Steve Fifield

So let's hurry up and rename hotdogs, kidney beans, peanut butter, shepherd's pie, fish fingers, chocolate eggs, lady fingers, oyster mushrooms, cream crackers, etc etc!
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BBC finally getting up to speed with Ague, Consumption, Dropsy, The Flux, Bloody Flux, King’s Evil, Apoplexy, Quinsy, St. Vitus’ Dance, The Pox, The French Pox, The Falling Sickness, Grippe, Brain Fever, Green Sickness, Gaol Fever.

@sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social this loss to NHS primary care was in 2021. All due to NHS executive failures. Nothing has changed since for #ME & #LongCovid.
You can help prevent more good GPs from leaving the profession & we know how to help you help them manage what NHS Execs teach ICBs to ignore.

Support demanded to accelerate chronic fatigue research at Winchester event Patients and scientists appeal for government help in moving research forward.

Another important article about an *international* ME conference listed under "local news" by the BBC, rather than "health".

And please stop calling it "chronic fatigue"!!!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we are living with the consequences of that today”
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

with alt - everybody needs to see this.

Why is the Home Sec so intent on copying Reform immigration policy? 🤔

If the Govt is looking for a popular policy that will actually help fix the UK's problems...

A #WealthTax is backed by
61% Reform voters
81% LD voters
63% Tory voters
85% Green voters
88% Labour voters

Last month Trump said this about NATO troops, despite 457 UK soldiers dying in Afghanistan:

"We've never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them.

"They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan... and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines."

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

The case for change for people with ME — and how to get involved A guest post from Tessa Munt MP

‘Current estimates of the cost (of #ME)are upwards of £22 billion per year. Compared with other health conditions, that’s huge. Last year’s Final Delivery Plan didn’t even consider the cost.’ Tessa Munt
It would be good to give this figure to other MPs - money talks
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Congratulations to @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social on her new role Minister for Public Health and Prevention.

Sharon has been a strong supporter of people with ME/CFS and has spoken in a number of parliamentary debates. Here are some highlights from a debate in 2019.

The idea that the future of medicine is this biopsychosocial rehabilitation is insane. It's absolutely not.

It's not even plausible, and even if it did work, it scales negatively, the more of it is needed the bigger the structures to organize it have to be. Zero economies of scale, will never work.

There is more than enough data showing that most recover from Long Covid over time, without doing anything special, usually resting.

This makes *all* the claims of recovery through 'mindfulness' or rehabilitation worthless. They are banking on natural recoveries, have zero influence on outcomes.

How would a wealth tax work in practice? Who would pay it? How would it be collected? Won't super rich people just leave? We address some of these common questions.

Love the sound of it, but curious about how a wealth tax would work in practice?

Here's everything you need to know, from who would pay it, to how it would be collected:
tinyurl.com/mu2skjtp

A screenshot of a purple-themed announcement text inviting General Practitioners (GPs) to a free virtual event on March 24th titled "Pulse 365." The text highlights a session on "ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – not just tired all the time" presented by Dr. Alastair Miller, a consultant physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It notes the event aims to support GPs in confident decision-making, earlier diagnosis, and management, following a Department of Health and Social Care announcement regarding the key role GPs play in caring for patients with mild and moderate ME/CFS.

⚠️ We have serious concerns about Dr Alastair Miller running a GP course for MECFS Diagnosis & Management for Pulse Today.

Miller is:
🔹ex-chair of BACME
🔹reviewer of PACE
🔹GET researcher
🔹anti-NICE

🖇️ tinyurl.com/muvtjbda
📧 support@pulse365.uk

@sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social it’s very concerning that
Dr Alastair Miller is proposing to run a course for GPs on #ME

💯 Sorry that I left out the obligatory “🙄”
His specialism appears to be “Turning a blind eye” on this occasion.

David Strain is on the Agenda too, but sensibly not getting involved in areas like ME that aren’t his specialisms.

ME/CFS diagnosis and management among topics at free Pulse virtual event for GPs 2 March 2026 GPs are invited to a free virtual event this month featuring sessions across a variety of clinical topics across public health and chronic conditions, including how to best support patients with ME/CFS. The Pulse 365 event, on 24 March, is designed to support GPs in confident decision-marking as well as highlighting strategies for earlier diagnosis and management. Tickets can be found here. ‘ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – not just tired all the time’ will be presented by Dr Alastair Miller consultant physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. This comes following the Department of Health and Social Care’s announcement last summer that GPs will play a key role in delivering care for people with mild and moderate ME/CFS under a new delivery plan.

wtaf is Alastair Miller doing ANYWHERE NEAR an education session for GPs on ME???? 😱

www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...

Please Confirm - If this is Liberal Democrat policy I’m finished being a member.
Find ways to guzzle less fuel maybe travel less has my vote, not subsidise so we can burn the planet to fuck.
Seriously - Who do I contact to cancel membership?

Please Confirm - If this is Liberal Democrat policy I’m finished being a member.
Find ways to guzzle less fuel maybe travel less has my vote, not subsidise so we can burn the planet to fuck.
Seriously - Who do I contact to cancel membership?

Study Finds Remote and Hybrid Working Boosts Disabled Workers’ Health

A major UK study has found that remote and hybrid working arrangements are having overwhelmingly positive effects on the health, wellbeing and job retention of Disabled workers — but warns that falling numbers of remote job adverts risk undermining this progress.
tinyurl.com/2v4d9ush

"Success with PEM management is the decrease of PEM" because #PEM is the killer.

Yes. A lot has happened since the successful and very moving 24 hour awareness campaign, including a few nasty bumps along the ride 🙏.

My first science video in 3 years YouTube video by Physics Girl

I cannot describe the joy and happiness I feel seeing Physics Girl posting a new science video on YouTube. The first one in 3 years! She has been suffering from long covid, and is still recovering

youtu.be/B3m3AMRlYfc?...

NHS care for ME now Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness.

We are delighted by your appointment and will do everything to help you get it right for #pwME (people with ME)
#LongCovidME (51%+ of Long Covid meets ME criteria)
their family carers
NHS staff doing their best without proper knowledge or advice from their NHS execs

Justice4ME.uk

It is heartening to know that we have an ally in this role who understands the decades of neglect faced by the #ME community.
I sincerely hope you can meet with @tessamunt.bsky.social very soon and that we will see a step change in government actions on #ME and Long Covid.
#ThereForME

💯 agree that the issue is NOT primarily with the hospitals who are working within ridiculous constraints.

@tessamunt.bsky.social

@tessamunt.bsky.social needs better advisors before speaking out against NHS hospitals. Happy to help in confidence.

Labour could bring back our water into public hands but they care more about investors than they do about you