Clare Gerada: influence on UK medical practice and ME/CFS management

Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024:

 

Oof…
I can’t help but feel the NHS and Drs in Distress deserve better. But this seems like a worthwhile use of their time at least.

 

At last they have found their true calling.

 

Professor Dame Clare Gerada returns to her role as guardian of general practice. She has a column on page 20 of the Times ( hard copy) today, entitled "GPs need support if primary care is to do all it should".

It references GP vote to take industrial action, calls GP service " the jewel in the crown "of the NHS.
It continues with exaggerated validation of GP service, and emphasises the reduction in GP resources over the last 5 years comparing it with the rise in number of hospital Consultants, and the overall reduction in community services compared with the growth in hospital based care.

 

It is a decade since getting a bus has been an option for me.

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1883569869930779006

 

"We never learn from the past - we just recreate the wheel"

But at least the wheel is a useful tool. The problem is when you keep on inventing the same nonfunctional tool, a square wheel for example.

 

Or in this case shamanism.

 

Oh dear, Mr and Mrs seem somewhat exercised this weekend.

Fourth day of the House of Lords debate at report stage of the Mental Health Bill early next week. (excerpt from the King's Speech at the opening of Parliament 17 July 2024)

Did the 'heartsink' patient gp training module (I had to look up what Acopia was), and FNDs inclusion in the healthcare workers training module discussion, and the 'supply induced demand' comments in the House of Lords this week hit several nerves?

Illegal face down restraint happened to me twice Inhuman' use of restraint on disabled patients - BBC News when I was sectioned as a malnourished severe CFS/ME patient to one of these hospitals. So my interest in this is personal.

'Cygnet Health Care - Wikipedia
Cygnet Health Care announces appointment of Dame Clare Gerada to Advisory Board - Cygnet

Puts this phrase into a completely different light "We never learn from the past - we just recreate the wheel"

 

I don’t think being put at grave risk of death by suffocation is gonna be a mental health enhancing experience.

I don’t think being absolutely terrified that you’re just about to be killed is generally thought to be good for one’s wellbeing.


I’m so sorry.

 

The UN Special Rapporteur of the Committee for the rights of persons with disabilities calls such things as trauma inducing instead of trauma informed.

 

Ring fencing of funds for healthcare is being removed, with only ring fencing for mental health to remain in the new NHS 2025/2026 priorities and planning guidance.
2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance

There has been some reaction against this, among which is from the King's Fund charity.
The King’s Fund Responds To The 2025/26 Operational Planning Guidance | The King's Fund

and this NHS England chief under fire again as MPs ‘exasperated’ by responses

In view of this it'll likely be the same for ring-fenced research funding for mental health.

ETA: Another advocate speaking out, this time on dementia. NHS scraps targets for diagnosis of the biggest killer in Britain in shocking U-turn

 

Yep.

 

In Greece, proto-facist ruler Metaxas’s regime simplified everything down to mental health, claiming everything from workplace injury, to poverty, to having communist views were all due to mental health issues. Some referred to his ideology as “psychoabsolutism”.