Salman Waqar

Our latest Ramadan research in ERJOpen is out 🫁

This international collaborative study provides 19 key recommendations for patients with asthma, COPD, ILD, or Bronchiectasis who wish to fast.

Read more via the free open source link: publications.ersnet.org/content/erjo...

“I received verbal abuse walking to work in my scrubs”—how the racist riots of 2024 affected NHS staff Doctors were left feeling angry and unsupported after NHS leaders failed to take the threat of racism and Islamophobia seriously. Annabel Sowemimo and Zosia Kmietowicz report Last summer an estimated...

NHS leaders responded too slowly and too weakly to the abuse levelled at healthcare workers in last summer's riots. “They need to be upfront, call it for what it is, give people practical support, and make sure that zero tolerance means zero tolerance,” @salmanwaqar.bsky.social tells The BMJ

UK Covid-19 Inquiry This is the independent public inquiry to examine the UK’s preparedness and response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and to learn lessons for the future. Help shape the Covid-19 Inquiry's investigations by...

This will focus on the impact of Covid vaccines and therapies on our members and the ethnic minority communities we hail from. Praying that I do our version of events justice 🤲 💪

You can watch it live and on recording through the inquiry YouTube channel: youtube.com/@ukcovid-19i...

Setting off this morning excited and nervous in equal measure to give oral evidence to the UK Covid19 Inquiry, as the founding Co-Secretary of the Federation of Ethnic Minority Healthcare Organisations (FEMHO), who represent over 55,000 health and care workers through 45 networks: FEMHO.co.uk

Yusra Jinaan Foundation - Workshops Supporting Families of Children with Complex Needs and Disabilities

We have two more of these free events coming up in Rochdale (1 Feb) and Birmingham (10 Feb), supported by @islamicreliefuk.bsky.social. Share the link and register on our website: www.yusrajinaan.org/workshops

We've had amazing feedback from our first @yusrajinaan.bsky.social workshop in High Wycombe today with over 20 families who registered to take part at CCC 🥳

Thank you to all the parent carers who came and hopefully benefited from the expert, tailored SLT input around communication skills.

The paper builds on our @britishima.bsky.social Ramadan Compendium, and has an evidence based patient-centred decision making framework that will help those with GI conditions understand any risks fasting during Ramadan

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Delighted to share our latest Ramadan paper in @thelancet.bsky.social G&H journal

This had taken some effort and very grateful to our authorship team and contributors to get this over the line

Please share to help colleagues who are managing these patients: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kQ348nByr...