Good morning and thanks to the The Irish News for giving me space to write this piece.

Everyone should have control over their reproductive destiny, whether that is access to assisted conception, culturally competent sexual health services, or #FreeSafeLegalLocal abortion care. Abortion is a LGBT+ issue &LGBT+ Rights are a Repro Justice issue! #LesbianVisibilityDay

Delighted that we could support the NIACT conference in Parliament Buildings. Their 2024 Review highlights the distance travelled, and actions needed to enable NI to become a world leader in sexual and reproductive healthcare. You can read the Review here fsrh.org/news/niact-rep…

Ok, so let’s take this at face value rather than assuming he’s just trolling. Consider the case of a heart attack. In the 1980s you got Aspirin (75p) and admission to coronary care, by the late 1980s/90s clot-busting meds were used (£195, plus ‘thrombolysis nurse’ £35-42k/year)

The latest monthly GP workforce figures for England show the number of patients per practice is rising.

GPs are now responsible for about 18% more patients than in 2015, demonstrating ever-mounting workload pressures.

Let’s take a look at the data 🧵

Whilst the government is playing politics, women are enduring police investigations & prosecutions for having abortions. It's not up to the government to dictate which amendments MPs vote on. Denying MPs the opportunity to vote is nothing short of a scandalous betrayal of women.

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If the Government wants to support more disabled people into work, then instead of its hostile 'sicknote culture' rhetoric, it should listen to disabled people and support these recommendations.

Being sick enough to lose an organ in this situation is always synonymous with being close to death

At the launch of the #NIACT Review 2024 on the delivery of abortion, contraception and sex education in NI. How far we have come, what is available and the aims and aspirations for the future. An epic journey and proud to be part of it 💖

Report here: l8r.it/27fd

Excellent day at Stormont. Great to reflect on the progress made yet still so much more to do.Thanks to all involved and The FSRH for their support in NI

Wes Streeting MP Thanks for asking

As some one who has worked in the NHS for 35 yrs and examined its working throughout that time my list of what needs changing would start with

Stop breaking the system by defunding it in the name of efficiency. It is way beyond the point at which trying to cut…

Wes Streeting MP Stupid stuff to get rid off:

Privatisation

Wage suppression

PFI debts

Chronic underfunding

Dr Siobhan Kirk speaking on the Women’s Health Strategy NI at the NI Abortion & Contraception Taskgroup Conference in Stormont ‘We need to listen to women but we also need action’

Greer Donley huffpost.com/entry/opinion-…

£267,819. That's what ASN has spent to help people in Ireland travel for abortions in the 5 years since the laws changed.

Is this where you thought Repeal would leave us?

It is my strong belief that just as Ofcom is manifestly failing to uphold standards of impartiality in broadcasting, so too is GMC failing to uphold safe & high standards in UK medicine.

Neither regulator is fit for purpose.

One is failing viewers, the other patients.

Condemning vulnerable people to death by drowning is completely inhuman. Hopefully the people of NI will reject Ben Habib, Reform UK and anyone who associates themselves with them and their twisted, rotten views.

Women haven’t died yet due to abortion bans because other people actually care about saving their lives.

Anti abortion advocates want to flaunt this as some winning point.

Liz Sutton 💕Sheena Byrom she/her 💕 Where do we start? Maybe with the notion that women actually make choices for intervention once they are given the evidence in a way that is not intended to promote #normalbirth

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4 yrs ago I asked a few questions here about how other female GPs were balancing their careers and family commitments. With a lot of help it led to this 👉 Profile of Irish female GPs and factors affecting long-term commitment: a descriptive study bjgpopen.org/content/early/…