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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.

Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.

And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

UK freeports were just the beginning.

AI Growth Zones — a newer addition to the lexicon, are designated areas where planning rules for data centres and AI infrastructure are fast-tracked, where the usual consultation processes are compressed or bypassed, where the normal friction of democratic oversight is treated as an obstacle to be engineered around.
https://t.co/1CtngV5qg8

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

The Doctors Association UK continues to raise its concerns over plans for a new single patient record

Alarm among doctors & health experts about the proposals to hand the health secretary sweeping new powers to control patients’ data

In the Health Bill

https://t.co/PJjdU3QJqP

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

There is only one European nation with fewer hospital beds per capita than the UK

Sweden but they have the highest number of care home & nursing home beds

26% fewer care home beds
23% fewer nursing beds

Fewer hospital beds

Then people wonder why A&E is blocked

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

The MoD's head of AI met Palantir 9 times in his government role. Then joined them. The NHS head of AI left to become their director of health. Two Lords. Two generals.

A former MI6 chief arranged a meeting between their CEO and the head of the civil service. The company founded by Trump's billionaire ally has £670m in UK government contracts.

Full story 👇

[tern @1goodtern]

Don't ever forget that your government upgraded the air filtration in its main government buildings during an airborne pandemic, but not the hospital you attend or your mum's care home or your kids' daycare or prisons or shelters.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Neighbourhoods forgotten by @wesstreeting @UKLabour

@RishiSunak this is your constituency

Neighbourhood health starts and finishes with patients

GP practices are at the heart of communities

If you ignore GP provision you lose your voters

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Waiting lists - the facts behind the headlines

The main reason for a fall in waiting lists is removal from waiting lists

The number of treatments/operations etc is still lower than pre-pandemic & is less than new referrals

[Colin Nickless 💚 @NicklessColin]

My god. My daughter was under the Maudsley several years ago. I work in mental health myself. I cannot believe they are using PAs in the Maudsley.
That is gross negligence. This is a national scandal. @wesstreeting needs to answer for this.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

When deciding funding where do you think @wesstreeting @NHSEngland put their £?

Cost of appts:
Out-patients £109-£362
A&E £114-£563
Urgent treatment centre £84-£114
Hub appts £48
Pharmacy First £48
ARRS £35

GP practice £23

Despite this GP practices have had 20% cut

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Independent research warns the US-UK drug pricing deal could cost the NHS up to £64bn by 2036, resulting in more avoidable patient deaths than COVID.

That’s why I have signed a parliamentary motion opposing a statutory instrument (SI) that gives ministers the power to change ‘NICE’ thresholds.

This SI would open the door to the NHS paying higher drug prices under the deal.

The Government should pause and make space for proper scrutiny of these changes.

Our NHS, and our lives, depend on it.

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

What fresh hell is this?!

A job advert for a haematology PA - with NO medical degree in a specialty with some of the sickest patients to:

🚩review unwell pts
🚩 LEAD ward rounds
🚩procedures including paracentesis, lumbar punctures & bone marrow sampling
🚩discharge patients

[Clive Peedell @cpeedell]

Dear Wes,
As a Consultant Oncologist it is was no inconvenience to me or my patients. We sorted a fair rota & I was delighted to support our highly indebted and underpaid Resident doctor colleagues. We also got paid tons more than the Residents.
Do you see your problem? #NHS

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Just look how hard it has become for Resident Doctors to enter training programmes year on year @wesstreeting wants to use this as leverage

65% fall to 25%

Let’s call it blackmail

Also let’s call it for what it is political suicide & destruction of the #NHS

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Are you sure you want Palantir in the NHS? @wesstreeting @Keir_Starmer

I’m 100% certain I don’t want them anywhere near my data

As a GP I don’t think it wise for GPs to lose the data controller (protector of patient data) role currently being suggested by NHSE, Govt et al

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Birmingham is host to 6 deregulated Special Economic Zones, its council is bankrupt, and 6000 homes are being seized under a mass CPO.
These kinds of carve-out operations are par for the course with free zones and charter cities, the goal is ‘to shrink big govt down to the size of a mouse and drown it in a bathtub’ - Grover Norquist.
https://t.co/9sSFAsj6O6

[Clive💙💙💙 @golfing-clive.bsky.social @golfing_clive]

£29 per hour.. for PA not medically trained.but a greedy doctor asking for £22 .. deliberate government policy clearly at play.. that's why you can't see a doctor.

[Steven Boxall @RegenerationEX]

“The UK already has fewer doctors per head than almost every comparable country. No other nation is responding to that gap by designing doctors out of patient care. They are training more of them."

The destruction of the NHS is being engineered.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

I know Mandelson got you into a nice cosy relationship with Palantir, @Keir_Starmer, and your government has put hundreds of millions their way, but would you please take note of this?

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Alan Milburn worked for Centene Corporation, a US healthcare company who owned Operose
DHSC Samantha Jones former CEO & president of Operose
US private healthcare getting their claws into the NHS with a history of failure & extremely poor care for patients
@wesstreeting complicit