Mark Farmer
markfarmeruk.bsky.social
Mark Farmer
@markfarmeruk.bsky.social
National lived experience advisor at NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Associate Non Executive Director at University Hospitals of Leicester. Chair of Spectrum and The People's Council at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.
An announcement! My first co-authored peer-reviewed paper is out in Health Expectations! 🎉

📄 Institutional abuse, neglect & harm in UK community mental health services
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#MentalHealth #Research #Safeguarding #Communitymentalhealthservices #UK
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This is what happens when you try and ban our LGBTIA Plus community celebrating who we are, what we have achieved as a community and when you try to stop us marching for our rights.

Hungary - please stop trying to persecute us, we will not stand for it. #hungary #lgbtqia
June 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Reposted by Mark Farmer
Help us spread the message: With just 48 hours until the next assisted dying debate, it's crucial to flood social media with support for law change.

MPs must hear our call: When we cannot stay, let us choose how we go.

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#LetUsChoose
May 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We are hosting a LGBTQ PLUS World History month at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust today. Our focus this year is on Trans Health. We are hearing from Transactual about the poor health outcomes that the trans community sadly experience.
February 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yet more train travel woes.. got to Nuneaton train station, no one to get me off the train, no one to get me onto the next train, even though I had prebooked assistance 🚆 #londonnorthwesterntrains This held the train up. My wheelchair cannot levitate, as much as I would like it to!
December 8, 2024 at 1:51 PM
New national data reveals widespread discrimination against gay and trans #NHS staff. Read an NHS Trust CEO's take on how such discrimination is undermining productivity - More reasons to do more to tackle it. #Equality #LGBTQ #Healthcare
www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/di...
Discrimination against gay and trans staff is undermining productivity, claims CEO
Tackling increased discrimination faced by gay and trans staff must be a priority for the NHS if it wants to maximise workforce productivity, according to the CEO of one of the service's largest provi...
www.hsj.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Why, when it rains, when it snows, when the wind blows, when leafs fall on the track or when a couple people don't make it into work, does the UK railway 🚂🚃🚂 system FALL APART!
#RAILWAYS
November 24, 2024 at 7:29 PM
My YT Music review of the year has dropped into my mailbox. I've listened to over 18,000 minutes of its no suprise I'm QUEER music, with my most listened artist being #BenPlatt My favourite artist #DuaLipa made 3rd place, lucky me, getting to see her on tour in 2025, whoop, whoop! #music
November 23, 2024 at 8:19 AM
This week at Fibromyalgia Friends Together www.fibro.org.uk we talked about how to stay safe online whilst shopping online this Christmas, including looking out for the latest online scams and how to avoid them and the importance of using a VPN #fibromyalgia
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November 23, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Let's remember the at least 350 trans lives lost this year. We must work to create a world where everyone is safe and valued, regardless of their gender identity. #TDOR #TransLivesMatter
November 20, 2024 at 8:28 PM