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Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air.
stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...
stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...
Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health?
Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It̵…
stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air.
stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...
stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...
This worked! There didn’t seem to be a limit; we booked last night, turned up at the right time and they just scanned a barcode to get the promo price. 🙌
If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link:
asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...
asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...
asda.cxmflow.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This worked! There didn’t seem to be a limit; we booked last night, turned up at the right time and they just scanned a barcode to get the promo price. 🙌
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“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
- Gertrude Jekyll.🌱
- Gertrude Jekyll.🌱
August 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
- Gertrude Jekyll.🌱
- Gertrude Jekyll.🌱
Wow! “We’re able to transform a prolific environmental and societal waste into such a globally important medication in a way that’s completely impossible using chemistry alone or using biology alone.”
June 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Wow! “We’re able to transform a prolific environmental and societal waste into such a globally important medication in a way that’s completely impossible using chemistry alone or using biology alone.”
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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
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Thank you to Farmers Way for sharing these images reminding us to snip plastic rings on bottles and cans. We recently had a duck in the park caught like this which we caught and freed. But if can ve deadly. #SnipThoseRings
January 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Thank you to Farmers Way for sharing these images reminding us to snip plastic rings on bottles and cans. We recently had a duck in the park caught like this which we caught and freed. But if can ve deadly. #SnipThoseRings
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Am I the only one to see a contradiction between a NHS overwhelmed with respiratory infections and JCVI’s decision (based on their “bespoke” economic evaluation) to recommend very limited eligibility for COVID vaccines? #FalseEconomy
December 8, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Am I the only one to see a contradiction between a NHS overwhelmed with respiratory infections and JCVI’s decision (based on their “bespoke” economic evaluation) to recommend very limited eligibility for COVID vaccines? #FalseEconomy
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Just saw an NHS ad on Channel 4 telling people to get 'winter ready' with flu and covid vaccines. That's great. Except that most people are still not eligible for free ones! And not many people can afford £99 at Boots in our part-privatised NHS *scream* #covid
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Fund Covid booster vaccines for all, with priority for Long Covid sufferers
Long Covid can ruin lives and cause financial hardship so we believe the Government must try to prevent new Covid infections. We want free Covid booster vaccines for all and Long Covid sufferers shoul...
petition.parliament.uk
December 6, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Just saw an NHS ad on Channel 4 telling people to get 'winter ready' with flu and covid vaccines. That's great. Except that most people are still not eligible for free ones! And not many people can afford £99 at Boots in our part-privatised NHS *scream* #covid
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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People's health and financial well-being are being badly affected by long COVID.
UK Government needs to ensure policy on the management of healthcare associated infections is extended to include the recording of data on COVID infections spread within hospitals.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
UK Government needs to ensure policy on the management of healthcare associated infections is extended to include the recording of data on COVID infections spread within hospitals.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings.
Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...
petition.parliament.uk
December 7, 2024 at 4:47 PM
People's health and financial well-being are being badly affected by long COVID.
UK Government needs to ensure policy on the management of healthcare associated infections is extended to include the recording of data on COVID infections spread within hospitals.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
UK Government needs to ensure policy on the management of healthcare associated infections is extended to include the recording of data on COVID infections spread within hospitals.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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‘Working days lost to long Covid could be costing the economy billions of pounds every year as patients struggle to cope with symptoms and return to work, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.’
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...
Long Covid could cost the economy billions every year
Working days lost to long Covid could be costing the economy billions of pounds every year as patients struggle to cope with symptoms and return to work, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 4:36 PM
‘Working days lost to long Covid could be costing the economy billions of pounds every year as patients struggle to cope with symptoms and return to work, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.’
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...
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I completely echo this brilliant piece from @profdevisridhar.bsky.social on how we must use the most recent research and consider the wider costs of not factoring Long Covid risks into costing decisions re vaccine eligibility. Vaccines reduce risk of long covid- we can’t ignore this.🧪
Britain has closed its eyes to long Covid – which means it will ravage even more lives and livelihoods | Devi Sridhar
Unlike the US, Canada and Australia, the UK is only giving free boosters to some. But the cost of restricting them could be huge, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2024 at 8:04 AM
I completely echo this brilliant piece from @profdevisridhar.bsky.social on how we must use the most recent research and consider the wider costs of not factoring Long Covid risks into costing decisions re vaccine eligibility. Vaccines reduce risk of long covid- we can’t ignore this.🧪
Heard this on the news this morning - make it make sense… It’s not cost-effective, apparently, for COVID vaccinations to be available for all in the UK to keep us healthy, but suddenly weight loss jabs can be rolled out?? 🤦♀️
So, weight-loss injections could benefit the economy, reducing the number of sick days caused by obesity? 🤦Illness due to #SARSCoV2 infection also causes many people to take time off work, many others being forced out of work long-term due to #LongCOVID.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Keir Starmer says weight loss drugs will help people get back to work
Government says obesity is placing a burden on the NHS
www.standard.co.uk
October 15, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Heard this on the news this morning - make it make sense… It’s not cost-effective, apparently, for COVID vaccinations to be available for all in the UK to keep us healthy, but suddenly weight loss jabs can be rolled out?? 🤦♀️