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My Little one at #TUC #DemandBetter London Today. All her own words and design.

Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data. This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide. We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.

MEET THE FOUR PEOPLE WHO RAN THE NHS WHILE WHISTLEBLOWERS WERE BEING DESTROYED. Private Eye @PrivateEyeNews called them the Cussed Quartet. While the Super Sextet were being suspended, gagged, sued, and sacked for raising patient safety concerns, these four were running the show. All four were present at the top of the NHS system during some of the worst patient safety scandals Britain has ever seen. All four kept their jobs, their salaries, and in some cases, their careers advanced. Dr Jane Collins was CEO of Great Ormond Street Hospital when Dr Kim Holt @drkimholt and three other paediatric consultants sent a letter warning that the child protection clinic in Haringey was dangerously understaffed and missing vital patient records. Collins commissioned the Sibert report, which confirmed the failings. She then withheld it from the serious case review into the death of Baby Peter Connelly. When the cover-up began to unravel, her lawyers wrote to Dr Holt claiming the hospital was not aware she had ever raised concerns about child protection. That sentence was designed to rewrite the documentary record. Collins removed herself from the GMC register, making a referral over Baby P's death impossible. She survived a vote of no-confidence from 50 consultants. She left GOSH in 2012 to become CEO of Marie Curie. Cynthia Bower was Chief Executive of NHS West Midlands from 2006 to 2008. That is the strategic health authority responsible for supervising Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, where up to 1,200 patients may have died due to appalling standards of care. Her authority failed to act on very high death rates at Mid Staffs and other hospitals in the region, and commissioned a piece of research from Birmingham University specifically to justify not taking action. She was then appointed Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission, the body meant to regulate the entire NHS. Under her watch, the CQC made the lead investigator for the Mid Staffs scandal sign a gagging clause when she left. The CQC also allegedly deleted an internal review that would have exposed its own failures over Morecambe Bay. Bower was later named in that report. She resigned in 2012. David Nicholson became NHS Chief Executive in 2006. He was previously chief executive of the SHA covering Shropshire, Staffordshire and the West Midlands. Mid Staffs started on his watch. His appearance before the public inquiry was postponed after the Department of Health delayed producing key documents. He was then appointed, without any apparent competition, as chief executive of the new NHS Commissioning Board. Nicholson was the most powerful person in the NHS for years. He later resigned in 2013 amid sustained public pressure. Barbara Hakin was Chief Executive of the SHA that oversaw United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust. When Gary Walker, the trust's CEO, wrote to her warning that patient safety was being compromised by the pressure to hit government targets, her response, recorded on an internal email, was: you need to meet targets whatever the demand. Walker was sacked. Hakin was promoted to Director of Commissioning at the Department of Health, where she sat alongside David Nicholson. The pattern is not complicated. Doctors who raise safety concerns get suspended, investigated, sued, and destroyed. The managers who ignored those concerns get promoted, appointed to national roles, and thanked for their service. Private Eye @PrivateEyeNews documented this in 2011. Almost nothing has changed. Source: Shoot the Messenger, Private Eye @PrivateEyeNews Special Report by Dr Phil Hammond @drphilhammond and Andrew Bousfield

The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground. Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground. War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.

Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne. The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.

I’ve been doing this GP malarkey for nearly 20y now. It struck me today that the only way I can carry on practising the way I used to is if I do it at my own personal expense. It never used to be like this - there was enough time in the day for bereavement visits, wellbeing checks, proactive care, time with colleagues to discuss patients & build relationships. General practice today is decision making at the same speed as a shoot-em-up game. Today was just me for 55 same day requests for appointments, clinical supervision of three members of staff, medical student education, paramedic education and all routine needs for a population of 1250 patients. We’re fortunate to have personal lists - though the new contract doesn’t value the continuity at all - and that matters to me deeply. Leaving work at 7, I decided to pop in to a patient of mine that I’ve known for 14y. In their 80s, they’ve just had joint replacement surgery and are having a bit of a wobble. We had a chat, they felt better, we have a plan & I’ll check in next week. This is the kind of GP I want to be. My day would have been less frantic, I’d have eaten/urinated at a sensible time, and I’d would have been less snappy with the children whom I saw briefly before bed if there hadn’t been so much nonsense crowding my day: 25 mins on hold trying to get through to a specialist (and failing), an insurance company slyly demanding a conversation with me about a non-urgent issue because it saves them money, dealing with consequences of private tests not requested by me but with the inevitable ‘see your GP’ as disposition, missing discharge medication, delayed follow-up, inappropriate ‘GP to’ as the heart failure team have a waiting list - and much more. Commissioning gaps, poor clinical pathway planning, govt targets on access over quality, media perpetuation of entitlement over responsibility and disproportionate investment & expansion of specialists over general practice have caused this. This is not ‘part time’ GP working - as a partner that’s never a thing. This is expectations from everywhere without resourcing to match. We want to deliver the things we did 20y ago - that’s why we went into this. If you want your family doctor back then you need to support us - because we want to be that too. I’m a GP, but also a Mum, wife and daughter of aged parents. I can’t do this at my own expense any more, and nor should I have to. Arguments of laziness and greed always abound, but really what we need is a properly resourced service. Please stand with us - a fight is coming.

We can’t let Royal Mail go the way of water companies, where bosses are rewarded with millions for causing chaos workers have to deal with. We need Royal Mail honouring its agreement with the CWU that sets out a positive vision for the company and treats workers better.

Lebanese die, Israelis are killed

Please sign if you are a UK citizen and are opposed to the introduction of mandatory digital ID. The petition is at almost 2.2 million signatures already. Let’s send a message to Starmer. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7301…

98 months since we lost 72 loved ones in the Grenfell fire. As work starts next month to dismantle the Tower, we ask you to continue to keep Grenfell in your hearts and minds until some form of Justice comes 💚

I tweet every day to remind everyone that we need to #savenhsdentists in the UK thousands struggle to get NHS dentists, thousands can't afford private dentists, dentists have been privatised via the back door, please retweet, @wesstreeting @Keir_Starmer

Shameful.

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@RoyalMailHelp Why don't you respond to direct messaging. Just spent 45 mins waiting to speak with someone and then cut off. Several parcels gone missing over the last few weeks or deliveries taking weeks to arrive. Royal mail is a disgrace.

@RoyalmailHQ_ Already done this and no one responds. I tried to call your customer service, on hold for 45 minutes and then cut off. This has happened 3 times now.