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[Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍 @Anna_Soubry]

No one should be celebrating what seems certain to be the imminent departure of #Starmer & arrival of our 7th PM in 10 years
Something has gone horribly wrong in British politics. Stability & competence were key parts of what made us a great country.
Poorer quality politicians, the cheapening of political debate (in part social media but also MSM) & rise of so called populism led to #Brexit & the decision to leave #EU just exacerbated the demise of competent Govt, sensible politics & decent politicians.

[Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn]

There is an escape route for Labour from certain disaster at the general election: use their Commons majority to ram through PR. It’s cynical, + they’d never govern alone again, but it locks Reform out of No10. The left (Lab, Gr, LD) still have a majority over the right in the UK

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

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[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS FIRED ITS OWN WATCHDOG

Professor Narinder Kapur (@Narinder_Kapur) spent 13 years at Addenbrooke's Hospital (@CUH_NHS) building one of the UK's first Memory Aids Clinics. He was past-president of the British Neuropsychological Society. He had written award-winning papers on patient safety. He had raised concerns about unqualified staff in neuroscience clinics on 13 separate occasions over seven years.

So naturally, Addenbrooke's sacked him.

It was December 2010. His line manager had never managed a clinician before in her life. Letters of appreciation from patients and staff were handed to the panel and ignored. The Trust then threw in fraud allegations for good measure. The Employment Tribunal later condemned those allegations as, in their words, a most unsavoury incident.

In 2012, the Tribunal ruled the dismissal unfair. It found 18 separate points of criticism against the Trust. The very act of standing up to management was listed as a reason relations had broken down.

Not an apology has ever come from Addenbrooke's. Not one person held responsible.

Meanwhile, patients continued to be seen by unqualified staff. The concerns Professor Kapur raised were vindicated by an internal report that management had kept secret from him throughout his own disciplinary hearing.

He has since become one of the most important voices in @NHS whistleblower reform.

He proposed Amin's Rule, calling for an independent second opinion before any NHS staff dismissal, inspired by Nurse Amin Abdullah who burned himself to death outside Kensington Palace in 2016 after his own kangaroo court dismissal.

He has won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Psychological Society. He campaigned for the very protections the NHS still refuses to put in law.

The system fired him. The profession honoured him. The NHS learned nothing.

Source: abetternhs_com | ajustnhs_com | @Narinder_Kapur | @CUH_NHS

[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)

[Dr Luke Evans MP @drlukeevans]

https://t.co/pQ6nX5kXRd

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

Peter Thiel in 2009: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." Palantir is ready to dismantle both. Here's a breakdown of its little manifesto:

[Dr David Berger BSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACGP-RG DTM+H @YouAreLobbyLud]

On the first day of my medical house job in 1991, the registrar said to me: "You will quickly start to think you're irreplaceable. You're not. Remember that. If you get hit by a bus tomorrow, the consultant will look round and say 'Didn't we used to have a house officer? Get me another one!'"

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Any broadcaster airing Wes Streeting on the future funding of the NHS should, for transparency, also show the people and companies linked to private health who are paying him to say it.

[Marc @Marc29124]

@RichardSha91324 @IndieAnalogue Standard English isn’t Scotland's native tongue; it was institutionally mandated via the 1872 Education Act to suppress Gaelic and Scots. You're confusing linguistic imperialism with an indigenous origin. It’s like calling Spanish "native" to Mexico.

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

No big fan of Tucker Carlson but I love the way he completely and utterly exposes the dirty tactic of calling anyone who opposes genocide, aggressive wars or is critical of Israel, an antisemite. It’s failed and it’s disgusting. Anyone who continues to head in that direction has no right to call themselves a journalist - they are propagandists for a genocidal state.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Thank you Tucker Carlson

I am one of those many Jews who vehemently oppose the criminal & genocidal actions of Israel

For YEARS we have been smeared as antisemites (yes, even though we are Jews)

I thought YOU had more integrity than this @vicderbyshire

[The Crispin Flintoff Show @CrispinShow]

ANTI-SEMITIC SMEAR CALLED OUT ON THE BBC!
@TuckerCarlson to @vicderbyshire
'I've been in the business longer than you and I know what a slur looks like - and you're attempting to call me an anti-Semite in a passive aggressive way.'

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

🇪🇸🗣️ Spanish journalist Guillem Balague: "Remember the following next time someone tells you La Liga is behind.... La Liga just showed us its 24/25 numbers. A record €5.464 billion in total revenue. A record 17.4 million fans in grounds. €70 million profit before tax. Squad costs held at 70% of income. A league that lives within its means, but also one that is growing as well."

"Here’s what really doesn’t get said enough, although it might not be fully surprising. La Liga leads Europe in academy player market value. €1.46 billion. Ahead of the Premier League. Those players represent 26.6% of LaLiga’s total market value. In England? 9.7%."

"La Liga academy players play nearly 20% of all minutes in the league. In England, 13.5%. This is a league that develops talent, trusts it, and builds on it. 91% of those academy players are Spanish."

"The Premier League is a financial phenomenon. Of course it is, no one is pretending otherwise. But it spends more than double what it earns. Has been doing so for seven years. That should be worrying."

"A league that turns a profit, fills its stadiums, and leads Europe in growing its own? It sounds to me like it is a good way to run football."

"Things to improve: refereeing, VAR, the behaviour of fans (LaLiga has been fighting racism and discrimination, but even more has to be done), the departure of talent, more women involved in decision making at all levels."

✍️ @GuillemBalague

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Today I broke a story [with help from @linfitlass] about Reform UK potentially fixing their competition to provide energy bills to a whole street.

It's a big deal and should, by rights, be picked up by mainstream media.

Luckily, there's one proper, reliable news outlet that have and are publishing my full article on Monday. Obvs its Byline Times.

But … why have the BBC, Sky News etc. missed this?

I'm not blowing my own trumpet at all, but so far, the story has had over 1.5 million views on my 𝕏 feed today.

A genuine public interest story about a potential fraudulent attempt by a political party, but it's being ignored, as always ... because it's Farage.

This is serious. Aside from Byline Times, The Nerve and the New World, the rest have capitulated to the far-right and Bannon's play.

If any outlets want to discuss this story, you know where I am.

https://t.co/Kdx1svF3h1

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Yvette Cooper is completely out of her depth and should be sacked immediately

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

@drlukeevans @ajaykarigiri Thank you for highlighting this.

Advice & Guidance needs strong safeguards to not delay patient care - my team have received an A&G from a hospital dept asking us to refer the patient under 2 week wait suspected cancer pathway to the same dept - this delays timely care.

[Dr Luke Evans MP @drlukeevans]

Correct & confirmed by my PQ response.

Also, GP is responsible until converted to referral and all tests requested even by specialist until DIRECTLY requested by specialist themselves.

Don't forget...the patient doesn't appear on a waiting list until A&G converted to referral.

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

Every party when in opposition loves doctors.

That's pretty much the summary over the last 3 decades in UK politics 😀

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

Whichever clinician came up with this idea around Advice & guidance in @NHSEngland needs to step forward and own their decision

And explain their thinking process

Cos I ain't just rejecting GP referrals to hit a percentage.

I will accept referrals as dictated by clinical need