Tower Hamlets KONP

If the government *really* cared about the gross indignities & dangers of corridor care, they’d obviously invest in fixing the root problem, funding more beds & more social care - instead of pretending ‘new urgent care centres’ (which treat minor ailments, not patients needing admission) will do anything meaningful to fix this travesty of what NHS care should be. @wesstreeting, you promised candour from day one of office. But this from your dept is diversionary nonsense - spin, frankly. I am one of many doctors forced to have end-of-life conversations with patients on trolleys in corridors - on your watch, in your NHS with woefully insufficient beds and a nationwide crisis in social care. Can you imagine looking those patients in the eye, the shame, the rage we feel? Where is your candour now?

Canada, Australia, Ireland - doctors’ salaries are more than double those in the UK, with better care despite smaller economies Can’t help but think the problem isn’t UK doctors, but the performance of UK politicians and government

I was on the picket line today with @Aadam_Aziz and many doctors across London. And as the camera zoomed in on us, Jeremy Kyle made comments about people having “come into this country to be doctors’’ - looking straight at us, and deciding that based on the colour of our skin. Let me be absolutely clear. My parents were born here. I was born and raised in London. I have given nearly 6 years of my life working in the NHS as a doctor. And still - in 2026 - that’s not enough to be seen as someone who belongs in Britain. This isn’t just about one comment. It’s about hearing, over and over again: “Go back to where you came from.” “We don’t want you living around us.” It chips away at you. It makes you question how you’re seen. And the worst part? It actually doesn’t even shock me anymore. That’s how normalised this has become in our society. But I refuse to shrink myself to make other people comfortable. I refuse to stay silent while doctors, people who care for patients in this country every single day, can be treated like outsiders in it. I am not going anywhere. I will keep speaking. I will keep standing up. And I will keep fighting for this profession, no matter how loud the abuse gets. Solidarity to every resident doctor across England taking lawful industrial action today. Together, we will win.

The General Medical Council are targeting Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah again - join thousands of doctors to support him and demand the GMC leadership resigns! palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/complaint-gmc

The attack on the GP's right to refer, & on the patient's right to see a specialist, is one of the outrageous elements of the new imposed GP contract. As secondary care, we have to be ready to enable circumvention of this on the basis of clinical need and professional judgement.

Just on Bradford Community Broadcast on the @BMAResidents Resident Doctors strike next week and the outrageous act of Starmer cutting the promised 1000 training posts. @TheBMA

Alan Milburn worked for Centene Corporation, a US healthcare company who owned Operose DHSC Samantha Jones former CEO & president of Operose US private healthcare getting their claws into the NHS with a history of failure & extremely poor care for patients @wesstreeting complicit

What could possibly go wrong?!👇🚨🚨🚨 hsj.co.uk/technology-and…

Fact✅ The training places were necessary in the Ten Year plan agreed 12months ago Fact ✅You have increased medical school places & they will need training Fact ✅UK has fewer doctors per head of population than peer nations Fact✅… DHSC lies to the public FACTS vs FICTION 👇🏻

A message to @keir_starmer - resident doctors are at their wits end. You can’t run the NHS without the beds & staff we need. Restoring pay will stop more doctors heading abroad. Deliver the change you promised, not petty threats.

Wes Streeting is changing the GP referral system from VOLUNTARY Advice & Guidance service to MANDATORY Single Point of Access for routine referrals, but what does this mean in reality? ▶️ A&G is support TO HELP your GP decide ▶️ Single point of access DECIDES FOR your GP 👇

This week the NHS will undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote, electronic “advice and guidance” from hospital ‘clinicians’ (note, not necessarily doctors), making it even harder for patients to see a hospital specialist. Does this sound part of a plan to genuinely ‘fix’ the NHS, as Wes Streeting vowed he would do so effusively when taking up office - or more like a tactic to ration hospital care by overriding GPs in order to massage the waiting list figures? It is, of course, the latter, an extra layer of bureaucracy that at best will delay patients’ access to the specialist treatment they need, at worse sacrifice those patients on the altar of fake news about “falling” waiting lists. You don’t need me to point out the patient safety risks it potentially entails. We all know that time, in medicine, can be everything. The Royal College of GPs has been crystal clear: “The use of advice and guidance should not be mandated in any area… We have heard reports of risks of delays, with tests being required before any referral, lost messages and staff without appropriate senior clinical oversight handling requests.” The aim, says the Times, is to reduce the number of hospital outpatient appointments by 30 million annually. And the government, in a really quite breathtaking example of political spin, is presenting this as “good” for patients - as though all those people who’ve been waiting years months or even years for the first Rheumatology, Neurology or Orthopaedics appointment they so desperately need are just, you know, malingering. (I recently spoke to a patient with a new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis who’d been waiting over six months to see a neurologist for the first time – simply scandalous.) I believe this is a national health scandal from a government that apparently cares more about good spin than it does about good patient care. If you feel the same, please – please – write to your MP or the Secretary of State and tell them why. Please shout about this online, in the press, anywhere you can. Don’t let this slide. Thank you.

Advice and Guidance is going to move NHS waiting lists to the community ‘From Hospital to Community’ that’s what @wesstreeting meant It doesn’t reduce referrals the data proves this there are more A&Gs but no fewer referrals It will remove patient choice & undervalues GPs

Look out for us in the march tomorrow #TogetherAlliance - Migrants Make the NHS and Tower Hamlets is a multicultural borough with a proud history of solidarity.

@zaynhasn Worst case we’ve heard of (not London) - patient’s GP refused to refer for MRI, expecting refusal, and referred to physio instead. Patient had myeloma - rib cage collapsed into pelvis- specialist felt they’d lost 6 valuable months

GPs are having to grovel for patients to be seen in secondary care for outpatients clinics. My referrals read like pleas. With words like “pervasive”, “significant”, “debilitating” to make the case for my patients, its so strange having to honestly, in essence, beg for them.

I agree that’s why I’m off to Parliament to brief MPs for @TheDA_UK later on #Palantir Ask your MP to attend dauk.org/campaigns/our-…

This should worry every GP. Hospital-led GP contracts = loss of independence, loss of voice, loss of the partnership model. This isn’t integration it’s absorption.

We don’t believe them? When has any NHS England reform led to less work for GPs? Asking for some friends?

@DrSteveTaylor @wesstreeting Does this also move the cost of additional tests to general practice?

This is terrifying In what other department would most of the consultants openly admitting their department is not safe tolerated, instead of immediately investigating and making it safe? None. Because ED is just expected to cope.