"If there is a defining mark of Keir #Starmer’s administration, it is immediate capitulation to powerful lobby groups, especially corporations and billionaires. This is what explains the otherwise inexplicable: its planning policy, tax policy, competition policy, deregulation policy, AI policy, food policy, its plans to reboot private partnerships in the #NHS, its banning of #PalestineAction."

#UKPol#Labour

https://www.monbiot.com/2025/09/03/greening-the-desert/

"If there is a defining mark of Keir #Starmer’s administration, it is immediate capitulation to powerful lobby groups, especially corporations and billionaires. This is what explains the otherwise inexplicable: its planning policy, tax policy, competition policy, deregulation policy, AI policy, food policy, its plans to reboot private partnerships in the #NHS, its banning of #PalestineAction."

#UKPol#Labour

https://www.monbiot.com/2025/09/03/greening-the-desert/

David Hinchliffe offers an uncomfortable truth in a letter to the Guardian:

'In what is now very much a our “me first” society, it is swimming against the tide to refer to the common good. But accessing private healthcare is anything but a neutral act. It significantly worsens the prospects of those who are unable, or unwilling, to take this step, whose health problems are often considerably worse than those of the queue-jumpers'.

#SaveOurNHS #heath#NHS #politics

David Hinchliffe offers an uncomfortable truth in a letter to the Guardian:

'In what is now very much a our “me first” society, it is swimming against the tide to refer to the common good. But accessing private healthcare is anything but a neutral act. It significantly worsens the prospects of those who are unable, or unwilling, to take this step, whose health problems are often considerably worse than those of the queue-jumpers'.

#SaveOurNHS #heath#NHS #politics

Solidarity to all trainee doctors taking strike action in England and Wales today.

In my first years as a trainee, I struggled at times. Between loan repayments and keeping a household with a young child going, we had little leeway for anything going wrong.

Since then, pay has fallen in real terms.

Everyone in the health service deserves fair wages.

#DoctorsStrike#NHS

Solidarity to all trainee doctors taking strike action in England and Wales today.

In my first years as a trainee, I struggled at times. Between loan repayments and keeping a household with a young child going, we had little leeway for anything going wrong.

Since then, pay has fallen in real terms.

Everyone in the health service deserves fair wages.

#DoctorsStrike#NHS

The Resident Doctors strike action starts at 7.00 this morning & you'll have seen the shape of the optical pincer movement across the media;

On one hand, we're told the public are increasingly losing patience with doctors demands (supported by quick polling)...

and on the other, Ministers (and the PM) are calling for the doctors not to play into the hands' of the NHS' enemies & to think of patients.

Its going to get worse... take it from me.

#SupportTheStrikes#NHS #health #politics

Might be infection
But the x-ray showed nothing
I'm to keep an eye

#dentist #nhs#DailyHaiku

I love the dentist
I'm so lucky to have one
In this day and age

#dentist #nhs #DailyHaiku

I'm Keiron - I build AI stuff for the Welsh NHS and somehow convinced them to let me automate clinical coding.

Big fan of FOSS everything. When I'm not wrangling NHS data, you'll find me taking photos, making music, cooking, or getting wound up about politics.

Chat to me about terrible NHS IT systems or Welsh place names that are impossible to pronounce.

#HealthTech#NHS#FOSS#Photography#Music#Cooking#UKPolitics

#Introduction

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I'm Keiron - I build AI stuff for the Welsh NHS and somehow convinced them to let me automate clinical coding.

Big fan of FOSS everything. When I'm not wrangling NHS data, you'll find me taking photos, making music, cooking, or getting wound up about politics.

Chat to me about terrible NHS IT systems or Welsh place names that are impossible to pronounce.

#HealthTech#NHS#FOSS#Photography#Music#Cooking#UKPolitics

#Introduction

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I'm with the British Medical Association here. Genocide enabler Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.

#Palantir#NHS#BMA#UKPolitics

Palantir accuses UK doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/08/palantir-technology-uk-doctors-patient-nhs-data

I'm with the British Medical Association here. Genocide enabler Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.

#Palantir#NHS#BMA#UKPolitics

Palantir accuses UK doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/08/palantir-technology-uk-doctors-patient-nhs-data

Uninstalled the NHS App. I dunno but there’s something about Wes Streeting getting his dirty little paws on it that makes me be a little wary.

If I need to use it, I’ll use it purely via the web, at https://www.nhsapp.service.nhs.uk/

#ukpolitics#Privacy #nhs

As Roy Lilley (NHSmanagers.net) points out, Labour's new NHS plan has no detailed delivery plan.

As he says: 'nice plan but go away & come back with;

- A 2-year and 5-year Delivery Plan
- Concrete, funded milestones.
- Name accountable leads for each priority area.
- Align capital, workforce & digital investment plans.
- Annual progress reports to Parliament.
- Independent delivery oversight by the NAO or an NHS Transformation Board…

A plan without a plan… is just a brochure'!

#health#NHS

As Roy Lilley (NHSmanagers.net) points out, Labour's new NHS plan has no detailed delivery plan.

As he says: 'nice plan but go away & come back with;

- A 2-year and 5-year Delivery Plan
- Concrete, funded milestones.
- Name accountable leads for each priority area.
- Align capital, workforce & digital investment plans.
- Annual progress reports to Parliament.
- Independent delivery oversight by the NAO or an NHS Transformation Board…

A plan without a plan… is just a brochure'!

#health#NHS

There's a common sleight of hand in the political class' views of the NHS;

They (willingly) confuse growing levels of dissatisfaction with the NHS as growing support for privatised health care, but while people are now sometimes more willing to go private this is a strategy of desperation not a willing political conversion.

What voters actually want is for the NHS to work properly, fairly & efficiently.... and that can only be achieved with a renewed commitment to full funding!

#NHS #health