Alan Simpson 💙 @cityalan Twitter profile

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

Just heard clip of @MattHancock saying they’d have to investigate whether NHS staff that died ACTUALLY contracted Coronovirus through their work. He’s like an insurance company going through the fine print for their get-out clause.

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@cityalan

7 months

I asked Luciana Berger not to give up her mental health role under Corbyn. She did a great job. But I don’t get how someone who worked against Labour, created a rival party and stood for a third party is now welcomed back when they kicked out others for liking Green tweets. 🤷‍♂️

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

In case anyone wonders why professors of mental health nursing tweet about Tory MPs voting against feeding hungry children, it’s because we know the evidence about the impact that poverty and the related stress for parents and children has on development and mental health.

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@cityalan

10 months

Some personal experiences/reflections on the NHS. A week ago Wednesday, I was at work and had just completed two live webinars. 15 minutes later I had acute abdominal pain and nausea. By late evening I had blue light paramedics at my home and was rushed to @KingsCollegeNHS

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@cityalan

6 years

Please don't fret about A Level results. You will find your way. I left school with 4 O levels. Never did A levels. Trained as mental health Nurse; later did a degree; much later a PhD. Now some people call @me Prof. Some people use other words. Things work out. Please don't fret.

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@cityalan

4 years

@RobertLindsay The lead scientist and head of AstraZeneca both went out of their way to talk about team effort and to thank all involved. Hancock gets all nationalist. It’s embarrassing.

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@cityalan

10 months

On Lister ward over 6 days I was nursed with incredible skill, warmth and compassion by some smashing nurses, HCAs and colleagues. I observed much thoughtful care, efficient team working and responsiveness to others with far more complex needs. Huge gratitude to @KingsCollegeNHS

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@cityalan

3 years

The most nauseating thing today was seeing all those Tory MPs tweeting pics of themselves taking a box of biscuits to a hospital or food bank. A combination of hypocrisy and pathetic self-promotion. Yeuk. Thanks to all those who quietly do good stuff. We appreciate you.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

Every year when it’s #WorldMentalHealthDay I feel I should do or say something. After all, I’m a professor of mental health nursing. But I don’t. It’s not a one day thing. It’s an every day thing. Every day we need to do things that help our mental health and that of others...

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

@RoryStewartUK I said he’s got my fish cake She said afraid there’s more He worked once for the party That made working people poor I said he seems a nice chap Beware she said to me D’ya think the devil wears horns When he comes round for his tea?

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

5 years

Well done @afneil for calling out @BorisJohnson on his serious failure and cowardice in not agreeing to be interviewed and for laying out some of the issues he needs to be questioned on. Sadly, I think he will evade his way to power. We deserve much better.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

2 years

@nevster73 @GNev2 My grandsons (9 & 8) took the knee when kicking about in the park. They said it’s what you do and explained why. Thought it was rather lovely.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

Had a packed day today then got home and found @RoryStewartUK in my kitchen. Wouldn’t mind but he had taken a nibble out of one of my fish cakes.

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@RoryStewartUK

4 years

Today I'm launching #ComeKipWithMe - asking Londoners to invite me into their homes and show me the city through their eyes. I want to know your concerns and your ideas. And I promise to bring a sleeping bag and a box of chocolates! Sign up:

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

6 years

After 17.5 great years with @CityUniHealth and @NHS_ELFT I am leaving to take up an exciting new post as Professor of Mental Health Nursing at @KingsIoPPN @KingsNursing @MaudsleyNHS in Feb 2019. Expect more of the same but fewer train-related tweets. Yes that’s you @TLRailUK 1/3

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 months

Mental illness costs England £300bn a year.. We need to re-imagine how society works. We can’t just say ‘more money for mental health services’ - though that IS important. We need to address the social and economic determinants of mental illness.

Mental illness costs England £300bn a year, study shows

Yearly cost to people, business and public sector found to be twice as big as NHS England’s annual budget

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

8 months

@BethRigby Struck me that on @BBCr4today a Conservative minister said they needed to stop infighting and get back to attacking Labour. You’d think they would find a bit of time to address the many problems the country faces.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

@thelibdemcon @sbattrawden I have done similar. Been discussing topical issue and mention I’d read an article recently and then it dawns.... oh yes, you wrote it!

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

Sending a mental health nurse and a paramedic to people in mental distress has dramatically reduced the number taken to A&E in a pilot scheme. [shame about the image]

Mental health nurses can reduce A&E trips, new study finds

Sending a mental health nurse and a paramedic to people in mental distress has dramatically reduced the number taken to A&E in a pilot scheme.

www.hsj.co.uk

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

5 years

Finding it hard to get any work done. I keep having to stand up as doctors pop in.

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@cityalan

10 months

In a packed run-down ED, I was given pain relief and swiftly assessed with heart monitors, ultrasound and MRI scan. My partner and I were treated compassionately and thoughtfully throughout by 99% staff we met. Staff were warm and gave their names and explained their roles.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

10 months

As I woke in the recovery room a surgeon came and told me that all had gone well and the worst case scenarios averted. At home, my partner was phoned by the surgeon to say how things had gone. I was then transferred to the same ward and bed space that my mum occupied 5 years ago!

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

After eating in the subsidised restaurant at the House of Commons, the MP voted against providing food to children who don’t have much to eat. That’s 322 MPs.

holly🍉

@hollyoakleyy

4 years

this is why tories deserve less

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

11 months

A trip to an unfamiliar hospital today to visit a relative rushed in via paramedics and A&E. An incredible range of diagnostic tests, compassionate care, good comms and ice cream/ lollies offered to all. Staff heroic in the heat. A grateful 90 year old says thanks to the NHS.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

5 years

In 1980 I started training as a mental health nurse - one of the best things I’ve ever done. I have learnt so much from service users, carers and many colleagues. I’ve worked in inpatient, community, day hospital, liaison, addictions, education, research and policy. #MHNursesDay

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

10 months

Doctors and nurses took us down corridors to the next test. Surgeons and then anesthetists carefully explained the results and the best to worse case scenarios and risks and recommended immediate surgery. All used accessible language and humour to ease our worries.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 months

@RichardChilee @chikaunigwe I think there’s another angle. Unless you have 99% reason to think theft is involved, assume we have misplaced it. We most often have and it’s a nicer vibe.

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@cityalan

10 months

As they gathered around a laptop, working out how to use the new EPIC IT system, one jokingly reassured me that once inside that room they really knew what they were doing. I was wheeled in and other staff came over to explain who they were and what would happen. I trusted them.

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@cityalan

3 months

How interesting.

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@Lowkey0nline

3 months

It is being reported that the individual standing next to Gideon Falter at the demonstration is actually a key member of Israeli President Isaac Herzog's security team.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

A heartfelt plea below to senior, secure academics to support their junior, insecure colleagues on the picket line. It got to me too today, when once again I saw my young brilliant colleagues out in the cold and rain. And not a senior staff member in sight. Support #UCUstrike

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

6 years

At last some good news! Nurses to get 32 per cent pay rise due to staff shortages, high workload and low morale. Some set to get pay boost of a massive £60,000 a year. Fantastic. What’s that? Oh. My mistake. It’s Judges. Must get my ears checked.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

10 months

A team of surgeons and anesthetists was quickly assembled. Nurses prepared me in a bed; wrist bands attached and checked multiple times for safety. A nurse skillfully maneuvered my bed down narrow corridors to the door of the operating room. The team all introduced themselves.

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@cityalan

5 years

I’m off to vote. As a mental health nurse, I have seen the devastating impact the Tory government’s policies have had on NHS, local authority and voluntary services, on welfare support for those most in need, and schools. I will vote Labour for hope and a better future for all.

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@cityalan

4 years

@rwjdingwall @MattHancock That may or not be so (and difficult to know when so little testing) but right in the midst of your staff working long difficult often traumatic hours (too often with inadequate protection) is not the time to be saying ‘well, they might have got it in Tescos’. In my view.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

I am going to retire from Twitter. Today, one of punning jokes was retweeted by @MichaelRosenYes . It doesn’t get much better than that.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

@mariacaulfield @MarkHayter1 @MattHancock I’m pleased you feel you have protection. If you are talking about the flimsy mask and apron in the picture, this is not the level of protection required and often not available to other staff doing more risky levels of work. This has been reported by very senior NHS leaders.

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@cityalan

1 year

Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are increasingly being used on mental health inpatient wards. What do service users and staff think about that? This study recruited 24 patients and 25 staff from 5 NHS Trusts, 6 MH Nursing Directors, and 9 service users via Twitter to find out. 1/6

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@cityalan

3 years

The delights of a long drive: listening to govt ministers giving circuitous nonsensical answers about #LateralFlowTest being central to govt policy and that if none are available at chemists go online but if none there go to chemists cos it’s important to do #LateralFlowTest

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

6 years

Today my 4 year old grandson said, ‘Do you know what month it is?’ ‘October’ I replied. ‘No, it’s Black History month’ he said, with a smile. Love it.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

@George_Osborne @EveningStandard Shame you didn’t stand with us when chancellor, cutting all our services which are now inadequate.

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@cityalan

4 years

If you are wondering how to make sense of the sums being offered to Manchester, whether £22million or £60 million, maybe start by comparing it with the £53 million Boris Johnson wasted on NOT building a bridge with some trees on it when he was London Mayor

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@cityalan

5 months

Not really into named days but realised it’s 40 years since I started out as a qualified mental health nurse after 3 years training in an old hospital. It remains a privilege even as the context has become tougher than ever. #MentalHealthNursesDay

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@cityalan

4 years

It is very difficult to challenge this stuff at a time of national crisis. But our wonderful nurses and their colleagues have been drawing on deep reserves and going the extra mile for a long, long time. They work long shifts, don’t take breaks, miss training and more. 1/3

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@NursingTimes

4 years

Hancock asks nurses to draw on 'deep reserves' to face Covid-19

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@cityalan

2 years

I can not tell you what it feels like when you are working your socks off reading and commenting on student dissertations, editing PhD applications, managing research, writing a bid, etc and your employer takes all your strike deductions in one go. @KCL_UCU

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@cityalan

2 years

Listening to Theresa Coffey on her A, B, C, D plan and wondering how long before we get to M for mental health, where services are stretched through failure to address a long-term staffing crisis.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

5 years

I had an X-Ray yesterday. On the NHS. Free. I checked in, changed into my gown, had the x-ray, changed and walked out. Obviously I said thank you. In and out in 5 minutes. Results in 4 days. No queue. No fee. We are so fortunate. Thanks NHS and @KingsCollegeNHS

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

9 months

Incredibly pleased that @LizzyTuudah today successfully defended her PhD Viva. Huge achievement plus having worked through the pandemic. Congratulations and thanks to @SaraDonetto for supervision and @unafoye for support. Thanks @D10Coff and @OchiengBM for great viva.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

This blog on SIM/HIN is excellent. It’s a quite long thoughtful critique of the approach, carefully explaining why it’s a flawed, damaging model. I share these views.

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@velouria66

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

Mary Agyeiwaa Agyspong. I’m so sorry.

NursingNotes

@NursingNotesUK

4 years

It is with great sadness we announce that yet another member of our nursing family, Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong, has sadly died from COVID-19. She is survived by her newborn daughter.

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@cityalan

5 years

@marcusryder @DrAnneMurphy I was just musing over the total lack of acknowledgement of racism in this by all the commentators.

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@cityalan

1 year

How to kill goodwill and keep it killed. Force staff to strike (and lose pay) over several years to get pension cuts reversed; then make savage salary cuts out of proportion to time on marking boycott over pay levels and work conditions. Universities eh?! @ucu #ucuRISING

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

5 years

A new paper out from our team today. Well done @unafoye and all. Activities on acute mental health inpatient wards: a narrative synthesis of the service users' perspective

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@cityalan

1 year

@SteveBarclay @theRCN Mr Barclay. With respect, nurses frequently work in situations that put their code of conduct in jeopardy. It’s part of the reason they are taking action. This will fuel the loss of nursing staff from the NHS. Is that your plan?

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

6 years

Good news that school children will receive mental health education. Hope they understand the complexities of social determinants, inequalities and mental health. Could make for a fantastic future.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

... and every day we should advocate, argue, and agitate for policies that promote mental health and against all the horrendous stuff that causes anxiety, depression, trauma and mental distress. Every day. That’s what I try to do. Mental health is political as well as personal.

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@cityalan

6 years

We submitted a research funding application today. If you’ve never done that, you would be astonished at the amount of work that goes on to bring it about. Real teamwork. Thanks to everyone involved. @CityCMHR @NHS_ELFT

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@cityalan

4 years

I’m afraid @MattHancock ’s response to #Marmot2020 suggests he does not get it. This far more than the NHS. This is the core fabric of our communities and society.

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@cityalan

4 years

@E91_Cowbridge @nchadborn @paullewismoney Tick Tack and Trace?

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@cityalan

4 years

Surely one of the biggest failures in all this has been the near total lack of planning or attention given to the protection of staff and residents in care homes. It perhaps reflects the general lack of concern for this part of the health economy.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

1 year

@EmmaSzewczak Complete with QR code for orders?

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 months

A few thoughts on journal paper reviewers. We have just completed some pretty large edits on a paper in response to a reviewer’s comments. It will improve the paper significantly, which is great and appreciated. Thank you. 1/10

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@cityalan

4 years

I see the racism in USA with rage, sadness and despair. I’m also acutely aware of racism in the UK, including in the sectors I work in. I will always try to be alert to this, call it out when I am aware of it, and support others working against racism.

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@cityalan

5 years

Thinking about what Rees-Mogg said. Apart from the superior common sense angle, he’s also saying in an extreme emergency, if the emergency services tell you to do something, you should just ignore them. Does his common sense apply to terrorist situations too? #ReesMoggResign

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@cityalan

3 years

Going to see my baby boy today. He’s 40. Neither of us are quite sure how that happened but I am so very happy it did.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

5 years

NEW! After a year’s work with a lot of smashing people, here is the Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults - good to see this launched. NHS England » The community mental health framework for adults and older adults

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@cityalan

5 years

Came across this book today. Looks like a useful way to encourage children thinking about their mental health.

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@cityalan

10 months

@simonharris_mbd And whatever the reasons being given, other countries appear to build railways perfectly well.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

If you are working in mental health services, in any sector or capacity, please help us to provide rapid evidence on what's helping and what's not re COVID-19. Please complete and RT the survey. Thanks @MentalHealthPRU #COVIDMentalHealth

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@cityalan

5 years

@the_tpa @MattHancock @NHSEngland I’m a bit unclear who this group is? In all my published research I am required to declare all funding and any conflicts of interest, which I happily do. I’m also subject to rigorous review at numerous stages. Who funds @the_tpa please?

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@cityalan

4 years

Activities on acute mental health inpatient wards: A narrative synthesis of the service users’ perspective

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 months

@damien_page We find this in our nursing students especially. So many are juggling other commitments, travelling long distances and battling with poverty. Huge respect to those who also study, work in clinical placements and get through.

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@cityalan

4 years

We are recruiting or two people to work with us researching service user and staff views on the use of body-worn cameras in mental health wards. One post is for a lived experience researcher. Please take a look if interested:

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

Very sadly, today was the funeral of my former colleague and lovely man Stan Mutsatsa, who died from Covid-19 The last time proper I was with Stan was on a picket line protecting our pensions. He will be greatly missed by his family, friend and colleagues.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

Pleased to be starting our qualitative study on service user and staff views on body-worn cameras in acute mental health units (after pandemic postponement). Team up and running and this week had our first meeting with new lived experience advisory panel.

Body Worn Cameras on Inpatient Mental Health Wards

Body worn cameras are mobile audio and video devices that can be secured to various parts of the body allowing the wearer to record what they see and hear.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

A very strange feeling when this appears in your timeline. I’m grateful for the opportunities I have had and, after talking to someone today, realise how tough it can be to build research careers. We must do more to provide security and development for early career researchers.

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@MHRIncubator

3 years

In his career, Alan Simpson has had a lot of opportunities for professional development on his journey from Community Mental Health Nurse to Professor of #MentalHealthNursing @KingsCollegeLon . Thank you @cityalan ! 👉

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

5 years

Thanks for everything @NHS_ELFT #ElftAwards You are all stars.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

Had a big research meeting today. Even those not involved in the @ucu industrial action were considerate and sympathetic. Very difficult feeling you are letting others down but know your actions are necessary and right. #UCUstrike But it’s not easy.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

2 years

I bet it’s the referencing and formatting that’s doing Sue Grey’s head in. I said to her, ‘Sue, don’t leave the references til the last minute’. Did she listen? So, I said, ‘Maybe don’t bother with it’.

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@cityalan

1 year

Yesterday, the @MentalHealthPRU had a great #MHPRUfestival . Today we can announce that we have been commissioned for a second 5 year programme of research. We are very pleased that we have this opportunity - with some new partners - to continue this important work. @soniajohnson

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@KingsNursing

1 year

Congratulations to Professor Katherine Sleeman @kesleeman & Professor Alan Simpson @cityalan who have been awarded @NIHRresearch funding to tackle important long-standing and emerging health and social care issues in #PalliativeCare and #MentalHealth

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@cityalan

2 years

It’s not like we have a huge shortage of nurses or anything

Mictin #ReduceILRFee

@MictinP

2 years

NHS nurse applying to remain in the UK has to pay £2,389 - But the cost to the Home Office 4 processing ILR application is £243 — fee is 10X the actual admin cost How can a £2389 fee justified? #OverseasNHSWorkersDay Pls sign &RT #StopchargingX10

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@cityalan

2 years

Back in work, pension in tatters. More goodwill destroyed 😕 @KCL_UCU @ucu # #UCUstrikes

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@cityalan

5 years

@dmwhampshire All good. I guess that’s the sort of stuff the protesters are trying to get us to think about. I work next to that bridge. The road there has criminal levels of air pollution. It’s killing us, making us ill and damaging our children’s ability to learn. #ExtinctionRebelion

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3 months

The sad thing is, the depletion of mental health services mean we increase the risk of small number of mentally ill people doing horrendous things. We also fuel the stigmatisation of the vast majority of people with mental illness who are never violent but really do need support.

Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 months

String of killings have put spotlight on adequacy of mental health care in UK

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

5 years

Our new paper: Somebody else’s business’: The challenge of caring for patients with mental health problems on medical and surgical wards .

“Somebody else’s business”: The challenge of caring for patients with mental health problems on...

What is known on the subject? People with mental health problems have higher rates of physical health concerns and hospital admissions than those without mental health problems. These patients ha...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

In light of MPs voting against protecting the title nurse for qualified nurses only, I shall be adopting the title Member of Parliament. @alisonleary1 @DawnButlerBrent 🙂

Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙

@DawnButlerBrent

3 years

The government could have voted for the amendment to protect the title of nurse and make any amendments as secondary legislation. It's such a shame @alisonleary1

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

We are looking to employ a part-time research assistant to work with us for 18 months evaluating a new project. Full details here.

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@cityalan

4 years

@mariacaulfield @MarkHayter1 @MattHancock I fear you have misunderstood my point. The equipment you have may well be suitable for your needs. My point was that many doctors, nurses, etc have expressed concerns that there is a shortage of higher level PPE where required.

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@cityalan

1 year

I’m not too keen on special ‘days’ but my respect and thanks to mental health nurses working collaboratively, sensitively, skilfully, respectfully, empathically on wards, in the community, in prisons, in primary care, in education and research.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

6 years

I've it said before, I'll no doubt say it again. I researched and wrote about these dreadful, expensive out of area placements in 2000 and the impact on continuity of care and NHS costs. 18 years on and we still do it.

Mental health patients still sent hundreds of miles for treatment

Despite government promises to end practice, figures show almost no change since 2016

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

Thanks to any and everyone that has engaged with me here, whether on mental health, nursing, policy, politics, occasional footy, music and the odd bit on nonsense. It’s been a heavy year for many. I thank you all for your loveliness. Here’s to a sunny 2021.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

6 years

Last official day at @CityUniHealth today before I start at @KingsIoPPN @KingsNursing next week. Too many people to name in a tweet but it’s been a genuine pleasure working with some wonderful people in @CityUniHealth and @NHS_ELFT They make a difference. 👏🙏💘

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@cityalan

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Well I forgot the photo of me posting the ballot paper. But our pensions have been needlessly pilfered, our relative pay continues to drop, workload rises, and too many staff are on insecure contracts. So, regretfully, it’s yes for me. #ucuRISING @ucu @KCL_UCU

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

We are growing ⁦ @KCL_UCU ⁩ ⁦ @ucu ⁩ #oneofusallofus

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Safewards: Has Enthusiasm Exceeded Evidence? This review concludes @Safewards reduces conflict events and containment measures and may influence ward climate in general mental health wards. + recs for research

A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Safewards: Has Enthusiasm Exceeded Evidence?

Safewards is intended to be an evidence-based approach to reduce levels of conflict and containment in mental health inpatient settings. A systematic review was carried out to examine whether Safew...

www.tandfonline.com

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

We are recruiting for a Lived Experience Research Assistant to work with us on an interesting qualitative study on the use of body-worn cameras in inpatient mental health wards. Mainly remote working:

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

With a heavy heart I post my #ucu votes for industrial action as staff pay, pensions and conditions continue to deteriorate. #uss ⁦ @KCL_UCU ⁩ ⁦ @ucu ⁩

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

6 years

Very good news re MPs pay. Well deserved. Have been blown away by reports of them trudging miles through snow, working 13 hour shifts, sleeping on floors overnight to be in work next day. Nurses must be very happy knowing they will be next in line for a pay boost.

Paul Lewis

@paullewismoney

6 years

MPs to get 1.8% pay rise taking salaries to £77,379, which is 17.7% higher than when austerity began and rest of the public sector had severe pay restraint.

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

3 years

My eight year old grandson taught me backstroke today. Ain’t that great?

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

4 years

So, are we all agreed the whole lot of them need to resign? #sackthegovernment

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

7 years

It struck me tonight that many of those older people sat in ambulances, in A&E, waiting for beds, anxiously waiting for the ambulance to arrive before they die, are those who have paid into the welfare state and NHS for very many years. Shocking they are let down now. #NHSCrisis

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Alan Simpson 💙

@cityalan

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Mental health patients and staff have complex perspectives on controversial body-worn camera technology. @thekeiranwilson @unafoye @maddych4dwick @gbrennancafc Funded by @maudsleycharity and @KingsNursing 6/6 Read the full open access paper here:

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