GMC to doctors: “You must act promptly if patient safety is compromised. You must protect and promote the health of patients and public.”
Doctors “The climate crisis is a health crisis. People are dying and many more will die if nothing is done.”
GMC “That’s not what we meant.”

Join FND Hope on Thursday, April 18th at 10:00 AM PST/6:00 PM GMT as we celebrate the release of The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim: The Woman Who Invented Freud's Talking Cure! Guest panel with Gabriel Brownstein, Jon Stone & Bridget Mildon.
Visit: fndhope.org/events/the-sec…

Clean air should be a human right for everyone - but clearly it's a right this Government doesn't think people in the UK deserve. Rather than pass urgently needed legislation to save lives and clean up our dirty, toxic air, they actively rescind funding for first time in 27 years

I’m really happy for this, and also MAN I wish other patient groups got listened to like this when we say cuts to services will be devastating.

💥 NHS STAFF 💥

Please consider signing this open letter to Victoria Atkins & Amanda Pritchard at NHS England expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut NHS Practitioner Health funding for hospital staff.

Please share widely 🙏

Letter here:

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No words, just the hollow clang of a beaten empty pan.
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🎥FILM PREMIERE🎥

The UK is not innocent: the story of INQUEST by Rainbow Collective 💚 exposes forty years of state violence and resistance in England and Wales.

📅 24 April at 6.30pm
📌 Castle Cinema, Hackney

✨Book your tickets now bit.ly/3xFhpr7

Excited to be kicking off the 'Climate of Injustice' conference at QMUL School of Law co-organised with Centre for Climate Crime & Climate Justice.

We'll be live- tweeting from the event all day🧵

Totally heartbreaking. Remember, over ten billion was wasted, much of it with Tory donors, on PPE and we've yet to see even one prosecution. But if you're a cab driver and unlucky... theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Sharing new research in Neurology: Clinical Practice led by occupational therapists #KatieMcCombs , #JulieMacLean & Jessica Ranford.
Sensory Processing Difficulties & Occupational Therapy Outcomes for Functional Neurological Disorder. Mass General Research Institute Functional Neurological Disorder Society FND Hope International FND Action
neurology.org/doi/10.1212/CP…

And now the government plans to criminalise those who are homeless.

bigissue.com/news/housing/c…

As a society we must resist these perverse strategies which punish vulnerable individuals for governmental and systemic failings. Petition here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6592…

“The continued extraction of fossil fuels does not align with public health values, undermines the human right to health and a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and poses a fundamental risk to human and planetary health.”

💥 NEW 💥

“The significance of this ruling is difficult to overstate and is likely to form the foundation of many future legal challenges”

Jess O'Thomson explains what today’s historic judgment at the ECHR CEDH means:
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Please spread the word - my team now seeking participants with functional seizures or motor symptoms for my Medical Research Council funded study. We are very keen to hear from people with functional (dissociative/non-epileptic) seizures, who are currently under-represented in our sample.

Just wanna re-tweet this once more!

It's really gratifying to be able to share experiences of people w FND as well as trends that emerge across studies.

Thank you fearless leader Dr Cate Bailey and team for this work - and I'm delighted to have been aboard

HAPPENING NOW! Hundreds of health workers are blockading the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London, demanding the cancellation of its contract with Palantir, which supplies advanced technology to Israel’s military and supports the genocide.

New study lead by the excellent Dr Cate Bailey is out now!

A systematic review + synthesis of experiences of people w FND - covering social stigma, adversity in healthcare interactions, + the devastating + disorienting nature of the condition itself.

People w FND will be heard