NEW: we need to talk about NHS staff retention.
At a time when Britain’s healthcare system is acutely short of workers, *1 in 7* UK-trained doctors are practising overseas. No other developed country is like this, which immediately tells you there’s a problem.
Let’s dig deeper:
nurses, rail workers and posties are trying to ensure we have a functional NHS, a functional railway and a functional postal service after more than a decade of tory privatisation which has left *everything* in this country worse. this is about what we all will have in the future
A private jet produces 10 times the emissions per person as an economy class flight.
World leaders used 400 private jets for #COP26, emitting as much CO2 as 1,600 Scottish people do a year.
Lifestyle changes should start with the rich and powerful.
i’ll never not be awed at the modern miracle of HIV treatment. in one generation, it went from a death sentence to a disease you CANNOT pass on (even through unprotected sex) if your viral load is undetectable. to me, that is a feat near-equivalent to the discovery of antibiotics