Richard Sills

Former GP, CAA AME, involved with Patient computer interviewing, Passionate about the NHS and improving it.

[Richard Sills @rosills]

@NordVPN I am trying to set up Nord vpn on my new computer as I want to use it in a hotel. All nordvpn websites I try are rejected as being unsafe by my browsers! I am abroad and now having to use my hotspot data\ on my phone. Nord is meant to be helping my security!

[Richard Sills @rosills]

#HotDeals @honest-toil Any chance there's a coupon code I could use? https://t.co/MmqpPf2FIQ via @HotDeals_Office

[Richard Sills @rosills]

@robprogressive So, who pays for the NHS, schools, welfare state, defence etc? If there is very low or no tax?

[Dr Sandeep Bansal @iDrSunny]

If you are someone that values the NHS- then I recommend watching this clip from @drbobgill

[Richard Sills @rosills]

1 in 10 of us face a 3 week wait for a GP appointment. With hundreds of GPs facing closure wait times could get even higher. The Government need a proper plan to save GPs from closure. Agree? Join me today & sign the petition: https://t.co/l7Euvk2AzB via @38degrees

[Richard Sills @rosills]

@iqfoil Hello - can someone help me find the live tracking, please

[Richard Sills @rosills]

@iqfoil Hi, please can someone help me find the live tracking for this event? Many thanks

[Doctors For Patients UK @Docs4PatientsUK]

OPEN LETTER from @ukmfa1 @hartgroup_org @Docs4PatientsUK and 50 doctors.

We support @DrAseemMalhotra following an attempt to investigate him for raising patient safety concerns and honouring his ethical duty of care.
#firstdonoharm

https://t.co/dZAVUla6ki

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear 🇬🇧,

We junior doctors are set to launch the longest period of industrial action in NHS history as we go on strike for 5 consecutive days from 13 July. Striking is always a last resort but it's an absolute necessity right now. Here's why.

Your NHS is collapsing because we don't have enough funds, staff, beds, and social care. We are in this position because we have a government that for the last 13 years intentionally engineered this crisis to push more people into private healthcare — never to improve your care, we all know that hasn't happened — but to profit from the breakup and privatisation of the NHS.

13 years ago, this government inherited the #1 ranked healthcare system in the world and look what damage they've done. You are now suffering on the longest waiting lists in NHS history at 7.4m people long. You are waiting longer than ever before to see a GP, to be seen in A&E, to get cancer care, or to get a hip replacement.

All of these delays means that you and your family are not safe RIGHT NOW, even when not a single NHS worker is on strike.

To illustrate just how bad the situation has become, an estimated 500 patients are dying every single week from preventable delays accessing NHS emergency care — that's now 12,500 dead patients so far in 2023 alone — and a huge contributor to those deaths is a lack of staff in every single part of the system.

People are dying at home, on the backs of delayed ambulances, or in overcrowded A&E departments here in the 6th wealthiest country in the world. This is nothing short of criminal grade negligence from those in power for the last 13 years and you and your family, and all of my NHS colleagues, are paying the price.

This is what it comes down to: This government does not give a damn about NHS patients or staff, and is content to allow your family and our colleagues to suffer while they bleed the NHS dry to support a growing private healthcare system for the wealthy, while working people suffer in a crumbling NHS. Rapid care for the rich. Delayed and denied care for the rest of us.

So I ask you this: If our colleagues are leaving the profession in record numbers because our pay has been cut by nearly 32% in the last 15 years, if we're leaving in record numbers because it's become far too difficult to work in the NHS that is collapsing around us, if we're leaving in record numbers because far too many of our colleagues are killing themselves because it's too painful to watch our patients suffer from a government that has completely abandoned us all, then what should we do?

In this situation, do we stay silent and watch people die? Do we stay silent as this government destroys your access to high quality healthcare? Do we stay silent as our colleagues take their own lives? Do we stay silent as they destroy our professions and force us all to leave the country?

We NHS staff have a moral obligation to protect our patients, protect our professions, protect our colleagues, protect our communities, protect our NHS, and fight back in any way possible.

If that means going on strike to highlight these problems and fight for the future of the NHS, then so be it. Indeed it's the most patriotic thing we can do.

#SOSNHS

[IWGB Universities of London @IWGBUoL]

To contact the Provost and ask him to stop these redundancies, email [email protected] ! ✉️✊

[Richard Sills @rosills]

I unlocked £25 Rush tickets for Noises Off on @TodayTixUK! https://t.co/cwstljUWTc

[Richard Sills @rosills]

@Azeem_Majeed Respectful discussion is all important, I asked someone on this thread a perfectly reasonable, polite and respectful question by DM, and they blocked me. How is that respectful discussion?

[Dr Jonathan Engler MB ChB DipPharmMed LLB @jengleruk]

@keith_cpm @suzseddon The speech refers to a cover-up of research findings by a group at a major university research centre.

That’s a totally different issue to whether or not the consent process adequately conveys the risk of myocarditis / pericarditis (which, by the way, it doesn’t anyway.)

[Richard Sills @rosills]

@EveAinsworth Is it a mycoplasma year?

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

THIS

[Richard Sills @rosills]

@WizzAirUK_W9 @WizzAirUK_W9
Hello
I have saved a trip and paid the hold fee.
I have less than 24 hours left I cannot get your site to allow me to pay. I have tried several Credit cards and your system says that the bank has refused, my bank has investigated & no prob
Please help

[Richard Sills @rosills]

@Azeem_Majeed FOI for results of survey?

[Richard Sills @rosills]

@timspector Green and Blacks is good

[Dr Amir Hannan MBE @amirhannan]

@griffglen What an amazing picture. Want to know what an empowered patient is? Listen to #YvonneBennett https://t.co/9VESycG4DK