Brian Coates

24yrs today donated a kidney to our son, pictured with his boy #grandson on 5 December 2000 (Still doing great) @share_wishes @LTHKidneys @kidneycareuk thank you to all the Nephrologists, Renal teams Transplant surgeons and all our fantastic #NHS for ongoing care/checkups!😀🫘💙

HE PROTECTED 54,000 DOCTORS. THE @NHS PROTECTED ITSELF. In January 2014, Dr Chris Day (@drcmday) was working overnight in the intensive care unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. Two locum doctors didn't show up. The unit was running at double the patient load the national guidelines allow. He raised the alarm. He reported unsafe staffing. He linked the situation to two patient deaths. That's what the NHS calls a whistleblower. What followed was eight years of litigation, a legal battle all the way to the Court of Appeal, and over £700,000 of public money spent by Health Education England (@NHSE_WTE) and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (@LG_NHS) trying to stop his case being heard at all. Here's the really elegant bit. HEE's opening legal argument wasn't that they'd done nothing wrong. It was that whistleblowing law simply didn't apply to them, because they didn't directly employ junior doctors. They were just the organisation that controlled the career progression of every single one of England's 54,000 junior doctors. Totally different thing. Dr Day fought that argument to the Court of Appeal and won. The law was clarified. All 54,000 junior doctors below consultant grade in England now have statutory whistleblowing protection. One man, crowdfunding against three QCs, changed employment law for an entire profession. No formal apology from the NHS. No reinstatement. No path back to a consultant career. He has worked as a locum A&E doctor ever since, doing overnight shifts while his opponents collected salaries, pensions, and the occasional glowing tribute to NHS transparency. During the 2022 tribunal hearing, the communications director at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust deleted up to 90,000 emails. The director whose entire NHS email archive was also deleted during live litigation happened to be the instructing legal client in the case. The tribunal described the conduct as extraordinary. Nobody was prosecuted. The trust issued a partial apology about a press release. The system did exactly what it always does. It absorbed the cost, deflected accountability, and waited for the man it destroyed to run out of money or energy. He hasn't. Sources: The Guardian | @BBC | BMJ | Westminster Confidential @davidhencke | Protect @WhistleUK | @BylineTimes | @CrowdJustice

@reece_dinsdale @SunderlandLolly Flak? More like mildly annoying drizzle, Captain. The Duck Platoon has formed up… we’re waddling through it like pros. Quack and roll! 🦆🪖🤪

@Bricoates1 @SunderlandLolly Flak incoming, Sargent… duck!

Thank you for the amazing support you give me on here. I get so much flak which, fortunately, has now become water off a duck’s back… and in no small part because of the strength I got from you lovely lot! 🙌

@dsnorthnorth This reads like party loyalty over integrity. That’s not what you were elected to do. You admit it was a “serious error” but still back the PM? That doesn’t add up.

My Statement on Mandelson & Today’s Vote The appointment of Peter Mandelson was a serious error of judgement by the Prime Minister. This was my view from the moment that his appointment was announced in late 2024. However, I did not make my view known publicly or within the...

@DjShok803 Cheers 🥂🍾 to many more healthy years!💪👊😃

So Thankful, Grateful, Humbled and Blessed! It’s my 5th Year Kidneyversary! 💚💚💚🥹🥹🫡🫡‼️

Your GP says you should see a hospital specialist for your condition Labour’s new Single Point of Access now decides whether that GP referral goes through They have a target to "redirect" 25% of referrals I wanted to know: who is making that decision? I asked the Minister 👇

We’re thrilled to share a breakthrough moment in advancing treatment for #RareKidneyDisease. Our therapy for #FSGS has received FDA approval, the first and only approved medicine for FSGS. #InRareForLife Press release: bit.ly/47V4jFJ

#Oliverscampaign When your child dies, you never move on DONT say these hurtful words Has she not got over it yet?” Would you ever get over your child dying He’s in a better place!! Better than being with his loving family and friends? God only takes the best. I have no words

@GMB £102 passports? Cheers Rachel Reeves and your genius government all part of the Ripoff Britain masterplan. Tax us to breathe, tax us to leave the sinking ship you're captaining. Can't afford holidays? Perfect, stay put and fund the next U-turn. Absolute clowns.

The cost of a new passport goes up from today. A standard adult online application now sits at £102 - up from £94.50, while a child's passport is £5 more expensive - £66.50 today up from £61.50.

@GMB @GMB The same screeching hypocrites demanding scrap it stayed silent when their own families happily pocketed it. Wealthy GMB presenters stirring the flames peak hypocrisy. Pensioners still pay tax long after retirement; they’ve earned every penny. Cry harder, you grifting clowns

More than 12 million pensioners will see their state pension rise 4.8% today under the triple lock. But the government has been accused of doing too little for working-age households so is it time to scrap the triple lock?

A hero is someone who risks their life to save another. Someone who steps up when no one else will. Someone impact simply because it’s the right thing to do. THAT IS my husband John who donated his kidney to save a stranger’s life 4 yrs ago today. #organdonationsaveslives

Folks I am aware of an Ex Police Officer who Committed Suicide yesterday; he said something inappropriate on a WhatsApp about a colleague it wasn’t too Appalling & could have been dealt with but someone complained; He resigned & he’s Now Dead; it was a Final Written Warning at most; I know his name rank & force; Pushed to SUICIDE with absolute no care & was a highly thought of officer & Leader; I’ll leave it there! RIP Mate😞🙏

@bmj_latest @DrHWazir @wesstreeting The most clueless Health Sec ever. Threatening to axe 1,000 promised specialty training places (part of 4,500 expansion) as docs rejected your best & final offer ignores 25% pay erosion since '08 (BMJ/OHE). Worsens doctor shortages for patients. Negotiate properly!

The UK health secretary, Wes Streeting, has vowed to withdraw promised extra specialty training places unless resident doctors call off their next strike bmj.com/content/392/bm…

A fab evening last night discussing all things #T1D with @MelissaHollowa, @nerdabetic, @Tims_Pants and Lesley. Thank you all 💙 #Type1Diabetes

IYKYK 21/3 Trisomy 21 @LionofGlencoe @reece_dinsdale Feel cheeky 2 ask-any chance u could do a shout out 2 these amazing people? Or post something of your own U kindly posted a video of a friend of yours last year ? Apologies if you don’t have time But if u don’t ask…🙏🥰

Bookmark this one The #NHS cannot afford present costs of #AntiObesity medications India will - likely- show the way & hold a clue For good or bad? The UK health system is heading towards a world of generics and unaffordabilty of most other things @kamleshkhunti @DrSdeG @ShivaniM_KC @NeilFlochMD bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Over 50,000 patients have asked not to have their data placed on the Palantir federated data platform. The government must listen — public trust is essential to the NHS, and it cannot be taken for granted. #Palantir #NHS

@reece_dinsdale The best therapy for humans😃🐶🐾

Thought you might like to see a little bit of Nelly. 🙌

Rest in Peace my beautiful Angel 🖤🤍 My beautiful partner Sophie passed away this week after an incredibly brave battle with brain cancer. She was the most caring, kindest soul who faced everything with courage resilience and dignity. Until we meet again my love 💔

@_JulieJohnston Local checking in😊 that golden window is so short this time of year it's criminal you only get a handful of frames! Beautiful series though, and Harley's clearly the pro model.🐶✨

From golden to grey. Our morning at #DruridgeBay #Northumberland