Deborah Sharp

Professor of Primary Health Care at University of Bristol

[UoL Press Office @UoLPressOffice]

Patients fair better in hospitals with greater empathy levels. Professor Jeremy Howick from the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Medicine spoke to Guardian science editor Ian Sample about what this really means in practice.
👉https://t.co/4QR5sonSn5
@JeremyHowick @Empathy_Centre

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The breakthrough drug that has doubled pancreatic cancer survival time, was borne out of years of hard work and investment

Much of it at the NIH, which has now had funding slashed by RFK Jr and Co in favour of pointless pseudoscientific quackery which will lead to nothing

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

Resident doctors are still being paid less than physician assistants.

Get back around the table and come to a deal to stop these strikes.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

The top civil servant at the Health Department "worked for or held shares in 12 companies that benefited from public contracts with DHSC or related health organisations"

She was elevated to the top role by Wes Streeting

She should resign. And we must end NHS privatisation.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[Inevitable_GB_News (TWAT ACCOUNT) @GBNews23653867]

🚨Whilst out canvassing, @RobKenyonReform let slip to potential voters he prefers an insurance based healthcare and 'his' new hospital would provide two tier healthcare, with NHS patients treated differently.

[Dr Melissa Ryan 🦀 @Melissa_S_Ryan]

@medicalmodelbri @jamesmurray_ldn @lengreview Triage and running clinics in the community is completely inappropriate and unsafe. PAs should not be seeing undifferentiated patients. @jamesmurray_ldn please implement the Leng review that your predecessor failed to do for the patients’ sake

[Frank Place 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @BotFinderUK]

Robert Kenyon of Reform hates this quote being shared...

[Bristol Palliative and End of Life Care Research @PEoLCSW]

BOOK YOUR FREE PLACE
PEOLC Research Network Meeting, Tue 30 June, 1.15-5.00pm, in-person at University of Bristol. We have another great line-up of speakers @Lucy_Selman @drpoco @shaun_qureshi @JennyKitzinger @NM_Bradley @skgretton @AlisonLlewellyn
https://t.co/CHLJaKY9E2

[Dave Hibbert, BA(Hons), ACTUS, Cert.Ed. Rejoin EU. @Cpass12David]

The Guardian: “Net migration down by three-quarters, the biggest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years, knife crime cut by 10%, the economy growing the fastest in the G7, rising wages, energy bills and petrol prices held down, the biggest sustained rise in defence spending since the cold war, a massive expansion of free childcare …
If Keir Starmer did tub-thumping lists of Labour’s achievements in the style of Gordon Brown, he would not actually have a shortage of things to talk about.”
During the two years of Labour government, following fourteen years of Tory mismanagement, there have actually been significant improvements in Britain. Why does the Tory media not report them?

[Chris Smyth @Smyth_Chris]

Excl: The NHS is proposing to cut back recruitment to avoid “financial ruin” and instead use AI to help doctors treat patients

Leaked workforce plan due to launch in coming weeks says NHS must make do with hundreds of thousands fewer staff than envisioned by Conservatives

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Reports that the Government plans to slash planned doctor numbers and rely on AI are a massive, dangerous gamble.

"It is crushingly disappointing to see Government apparently planning to simply accept that the low number of doctors we have in this country is just a fact of life." says Amit Kochhar, BMA workforce lead.

Find out more https://t.co/6PBvRWPFyJ

[Deborah Sharp @SharpDebbie]

@easyJet please tell us you will hold the Bristol flight from CDG as passport control is broken

[Charlotte Blease, PhD @crblease]

It is with a very heavy heart that I advise friends, and colleagues, and followers of Richard Lehman of his passing. His daughter Hannah wishes the news to be shared widely among his academic and medical circles. Richard had been unwell but was active and generous in supporting many of us, right until the end. He was also active on this platform, advocating for patients tirelessly. Richard, my friend, you will be missed. ❤️

[Jen Johnston @LittlePersonDoc]

@medicalmodelbri @geshNHS @fletchjack @BMAResidents @jamesmurray_ldn As a paeds reg at ST8 my in hrs work was paid at £24 per hr.

5 yrs med school. Foundation yrs. sub specialist training and about to CCT.

Now a new PA, no experience needed is offered £34-38 per hr.

Something very wrong in all of this.

[Joanna Booth @stillawake]

Alex Tolley, 58, has Down's syndrome and is sleeping rough on Broad Street after Reading Borough Council cleared his belongings. The council's response came from "a spokesman." No one's taking responsibility.

[Paula McGowan OBE @PaulaMc007]

#Oliverscampaign
I can't get my head around the fact that a man with Down Syndrome is living on the streets
This my friends is England

Mr Tolley’s mother died 3 years ago & he has been in between temporary accommodation & sleeping on the streets since

https://t.co/YPFGQN1o8Q

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Has there ever been a more blindingly obvious example of the grass is greener syndrome than the sudden hysteria surrounding Andy Burnham? He lost to Ed Miliband in 2010. He was thrashed by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015. Now he’s capped bus fares in Manchester and he’s seen as the all-conquering, returning hero and the saviour of Labour and the country?

[EveryDoctor @EveryDoctorUK]

Plans to transfer hundreds of NHS 'bank' staff from Bath, Salisbury, and Swindon to private firm Pulse this August are being called "unacceptable".

Is this the "stealth privatisation" people fear?

Read: https://t.co/qKve8xrxW2

[socialist pete @socialistp40357]

As NHS Ambulance paramedic if I divulged a patients details to anyone other than an appropriate DR or Nurse, I would be sacked.
Yet we have a government (former health secretary, @wesstreeting) handing over personal and confidential pt data to american company, Palantir.