Shaun Lintern

@ShaunLintern

Health Editor at The Sunday Times. National Press Awards Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Chair of @mjauk. Public interest journalism matters #E17

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5 416Following

130 964Posts total

42.3KViews on collected posts

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Shaun Lintern@ShaunLintern6 Sep

@ShaunLintern This picture below illustrates the problem. These are returned medicines to pharmacy by just one patient and we have plenty more examples across the country. Extending period of treatment to 56 days or 84 days for no clinical reason contributes to medicine wastage 761 views · 6 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Shaun Lintern@ShaunLintern6 Sep

@ShaunLintern It’s not just the NHS. Colleagues in A&Es across the developed world reporting exactly the same. Modern medicine has vastly increased what we CAN do for patients, which has run ahead of society’s conversation / expectations about what we SHOULD do for older people. 102 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Shaun Lintern@ShaunLintern6 Sep

@ShaunLintern I blame successive governments dismantling Bevan's NHS, replacing with American systems designed to deny care, so non drs & overwhelmed services with shrunken capacity choose quick fixes like excessive scans, xrays, drugs instead of investigating why someone is ill. 87 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Shaun Lintern@ShaunLintern5 Sep

Almost 8 million over 50s are taking 5 medicines a day - the threshold for #polypharmacy - About 2.2 million take 10 drugs a day. For frail, elderly patients drugs can have cumulative, harmful effects and the NHS just isn't geared up to tackle the problem: #tomorrowspaperstoday h 6.8K views · 35 likes · 9 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Shaun Lintern@ShaunLintern5 Sep

@ShaunLintern The silver tsunami is already here (it’s not young people queuing in A&E for a hospital bed. We need a conversation about what medicine is trying to achieve for older people. Trying to treat the same as young people leads to unnecessary investigations leading to ove 1.2K views · 36 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Shaun Lintern@ShaunLintern5 Sep

🚨 EXC: An over-prescribing epidemic is sending 1,000 elderly patients to A&E every single day - a consequence of a fragmented NHS unprepared for the ageing silver tsunami heading its way as 468k baby boomers turn 80 this year: https://t.co/owHex6QSd7 33.4K views · 79 likes · 34 reposts · 25 replies Open on X →

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6 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. raggiunge meno persone dei pari, ma le coinvolge molto di più.

Visualizzazioni mediane986questo account924mediana per 10K–100K

Copertura, %1.15%questo account3.62%mediana per 10K–100K

Interazione, %2.25%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 10K–100K	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	986	924	1.07×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	1.15%	3.62%	0.32×
Tasso di interazione	2.25%	1.52%	1.48×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

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Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes53.6%163 in total

Reposts15.1%46 in total

Replies14.5%44 in total

Quotes7.9%24 in total

Bookmarks8.9%27 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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