Advice please - patients, doctors, solicitors.
My dad has been waiting for a hip replacement for 81 weeks. Started having a sore hip in March 2023 and promptly saw his GP. The XR showed severe osteoarthritis of his left hip.
The GP could not refer directly to orthopaedics... 1/
I see Boris Johnson’s new book is full of self-serving justifications of his behaviour during #Partygate.
Please read this Guardian letter from 2022 - & never forgive, never forget that man’s reprehensible contempt for the people he governed 💔
Here is a small glimpse into what Covid was really like pre-vaccine!
We are used to death but not at this scale and not in those who were relatively well before hand.
An entire generation of staff scarred and traumatised…
Now they have to plead to have their pay restored, FFS
Thank you to the many thousands of people across the whole of the NHS & social care who helped deliver the care during the pandemic. Has been a strange and difficult day. But felt it was important to give witness to some small part of the enormity of the challenge we all faced.
Can you believe that somewhere in the UK right now there is a uni fresher who is getting ready to start their empty alcohol bottle collection to display out the window of their accom, Godspeed my friend enjoy it whilst it lasts
I still can’t believe we’re prioritising bringing AI into the NHS when patients are still being treated in corridors and cupboards, ambulances still queuing outside A&Es, and 34% of patients with cancer are waiting more than TWO months to start treatment. FFS it’s not complicated
One week ago, on my birthday I gave birth to the most beautiful gift. Yet, this post isn’t anything like I thought it would be. With all the tools I have at my disposal I find myself initiated into a club nobody wishes to be a part of. The thousands experiencing birth trauma 1/5
A GP heckled Sunak at a live presser:
"The NHS is disintegrating.... 2,500 GPs are unemployed because of your policies... 37,000 Gps will not vote Tory... you cannot employ lesser qualified people instead of GPs..."
He then proceeded to laugh at her.
I’ve been doing a rewatch of the seminal 2001 British reality show Popstars and it really was the most unhinged reality show ever seen on British television.
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A difficult watch. More than 60k healthcare workers reported symptoms of PTSD as a result of the pandemic. Sickening to have confirmed what was suspected at the time, that the media narrative was manipulated to minimise the horrific reality on the front line. #BREATHTAKING
@ShaunLintern Let’s hope the investigation looks beyond the triage nurses and hospital systems and assesses this in the context of the systemic harm that political decisions ignoring crowding in EDs is causing.