@BillySmith @LoganFive sending only the best and tenderest of wishes 🫶
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Roy Lilley (NHSManagers.net) lists the problems during Wes Streeting's time at the DoH to argue if the health service *is* central to how people view the Govt. of the day, then for Labour's future electoral success, there needs to be a change at the Dept. of Health; not least as it seems unlikely the Doctors (striking next month) will be willing to see Streeting as someone negotiating in good faith.
Wes Streeting looks like (and maybe always has been) damaged goods!
Roy Lilley (NHSManagers.net) lists the problems during Wes Streeting's time at the DoH to argue if the health service *is* central to how people view the Govt. of the day, then for Labour's future electoral success, there needs to be a change at the Dept. of Health; not least as it seems unlikely the Doctors (striking next month) will be willing to see Streeting as someone negotiating in good faith.
Wes Streeting looks like (and maybe always has been) damaged goods!
‘This is the great paradox of our time. The #authoritarian right rails against an establishment that is, in many ways, already doing its work for it.
#Farage and his allies perform the role of anti-elite insurgents even as they champion the most corporate-friendly, deregulated politics imaginable.
Strip away the theatre and #Reform UK is a billionaire-backed project to dismantle the public realm, shred regulatory protections and hand what remains of state power to capital.’
Clive Lewis MP
‘And the current #Labour government, rather than resisting these trends, risks entrenching them.
Invite #BlackRock into your industrial strategy. Hand over #NHS data architecture to #Oracle.
Populate your boards with corporate lobbyists. Expand surveillance powers and #digitalID infrastructure.
At that point, when the far right eventually take office, they will not need to construct the tools of repression. We will have built them for them.’
Clive Lewis MP
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the UK government has slipped another bill to destroy childrens rights and digital privacy under the radar
It's called the "Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill"
i found some info on what it does that i will go about in the thread, but here's the petition for now:
the UK government has slipped another bill to destroy childrens rights and digital privacy under the radar
It's called the "Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill"
i found some info on what it does that i will go about in the thread, but here's the petition for now:
Over-50s no longer getting free #NHS flu jabs, now moved to over-65s..... *Sighs*
When seeking healthcare (whether for general healthcare or transition-related care), we know that most trans people in the UK don't experience the high standards of care they ought to be able to expect from healthcare professionals.
We also know that most healthcare professionals want to help their patients and to provide high quality, patient-centred care. But in too many cases, something is stopping them.
Text reads: Healthcare Professionals Report 2025
UK Healthcare Workers’ Experiences, Confidence and Comfort Supporting Trans Patients
Barriers to providing care to trans patients included:
Access to training
Lack of confidence and competence
Lack of support for prescribing hormones
Inflexible IT systems
Local policies
Lack of information about local and national services
Funding issues
Read the full report: transactual.org.uk/healthcare-professionals-report-25
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Text reads: Healthcare Professionals Report 2025
UK Healthcare Workers’ Experiences, Confidence and Comfort Supporting Trans Patients. New report
looks at healthcare professionals' confidence,
and competence in caring for trans people. Read the full report: transactual.org.uk/healthcare-professionals-report-25
Image shows a megaphone in top left corner and an image of the front cover of the report on blue and green gradient background
Our new report looks at healthcare professionals' confidence, and competence in caring for trans people.
Barriers to providing care to trans patients included:
-Access to training
-Lack of confidence and competence
-Lack of support for prescribing hormones
-Inflexible IT systems
-Local policies
-Lack of information about local and national services
-Funding issues
Read the full report at: https://transactual.org.uk/healthcare-professionals-report-25
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"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."
"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."
Doug Belshaw
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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'.
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'.
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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.
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.
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.
I love the dentist
I'm so lucky to have one
In this day and age
Might be infection
But the x-ray showed nothing
I'm to keep an eye
I love the dentist
I'm so lucky to have one
In this day and age