Simon Sos West

A Cancer Research UK Fundraiser & Campaigns Ambassador. A lifelong GTFC fan.We all follow the Grimsby, over land & sea & Yorkshire .... (all views are my own)

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@officialgtfc Congratulations to you all ( especially Travis as I work with him)

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@Lewis17J Kev is a lovely bloke & Evan is like an adopted son to him. I don’t think Evan would want to go if offered a fair deal. If he does then IMO it will be a loss to the team.

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@Lancsiron @Lewis17J Why ? Evan is out of contract & he was in discussions with the club .

[Richard Hallam @richardhallam]

Just shared by anon in the Friendship Inn, Salford (ish)

“I’ve never been so nervous about a Semi since I watched Brokeback Mountain”

#gtfc

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@3Fishontheshirt Probably the ref got one for the home end

[Louth Run For Life @louthrunforlife]

A massive thank you to @grssignscouk & @GRSSigns_SteveT for the generous donation of our run advertising signs.

These will be appearing around the Louth area in forthcoming days.
Thanks GRS Signs once again for your continued support, helping us to raise vital funds for @CR_UK

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@hatemariners @GrimsbyBoy1984 It’s not pub football. We are playing proper teams , not the Dog & Duck

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

This week the NHS will undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote, electronic “advice and guidance” from hospital ‘clinicians’ (note, not necessarily doctors), making it even harder for patients to see a hospital specialist.

Does this sound part of a plan to genuinely ‘fix’ the NHS, as Wes Streeting vowed he would do so effusively when taking up office - or more like a tactic to ration hospital care by overriding GPs in order to massage the waiting list figures?

It is, of course, the latter, an extra layer of bureaucracy that at best will delay patients’ access to the specialist treatment they need, at worse sacrifice those patients on the altar of fake news about “falling” waiting lists.

You don’t need me to point out the patient safety risks it potentially entails. We all know that time, in medicine, can be everything. The Royal College of GPs has been crystal clear: “The use of advice and guidance should not be mandated in any area… We have heard reports of risks of delays, with tests being required before any referral, lost messages and staff without appropriate senior clinical oversight handling requests.”

The aim, says the Times, is to reduce the number of hospital outpatient appointments by 30 million annually. And the government, in a really quite breathtaking example of political spin, is presenting this as “good” for patients - as though all those people who’ve been waiting years months or even years for the first Rheumatology, Neurology or Orthopaedics appointment they so desperately need are just, you know, malingering. (I recently spoke to a patient with a new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis who’d been waiting over six months to see a neurologist for the first time – simply scandalous.)

I believe this is a national health scandal from a government that apparently cares more about good spin than it does about good patient care.

If you feel the same, please – please – write to your MP or the Secretary of State and tell them why. Please shout about this online, in the press, anywhere you can. Don’t let this slide. Thank you.

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@officialgtfc @davidselfridge1 Great ball by Evan

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They have all gone to @SteelsRest for a jumbo #GTFC

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@officialgtfc #GTFC

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

We are all assuming the ref was at BP on time !!! #GTFC

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@lauragale1989 Probably stuck in the middle of the pick & can’t get off

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@SimarinerGY Been loads of times - great place

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@officialgtfc Great news. UTM

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@purser_car28916 @Joey7Barton I see you don’t mention the stone wall penalty that Grimsby should have had on Cook. Pulled back in mid air as he was about to send a header goalwards.

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@GyHistoryClub Did they though. They had their little drummer boy who made some noise.

First half we were quiet as nothing to shout about only bad officiating.

2nd half was different

[Simon Sos West @sdw68]

@ussmidway @kharbin14 @katee_K1 Maybe they should have drunk bleach like Trump suggested

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@BPete1970 @cityguru003 Well said @BPete1970

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@wi51893191 @BarnetFC @FA 🤡