Shaun Lintern

Health Editor at The Sunday Times. National Press Awards Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Chair of @mjauk. Public interest journalism matters #E17

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

🚨 Hundreds of NHS staff a year are being investigated for sexual misconduct with many allowed back to work even after being found guilty.

Now Britain's top surgeon says enough is enough and a radical overhaul is needed to protect staff & patients:
https://t.co/XpA0tBSjSx

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Two trains have collided near Bedford. Bedford hospital is expecting at least 50 casualties to arrive with a message of "all hands on deck" sent to staff:
https://t.co/UVfEIgm20T

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Muckamore Public Inquiry finds patients were abused, systematically bullied by members of staff in a culture that hid abuse. Shocking stuff and findings that should be noted here in England: https://t.co/NWugtGIOiJ

[Will Watson @DrWillWatson]

@ShaunLintern @MaryDixonWoods We have borrowed a lot of models and thinking from other industries which doesn't really work in our own.

PS @MaryDixonWoods is great, see her recent lecture https://t.co/hoqWustkst

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Not everyone is a good apple. We need to start thinking about bad apples @MaryDixonWoods tells #MJAsymposium

[Medical Journalists' Association @mjauk]

A sobering graph from @mbrrace expert @Marianfknight at #MJAsymposium

[James Titcombe @JamesTitcombe]

NMSI made 1,112 recs since inception. That number doesn’t demonstrate progress-it highlights the problem. Mat services aren’t unsafe because of 1,112 individual problems. They’re unsafe because of a handful of deep-rooted structural & cultural issues that still haven’t been fixed

[Michelle Welsh MP @MichelleWelshMP]

"From my trauma came determination and hope. Hope is action, hope is reform, hope is accountability."

This morning I attended @mjauk #MJASymposium to speak about my own birth trauma and the state of maternity care in the UK.

Whilst I have a voice, I won't stop speaking out until the system is reformed for the next generation of mothers.

[Medical Journalists' Association @mjauk]

Maternity needs action, reform and a system that learns to bring hope, she says. She calls for a national maternity commissioner with statutory powers able to take action. We also need national mandatory reporting with one version of the truth triggering a response #MJAsymposium

[Medical Journalists' Association @mjauk]

@nottmhospitals @MichelleWelshMP We need a system to protect speaking up, every woman should have a named clincian and Govt should ringfence funding for maternity. "I stand here not only as an MP, a maternity adviser, but as a mother who knows what fear is like." #MJAsymposium

[Medical Journalists' Association @mjauk]

"I was told to shut up. I was warned by senior officials I was causing problems. I was told to stop calling for an inquiry into @nottmhospitals".
@MichelleWelshMP says hundreds of families came forward and their stories were consistent. #MJAsymposium

[Suzanne White @White_Suz]

@SanjaCN discusses her experience as a medical negligence lawyer @LeighDay the challenges of whistleblowing and speaking up in the NHS to drive better maternity care #MJASymposium

[Suzanne White @White_Suz]

A privilege for @LeighDay_Law to sponsor this event and to speak at the #MJAsymposium considering #maternitysafety with @MichelleWelshMPas key note speaker

[Medical Journalists' Association @mjauk]

Now hearing from @MichelleWelshMP the Govts first national maternity adviser giving her first public keynote in the role with harrowing details of her own traumatic birth at @nottmhospitals in 2020 "I was treated with utter disdain," she says #MJASymposium

[Fiona Winser-Ramm @FionaWinserRamm]

Another senior leader leaves LTHT, this time the CMO.

“These departures risk creating a precedent that senior leaders can leave a trust... before their involvement in cultures and practices have been fully scrutinised."

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Really looking forward to a few days at #HLTHEurope conference in Amsterdam. Huge amounts of innovation on show but critical are the discussions on how health systems manage the huge pace of change and growing demand with diminishing funding and capacity @HLTHEVENT

[Suzanne White @White_Suz]

This is not my experience of acting for families who suffered negligent maternity care - I am disappointed Caroline Flint was not challenged about the points she raised .

[Fiona Winser-Ramm @FionaWinserRamm]

Novie 🩷 Betsy 🩷 Maria 🩷 Benjamin 💙

I know what a big deal this was for all of your families. So proud of them for speaking up.

[James Titcombe @JamesTitcombe]

Flint has a long history of similar comments - hard to comprehend how someone with such extreme & dangerous ideological views was once president of the RCM. Sadly these views are still prominent within many influential elements in the midwifery world.

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

@PaulaMc007 @LBC Her comments are entirely at odds with the evidence from those same trusts where scandals have been reported.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

This is precisely the problem of the British disease of changing PMs all the time: everyone else changes. No one learns

What organisation could succeed if the boss & every head of dept is routinely purged?

Mahmood is proving the most effective Home Sec for years. Why move her?