Erin Whittingham
@erinuk.bsky.social
Co-production | NHS | Lived experience | Shared decision making | Mental health | Long term conditions | 🎧📚
I work for NICE, volunteer @shh-uk.bsky.social & relax with 📚 🎧 📺 in #Lancashire
Reposts are not necessarily endorsements. Views are my own.
I work for NICE, volunteer @shh-uk.bsky.social & relax with 📚 🎧 📺 in #Lancashire
Reposts are not necessarily endorsements. Views are my own.
Last months audiobooks 🎧📚
Sunrise on the Reaping 5⭐ I hope it's not the last in the series.
Sunrise on the Reaping 5⭐ I hope it's not the last in the series.
September 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Last months audiobooks 🎧📚
Sunrise on the Reaping 5⭐ I hope it's not the last in the series.
Sunrise on the Reaping 5⭐ I hope it's not the last in the series.
Amazing opportunity for someone with lived experience of mental illness
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We’re Hiring: Lived Experience Lead
At BABCP, we’re putting lived experience at the heart of everything we do — and we’re looking for someone to help lead the way.
👉Find out more - closing date 22 Sep: babcp.com/about/vacanc...
At BABCP, we’re putting lived experience at the heart of everything we do — and we’re looking for someone to help lead the way.
👉Find out more - closing date 22 Sep: babcp.com/about/vacanc...
August 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Amazing opportunity for someone with lived experience of mental illness
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🧠 NEW RESEARCH SUMMARY 🧠
The Benefits & Limitations of Self-Tracking Long Covid
🔗 shh-uk.org/?p=34441
#LongCovidResearch #SelfTracking #PatientLedResearch #SHHUK #HealthJustice #PostViral
The Benefits & Limitations of Self-Tracking Long Covid
🔗 shh-uk.org/?p=34441
#LongCovidResearch #SelfTracking #PatientLedResearch #SHHUK #HealthJustice #PostViral
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🧠 NEW RESEARCH SUMMARY 🧠
The Benefits & Limitations of Self-Tracking Long Covid
🔗 shh-uk.org/?p=34441
#LongCovidResearch #SelfTracking #PatientLedResearch #SHHUK #HealthJustice #PostViral
The Benefits & Limitations of Self-Tracking Long Covid
🔗 shh-uk.org/?p=34441
#LongCovidResearch #SelfTracking #PatientLedResearch #SHHUK #HealthJustice #PostViral
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Think there's no power in your feedback? Don't believe it can make a difference to health and social care services? We want to show you that isn't the case. Check out some recent examples of how you made a difference - www.healthwatch.co.uk/our-impact
August 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Think there's no power in your feedback? Don't believe it can make a difference to health and social care services? We want to show you that isn't the case. Check out some recent examples of how you made a difference - www.healthwatch.co.uk/our-impact
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We're hosting a Patient-Led Research Fund (PLRF) webinar on July 9, 1–4:30PM ET!
Hear results from 10 PLRF-funded biomedical studies (on microclots, T cell exhaustion, trials, & more), all selected by a panel of patient-researchers.
🗓️ Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#LongCOVID
Hear results from 10 PLRF-funded biomedical studies (on microclots, T cell exhaustion, trials, & more), all selected by a panel of patient-researchers.
🗓️ Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#LongCOVID
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We're hosting a Patient-Led Research Fund (PLRF) webinar on July 9, 1–4:30PM ET!
Hear results from 10 PLRF-funded biomedical studies (on microclots, T cell exhaustion, trials, & more), all selected by a panel of patient-researchers.
🗓️ Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#LongCOVID
Hear results from 10 PLRF-funded biomedical studies (on microclots, T cell exhaustion, trials, & more), all selected by a panel of patient-researchers.
🗓️ Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#LongCOVID
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Our Chief Executive Louise Ansari responds to news that #Healthwatch is to be closed down.
"This is clearly a sad day for our staff, volunteers, and everyone associated with Healthwatch who have proudly supported people and communities to speak up about their experiences of health and social care."
"This is clearly a sad day for our staff, volunteers, and everyone associated with Healthwatch who have proudly supported people and communities to speak up about their experiences of health and social care."
June 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Our Chief Executive Louise Ansari responds to news that #Healthwatch is to be closed down.
"This is clearly a sad day for our staff, volunteers, and everyone associated with Healthwatch who have proudly supported people and communities to speak up about their experiences of health and social care."
"This is clearly a sad day for our staff, volunteers, and everyone associated with Healthwatch who have proudly supported people and communities to speak up about their experiences of health and social care."
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🛑 Help us contact every MP in the UK 🛑
📄 Visit 👉 shh-uk.org/get-in-to...
📬 Use our simple tool to contact your MP and make your voice heard.
#safeair4all #longcovid #workplacesafety #infectioncontrol #PublicHealth #Healthcareleadership
📄 Visit 👉 shh-uk.org/get-in-to...
📬 Use our simple tool to contact your MP and make your voice heard.
#safeair4all #longcovid #workplacesafety #infectioncontrol #PublicHealth #Healthcareleadership
June 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🛑 Help us contact every MP in the UK 🛑
📄 Visit 👉 shh-uk.org/get-in-to...
📬 Use our simple tool to contact your MP and make your voice heard.
#safeair4all #longcovid #workplacesafety #infectioncontrol #PublicHealth #Healthcareleadership
📄 Visit 👉 shh-uk.org/get-in-to...
📬 Use our simple tool to contact your MP and make your voice heard.
#safeair4all #longcovid #workplacesafety #infectioncontrol #PublicHealth #Healthcareleadership
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#SafeAir4All
In collaboration with @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social we've produced a fact sheet for MPs. #SafeAir4All campaign
Can you contact your MP about the need for safe air in healthcare settings?
Find out more here: shh-uk.org/get-in-touch...
In collaboration with @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social we've produced a fact sheet for MPs. #SafeAir4All campaign
Can you contact your MP about the need for safe air in healthcare settings?
Find out more here: shh-uk.org/get-in-touch...
Get In Touch With Your MP - #SafeAir4All
All healthcare workers and every patient in the UK has the right to feel safe and protected in any healthcare setting
shh-uk.org
June 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#SafeAir4All
In collaboration with @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social we've produced a fact sheet for MPs. #SafeAir4All campaign
Can you contact your MP about the need for safe air in healthcare settings?
Find out more here: shh-uk.org/get-in-touch...
In collaboration with @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social we've produced a fact sheet for MPs. #SafeAir4All campaign
Can you contact your MP about the need for safe air in healthcare settings?
Find out more here: shh-uk.org/get-in-touch...
This is gorgeous 😍 The children were so respectful to Mum duck & her ducklings 🦆
June 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is gorgeous 😍 The children were so respectful to Mum duck & her ducklings 🦆
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Covid-19 is airborne.
Poor indoor air quality in healthcare settings increases infection risks for staff, patients & visitors.
We’re calling for urgent action. Read our second position statement:
🔗 shh-uk.org/shh-uk-posit...
#SafeAir4All #ProtectHCWs #LongCovid
Poor indoor air quality in healthcare settings increases infection risks for staff, patients & visitors.
We’re calling for urgent action. Read our second position statement:
🔗 shh-uk.org/shh-uk-posit...
#SafeAir4All #ProtectHCWs #LongCovid
May 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Covid-19 is airborne.
Poor indoor air quality in healthcare settings increases infection risks for staff, patients & visitors.
We’re calling for urgent action. Read our second position statement:
🔗 shh-uk.org/shh-uk-posit...
#SafeAir4All #ProtectHCWs #LongCovid
Poor indoor air quality in healthcare settings increases infection risks for staff, patients & visitors.
We’re calling for urgent action. Read our second position statement:
🔗 shh-uk.org/shh-uk-posit...
#SafeAir4All #ProtectHCWs #LongCovid
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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We're looking to speak with people in the UK who have experienced psychosis and worry about relapse. Could you help?
Reposts/shares hugely appreciated! 🙏
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #psychsky #Psychosis #MentalHealth #MentalHealthResearch #schizophrenia
Reposts/shares hugely appreciated! 🙏
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #psychsky #Psychosis #MentalHealth #MentalHealthResearch #schizophrenia
May 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We're looking to speak with people in the UK who have experienced psychosis and worry about relapse. Could you help?
Reposts/shares hugely appreciated! 🙏
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #psychsky #Psychosis #MentalHealth #MentalHealthResearch #schizophrenia
Reposts/shares hugely appreciated! 🙏
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #psychsky #Psychosis #MentalHealth #MentalHealthResearch #schizophrenia
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Today, on World ME Day, we stand with all those affected by ME to deliver a simple message to the UK government.
@joplatt.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @tessamunt.bsky.social
Read the joint statement: meassociation.org.uk/nsts
#WorldMEDay #MEAwarenessWeek2025
@joplatt.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @tessamunt.bsky.social
Read the joint statement: meassociation.org.uk/nsts
#WorldMEDay #MEAwarenessWeek2025
May 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Today, on World ME Day, we stand with all those affected by ME to deliver a simple message to the UK government.
@joplatt.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @tessamunt.bsky.social
Read the joint statement: meassociation.org.uk/nsts
#WorldMEDay #MEAwarenessWeek2025
@joplatt.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @tessamunt.bsky.social
Read the joint statement: meassociation.org.uk/nsts
#WorldMEDay #MEAwarenessWeek2025
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🏃♀️ Every step you take helps protect healthcare workers with Long Covid. Join #TeamSHHUK in the #RunForCharities and fundraise for a cause that matters 👉 shh-uk.org/run-for-c...
#LongCovid #NHS #CharityRun
#LongCovid #NHS #CharityRun
May 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🏃♀️ Every step you take helps protect healthcare workers with Long Covid. Join #TeamSHHUK in the #RunForCharities and fundraise for a cause that matters 👉 shh-uk.org/run-for-c...
#LongCovid #NHS #CharityRun
#LongCovid #NHS #CharityRun
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Have you seen our Patient Partnership Week events for this year? Take a look and book on to our free webinars, happening 30th June to 4th July. #PPW2025 buff.ly/EKU2vAg
May 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Have you seen our Patient Partnership Week events for this year? Take a look and book on to our free webinars, happening 30th June to 4th July. #PPW2025 buff.ly/EKU2vAg
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Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits — forcing more disabled people and children into poverty — the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over £10 million.
It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts.
This is austerity 2.0
It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts.
This is austerity 2.0
March 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits — forcing more disabled people and children into poverty — the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over £10 million.
It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts.
This is austerity 2.0
It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts.
This is austerity 2.0
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On Thursday we launched the Lost Mothers Project findings @birthcompanions.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social Powerful performances from @cleanbrk.bsky.social, art by Beci Ward. Experiences shared reveal a depth of unimaginable pain - ‘…my whole body craved him’ Time 4 change is now.
The Lost Mothers Project
Focusing on the needs and experiences of women who are separated from their infants due to imprisonment
www.birthcompanions.org.uk
May 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
On Thursday we launched the Lost Mothers Project findings @birthcompanions.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social Powerful performances from @cleanbrk.bsky.social, art by Beci Ward. Experiences shared reveal a depth of unimaginable pain - ‘…my whole body craved him’ Time 4 change is now.
Don't miss your chance to make healthcare settings safer for patients & staff.
Sign the petition 👇
#PatientSafety #PublicHealth
#SafeAir4All
Sign the petition 👇
#PatientSafety #PublicHealth
#SafeAir4All
Time is running out
🩺 We wouldn’t give patients dirty water—so why give them dirty air?
NHS staff and patients deserve clean, safe environments.
✍️ Sign the petition calling for legal standards on indoor air:
📍 petition.parliament....
#SafeAir4All #SupportingHealthcareHeroes
🩺 We wouldn’t give patients dirty water—so why give them dirty air?
NHS staff and patients deserve clean, safe environments.
✍️ Sign the petition calling for legal standards on indoor air:
📍 petition.parliament....
#SafeAir4All #SupportingHealthcareHeroes
May 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Don't miss your chance to make healthcare settings safer for patients & staff.
Sign the petition 👇
#PatientSafety #PublicHealth
#SafeAir4All
Sign the petition 👇
#PatientSafety #PublicHealth
#SafeAir4All
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It’s my birthday. I’m 44. I feel deeply happy. That feels extraordinary - after 22 years with ME, and now 17 days in hospital with post-Covid microvascular failure.
What I’m going through feels otherworldly. But it’s common. Not rare.
We must take ME and Long Covid seriously!
What I’m going through feels otherworldly. But it’s common. Not rare.
We must take ME and Long Covid seriously!
May 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It’s my birthday. I’m 44. I feel deeply happy. That feels extraordinary - after 22 years with ME, and now 17 days in hospital with post-Covid microvascular failure.
What I’m going through feels otherworldly. But it’s common. Not rare.
We must take ME and Long Covid seriously!
What I’m going through feels otherworldly. But it’s common. Not rare.
We must take ME and Long Covid seriously!
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You can’t put a price on good mental health. But we’re all paying for the lack of investment.
Ahead of the #SpendingReview, we're calling on the Government to #InvestInMentalHealth. We've set out six key areas where investment could make a real difference: tinyurl.com/ypjusv3z
Ahead of the #SpendingReview, we're calling on the Government to #InvestInMentalHealth. We've set out six key areas where investment could make a real difference: tinyurl.com/ypjusv3z
May 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
You can’t put a price on good mental health. But we’re all paying for the lack of investment.
Ahead of the #SpendingReview, we're calling on the Government to #InvestInMentalHealth. We've set out six key areas where investment could make a real difference: tinyurl.com/ypjusv3z
Ahead of the #SpendingReview, we're calling on the Government to #InvestInMentalHealth. We've set out six key areas where investment could make a real difference: tinyurl.com/ypjusv3z
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Just a gentle reminder for those on antidepressants in this heat 🔥 Not everyone knows this, so please share to spread the word ❤️
April 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Just a gentle reminder for those on antidepressants in this heat 🔥 Not everyone knows this, so please share to spread the word ❤️
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❗ "We are deeply alarmed by reports that NHS trusts across England are being forced to cut staff, close services, and ration care to meet severe savings targets," @rachel-p.bsky.social on the latest @nhsproviders.bsky.social survey. Read the full statement: buff.ly/nXXEUFi
May 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
❗ "We are deeply alarmed by reports that NHS trusts across England are being forced to cut staff, close services, and ration care to meet severe savings targets," @rachel-p.bsky.social on the latest @nhsproviders.bsky.social survey. Read the full statement: buff.ly/nXXEUFi
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Now on YouTube.
We would love it if you could watch, like and share their short advocacy video
youtu.be/6JRF4CVEVsI
#FridayVibes #YoungVoices #LCandME
We would love it if you could watch, like and share their short advocacy video
youtu.be/6JRF4CVEVsI
#FridayVibes #YoungVoices #LCandME
Don't Shut The Door On Us
YouTube video by Long Covid Kids
youtu.be
March 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Now on YouTube.
We would love it if you could watch, like and share their short advocacy video
youtu.be/6JRF4CVEVsI
#FridayVibes #YoungVoices #LCandME
We would love it if you could watch, like and share their short advocacy video
youtu.be/6JRF4CVEVsI
#FridayVibes #YoungVoices #LCandME