Gina Dutton
@ginadut.bsky.social
She/her. Passionate about health research and opportunity to participate in research.
Ex-NHS and research: Radiographer, National Cancer Research Network, NIHR CRN, NHS R&D and Association for Dementia Studies
Current PPIE and REC member.
Ex-NHS and research: Radiographer, National Cancer Research Network, NIHR CRN, NHS R&D and Association for Dementia Studies
Current PPIE and REC member.
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Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
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We've joined with 15 local and national organisations, setting out 10 practical steps to address the city's road safety emergency and prevent needless deaths on our city's roads.
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
We've joined with 15 local and national organisations, setting out 10 practical steps to address the city's road safety emergency and prevent needless deaths on our city's roads.
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
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If I had a national institution I wanted to undermine, Hanover Communications are who I’d go to.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
If I had a national institution I wanted to undermine, Hanover Communications are who I’d go to.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians.
It’s just what they do.
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⏰ 5 days left of early bird discounts for #UKKW26!
Book by Friday for the best rates including:
Full Conference
❇️ MPTS & Scientists - £270
❇️ Trainees & Academics: £315
❇️ Plus hotel offer for MPTs & Scientists
💡 Register now: https://bit.ly/477LgH8
#KidneyProfessionals
Book by Friday for the best rates including:
Full Conference
❇️ MPTS & Scientists - £270
❇️ Trainees & Academics: £315
❇️ Plus hotel offer for MPTs & Scientists
💡 Register now: https://bit.ly/477LgH8
#KidneyProfessionals
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
⏰ 5 days left of early bird discounts for #UKKW26!
Book by Friday for the best rates including:
Full Conference
❇️ MPTS & Scientists - £270
❇️ Trainees & Academics: £315
❇️ Plus hotel offer for MPTs & Scientists
💡 Register now: https://bit.ly/477LgH8
#KidneyProfessionals
Book by Friday for the best rates including:
Full Conference
❇️ MPTS & Scientists - £270
❇️ Trainees & Academics: £315
❇️ Plus hotel offer for MPTs & Scientists
💡 Register now: https://bit.ly/477LgH8
#KidneyProfessionals
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In the UK, restricting free access to proven vaccines surely ignores the evidence and is a public health failure?
🙏Petition: Make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available, free of charge, like it was previously. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
🙏Petition: Make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available, free of charge, like it was previously. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Sign the Petition
Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge
www.change.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In the UK, restricting free access to proven vaccines surely ignores the evidence and is a public health failure?
🙏Petition: Make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available, free of charge, like it was previously. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
🙏Petition: Make the COVID-19 vaccine universally available, free of charge, like it was previously. www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
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💧 Could dialysis water grow vegetables? 🌿
Join our free #SustainableKidneyCare webinar on 12 Nov to explore how teams worldwide are cutting waste, reusing resources & building greener kidney services.
🔗 Register now:
us06web.zoom.us/webi...
#KidneyCare #ClimateAction
Join our free #SustainableKidneyCare webinar on 12 Nov to explore how teams worldwide are cutting waste, reusing resources & building greener kidney services.
🔗 Register now:
us06web.zoom.us/webi...
#KidneyCare #ClimateAction
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
💧 Could dialysis water grow vegetables? 🌿
Join our free #SustainableKidneyCare webinar on 12 Nov to explore how teams worldwide are cutting waste, reusing resources & building greener kidney services.
🔗 Register now:
us06web.zoom.us/webi...
#KidneyCare #ClimateAction
Join our free #SustainableKidneyCare webinar on 12 Nov to explore how teams worldwide are cutting waste, reusing resources & building greener kidney services.
🔗 Register now:
us06web.zoom.us/webi...
#KidneyCare #ClimateAction
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This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. Ho...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Heads up 😅
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨
Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
actionnetwork.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Heads up 😅
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
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Finally Covid and Flu vaxxed and now awaiting the inevitable fever.
But: I’m so appalled at the changes in eligibility for Covid vaccines, which honestly should be widely available for free (or at least for, say, a normal NHS prescription charge).
But: I’m so appalled at the changes in eligibility for Covid vaccines, which honestly should be widely available for free (or at least for, say, a normal NHS prescription charge).
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Finally Covid and Flu vaxxed and now awaiting the inevitable fever.
But: I’m so appalled at the changes in eligibility for Covid vaccines, which honestly should be widely available for free (or at least for, say, a normal NHS prescription charge).
But: I’m so appalled at the changes in eligibility for Covid vaccines, which honestly should be widely available for free (or at least for, say, a normal NHS prescription charge).
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Perils of private clinics
Use unqualified and poorly trained staff for baby scans
Pregnant women incorrectly told that babies are malformed, must be aborted.
Failing to spot problems in pregnancy.
Anybody can call themselves a sonographer.
Profits and deregulation cause tragedies.
Use unqualified and poorly trained staff for baby scans
Pregnant women incorrectly told that babies are malformed, must be aborted.
Failing to spot problems in pregnancy.
Anybody can call themselves a sonographer.
Profits and deregulation cause tragedies.
Warning over dangerous high street baby scans
Some high-street clinics are risking lives by letting untrained staff do baby scans, warn experts.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Perils of private clinics
Use unqualified and poorly trained staff for baby scans
Pregnant women incorrectly told that babies are malformed, must be aborted.
Failing to spot problems in pregnancy.
Anybody can call themselves a sonographer.
Profits and deregulation cause tragedies.
Use unqualified and poorly trained staff for baby scans
Pregnant women incorrectly told that babies are malformed, must be aborted.
Failing to spot problems in pregnancy.
Anybody can call themselves a sonographer.
Profits and deregulation cause tragedies.
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Pregnancy Loss Research Group: New resources for workplaces | @activelink.bsky.social
www.activelink.ie/community-ex...
@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social
#PLRG_PLACESproject #PLRG_WordsAtWork #PregnancyLoss #Workplace #Work
www.activelink.ie/community-ex...
@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social
#PLRG_PLACESproject #PLRG_WordsAtWork #PregnancyLoss #Workplace #Work
Pregnancy Loss Research Group: New resources for workplaces
The Pregnancy Loss Research Group at University College Cork has developed a range of resources to help create more compassionate workplaces for people who experience pregnancy loss. We encourage work...
www.activelink.ie
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Pregnancy Loss Research Group: New resources for workplaces | @activelink.bsky.social
www.activelink.ie/community-ex...
@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social
#PLRG_PLACESproject #PLRG_WordsAtWork #PregnancyLoss #Workplace #Work
www.activelink.ie/community-ex...
@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social
#PLRG_PLACESproject #PLRG_WordsAtWork #PregnancyLoss #Workplace #Work
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Join the Equality, Inclusion and Diversity and Healthy Places SIG for an online webinar - Healthy Places: Disability Inclusion by Design.
This webinar will showcase how inclusive design in transport and urban planning can empower disabled communities.
Register www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
This webinar will showcase how inclusive design in transport and urban planning can empower disabled communities.
Register www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Healthy Places: Disability Inclusion by Design
This webinar will showcase innovative work in transport and urban planning that includes disabled people in shaping urban spaces and systems.
www.fph.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Join the Equality, Inclusion and Diversity and Healthy Places SIG for an online webinar - Healthy Places: Disability Inclusion by Design.
This webinar will showcase how inclusive design in transport and urban planning can empower disabled communities.
Register www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
This webinar will showcase how inclusive design in transport and urban planning can empower disabled communities.
Register www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
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The green industrial revolution is the economic opportunity of the century. If you want to make money and create jobs, the green economy is where it’s at. Ed gets it.
November 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The green industrial revolution is the economic opportunity of the century. If you want to make money and create jobs, the green economy is where it’s at. Ed gets it.
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Growing Threat to Heat-Exposed Workers: Chronic Kidney Disease - Public Health Watch publichealthwatch.org/2025/10/30/g...
Growing Threat to Heat-Exposed Workers: Chronic Kidney Disease - Public Health Watch
Some experts believe CKD is the first chronic illness directly linked to climate change. This story is the third in a series on the effects of rising temperatures across Texas.
publichealthwatch.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Growing Threat to Heat-Exposed Workers: Chronic Kidney Disease - Public Health Watch publichealthwatch.org/2025/10/30/g...
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Jesse Eisenberg is making headlines by sharing his decision to donate one of his kidneys altruistically. With our transplant list at its highest ever, we're pleased to see a light shone on this important method of donation👉 https://www.today.com/health/news/jesse-eisenberg-donating-kidney-rcna240753
EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Eisenberg Reveals He Is Donating a Kidney to a Stranger: 'A No-Brainer'
The "Now You See Me: Now You Don't" star shared the news of his upcoming altruistic kidney donation on TODAY.
www.today.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Jesse Eisenberg is making headlines by sharing his decision to donate one of his kidneys altruistically. With our transplant list at its highest ever, we're pleased to see a light shone on this important method of donation👉 https://www.today.com/health/news/jesse-eisenberg-donating-kidney-rcna240753
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Vaccines make a difference!
Please read, sign, and share, this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its policy regarding access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Make it universally available, free of charge, regardless of age - subject to our own medical history.
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Please read, sign, and share, this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its policy regarding access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Make it universally available, free of charge, regardless of age - subject to our own medical history.
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Sign the Petition
Make COVID vaccine universally available in the UK - free of charge.
www.change.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Vaccines make a difference!
Please read, sign, and share, this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its policy regarding access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Make it universally available, free of charge, regardless of age - subject to our own medical history.
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Please read, sign, and share, this petition to urge the UK government to overturn its policy regarding access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Make it universally available, free of charge, regardless of age - subject to our own medical history.
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
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There has been a welcome fall in Covid infection levels in England. However, the risk level remains HIGH, and people should not even think of relaxing precautions. Around 1 in every 136 people in England were infected as of 26 October.
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 26 October 2025
The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 26 October 2025
buds.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
There has been a welcome fall in Covid infection levels in England. However, the risk level remains HIGH, and people should not even think of relaxing precautions. Around 1 in every 136 people in England were infected as of 26 October.
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Final reminder! Join us next week for the launch of new resources designed to improve experiences for young people in CAMHS inpatient care:
📑 “Knowing Where You Are Going” guidance
✅ “Far Away from Home” checklist
🗓️ 4 Nov | 12 - 1pm
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sddh48n2 @nihrarcs.bsky.social
📑 “Knowing Where You Are Going” guidance
✅ “Far Away from Home” checklist
🗓️ 4 Nov | 12 - 1pm
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sddh48n2 @nihrarcs.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Final reminder! Join us next week for the launch of new resources designed to improve experiences for young people in CAMHS inpatient care:
📑 “Knowing Where You Are Going” guidance
✅ “Far Away from Home” checklist
🗓️ 4 Nov | 12 - 1pm
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sddh48n2 @nihrarcs.bsky.social
📑 “Knowing Where You Are Going” guidance
✅ “Far Away from Home” checklist
🗓️ 4 Nov | 12 - 1pm
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/sddh48n2 @nihrarcs.bsky.social
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Friendly reminder: these are the rights we all have under the ECHR.
They're not just for a privileged few
They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US
They're not just for a privileged few
They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Friendly reminder: these are the rights we all have under the ECHR.
They're not just for a privileged few
They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US
They're not just for a privileged few
They're for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US
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Doctors & scientists urge WHO: N95s—not surgical masks—must be the standard in healthcare.
Add your name before Oct 31 👇
tinyurl.com/RespiratorsN...
#RespiratorsNotSurgicals #ProtectHCWs
Add your name before Oct 31 👇
tinyurl.com/RespiratorsN...
#RespiratorsNotSurgicals #ProtectHCWs
A Call for the Universal Use of Respirators in Healthcare - Add Your Name
In an effort to advance global public health through turbulent times, a group of experts from around the globe in medicine, public health, law, industrial hygiene, and other disciplines, met at the Un...
tinyurl.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Doctors & scientists urge WHO: N95s—not surgical masks—must be the standard in healthcare.
Add your name before Oct 31 👇
tinyurl.com/RespiratorsN...
#RespiratorsNotSurgicals #ProtectHCWs
Add your name before Oct 31 👇
tinyurl.com/RespiratorsN...
#RespiratorsNotSurgicals #ProtectHCWs
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Autism and suicide prevention
What looks like a “warning sign” to a non-autistic person may be a normal coping mechanism for an Autistic person
Dr Moseley explains why change in routine, interests or behaviour is often the most important sign to notice. Thank you @papyrus
youtu.be/sEyKflCrric?...
What looks like a “warning sign” to a non-autistic person may be a normal coping mechanism for an Autistic person
Dr Moseley explains why change in routine, interests or behaviour is often the most important sign to notice. Thank you @papyrus
youtu.be/sEyKflCrric?...
A sit down with PAPYRUS: Autism Action
YouTube video by PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Autism and suicide prevention
What looks like a “warning sign” to a non-autistic person may be a normal coping mechanism for an Autistic person
Dr Moseley explains why change in routine, interests or behaviour is often the most important sign to notice. Thank you @papyrus
youtu.be/sEyKflCrric?...
What looks like a “warning sign” to a non-autistic person may be a normal coping mechanism for an Autistic person
Dr Moseley explains why change in routine, interests or behaviour is often the most important sign to notice. Thank you @papyrus
youtu.be/sEyKflCrric?...
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BBC, Sky, all UK media - you NEED to do better.
This isn’t “balance”.
Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!
Stop it!
9/9
This isn’t “balance”.
Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!
Stop it!
9/9
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
BBC, Sky, all UK media - you NEED to do better.
This isn’t “balance”.
Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!
Stop it!
9/9
This isn’t “balance”.
Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!
Stop it!
9/9
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I know it’s a cliche, but…
Do you believe that the headline would be about a “nerdy scientist” if he had not been white?
If there was credible evidence that “Christians turned his stomach” or that he fantasized about driving into a Church and turning them into mincemeat?
6/9
Do you believe that the headline would be about a “nerdy scientist” if he had not been white?
If there was credible evidence that “Christians turned his stomach” or that he fantasized about driving into a Church and turning them into mincemeat?
6/9
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I know it’s a cliche, but…
Do you believe that the headline would be about a “nerdy scientist” if he had not been white?
If there was credible evidence that “Christians turned his stomach” or that he fantasized about driving into a Church and turning them into mincemeat?
6/9
Do you believe that the headline would be about a “nerdy scientist” if he had not been white?
If there was credible evidence that “Christians turned his stomach” or that he fantasized about driving into a Church and turning them into mincemeat?
6/9