This performance right here from @SKinnock and these gimmicks promoted by the sneering @wesstreeting are why I will not lend my vote to Labour again. Sorry @CalvinBailey and @CannHallCllr but only SL gets my vote from now on.
Your GP says you should see a hospital specialist for your condition
Labour’s new Single Point of Access now decides whether that GP referral goes through
They have a target to "redirect" 25% of referrals
I wanted to know: who is making that decision?
I asked the Minister 👇
Does anyone ever actually reply to those spam emails that say something like "Hi, I've just come across your website which I think is rubbish, but if you'd like to pay a complete stranger a ton of money I will fix it for you"?
The BMA seems surprised that if they reject the deal on offer and go on strike their members don’t get what the Government is offering.
We have time before Easter weekend to resolve this dispute.
A deal on jobs and pay is on the table.
@Keir_Starmer 👇🏻
https://t.co/GczbMXdePw
@DrLKVaughan At my last GP appointment AI gave me a condition I've never been diagnosed with. How's that for accuracy.....and the GP didn't correct it.
"One of Us" was ABBA's final parting single - so we've adapted it into a 🎶 parody we're calling "Exodus" to reflect on the urinary trickle of Tory departures to Reform UK, most notably two driplets from the bottom of the last government's barrel @RobertJenrick & @nadhimzahawi.
When I was five, I started school. I was bright eyed and bushy tailed. I had loved nursery and I was excited to learn about the wide world out there in Big School.
Pretty soon, that changed. It turned out that the big wide world was a classroom, and that my role there was to sit on my bottom. It turned out that the other children hadn’t yet learnt to read, whilst I had, and so a lot of my time was spent watching them sitting on the carpet reading Roger Red Hat while I was sat at a table with a Words Folder to write stories. The carpet looked more fun.
Then it turned out that one of the other children didn’t like the fact that I could already read, and she would pinch me when the teacher wasn’t looking. The playground was big and concrete and the hall was echoey and smelly. It turned out that my lunchbox was wrong too and so were my clothes. The oldest children seemed like grown ups to me, looming over me in the playground.
I didn’t like it. I started saying so. I didn’t want to go to school. I wanted to go back to nursery where I had loved the teachers and all the activities on offer. That wasn’t an option. I was five-years-old now, far too big for nursery.
I wasn’t alone. Thousands of children start school and then things start to go wrong. The problems are often subtle – but what happens next isn’t so subtle. Parents are told to make home less fun, so that their children choose school out of boredom. Or they’re told to force their children in, so they don’t get the idea that school is a choice.
Both of these options can make things worse.
When a child starts saying they don’t want to go to school, what happens next is crucial. That's what I'm talking about in my webinar on Monday Jan 26th. Please share if you know parents who might benefit. https://t.co/vpvOJDy5PP
"Battle Hymn of the Republic" is not a song to be taken on lightly ... but in light of this week's New Year Trumpian news onslaught, we're sharing this adaptation, called "Battle Hymn of the Empire" - as Trump goes marching on, and dragging us all back to the nineteenth century.
We’re bringing the health service into the 21st century with NHS Online, starting with conditions with the longest waits for treatment.
Getting healthcare will be as easy as ordering a cab or takeaway.
How it should be in an NHS fit for the future.
https://t.co/WM0BBjwDTG
My primary critique of psychoanalysis is that it avoids teleology...and this is the reason therapists and patients with a humantistic/existential bent tend to resist it.
Freud committed his movement and all his descendants to:
1. Enlightenment materialism
2. A world without intrinsic meaning
3. A psyche without intrinsic direction
4. A modernist suspicion of metaphysics
5. A scientific posture that rejects final causes
Given those commitments, the only remaining structural principle is privation, which is what Freud really means by castration.