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This is just a quick shout out to all the security staff across the NHS who do everything they can to keep staff and patients safe.
They rarely get a mention, but the NHS wouldn’t work without them.
It’s almost that time of year when my wife sits next to me on the sofa and glances at me like I’m a piece of shit. Because of what Alan Rickman did to Emma Thompson in a fictional film, released over 20 years ago.
Like many others, we’ve lost a lot of followers this week.
If you are a UK resident who believes in a health service that is free at the point of use, please give us a follow and share this message.
We cannot let the bullies win.
2 out of every 3 frontline NHS staff don’t have access to a staff room
We think it’s completely unacceptable for staff to work such long shifts, on their feet, without appropriate rest facilities
Please repost if you agree
Should NHS staff be able to park for free at their place of work?
Please repost to help increase the number of people who respond.
Please explain your answer in the comments.
Huge thanks to all the NHS staff who are doing their best to keep the health service going despite having far fewer staff than we need.
We see what you do, and couldn’t be more grateful 💙
If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS over the past 76 years followed and retweeted we’d reach a million by midnight
Please take just two seconds to show you’re right behind NHS staff
26-year-old Kyle Clifford is being hunted by police.
It’s a fast moving situation and there’s a lot we don’t know.
But there is one thing that we DO know. And it’s depressingly, devastatingly familiar.
Three woman are dead.
They were killed in their home.
A mum, she was 61, and her two girls, 25 and 28, both in their twenties - that decade when you’re working out who you want to be and where you want to go with your life.
But for them, that’s now over.
A woman is killed by a man every three days in the United Kingdom.
That number has been remarkably consistent for the last twenty years.
Women are also much more likely to be killed by someone they know - two thirds of them are killed by a current or former partner.
“Domestic” – that word that somehow doesn’t feel adequate – because terror can also happen in the home.
Remember the three women killed at home in Bushey were still alive when the emergency services got there.
Yvette Cooper – the new Home Secretary – has said the killings are “truly shocking” – and she’s being kept fully updated on the case.
During the campaign, she said that violence against women and girls will be treated as a national emergency under Labour.
And less than a week into the job… three women killed at home. It certainly feels like an emergency.