An update from @DrPhilBanfield outside the Royal Courts of Justice.
Today, the BMA’s case against the GMC begins, challenging the use of 'medical professionals' and the blurring of lines between doctors and non-doctors - putting patient safety at risk.
Listen here 👇
🚨BREAKING NOW
Private firms have made £6.7 billion in profits from NHS contracts since January 2012.
*That is £10 million a week.*
No profit should be taken out of the NHS. #EndNHSPrivatisation
https://t.co/GhYy6fvwTn
Electronic Patient Records have been implicated in many harms - they're designed to maximise the traceability of £ through the system, more than patient safety. & that's a feature, not a bug, as @NationalNurses told me https://t.co/s4jzZf33sJ
Health IT is a wild west - costing the NHS billions, wielding huge influence over credulous politicians & hacks who tell us tech will save NHS... & killing patients, whose lives would have been better protected by a paper clipboard at the foot of the bed. https://t.co/UbXocOWfIP
Jeez! This is shocking. In the past 12 months this Government has passed new laws to rob millions of workers of their right strike, lock millions out of the electoral process & strip back our right to protest! Now it wants us out of the ECHR! We must all stand against it
😡😡😡BREAKING NEWS
KONP coach heading for Manchester, stopped by the police who had ‘reason to believe they were going to disrupt the Tory party conference’
Just WOW!
Please RT to spread the word, that legitimate protest is dead under the Tories
🚨 US spy tech firm ‘in pole position’ for NHS patient data contract
Our health care records are a uniquely rich source of data that could be used for the public good
However our data is seen by the Government as the means for economic growth
Great Manchester Police thought it was acceptable to pull over our coach as we travelled from London to Manchester to protest the Conservative Party Conference
Heavy handed police presence to try and intimidate peaceful protesters
We must all oppose this 👇
Can I borrow you really quickly?💙
We are about to start building a movement to fight for the NHS.
If you support the NHS, could you pls spend 30 seconds following me+RTing this? I’m looking for all the people who are ready to fight back 🤞🤞🤞
Ju
Chief Exec of @EveryDoctorUK
Must watch @BBCPanorama tonight 👇
The NHS has been systematically run into the ground for 11 years. We are failing patients because we've been set up to fail. We desperately want to do more, yet cannot while the govt continues to ignore the gulf between demand & resources.
At first glance, Greensill’s NHS app may appear an obscure product for David Cameron to stake his reputation on.
But it is emblematic of the NHS's digital privatisation, as @carolinejmolloy explains >
https://t.co/Uzx5iHI5yc
The Manchester Royal Infirmary covid walk-in clinic is open today from 12pm-7pm for first dose vaccinations for patients aged over 50 (or over 18 in an at-risk group) and are registered with a Manchester GP.
Please see below for more details.
I've called on the government to pause its plans for a major reorganisation of the NHS. It's just plain wrong in the middle of a pandemic when staff are exhausted and public meetings can't take place.