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Seema Sharma

@SeemaSharmaUK

Portfolio entrepreneur, guided equally by my head and my heart

Londonseemasharma.co.ukJoined July 2010

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The definition of institutional gaslighting. We’ve always had a 12 hour wait, but let’s scapegoat the junior docs this week.

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@rebeccajoblack

Right: posters up this week at QEH warning patients of 12 hour waits to be seen, referencing junior doctor strikes. Left: a photo I took in the same A&E department in December with no strikes and normal staffing. The NHS is in crisis every day. We have to hold on to our doctors.

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ConservativeDentists

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👏🏼 for becoming #PrimeMinister and leader of

. Access to high quality #dentistry is critical for the health of the nation. We’d love to work with you / new SoS

. Ps We are big supporters and proud that you smashed the glass ceiling.

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Heather Wheeler MP

@HeatherWheeler

Lucky enough to be balloted to ask our new Prime Minister a question at PMQs today – I used the opportunity to ask about more new NHS Dentists and Doctors in South Derbyshire.

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Jamie Wallis MP

This has been an incredibly tough decision. But following my calls for PM to resign on Sunday, I promised to make this decision with the country’s security & stability the only consideration - in doing so it’s clear it simply has to be Rishi Sunak.

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Oh the irony. Our abatement bill is in, no consideration for how cost of delivery is so much higher now

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Replying to @iangordon1959 @healthyopinion and 2 others

Oh the irony

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ConservativeDentists

@SuellaBraverman

Access to #dentistry is a key political issue as seen by recent by-elections. Conservative Dentists (party members) call on the next

leader to

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Saddened to hear this. It’s exhausting to keep fighting discrimination and in my experience it kicks in harder the higher you climb the ladder

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@healthyopinion

Very saddening to read. Expect this is just the tip of the iceberg & reflects a culture that exists across many health orgs, unions, professional bodies and others. Absolutely awful, even more so when most of us know how hard @DrFJameel works. Members will vote with their feet twitter.com/pulsetoday/sta…

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Charlotte Waite

Tooth decay is number one reason a young child will be admitted to hospital, and failure to tackle this backlog will hit those in our most deprived communities the hardest. It is the nation's poorest children who will feel this as they struggle to eat, sleep and study.

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Charlotte Waite

Struggling with @DHSCgovuk's response to damning news on child tooth extractions. Fluoridation & one-off funding pledges will do nothing for the 10s of 1000s needing care in our hospitals now. We need a plan. We've needed one for 2 years. theguardian.com/society/2022/m

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Thanks to everyone who ran the Vitality London 10K today, including CRY’s medical team lead by

Consultants

@MichaelPapadak2

& CRY Trustee

- raising vital funds for the #cryresearch programme #Run4Research

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@Laurenharrhy85

Dentists and the patients are losing here.Only winners are the government as they tighten the screws.Unlike GP surgeries,every single thing you see in a dental practice is funded by the dentist who owns the practice.Less money,more hoops to jump through, everyone suffers

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@Eluned_Morgan “We have given them more money… and a lot of them would rather do private work” many fatigued dentists WANT to work NHS but the broken NHS system will not let them. This is victim shaming

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From my recollection calculators have always been in short supply and head permanently in the sand about NHS Dentistry only ever worked on throughput

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@healthyopinion

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95% Q1 target when there is less than 25% annual working time in Q1 & when activity is rarely evenly distributed in the year; just shows how inexperienced @NHSEngland decision makers are. Close to zero understanding of #NHS #dentistry. Failed #primarycare commissioning

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So true, watching our dentists burn out while trying to hit targets with Covid cases multiplying, staff off, patients cancelling last min.

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@AmandipSidhu01

Replying to @FulhamDentist

There is no healthcare, without self care.

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Shawn Charlwood

A 95% target: NHS dentists have effectively been told to return to 'business as usual'. We’re still working to restrictions, tackling an unprecedented backlog amid staff absences & patient cancellations. This isn't 'living with COVID'. It's setting practices up to fail.

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Officials have now confirmed that NHS dentists will head to work in the morning – the first day of the financial year - with no sense of what’s expected of them. ⤵️ 1/3

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Is anyone else struggling with an overwhelming feeling of #Anxiety right now? We need a group hug 🤗

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The Fulham Dentist

Part of my vast experience as a dentist is being a mum New patient comes in with a 6 month old hoping for a full examination,x rays & a filling Very well behaved baby Temporary dressing placed Everything else has to wait I said Why ? She asked And then the baby started crying

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Onkar Singh Dhanoya

So proud of our Slough MP speaking up for our patients #dentistry

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"The chronic lack of support for dentists now and prior to the pandemic is taking its toll," says @TanDhesi MP For the sake of our patients, Ministers have to turn the page on a decade of savage cuts and failed contracts.

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So true, looking forward to Monday with

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While we are on the topic of truth and integrity and #valentine

is fast approaching. There can’t be love without truth.

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Heart screening for our loved ones is a no brainier with

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Cardiac screening of apparently well and heathy individuals identifies potentially serous cardiac disease in 1 in 300! twitter.com/CRY_UK/status/…

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Such great female role models!

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Rita Chowdhry CEO Savran

Replying to @iglobal_news @Reena_Ranger and @WE_Empowered

Proud of you Leah and @Reena_Ranger you are amazing for supporting and show casing others !

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Happy Chinese New Year 🧧

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@Judith_Husband

Back in the old routine tomorrow

GDPC meeting. Great intro tonight from

@martinwoodrow69

& team. It’s abundantly clear in England complete system reform is urgently needed - the time for tinkering is over #dentistry

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Well said

- “channel your anger & frustration.” You have been a fantastic example to us all over the years. 👏

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@healthyopinion

Replying to

Had to read a pathetic report from

explaining why our practice didn’t have high needs patients, supposedly others nearby had more exempt pts. Sadly shows how out of touch some BSA clinical advisors are with little epidemiology training. Yet this is how decisions are made

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Onkar Singh Dhanoya

Absolutely

The Government has completely disregarded the manpower crisis in dentistry by setting these targets #dentistry

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At @TheBDA Officials Day several years ago, in her address to LDCs, the CDO promised she’d hold feet to the fire. Little did we think the feet would be those of our dental teams. Happy Christmas OCDO.

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It’s impossible. Staff are calling in +ve every day

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@DaveCottamGDPC

Speechless over the new targets for Q4. Currently 5 staff members off ill with at least 2 Covid positive!

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Replying to

A good suggestion on C4 news re finding common rules of travel across the world. 👏

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Prof. Devi Sridhar

I reject the cynical fatalism: ‘there’s nothing we can do about another large omicron wave.’ Our actions matter: wear masks in crowded places, get vaccinated, get tested before socialising, quality> quantity of contacts, get outside. Our micro-behaviours matter. Think of the NHS.

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Omicron is not a 'South African variant', it's a variant that was spotted & reported by brilliant South African scientists so fast the world has a chance to get on top of it. Could have originated anywhere.

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@RebeccaVHarris

On National Dental Nurses Day - thank you to all dental nurses for what you do for patients & the dental team.

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Chris Groombridge

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Dear Eddie, does this include the abatement, which in effect is a charge for the “free PPE”!!! Only being mischievous 😁

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@healthyopinion

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disappointing that your #MouthCancerAction content makes no reference to General #Dental Practitioners and the dental team. Our GP colleagues are already overstretched & we’re better placed to examine the oral soft & hard tissues. So why no mention? twitter.com/NHSuk/status/1

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Agree! Heart sinks looking at the number of orange bags that leave our practice twice a week!!!

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Replying to @JasonWong12

We could ditch half of IPC and HTM 01-05 guidance for a start!

Powerful!

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FIONA ELLWOOD BEM

Thank you to the person who shared this and the creator - sends powerful messages.

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@healthyopinion

#NHS #dentistry in crisis. Spent another day speaking to people from all over the country trying to access #NHS urgent services. Such a postcode lottery with a mix of services. Many places don’t seem to have enough urgent #dental capacity available.

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Watching

on TV, explaining that the dental crisis will get worse “Unless something adventurous is put forward by the government”#dentistry

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Raising awareness is so important. So many families do so much to raise awareness of

and I am always taken back by moments like these, today my sister was sitting in traffic behind a truck & sent me the photo. Thanks to

#wales in memory of Dean

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@healthyopinion

This is almost as much as the entire actual expenditure on #NHS #primarycare #dentistry in England [when you remove the patient charge revenue (NHS co-payment)] Yes despite operating, being fully staffed & incurring new costs, the #NHS actually cut funding to NHS dental services

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Good Law Project

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EXCLUSIVE: Private hospitals were paid over £1.5 billion during the pandemic - but the vast majority of beds reserved were never used. glplive.org/private-hospit

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Just been confirmed to me that this appears incorrect and there is no money been directed to assist the dental backlog so desperate disappointing for those seeking care ⁦

⁩ bda.org/news-centre/pr

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FIONA ELLWOOD BEM

Every service needs both clininical and non-clinical infrastructures, one without the other will quickly come to an end.

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