant five times (sadly not always resulting in a baby) and let me tell you, every symptom I have described is also something I experience when I’m on my period, coming up to it, just after it, have had a lot going on physically or emotionally, feeling generally sick and the list goes on… those things are symptoms of being female and having hormonal changes constantly, not just pregnancy. So when I said I didn’t feel pregnant, I didn’t because in my experience of actually being pregnant - experience he does not have - all of those symptoms are normally accompanied by an extra feeling of just knowing something is there.

I am not suggesting that his knowledge isn’t valid, or that I don’t respect his expertise as a doctor. However, I am saying that I am absolutely disgusted that a doctor would speak to anyone like that, that a doctor would laugh at a patient and that a doctor would choose not to listen to a patient about their own body and symptoms. Unfortunately this is something that’s happened to me many times and I know has happened to most of my female friends.

There is less known about women’s health than men’s health, it receives less funding and research grants than men’s health and women are statistically less likely to be listened to regarding pain or other symptoms and less likely to receive a diagnosis for an illness.

This is what I’m mad about today.

[ifelllikeastar]

Remembering respectfully ~ Captain Sir Tom Moore Born, Thomas Moore on April 30, 1920 in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and died on February 2, 2021 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom at the age of 100 years. He was popularly known as Captain Tom and was a British Army officer and centenarian, known for his achievements raising money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moore served in India, the Burma campaign during World War II, and later became an instructor in armoured warfare. After the war, he worked as managing director of a concrete company and was an avid motorcycle racer. On April 6, 2020 at the age of 99, he began to walk round his garden in aid of the United Kingdom's National Health Service 'Charities Together',with the goal of raising £1,000 by his hundredth birthday. In the 24-day course of his fundraising he made many media appearances and became a popular household name in the United Kingdom, earning a number of accolades and attracting over 1.5 million individual donations. In recognition of his efforts, he received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award at the 2020 ceremony. He performed in a cover version of the song "You'll Never Walk Alone" sung by Michael Ball, with proceeds going to the same charity. The single topped the UK music charts, making him the oldest person to achieve a UK number one. On the morning of his hundredth birthday the total raised by his walk passed £30 million, and by the time the campaign closed at the end of that day had increased to over £32.79 million (worth almost £39 million with expected tax rebates). His birthday was marked in a number of ways, including flypasts by the Royal Air Force and the British Army. He received over 150,000 cards, and was appointed as honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College. On July 17, 2020, he was personally invested as a Knight Bachelor by the Queen at Windsor Castle. Moore died with COVID-19, complicated by pneumonia. Rest well sir, a rest that is well deserved.