@cdbirt
here. It’s with great sadness that I announce the death of our brilliant Mum, Wife, Grannie and friend Audrey Birt
She died peacefully surrounded by family after the swift worsening of her cancer
We’re all so sad but take comfort in her love, kindness and passion xxx
Plan B shows Britain is still chasing Covid. Here’s how we can get ahead of it. As always
@devisridhar
talks sense, with a killer punch at the end!
#covid
-19
#leadership
#trust
'Say anything positive about Scotland and it's pro-independence,' says Devi Sridhar looking forward to this. Keep talking truth to power please
@devisridhar
we need that!
I’m voting
#Snpbecause
. I’ve needed
#NHSScot
so much of late and it’s ALWAYS been excellent. From my GP to neurosurgeon and breast cancer care, professional, skilled,compassionate. In know they care about the
#NHSScot
@JeaneF1MSP
@NicolaSturgeon
my family in England are envious
Audrey’s funeral details
⏰ Friday 23rd August - 12:00 (noon)
📌 Warriston Crematorium (full address next tweet)
With a celebration of her life in the Caledonian Hall, Edinburgh Botanics after 1pm.
It will also be streamed (again details below) for those who can’t make it.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well, can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron -
Hi from Audrey’s family quick reminder of the details for those of you coming to, or streaming Audrey’s funeral on friday
⏰ 23/8/24 - 12 noon - Warriston Crematorium, 36 Warriston Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4HW
The service will be streamed for people who can not attend - details👇
I’d like to do a shout out
#FF
for
@cdbirt
who is super knowledgeable on all things poverty related plus honest about the causes and solutions. He’s a nice gentle humour too. I’d say no relation but that’s a lie!
#maboy
#proud
#makingadifference
Looking forward to sharing my book at the Alliance. Very warmed by these words from
@MalcolmChishol1
‘crucial, inspiring’ and including ‘amazing wisdom and helpful advice’ , join us, should be a great session.
#booklaunch
#breastcancer
Shocked at treatment of
@GlasgowPam
. When people can’t believe a disabled woman can be a candidate in an election, we realise huge challenge we have in our society.
#disabled
#attitudechange
Pam is an excellent campaigner on
#disability
, we need her in Parliament!
This piece reinforces so well the message I’ve been emphasising for so long-listen to patient experience. Wishing you well.
@Liz_ORiordan
good article
@JBBC
Great to hear my daughter
@birt_cat
talk so warmly about listening to my old friend
@tommyNtour
. I can never listen to Tommy without shedding a tear. I know she will make an outstanding nurse especially learning about
#whatmatterstoyou
from the best
@ALLIANCEScot
#proud
Just had the privilege of attending a
#whatmatterstoyou
talk by
@tommyNtour
with my fellow 1st yr nursing students at
@EdinburghNapier
. It was inspirational and I’ve headed out to stomp the pavements with the dug and reflect on all you shared Tommy. Thank you 🙏
#nursingstudent
So this van was bringing me a new mobility scooter to try. Seems I’m too wee for that one 😂 Buti did love the message on the van 👏🤣 ‘the best a gran can get’ gave me a real giggle. 😆
‘She is a woman of heart, wisdom and deep life experience, and this book allows you to gain from her guidance and from her inspirational life.’ Thanks Dr David Reilly for these words
@WELjourney
I’m one of the statistics on second hospital stay, very ill with
#flu
and
#covid
plus
#cancer
treatment. Care has been excellent but full on for staff. Only neg.for
@NHS_Lothian
was porter availability and attitudes.
#wearamask
A new ALLIANCE management team: delivering the ALLIANCE vision - Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland. My warm congratulations to
@redmond_kidd
and Susan as joint CO. Hold close those values we shaped and with fresh vision create the next stage
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
- Thomas Merton -
What a great quote, if only all policy could be shaped from that perspective?
@Carer49
Oh Lynn, I’m so very sorry. Your love for him has shone through every tweet you’ve shared with us all. Words aren’t enough but I’m sending love and will donate as you ask to SiS, an organisation who do great work. Thinking of you. Audrey xxx
Audrey’s Blog on living well with disability and breast cancer : Tae a lump thanks to all of you for such kind words and love and the bosies too. I feel the love and support, thank you.
Oh yes…..this👇🏼
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
- Diane Ackerman
Care homes now UK's coronavirus frontline, sector leaders say. Why aren’t the number of deaths in care homes across the whole UK known?
@DrDMacaskill
any thoughts? I know Scotland numbers have been shared.
Just read this quote and wanted to share it in this place where so much anger can be expressed. Interesting insight? Let’s make Twitter a place of kindness too
#BeKind
Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.
- Eckhart Tolle
Maybe I’m sharing too many quotes just now but I really liked this one. That’s so so true.
Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
- Leo Tolstoy -
Are you feeling a bit stressed this morning ( me too), look at this wee scene and imagine accompanying snores. It’s very soothing.
#koshka
#catsoftwitter
This year our partner sponsor for our annual conference 'Our Voice, Our Rights, Our Future' is the
@ABPI_UK
#ALLIANCEConf24
The ABPI work in partnership with governments and the NHS so that patients can get new treatments faster, find out more here:
I’ve joined with
@BreastCancerNow
to call for urgent action to ensure people with secondary breast cancer in the UK receive the best possible treatment, support and care. Will you?
#Unsurvivors
Edinburgh set to cut social care budget despite crisis this is dreadful news for the most ’s nonsense to put extra funds in NHS unless also fund social care properly. We need to fund social care differently! What do you think?
@ThatKerryHudson
A pain specialist said to me, “you’ve suffered enough”, it took my all my strength not to sob. I felt so listened to and heard.
#doctor
#listening
Care home residents 'losing will to live' amid Covid restrictions in England | Social care | The Guardian.
A family member used the word ‘prison’. This frankly is a human rights issue.
@scottishcare
I did it!
#RaceforLife
10k. Despite the long up hill drags I made it in 1:12hrs and
@AudreyBirt
and Andy were there cheering me on at the end! Thanks for all your support, and if you’d like to donate to this amazing cause you can here
@CR_UK
Dying of a broken heart: the pain of care home deaths. A personal reflection. - Scottish Care you are absolutely right about this
@DrDMacaskill
we need a compromise between safety and human need to connect and for love.
@jasonleitch
Thanks Cath, so many wise folk in one room, I was honoured. Hoping my book makes a contribution to all we’ve worked towards over the years.
#compassion
#selfmanagement
wonderful to share it with the very special
@birt_cat
at this start in her career.
So if you have a fancy care does that mean you can park anywhere? Or maybe it just means you are incredibly selfish or stupid?
@WeAreMACS
#droppavement
I had to go out on the road
#unsafeparking
What an excellent job has been done for
@MaggiesCentres
on The Joy of Living. So grateful to have my poem within it. And in good company
@bodHelen
#poetry
do buy it to help people with cancer
Nanci Griffith - It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go via
@YouTube
Nanci I loved the music, powerful messages and your sweet soul. The world is a poorer place today. Thank you for all you gave us, the legacy of songs and the big heart the world really needs.
Delighted to have accepted this new role at
@ALLIANCEScot
this morning - working alongside the amazing
@LWPmakeslinks
&
@alissprogramme
teams and on our innovative digital and sensory impairment programmes.
Thank you
@DrDMacaskill
and Jean. Please pass on our thanks for the care and the love. At the end of this May we recognise this and reward carers properly.
A big shout out to the
#Highland
chocolatey in Perthshire! Your commitment to
#accessibility
is excellent.
#inclusion
staff well trained in a very nifty device to take me up a few stairs on my scooter. My grandson said that was so so very cool! The chocolate is devine btw! 1/2
Thank you for reminding us. What an exceptional speech. Gracious and seeking to heal. It’s good to remember such times. May we see echos of those in the future.
I was in Grant Park in Chicago on election night in 2008, maybe 40m from Obama as he gave that unforgettable speech.
I’d forgotten that, elsewhere that evening, John McCain was giving an even better one.
What a hero. He personified American greatness:
What an excellent webinar and
@DrDMacaskill
on form advocating for care homes to be able to do what they do best. Care and connect. People as partners whatever their care setting. Well done all. Thanks to
@AnneIFICScot
#StayWell
So it’s tomorrow, scooter is charged and nerves jangling. A HUGE thank you to all who have supported us. Please help +donate to Maggie’s, they make a difference every day.
@maggiesedinburg
#culturecrawl
#whyiwalk
please help if you can
Audrey’s Blog on living well with disability and breast cancer : Christmas and Cara the good news is she doesn’t have cancer and we hope will run again on the beach
#dogsoftwitter
Children in care need to be loved, not processed – Fiona Duncan well said
@fionacarereview
respect to all involved, especially to you for giving so much to this.
#CareReview
It was my pleasure and honour to serve on the committee and only sorry my health compromised my ability to carry on. I thank
@LindaBamford151
and all in the committee for the opportunity to serve and send my best wishes to all who carry on with this vital work.
We also recorded our thanks to
@AudreyBirt
who has stepped down from the Committee. Audrey led much of our work on bus, taxi and community transport, and on 'transport to health', in recent years.
Important thread, we shouldn’t be opening up totally anywhere. When will we learn. Covid is a risk as a long term condition too, life changing if not life threatening. We need to take that risk seriously as well.
#COVID19
#LongCovid
THREAD: Where are we in UK with cases, where are we going and should we care?
TLDR: nowhere good, somewhere worse, absolutely yes.
1/24 (yes, I know, another long one. Still worth a read I hope!)
Thank you so much for having me, what better platform could there be to launch my book. I’ve been blessed with good people in my life and it was such a treat to see some of them today.
"There will be better times."
We are delighted to have hosted the launch of
@AudreyBirt
's new book, 'The Journey to Better Times' in the ALLIANCE offices today.
Audrey's book supports people with health conditions, offering guidance to living well with a serious condition.
Coronavirus hits ill and disabled people hardest, so why is society writing us off? | Frances Ryan Let’s get support +advice for vulnerable not relief its not you.
#coronavirus
#COVID19
@jasonleitch
@SalWitcher
thanks for share. We can do more in Scotland?
On my trip to GP I had to go on the road to pass as the yellow ramp was flat to the ground and I couldn’t use the safer pedestrian route. Add in wheely bins , road signs and uncut hedges and I was reminded of why I get exhausted when I’m out and about
@WeAreMACS
🥵
How Scotland is tackling a medical condition that affects nearly a million Scots – Dr Catherine Calderwood
@CathCalderwood1
very welcome focus on neuro conditions. I hope the plan makes the difference to so many
@ALLIANCEScot