Le Jacques de toutes les parades

Estamos en manos de chiflados. Warte bis der Schotte kommt. We a’ sall thegither ding the fell gallows o the burghers doun. Cite Black Women.

[Le Jacques de toutes les parades @JacquesGalois]

@j_t_palmer To be fascist is an admission of failure. They want to force the world to march because they fear they cannot dance.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

The DUP propped up Theresa May's minority Tory government. The conviction of its former leader on 18 child sex abuse charges including rape deserves at least as much coverage as the Daily Mail gave to Peter Murrell's embezzlement of £400,000 from the SNP.

[Disability Rights @TalkThatTalk_K]

Your personal reminder that Pat McFadden is the grifter who claimed £40k in taxpayer money to have a second residence closer to work.
How much closer, you ask?
Right next door to his existing home. Yes really.

(And that rent will have increased since the article below was published a couple of years ago now)

[Dr Melissa Ryan 🦀 @Melissa_S_Ryan]

Performing a medical task requires more than knowing how & when to do it. It requires knowledge of what not to do and when to ask for help.

We don’t recommend that PAs perform LPs, amongst others. Medicine cannot be broken down into tasks. Some things require a medical degree

[@medicalmodelwithabriochebun @medicalmodelbri]

There’s only ONE question I’d be asking

WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO IMPLEMENT THE @lengreview RECOMMENDATIONS ?

If he can’t even keep his word to make sure that patients safe from physician assistants then he can’t keep his word to the country as PM

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

DWP Fraud & Error Statistics just published for 2025-2026

Shows: 93.2% of Universal Credit claims are legitimate (6.8% fraud) & 98.6% PIP claims are legitimate (1.4% fraud)

Whilst Unclaimed Eligibility within the system is £3.7 billion & Unclaimed Support overall is £24 billion

[Sophia Edwards 💙 @sophia_edw28123]

Freezing GP training expansion during an NHS workforce shortage is reckless.

Patients already face long waits for appointments, and delaying new GP posts risks worsening access to care when the system urgently needs more frontline doctors.
#WesStreeting
https://t.co/5HSYA3yieB

[Dr Matt Prescott @mattprescott]

This means the UK GOVERNMENT is withdrawing access to NHS DOCTORS and hoping most people don't notice until it directly affects them.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

The spread of "We have to prevent panic at all costs" as a memetic contagion is remarkable.

We're at the point where we routinely have worse outcomes- including mass deaths, due to a nebulous fear of panic, which is just accepted as the worst possible outcome. "Better people die than be scared".

Greater deaths are a reason to avoid fear, you don't choose greater deaths to avoid fear itself. Not every place is a crowded stadium or movie theater.

https://t.co/X7HWUZDnWD

What exactly is the "panic" the UK is so afraid of, if they, at a minimum, provisionally advise wearing a respirator at least until complete contract tracing has been done? Crushed in a stampede to Boots?

Or do they mean "people might be less likely to go out shopping and dining"? It sounds like they are afraid of spreading judicious caution that might slightly cost the capital class, not panic.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

This letter is important but only a small win for patients

No targets - means if there appears to be it can be challenged

Right to refer means Jess’s rule applies

Named A&G means legal accountability but GPs can decline

Onward referrals

Raising concerns - everyone must do it

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS FIRED A NURSE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT DYING PATIENTS

Graham Pink was a 57-year-old night charge nurse at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport. He looked after 23 severely ill elderly patients at a time. On his ward, there was one qualified nurse and two healthcare assistants. That was it.

He said the patients he cared for had survived the Second World War. They deserved better than this.

So he did what you're supposed to do. He wrote letters. To his managers. To the hospital. To his MP. He asked for three more nurses per night. Three. The request was refused because, and this is real, it would set a precedent for other hospitals.

God forbid.

When his letters ended up on the front page of The Guardian in 1990, Stockport Health Authority (@StockportNHS) sacked him for breaching patient confidentiality. The patients whose neglect he was exposing, apparently, had their confidentiality to think about.

The Health Minister at the time was asked in Parliament whether he'd congratulate Pink for his courage. He said no. He said Pink's allegations weren't supported by colleagues or clinicians. Classic.

Pink fought a five-year tribunal battle. He won in 1993. The Health Authority pulled out before it could get worse for them, claiming the legal costs were too high. They awarded him £11,188. The maximum allowed. Then didn't reinstate him. His nursing career was finished.

His lawyer called it a triumph for those whose priority is care for patients over those whose first care is for balance sheets.

Pink went on to campaign for proper whistleblower protection. His case was cited in Parliament when the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 was being drafted. The law that was supposed to stop this happening again. The law that still gets ignored on a regular basis.

He wrote a book about it in 2013. He died in 2021, aged 91, cared for by nurses who told his family it was an honour to look after him.

The system that punished him is still running.

Source: The Guardian, Wikipedia, Nursing Standard,

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

How did a £1 emergency pandemic deal quietly turn into a £330m "Shadow Contract"?

We’ve spent years investigating the elite networks and secret deals behind Palantir.

The full 4-episode podcast investigation is now live. Listen now 👇
https://t.co/YoCZoUP7E9

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

The right to trial by jury is an important factor in the delicate balance between the power of the state and the freedom of the individual. The further it’s restricted, the greater the imbalance - those are not my words they are the words of Keir Starmer

[Arun Baksi @ArunBaksi]

Primary care minister refuses to rule out non-doctors rejecting GP referral
https://t.co/kfFfUAQHHz

It is simply absurd and illogical that a PA could reject a GP referral.
This must stop

[Barnaclebum6 @barnaclebum6]

So much for #UKLabour 'Encouraging' the long-term Sick & Disabled into work.....
Its clearly only ever been about slashing #Welfare.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

If we want better healthcare then we have to fund it.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Biobank data is supposed to be safe, unable to link to specific people. But there is clear evidence that it can be linked.

Another reason to prevent Palantir’s future involvement in the NHS

No data is entirely encrypted when there is so much information

[Richard Chapman @SelsdonChapman]

The House of Lords has done a great service to vulnerable people & the country by exposing the flaws in the Terminally Ill Adults Bill. Their scrutiny has protected us from a dangerous assisted suicide law. For MPs to use the Parliament Acts now would be misguided & reckless.

[Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cv_cev]

"A success story, yes. But for whom?"

The UK Covid Inquiry just called the vaccines & therapeutics rollout a triumph.

Meanwhile:
→ 5M antivirals binned
→ UK denied immunocompromised people suitable protection
→ u5s never offered a vaccine
https://t.co/lXzmYIc3sy

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

THE INSPECTOR WHO INSPECTED TOO HONESTLY

Dr Shyam Kumar @ukorthopod is an orthopaedic surgeon. A good one. Unblemished record. So the Care Quality Commission (@CareQualityComm) recruited him as a part-time inspector to help hold NHS hospitals to account.

He took the job seriously. Too seriously, it turns out.

Between 2015 and 2019 he raised concerns about botched hospital inspections, a bullying culture inside the CQC itself, and a surgeon at Morecambe Bay whose hip replacement on an elderly patient left her unable to walk.

He asked the CQC to review that surgeon's cases. He was told the trust did not want to do so for reputational reasons.

A Royal College of Surgeons review later found problems with 26 out of 46 of that surgeon's operations.

The CQC's response to Kumar? They called his concerns fanciful. They dug for dirt on him. Then they sacked him.
In September 2022 a Manchester Employment Tribunal ruled he had been unfairly dismissed.

The tribunal found his safety disclosures had directly influenced the decision to get rid of him. The judgment noted that CQC officials spent their energy gunning him down rather than focusing on patient safety.

He was awarded £23,000 for injury to feelings.

Not damages for a ruined career. Not accountability for the officials who ran the smear operation. Just £23,000 and a declaration.

The CQC issued a statement saying it had learnt from the case and improved its processes. A decade earlier it said exactly the same thing after the Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry found it had victimised its own whistleblowers then too.

The system that was built to protect patients ran a seven-year campaign against the man raising the alarm.

Then it said sorry and carried on.

Source: @BBCNews, The Guardian, BMJ, Westminster Confidential (@davidhencke)