Tom Reid

Doctor | NHS GP in Nottingham | Interested in economics | Guitar | Aviation fanatic | All views my own

[Tom Reid @drtomreid]

@parthaskar @gmcuk @TheBMA @RCPhysicians @AoMRC 🎯

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

Catching up on the Maternity saga.
And found it incredibly painful & triggering

In a nutshell?
That is what the #NHS is now about.

Leadership cliques protecting each other.
Ignoring of lived experience

And performative hand wringing -when all are involved -in some capacity or the other.

It's also why nothing will change.

Especially if there is no desire to tackle the 'normal birth' ideology - whatever the cost.

I say so as someone who has faced this personally.

And a country which can't guarantee safe baby births? Doesn't provide good healthcare.

@OckReview

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Bills up.

Wages too low.

Record profits for Oil & Gas.

50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population.

Shit in our rivers.

Pensioners jailed for protesting.

Migrants thrown under the bus.

Supporting a Genocide.

That's Starmer's legacy.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Tom Reid @drtomreid]

@kennardmatt @ZackPolanski 💯

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Starmer will be remembered as one of worst, most regressive prime ministers of last century—and it was all entirely predictable

But Andy Burnham is cut from same cloth

The problem is not these empty suits. The problem is the Labour Party: it is set-up to sustain UK oligarchy

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Our country needs a bold change of direction. Starmer lost the confidence of the country because of his abject failure to challenge the power and wealth of an establishment which has taken for themselves while leaving the vast majority in a cost of living crisis. (1/5)

[Tom Reid @drtomreid]

@Parody_RCGP Wes has pivoted from wannabe PM to a good job in Burnham’s cabinet (for now). Will have to be something better than Health Sec to make it worth his while - so chancellor, home sec or foreign sec. Assuming Mahmood stays as home sec, I would bet foreign sec or chancellor.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

The contrast between the coverage of the Edinburgh attack and the Golders Green stabbings is extraordinary. It’s impossible to see any explanation other than very crude, simple racism.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's obvious to point out attacks against Muslims get ignored - but still needs repeatedly calling out.

An Antisemitic attack should be reported and action taken.

But where is the same media outrage, cobra meetings and calling of national emergency when 5 Muslims are attacked?

[Tom Reid @drtomreid]

Compare and contrast with the uproar over Qatar 2022 World Cup.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

It’s a Trumpian World Cup for racism — why don’t those who condemned Qatar 2022 say so?

My piece for The Guardian on the blatant hypocrisy and double standards on full display. https://t.co/NKmtaTF2bH

[@DrKatie.BSky.Social @doctor_katie]

There are no words.

The whole profession feels Dr Kumar’s grief.

We all empathise with this outrageous request. What’s happened to mental health trusts? Where’s the oversight for these failings? It’s happening on a national scale. It’s a silent catastrophe.

@CareQualityComm

[Cllr Martin Abrams @Martin_Abrams]

Let's be honest. There is a political hierarchy of racism in this country where shocking attacks on one Community get widespread condemnation and COBRA meetings whilst violent programs and attacks on other communities get next to no response. Shocking

[Tom Reid @drtomreid]

@iDrSunny Accurate!

[Tom Reid @drtomreid]

@drsanjoykumar @DrSteveTaylor @nottsinquiry Completely agree.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister.

It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage.

Others seem to be met with silence.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The headline talks about Antisemitism fears.

Yet both people were criticising a genocidal Israeli Government.

This constant conflation of criticism of Jewish people with criticism of Israel makes me as a Jewish person feel less safe.

Such a dangerous decision by Labour.

[CHPI @CHPIthinktank]

The permanent secretary of the Department of Health and her husband have links with a private equity company which owns a range of outsourced NHS services providers including care for kids, ADHD diagnosis, cataract surgery. Do the rules allow this? Were Ministers told?

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Top health official held shares in key children’s home operator

Ex-Operose CEO

The same Operose that operated General Practice on the cheap unsafely

Now in charge at DHSC

https://t.co/7lp1XtcHkG via @ft