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IS THE POST OFFICE WAITING FOR BETTY BROWN TO DIE BEFORE IT PAYS UP??
Betty Brown ran the Annfield Plain Post Office in County Durham with her husband Oswall from 1985 to 2003. Good business. Nice customers. No problems.
Then Horizon arrived in 2000, built by Fujitsu @fujitsu_uk, and the till started lying.
First night it was £500 short.
Within weeks it was £1,500 to £1,600 a week, every week.
Betty and Oswall paid every shortfall out of their own pocket because the alternative was being branded a thief.
They handed over more than £50,000. Betty says the real figure was closer to £100,000.
That was their retirement money, poured into a hole created by software nobody at the @PostOffice bothered to question.
Betty was never prosecuted. Small mercy. Instead a manager decided she was too old for the job and needed replacing with someone who understood the technology.
She was pushed out in 2003.
Oswall died a year later.
Betty believes the stress helped kill him, and says his dying thoughts were about whether the Post Office had finally been in touch.
She spent the next two decades fighting for compensation while the people who built and defended a broken system kept their salaries, their bonuses and their pensions.
In 2025, aged 92, Betty finally settled her claim.
In 2026 she received an OBE from King Charles at Windsor Castle.
She used the moment to tell him that money does not equal justice, and asked him to pass that on to the Prime Minister.
She still had not received a single penny of her settlement by the time she collected the medal.
That is the British state's idea of closure. Ruin someone for over two decades then hand them a piece of metal before the cheque clears.
Betty says every subpostmaster caught up in the Horizon scandal deserves the same recognition she got.
She is right. None of them asked for a medal. They asked for their money and their names back.
SOURCES
@BBCNews @itvnews @ComputerWeekly @nickwallis @Karlfl
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NHS Talking Therapies treatment gives you practical skills and techniques to overcome conditions like OCD, social anxiety disorder and PTSD.
Find out more, or refer yourself at nhs.uk/talk
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One week left ‼️for early bird rates for our #APPN study day on 15th November. We have an exciting agenda, come and hear from @neiljlangridge @EstherClift and many others 😃#APP #ManagingComplexity - booking details in link below👇👇👇
‼️ Booking is now open for our #APPN Study day ✨𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆-𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 ✨ More information and booking via this link 👉
appn.org.uk/courses/book/58 ‼️Don’t miss out on early bird rates £50 APPN members, £100 standard fee😃
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🚀Exciting Opportunity 🚀
Join us for the @OfficialCAHPR Conference: Growing Our Allied Health Research Community on October 9, 2024, at 10:00 AM (FREE online)
Don’t miss out—register now before spots fill up! Let's grow our community together! cahpr.org.uk/events/cahpr-co…
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Great video from @MkCnwl on the work that #UCR does in keeping people at home which often better for outcomes and experiences. If anyone else has any great case studies/videos/blogs fire them over we are always wanting to see them in the national team
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.@NHSEngland decision support tools now include Easy Read versions covering five conditions. They help shared decision making between clinician and patient by explaining treatment, care and support options to help consider what matters most to the person.
england.nhs.uk/personalisedc…
ALT NHS logo top right. Words: Easy Read Decision Support Tools. Making a decision about: Gallstones, Inguinal hernia, varicose veins, enlarged prostate, managing type 1 diabetes. Photo in background of a person's hand holding a pen. Graphic of one of the decision support tools easy read version.
Happy #SocialPrescribingDay to all!
@JamesCSanderson, Director of Community Health Services @NHSEngland, shares what the day means and the powerful impact of social prescribing and those supporting across the country. Thank you💙
#OurNHSPeople @LGAcomms @luhc @NCVO @NASPTweets
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Earlier this week we arranged 4 healthcare professionals "Measles Masterclass" by webinar. Unless they had worked overseas, unlikely any nurse, Dr who qualified since 1990 has seen it. We had a very good take up and we covered many areas of disease. Other areas need to do same
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Changing seasons can impact your wellbeing in a number of ways.
Find out how you can take care of yourself and your body on the NHS seasonal health pages: nhs.uk/live-well/seasonal-he…
ALT 1. Stay warm in bet using hot water bottle or electric blanket but do not use both at same time 2. Keep your bedroom heated up to at least 18 degree Celsius 3. Eat at least 1 hot meal a day 4. Keep your bedroom windows closed at night 5. Babies should sleep in room between 16 and 20 degrees Celsius 6. Draw curtains at dusk and keep doors closed to block draughts 7. Get your heaters inspected by a professional 8. Have hot drinks regularly
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For some people, the shorter and darker days of winter 🌧️ can trigger seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Here are some things you can try at home to help improve your symptoms. 👇 🌤️ 🏃♂️ 🍏 🪟
Other treatments are available for SAD ➡️ nhs.uk/mental-health/conditi…
ALT An image with advice on things you can try yourself to alleviate symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD). The text reads "1) Try to get as much sunlight as possible. 2) Sit near windows when you're indoors. 3) Take plenty of regular exercise, particularly outdoors and in daylight. 4) Eat a healthy, balanced diet. 5) Make your work and home environments as light and airy as possible. 6) It can also be helpful to talk to your family, friends and colleagues about SAD, so they understand your stresses and how your mood changes during the winter." The NHS logo is in the top right hand corner.
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"Twice this week, I have watched an elderly individual, fade into the busy life in which we all live. One man just needed Panadol for his wife but the shop assistant simply said it’s in ‘6’. But he struggled to navigate the supermarket and as I watched him go in the wrong direction, I left all my groceries and took him where he needed to go. Today, I watched an elderly man struggle in the heat, who had obviously had a fall with a huge scrape and blood on his leg. He walked past people in the cafe, while he slowly made his way to his car. Not one person stopped. Or looked. Or acknowledged him. I took him to his car and checked he was ok. He told me he had a fall and wasn’t sure how the air con worked in his car so he just didn’t use it. I sat with him until his aircon kicked in and heard him talk about the old frail body that he is in, that fails him now, every single day.
When you see an elderly person walking down the street, searching in the supermarket, or struggling to their car, take a minute out of your busy schedule and ask them if they need a hand. Think about your grandparents and your parents and how pissed you would be if someone didn’t stop to help them. But more, think of them as you.
Once upon a time, they were you. They were busy, they had work, they had children, they were able... Today, they are just in an older body that is not going as fast as it used to and this busy life is fucking confusing. They deserve our utmost respect and consideration. One day it will be you, it will be us. I wish more people gave a shit about them and acknowledged them for their admirable existence and geez I hope someday, not that far away, someone does it for me.
If you share this post, please credit my page."
Credit: FB: Adele Barbaro (facebook.com/TheRealMumma/)
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NHS community service providers can apply for £250,000 from @M4WUK to enhance wound assessments and caseload management with a digital tool. This fund supports scaling up digital wound management for #CommunityNurses. Apply here: lp.healthy.io/the-wound-mana…
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Duncan is the first person to have a hip replacement and go home on the same day at @SouthTees, meaning he was able to recover in his own home immediately after surgery.
Due to their new initiative, Duncan will be the first of many hip replacement day cases. Great work!
ALT Duncan is laying in a hospital bed with a big smile on his face. He is flanked by three NHS staff all wearing scrubs or their nursing uniforms.
ALT Duncan is standing in the middle of a large group of staff. He is post operation and on crutches. They are in a hospital ward and all smiling.
To read the first report from the evaluation for 2-hour Urgent Community Response please see link below #ucr #communityhealthservices #NHS #nhsengland
What works in #UrgentCommunityResponse? The first report from our #UCR evaluation is now available providing learning for systems from qualitative research with seven case study services
strategyunitwm.nhs.uk/public…
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Pleased to share that initial qualitative findings from the #UrgentCommunityResponse evaluation are now available. This national #UCR evaluation is the first of its kind to try to demonstrate the impact of an urgent at-home care service and will build evidence of what works best.
What works in #UrgentCommunityResponse? The first report from our #UCR evaluation is now available providing learning for systems from qualitative research with seven case study services
strategyunitwm.nhs.uk/public…
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As the #heatwave continues this weekend, Natasha is at @DenhamWaterski to speak to @Annareporting about how to stay safe in the soaring temperatures.
Live on @BBCBreakfast at 9:40.
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As the weather gets warmer, it's worth checking to see if your bottle of sunscreen is still effective.
The longer a bottle of sunscreen is open, the less effective it is at protecting you. If you’re using the same sunscreen from last summer, check that it hasn’t expired.
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Remember F.A.S.T for the signs of a stroke:
😕Face – has their face fallen on one side? Can they smile?
💪Arms – can they raise both arms and keep them there?
🗣 Speech – is it slurred?
⏰️ Time to call 999.
nhs.uk/actFAST
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I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason.
Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of social media likes.
In one trend, parents pretend to be FaceTiming with their child’s new kindergarten teacher and call their child over to meet her. When they get to the phone, the child comes face to face with a photo of a scary looking adult (which in some cases appear to be mugshots of women deep in the throes of drug addiction, if, in fact, they are real at all). The children are almost always alarmed. Often they cry.
During one of the biggest transitions in their young child’s life (the start of school), these parents have chosen to stoke anxiety rather than provide comfort.
Other recent trends have involved parents in throwing slices of American cheese at their toddlers - or, more recently, unexpectedly cracking a raw egg on their child’s forehead during a joint cooking activity.
Obviously I’m not going to uplift any examples here. But I do want to address the harm these kinds of behaviors create from a developmental perspective.
The years of early childhood are a time during which trust and attachment are (ideally) formed. With love, attention, and responsive caregiving, young children learn that their world is safe. They develop self worth and self esteem. These are prerequisites to both learning and healthy development.
But the key to developing trust is consistency.
And the behaviors in these videos - even if rare and anomalous - serve only to undermine healthy attachment between parent and child. They provide children with data points that suggest their parents can be unexpectedly and arbitrary cruel. They are a violation of hard earned trust.
Some will argue that these are just jokes in good fun. They aren’t. They are the deliberate infliction of trauma, however brief, for the amusement of strangers. It should go without saying that this isn’t good for children.
Please. Don’t. Just don’t.