HonMFPH, FRCP (UK)
#PublicHealth #Europe #Advocacy #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity #HealthInequalities #DeterminantsOfHealth
Senior Advisor, European Public Health | Member, UK Faculty of Public Health and European Public Health Association | Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (UK) | Advisory Committee of Experts, European Health Forum Gastein | Alumni, European Health Management Association, University of Birmingham and LSE Health
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@pauljbelcher I'm currently on the Lizard. Watching through the window as an endless stream of #brexshit benefits sail by - brand new boats built to by-pass the UK land bridge.
And hey, that's a win-win, right? - everybody loves a by-pass, nobody likes living on a juggernaut rat-run, what's not to like?
#BrexitFoodRationing:
“There is no tomato shortage in #Spain..There is only one country with a problem, and once again it is the one that has cut itself off from the rest of Europe.” - #MurciaToday
https://murciatoday.com/is_the_uk_tomato_shortage_due_to_spanish_weather_or_brexit_2023062-a.html
Meet the new 🇬🇧@conservatives Party Deputy Chair Lee Anderson MP:
People, including #nurses, need to learn how to cook and budget ‘properly’, rather than use #foodbanks
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-64573457
Opinion | The pandemic after the pandemic: #LongCovid haunts millions of people
“Worldwide, a conservative estimate is that 10% of the documented 651 million #covid cases might have long covid - that’s 65 million people. This could portend enormous changes in workplaces, economies and health care”
@thewashingtonpost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/08/long-covid-challenges-economy-health-care/
#Bregret: “The longer British politicians take to recognize the great waste of #Brexit and find remedies, the more instability is likely to last in Europe's oldest democracy”
Le Monde
Après la rupture avec l’Union européenne, le regret dudit Brexit concerne désormais une nette majorité des Britanniques. Plus les responsables politiques du pays mettront de temps à reconnaître ce grand gâchis et à y trouver des remèdes, plus l’instabilité risque de durer.
#LizTruss: Prime Minister without a mandate, elected by just 81000 voters, crashes the economy in less than 50 days, added hundreds to mortgage costs and outlasted by a lettuce.
She now blames everyone else, even those famously ‘left wing’ markets, for her delusional mess in today’s @TelegraphBot
"Liz Truss is a planet-sized mass of overconfidence and ambition teetering upon a pinhead of a political brain” - Mathew Parris
#Brexit: Why Spanish health workers won't be coming back to plug vital gaps in the #NHS
More than 4,000 European doctors have opted not to work in the NHS following the Brexit vote in 2016, according to analysis from the #NuffieldTrust
#AvianFlu spills over from birds to mammals in UK
Some 870 cases of #H5N1 human infection in 21 countries in past 20 years
"There is a risk for further transmission between species and we cannot underestimate the potential adaptation to humans."
World Organization for Animal Health #WOAH
#Brexit three years on: #Health and the #NHS are still suffering
“Brexit will continue to damage health and the NHS for the foreseeable future. The tragedy is that neither of the two main English political parties is willing to do anything about it”
Three years ago, on 31 January 2020, the British flags that had flown outside European Union buildings for over 40 years were lowered. The then prime minister Boris Johnson had “got Brexit done.” Except he hadn’t. As we now know, he had agreed to a withdrawal agreement, covering the rights of EU citizens in the UK, the UK’s financial obligations, and arrangements on the island of Ireland. He did so in the knowledge that, at least with respect to Ireland, he had no intention of adhering to the agreement and the quest for an alternative solution remains as elusive as ever.1 Meanwhile, there is growing recognition among those who voted for Brexit that they were lied to and the promised “sunlit uplands” are nowhere to be seen.2 The “opportunities,” such as trade deals with other parts of the world, have revealed just how powerless the UK now is.3 A clear majority of the British public, 62% as of January 2023, now think that Brexit was a mistake.4 And this is before many of the provisions of the Trade …
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
