
Jim Reed
Health Reporter at BBC
BBC health reporter. Was at #VictoriaLIVE, #newsnight, #newsbeat. Dad to three small, screaming children. DMs open or email me on [email protected]
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Jim Reed
Warning over TikTok filming by hospital patientsGetty ImagesPatients who film their own medical treatment for TikTok or Instagram could be putting themselves and NHS staff at risk, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) has warned. The trade union's annual conference heard that more patients were videoing their procedures on mobile phones, often without asking permission. This could distract staff or make them feel uncomfortable and anxious, the society said.
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2 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Jim Reed
'Sempre dizia que meu pai não se parecia com os pais dele - agora descobrimos o porquê'Legenda da foto, O pai de Matthew quando era um bebê, nos anos 1940Article informationAuthor, Jim ReedRole, Repórter de saúde da BBC News O pai de Matthew tinha olhos castanhos e cabelo preto. Já os avós tinham olhos azuis penetrantes. Havia uma piada recorrente na família: "meu pai não se parecia em nada com os pais dele", diz o professor do sul da Inglaterra. Acontece que havia um motivo para isso.
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3 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Jim Reed
We always joked dad looked nothing like his parents - then we found out whyFamily photoMatthew's father, pictured as a baby in the late 1940sMatthew's dad had brown eyes and black hair. His grandparents had piercing blue eyes. There was a running joke in his family that "dad looked nothing like his parents", the teacher from southern England says. It turned out there was a very good reason for this. Matthew's father had been swapped at birth in hospital nearly 80 years ago.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Jim Reed
11 hours agoThe prehensile-tailed porcupette made history at the Fort Worth Zoo. In the early hours of May 17, Fort Worth Zoo in Texas welcomed its first prehensile-tailed porcupine baby. The tiny, fluffy porcupette is an offspring of mom Piper and dad Quilliam. “The porcupette weighed 404 grams at birth, …
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1 month ago |
bbc.com | Jim Reed
Cash to isolate 'would have cut Covid deaths'Covid inquiryDido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemicIf the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said.
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If you read one thing today, read this on failures in acute mental health care and how small things - like understanding need to keep plastic bin liners out of reach - can be so important. By James Melley and Alison Holt who’ve been at trial every day. https://t.co/BTQw8tUcsm

Dido Harding was, as expected, pretty strong today at #covidinquiry on the need for more support for people to self isolate in the pandemic. Said she was frustrated by Rishi Sunak who rejected that argument at “every opportunity” https://t.co/zt1stXRbxr

I’d say this last week was one of more interesting of #covidinquiry so far. Thoughtful testimony from Hancock, Drakeford & Vallance about what went right/wrong with test and trace and what should change. Here’s extended version of Today Programme report. https://t.co/cX6FnVBfrh?