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Nurse, Activist, Socialist

Campaigner for pay restoration & better conditions for NHS workers. Trade Unionist.

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"Collection of media"

A collection of all the media I have done outside of Twitter

Tv clips & Internet shows, interviews, radio, podcasts etc all in one place

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[Strike Map @strike_map]

Meet @SocialistHB, chair of our joint RCN Congress fringe with @NurseSayNO .

Organise
Strike
Win

18 May| 6pm| @Racquet_Club

FT. @ERunswickBMA , BMA| Paula Dunne, #StrikeMap

RSVP: https://t.co/xW6j2udIyn

#RCN #Nurses #Liverpool

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS NURSE FILED 13 SAFETY WARNINGS. A PATIENT DIED.

Linda Fairhall spent 40 years in the @NHS without a single blemish on her record. She managed a team of 50 district nurses at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust (@NteesHpoolNHSFT).

Praised by the Care Quality Commission for her leadership. Exactly the kind of nurse you want running a department.

Then she noticed something dangerous.

A new policy landed in 2015 requiring district nurses to monitor patients taking prescribed medication. Nobody added extra staff.

The result was 1,000 extra home visits a month on the same stretched team.

Linda filed a safety concern. Then another. Then another. Thirteen in total, each one warning that patients and staff were at serious risk.
Nobody acted.

In October 2016, a patient died. Linda said it could have been prevented if management had listened.

That same month she told her manager she wanted to start the formal whistleblowing process.

She went on annual leave.
She came back to find she'd been suspended.

The grounds?

Vague allegations of bullying and gross misconduct. The tribunal later found that not a single specific allegation had ever been put to her.

The investigation was built on what the judge called "themes" and "perceptions" with no actual examples. She remained suspended for 18 months.

During those 18 months, Linda was still recovering from breast cancer. Her partner died of a heart attack. Her teenage son was unwell. The trust pressed on regardless.

She was sacked in April 2018.

The tribunal found the dismissal was materially influenced by her whistleblowing. Found the investigation inadequate and unreasonable. Found the trust could not genuinely have believed she was guilty of any misconduct.

The trust appealed. The Employment Appeal Tribunal dismissed it in 2021, calling the original findings "unimpeachable."

In May 2022, Linda was awarded £462,612. She will never work as a nurse again.
Forty years of service. Thirteen safety warnings. One preventable death. One destroyed life.

Sources: Hartlepool Mail | Personnel Today | Teesside Live / Gazette Live @TeessideLive | BBC North East | Nursing Times @NursingTimes | RCN Nursing Standard @theRCN | Patient Safety Learning

[[email protected] @NHSActivistRN]

Fully support my @RMTunion comrades.

Its disgusting what they put up with

[Covid Action (Now!) @covidactionuk]

Following the recommendation of the #Covidinquiry there's been explosive news from CATA about the coverup from 2020 on #PPE which still dominates guidance in the #NHS and led to the death of thousands of #HCWs Monday 13th April 6pm Register https://t.co/W19q4uPDlT #Covid #Health

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Im calling it now that wont happen

It would be an utter PR disaster that labour can ill afford

If they aren't careful it will be the majority of NHS by the end of 2026

#doctorsstrike

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The day things will change for NHS care is the day the public get on the streets side by side with staff & demand a better system

A system that provides timely treatment

A system that respects patient dignity instead of leaving them in corridors

The system we used to have!

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@LizallanLiz Is that directed at me or Wes?

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Tell me Wes how does it compare with say .....your pay rises

[Department of Health and Social Care @DHSCgovuk]

"Resident doctors are, by a country mile, the standout winners of the entire public sector workforce when it comes to the pay rises they have received."

@WesStreeting makes clear everything the BMA Resident Doctors Committee have said no to.

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@older_n_weirder It genuinely frightens me too

[[email protected] @NHSActivistRN]

The day things will change for NHS care is the day the public get on the streets side by side with staff & demand a better system

A system that provides timely treatment

A system that respects patient dignity instead of leaving them in corridors

The system we used to have!

[[email protected] @NHSActivistRN]

@ExMomentum_NHS Im actually surprised you disagree with a lot of my posts id have thought we would share a lot of common values in regards to the NHS

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@Jordanriv Exactly Jordan, our work is undervalued.

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Fully support my @RMTunion comrades.

Its disgusting what they put up with

[RMT @RMTunion]

On April 28th, we’re taking a stand against assaults on transport workers.
Download the flyer, display it, and send us your photo. Let’s make this visible everywhere.
#ActionAgainstAssaults
https://t.co/8FSOAriQlv

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@alisonleary1 @TheBMA I did question this too B7 up here generally

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@NHSMillion where have you gone?

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Im calling it now that wont happen

It would be an utter PR disaster that labour can ill afford

If they aren't careful it will be the majority of NHS by the end of 2026

#doctorsstrike

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

Banning doctors from striking hasn’t been ruled out, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said.

Streeting said that taking the right to strike away from doctors is an option but added that the government has “so far” not considered taking that step
https://t.co/7qpsaxplIn

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Absolutely 💯

Once again we are guilty of knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The cost of meeting nurses’ demand for an inflation-busting pay rise: £1.6 billion.

The cost of Rishi Sunak’s bank tax giveaways: £7.3 billion.

If we can afford handouts for the rich, we can afford to meet the basic needs of those who keep this country afloat.

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Well I think I can safely say before cutting staff maybe they should speak to the same staff about where money is wasted in each service.

[Neil Findlay @Neilsocialist]

The Scottish Government wants a 2.5% cut in the number of public sector workers over the next 5 years - so if you are a firefighter, nurse, police officer, teacher, roads worker, librarian, housing officer, prison officer, street cleaner or doctor etc. that might mean you.

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Have to say I'm totally in agreement! It is time to drain the swamp of #NHS failure

Lets guess where I think we should start........sadly Wes doesn't look like he will fit down the plughole.

[[email protected] @NHSActivistRN]

Have to say I'm totally in agreement! It is time to drain the swamp of #NHS failure

Lets guess where I think we should start........sadly Wes doesn't look like he will fit down the plughole.