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[The BMA @TheBMA]

This is a deeply distressing case. No child should have to endure such pain, and no parent should be left carrying the guilt and trauma that this family has experienced

Patients and families have a right to know if the person providing treatment is or is not a doctor.

Almost a year since its publication, key recommendations of Professor Leng’s review remain unfulfilled, despite being accepted by Government.

[Dr Aadam Aziz @Aadam_Aziz]

This is the sad reality of a normal day in the NHS. No strikes, No excuses.

Yet we’ve got fully qualified doctors sitting unemployed while patients are left waiting 21 hours in A&E.

Years of mismanagement and catastrophic workforce planning failure.

What a betrayal to patients

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

This starts in June

£6.4bn a year, over the next 10 years taken from the NHS for nothing to give to US billionaires because Donald Trump demanded it.

In return we get nothing.

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

The Health Secretary has taken £372,000 from private health-linked donors since entering parliament. That's at a rate of £10,000 a month since taking office. His biggest donor owns companies that recruit NHS managers AND private health executives.

This week he also gave himself the power to override the independent body that stops the NHS being overcharged for drugs.

Full story at the link below ���

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Today Wes Streeting overruled NICE so he personally buys medication for the entire NHS

He did this so he can give an extra £6.4bn a year to the USA for nothing

Paying Doctors an extra £0.6bn a year is too expensive

But 10x as much for Donald Trump is done without question

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Today @CHPIthinktank published a singularly depressing analysis of 760 private firms now providing NHS services in England such as CT scans, hip and knee replacements & mental health support.

Companies like Spire & Circle are creaming off billions from these lucrative NHS contracts.

£2bn of £12bn worth of contracts went to firms with owners based outside the UK.

£533m of this £2bn went to companies owned by people living in tax havens such as Jersey and the Cayman Islands.

I find it grotesque that while NHS patients are stranded on trolleys in corridors or waiting months or even years for care, taxpayers’ money is being siphoned off into offshore tax havens & lining the pockets of private equity companies.

The government *could* be investing in growing NHS capacity – instead, it has elected to grow private companies’ grip on the NHS, a short-term folly that is already costing patients dear.

Madness.

[Phil Smith @PhilSmithIsBack]

No country that is serious about their medical standards would do this. This is why, as well as the language he has previously used towards resident doctors, I have no trust in @wesstreeting despite voting for Labour in the last election and desperately wanting to do well.

[Anisopoikilocyte @Anisocyte]

Baroness Hallett’s COVID report was released last week, saying the NHS survived COVID because of “Herculean efforts” by healthcare staff, while politicians lied and mismanaged.

Politicians gave themselves a 5% pay rise.
While doctors receive 3.5% and are labelled unreasonable

[Dr Waseem PsyD @WAlladin1]

My heart breaks to read what is being done with the imposed new GP contract. I have worked decades in the NHS and have never seen or heard GPs being treated in this manner. Dr Steve Taylor thank you for highlighting what it means on the ground for GPs and their teams and for patients...... like me.

[What would Brian Bevan say? @WhatBevan]

What a start! @WarringtonRLFC

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Let’s go back to 2010!

We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months

Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been

THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

Hi Karl.

The line for me was crossed when I had to perform CPR in an A&E corridor…

…because resus was full due to a lack of staff elsewhere in the hospital…

…whilst the Government simultaneously turned away thousands of qualified doctors from jobs.

This was a half baked offer at the last minute following a reluctance to negotiate - patients, and doctors, deserve better.

That is why frontline doctors emphatically voted no - we cannot accept more sticking plaster solutions.

[Jen Johnston @LittlePersonDoc]

@TheBMA this needs to be the message.

The public don’t get it.

To be fair my own family didn’t understand medical training pathways. They are complicated.

Make it simple.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Doctors are going to go on Strike again.

Nearly 50% of Doctors who passed their Medical Degree in the last 3 years are unemployed in the UK.

It used to be 1-2%.

Yet Waiting Lists are at record highs and not going down.

Why aren't they employed?

[Kathj @kathj111]

@MaitlandKelly1 @sainsburys @NatWest_Help Same for me too, declined this morning on my shopping. Can’t access online. NatWest and Sainsbury’s can’t help. In limbo.

[Kathj @kathj111]

@NatWest_Help Done, thank you for your reply

[Kathj @kathj111]

@NatWest_Help my Sainsbury’s credit card was declined for my Sainsbury’s order this morning and no one can help until 7th October? I’ve called #sainsburys and NatWest this am. I thought it was supposed to be a seamless transfer?

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

The plan is to expand pharmacists’ remit to act in place of doctors…

Pharmacists are NOT medically qualified & are NOT trained to diagnose

Their degree is pharmacy, not medicine!

We have unemployed GPs - why are the gov doing everything in their power to replace them?!

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

There are 102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons

27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries

31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts

You can see the problem @wesstreeting @DHSCgovuk judging by your trim you might be going to the hair salon more🤔

[Dr Sandeep Bansal @iDrSunny]

Doctors unemployed

Whilst patients can’t get appointments with doctors

Wait lists still at 7.5 million

Whilst doctors are replaced with staff that are less skilled

Delivering far worse outcomes

@Jeremy_Hunt @JamesTitcombe tagging those who love patient safety and lead the way