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Winter pressures leave GP 'exhausted' bbc.in/4g9nhtk

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ

‘Bring back the family Dr’ ~What are Wes & Labour waiting for? People want to see GPs but practices closing, GPs unemployed, NI & staff costs⬆️ 1000 (ARRS) GPs just 68 extra FTE added NHS England plans don’t include GPs as they have cut 20% £/patient funding in 8 years ~ £2bn pa

Thread/ Today, a devastating report from the @theRCN, based on the testimony of over 5000 NHS nurses, has rightly catapulted the national shame that is NHS 'corridor care' into the headlines once more. (1/n)

@JANUSZCZAK Am having exactly the same problem…every day waiting…nothing…visa a bit worse than rugs…DX …Express a misnomer ..still waiting

I have been waiting for 4 days for the delivery of an Indian visa by DX Express. Every day they say they are delivering it. Every day they don't come. How can the Indian Embassy work with them? They are a disgrace.

🔴Joining the EU Single Market Could Be the Gamechanger for Keir Starmer’s Government Both the UK economy and the new Labour Government needs an urgent shot in the arm. Could this be the solution? bylinetimes.com/2025/01/13/kei…

One teaspoon of the neonicotinoids pesticide could kill 1.25 billion bees. And yet the Government could be about to let it back on English fields. Sign the petition: tell Ministers to keep this ban on bee-killing pesticides in place. 38d.gs/-ufv

The government’s decision to have a recruitment freeze for cancer and diagnostic departments is an extraordinarily shortsighted move. Cancer waits are rising in the UK, with patients suffering needless delays to their NHS care. This is due to a lack of staff and resources. This freeze on recruitment is widespread. We have 11,757 doctors who are unable to specialise to become cancer specialists, surgeons, psychiatrists, anaesthetists, or GPs because the government has put a mindless restriction on training numbers. We have 1000s of GPs out of work, because the government refuses to provide adequate funding for general practice. If we don’t have a well staffed NHS, the current situation will only get worse. When will the government act?

“It’s so blindingly - excuse my language - bleedin’ obvious that in an intelligent, affluent, civilised society we get this done.” Sir Andrew Dilnot tore strips off the govt yesterday for deferring addressing the crisis in social care until 2028. (1/3) theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

A good question from @TheDA_UK Why do we have a desperate shortage of GP’s when there are 3,500 under and unemployed GP’s? It makes no sense @wesstreeting dauk.org/work-with-gps-…

@wesstreeting @AmandaPritchard Posted anonymously by an A&E doctor. Im writing this because I’m fu*king livid. I’m A&E reg with 9+ years experience in AEDThis morning was the first time EVER that I cried in my car after a shift.1/n

Staffing There is a clear lack of staff in A&E, as the number of patients is ever increasing there is little provision to match that with appropriate staffing levels. Day on day I see staff working flat out, having to cover more patients than ever before. 12/20.

Dear @wesstreeting, My timeline is filled with experienced GPs desperate & unable to find work Want to solve the crisis of patient access to a GP? I suggest you start by employing existing GPs instead of diverting funds to find their lesser skilled replacements. An NHS GP

“Let’s focus on general practice. It used to be the jewel in the crown of the NHS and we’ve lost 2,000 GPs in the last 10 years….yet we’ve got GPs at home who can’t find work and that’s because the funding is inadequate.” @DavidGWrigley on @SkyNews

GPs are experts in managing patients, reducing referrals & demand on hospitals Yet Govts & NHSE have cut the funding to GP practices (20% £/patient in 8yrs) leading to fewer GPs & unemployed GPs Govt needs to work with GPs urgently

The astonishing cognitive dissonance of a health secretary who insists he'll save the NHS - yet kicks the social care crisis into touch until 2028. 1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care. Of course A&E is dangerously overwhelmed 🤷‍♀️

Pic from Oli BlueSky account in post below. #didsbury #flooding

We have lost one of our greatest DJs Johnny Walker. I listened to his Radio Caroline show (out in the North Sea) every night as a teenager in the 60s. His unique voice and passion for music was his special talent.

'We treat young people like absolute rubbish... we put every impediment in their way that we can.' As a surge in Brits flock to Australia, political economist @RichardJMurphy tells @Matthew_Wright that young people in the UK 'face a life prospect of financial stress'.