Dr Helen Bichard
@drbichard.bsky.social
NHS North Wales Brain Injury Service; Honorary Fellow Bangor University; Expert Group at the Institute for Addressing Strangulation. Want more of: Cheese, Travel; Want end of: VAWG
Reposted by Dr Helen Bichard
It’s time the government took action on repeated recommendations in domestic homicide reviews and ensured all health professionals receive comprehensive training, including on the risk posed by domestic abuse-related suicides.
Domestic abuse is ‘public health emergency’, experts say after critical NHS report
Exclusive: Analysis finds domestic abuse training for staff in England and Wales ‘sporadic and inconsistent’
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It’s time the government took action on repeated recommendations in domestic homicide reviews and ensured all health professionals receive comprehensive training, including on the risk posed by domestic abuse-related suicides.
Reposted by Dr Helen Bichard
- We can’t learn from what we don’t know, so data is key if we are to support the government’s aims to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.
Full findings: ifas.org.uk/police-data-...
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Full findings: ifas.org.uk/police-data-...
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Police Data on Strangulation and Suffocation Offences - Institute for Addressing Strangulation
We requested data from the Home Office in 2023 pertaining to the number of strangulation and suffocation offences recorded by the police in the first year of strangulation and suffocation becoming a s...
ifas.org.uk
June 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
- We can’t learn from what we don’t know, so data is key if we are to support the government’s aims to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.
Full findings: ifas.org.uk/police-data-...
8/8
Full findings: ifas.org.uk/police-data-...
8/8
Great paper. Plus 1) hypoxia affects frontal lobes ie cannot gesture/vocalise STOP as you say, but also hinders judgement/decision-making 2) I'm frequently seeing women where NFS has been used in DV as an escalation from sexual choking ("but we've done this before! you like it!") Horrible blurring.
June 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Great paper. Plus 1) hypoxia affects frontal lobes ie cannot gesture/vocalise STOP as you say, but also hinders judgement/decision-making 2) I'm frequently seeing women where NFS has been used in DV as an escalation from sexual choking ("but we've done this before! you like it!") Horrible blurring.
If it's Brebis, which is simply French for sheep cheese, we're heading for another chevre/goat cheese FIASCO. But I is loving this. So, frankly my dear, I don't give Edam.
April 24, 2025 at 6:29 AM
If it's Brebis, which is simply French for sheep cheese, we're heading for another chevre/goat cheese FIASCO. But I is loving this. So, frankly my dear, I don't give Edam.
Totally agree. My focus is strangulation, @institutefas.bsky.social is Home Office funded, yet this is a public health emergency, not just within domestic & sexual violence, but the fact the majority of under 24s now agree they have been 'choked' during sex: risking a generation's brain health.
March 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Totally agree. My focus is strangulation, @institutefas.bsky.social is Home Office funded, yet this is a public health emergency, not just within domestic & sexual violence, but the fact the majority of under 24s now agree they have been 'choked' during sex: risking a generation's brain health.