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surgeon still a believer in the NHS

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

Fuck there’s no football. #existentialcrisis

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Why didn't the referees receive silver medals like the rest of their teammates?

[England Extra @EnglandExtra]

The whole world saying goodbye to Argentina after their final defeat

[ali @gaforrevibes]

the people's real final match

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Such a blatant fucking lie.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

The NHS was rated one of the best health services in the world when the Conservatives came to power.

And yet some people would have you believe our health system is fundamentally flawed.

We should never forget the destruction that happened on their watch.

[Sophia Edwards 💙 @sophia_edw28123]

If UMAP's biggest campaign is fighting patient safety recommendations and a clearer job title, they've already lost the public debate.

The legal challenge is over, now the Government's excuses for slow-walking the Leng recommendations should be too.
https://t.co/gv4uJdZEnK

[Sophia Edwards 💙 @sophia_edw28123]

🚨1,315 patients waited over 12 hours in A&E and 963 received care in corridors in just one month.

When hospital leaders themselves link delays to increased deaths, the government can no longer hide behind excuses.

When will this end? @jamesmurray_ldn
https://t.co/V0gQNBs4L1

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS TRUST DELETES 4K FILES AS INQUIRY WATCHES

Somewhere in Essex, a senior NHS manager looked at 4,000 staff incident reports covering self harm, assaults and racial abuse, and decided the correct clinical response was to delete the evidence.

As if 4,000 reports of harm inside a mental health trust are a spam folder problem and not a paper trail leading somewhere uncomfortable.

Brian O'Donnell, clinical lead at the St Aubyn Centre in Colchester, was the one asked to do the deleting at the end of 2024, right as the Lampard Inquiry @LampardInquiry was getting underway.

The inquiry exists because more than 2,000 mental health patients died in Essex over 24 years, and Baroness Lampard has since said the true number could be significantly higher. So the timing here is not subtle.

An inquiry opens its eyes and a trust starts asking staff to close the filing cabinet.

O'Donnell refused to play along. He had already raised concerns with a coroner over the death of 16 year old Elise Sebastian. Four days later his access to the incident reporting system was pulled. He calls it a clear cover up. I am struggling to find a kinder word for it too.

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust @EPUTNHS told the @BBC that all reports are taken seriously, recorded and investigated. Somebody should tell that to the 4,000 reports that were told the opposite.

Deborah Coles of the charity Inquest already told the Lampard Inquiry that falsifying safety records is well known within the Essex context. A high prevalence, she called it. So we are not looking at an isolated slip. We are looking at a system that treats its own paperwork as the enemy.

Whistleblowers like O'Donnell are usually the only reason any of this becomes public at all. He lost his access for speaking up. The trust kept its funding.

Guess which one the system was built to protect.

SOURCES
@nikkijfox @BBCNews @LampardInquiry @EPUTNHS @CareQualityComm

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

A reminder that @NHSEngland @NHSE_WTE decided to stop all work related to #Racism in the medical workforce in 2023.

Set up to tackle exactly this.

Always bemused to see performative hand-wringing statements of shock from national leadership on this.

If you are still surprised? You are part of the problem.

And yet another example of ineffective leadership in the #NHS

https://t.co/IBCeN3YqBo

[Out Of Context Madrid @Vera_RMCF]

I Have a dream today.

[NBA da bad @NBAdabad]

Vá e salvem o futebol, pelo amor de Deus

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

One of the most jarring things about adulthood is the realization of how many truly incompetent people are in the most important jobs. When I was a kid, I just assumed everyone “important” was smart or they wouldn’t be important. Boy, was that fucking wrong.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

A NURSE BURNED TO DEATH OUTSIDE A PALACE

A nurse set himself on fire outside Kensington Palace. Nine years later, the NHS still hasn't fixed the problem that killed him.

His name was Amin Abdullah. He was 41, working as a deputy ward manager at Charing Cross Hospital, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust @ImperialNHS.

His story starts small. He signed a letter backing a colleague who'd had a patient complaint made against her. Eighteen other staff signed the same letter. Only Amin got investigated for it.

The trust decided the letter made his honesty questionable. An independent inquiry later found there was little or no evidence for that. Didn't matter at the time. He was sacked for gross misconduct and told he could appeal.

He never got that chance. Weeks after losing his job, with no history of depression, Amin doused himself in petrol and set himself alight.

He died. The inquest ruled it suicide, his mind disturbed by everything that had happened to him.

Two years on, an inquiry admitted he'd been treated unfairly all along. The trust's chief executive said sorry. Sorry is nice. It doesn't bring anyone back.

Now Dr Narinder Kapur @Narinder_Kapur is pushing for something called Amin's Rule.

The idea is simple. Before the NHS sacks someone who's raised a concern, an independent person outside the trust checks the case first.

Kapur isn't just talking theory here. He was sacked himself, from Addenbrooke's Hospital back in 2010, for raising safety concerns.

A tribunal ruled that unfair in 2012.

Nine years after Amin died, that basic safeguard still doesn't exist.

It's a suggestion, not a rule.

SOURCES
@NurseStandard
@HSJnews
@ImperialNHS
And others

[Arielipillo @arielipillo]

Hicieron una película de 26 minutos con todos los robos de Lionel Messi y su equipo en este Mundial. 😭😭😭😭

El Camino de Argentina hacia la Final - La Película

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

The Government says it wants to cut NHS waiting lists.

The NHS could carry out up to 1.5 million more operations every year.

But here’s what the politicians aren’t telling you.

The NHS is short of 2,256 anaesthetists; the specialist doctors who make most operations possible.

Yet thousands of doctors are trying to become anaesthetists but can’t, because the Government only funds a limited number of specialty training places.

Last year, 6,770 doctors applied for just 539 core anaesthetic training places. Without those places, doctors cannot complete specialist training and the NHS cannot grow the workforce it needs.

The Royal College of Anaesthetists says hospitals already have the capacity to train hundreds more anaesthetists every year; if the Government funds the additional training places.

Patients are waiting.

Doctors are ready to train.

The Government needs to stop limiting funded specialty training places and invest in the workforce the NHS and the public need.

https://t.co/6KmKCDd8xO

https://t.co/EAVHgoPmId

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

HE CAUGHT THE NHS FAKING ITS NUMBERS

Ian Perkin spent 12 years as finance director at St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, now St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (@StGeorgesTrust).

In 2002 he did something wildly reckless for an NHS finance chief. He told the truth.

Perkin said operation cancellation figures had been quietly massaged to hit NHS targets. He also told auditors at PwC (@PwC_UK) the trust's real financial position was far worse than management wanted anyone to know.

Three days after St George's missed out on the coveted three star hospital rating, he was called into a meeting and asked to resign.

He said no. He was suspended within days, then sacked. The trust's official line was an intimidating management style.

Nothing to do with the falsified figures. Definitely nothing to do with the finances. Just, apparently, a vibe problem.

Perkin took it to an employment tribunal. In January 2004, after 15 days of hearings, the tribunal ruled he had been unfairly dismissed.

A win, on paper.

Then came the fine print. The tribunal said the unfairness was procedural, the disciplinary chair was not independent, and had nothing to do with his whistleblowing claims. It then found there was a 100 percent chance he would have been sacked anyway under a fair process, and that he himself had contributed 100 percent to his own downfall.

Compensation followed accordingly. None.

He appealed. The Employment Appeal Tribunal rejected it in 2004. He appealed again. Three Court of Appeal judges rejected that too, in October 2005.

By 2006 he was asking the House of Lords to hear him and warning he would take it to Europe next.

He told Public Finance magazine (@public_finance_) he would never again encourage NHS staff to report wrongdoing, because the system just brushes it under the carpet.

Twelve years of service. One accurate report. A courtroom victory that paid him nothing.

This is what institutional accountability looks like when the institution marks its own homework.

SOURCES
@StGeorgesTrust @PwC_UK @public_finance_

[ّ @roryrmfc]

يارب النهائي يكون بينهم وينقذون كرة القدم

[Talmud Enjoyer 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 🧬 @jewndahalfmen]

England is now a Mediterranean country:

We have hot weather, a shit economy, and a good football team.