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
Aral Balkan
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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'.
priryo@linernotes.club
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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
Dane 🇮🇪 ☮️🕉️⚛️☸️
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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
🏴 🤖 📸
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
🏴 🤖 📸
Aral Balkan
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I'm with the British Medical Association here. Genocide enabler Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.
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 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/
Jonathan Schofield
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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'!
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'!
Alan Zimmerman
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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!