Deborah Sharp

Excl: The NHS is proposing to cut back recruitment to avoid “financial ruin” and instead use AI to help doctors treat patients Leaked workforce plan due to launch in coming weeks says NHS must make do with hundreds of thousands fewer staff than envisioned by Conservatives

Reports that the Government plans to slash planned doctor numbers and rely on AI are a massive, dangerous gamble. "It is crushingly disappointing to see Government apparently planning to simply accept that the low number of doctors we have in this country is just a fact of life." says Amit Kochhar, BMA workforce lead. Find out more bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

@easyJet please tell us you will hold the Bristol flight from CDG as passport control is broken

It is with a very heavy heart that I advise friends, and colleagues, and followers of Richard Lehman of his passing. His daughter Hannah wishes the news to be shared widely among his academic and medical circles. Richard had been unwell but was active and generous in supporting many of us, right until the end. He was also active on this platform, advocating for patients tirelessly. Richard, my friend, you will be missed. ❤️

@medicalmodelbri @geshNHS @fletchjack @BMAResidents @jamesmurray_ldn As a paeds reg at ST8 my in hrs work was paid at £24 per hr. 5 yrs med school. Foundation yrs. sub specialist training and about to CCT. Now a new PA, no experience needed is offered £34-38 per hr. Something very wrong in all of this.

Alex Tolley, 58, has Down's syndrome and is sleeping rough on Broad Street after Reading Borough Council cleared his belongings. The council's response came from "a spokesman." No one's taking responsibility.

#Oliverscampaign I can't get my head around the fact that a man with Down Syndrome is living on the streets This my friends is England Mr Tolley’s mother died 3 years ago & he has been in between temporary accommodation & sleeping on the streets since readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26101439.…

Has there ever been a more blindingly obvious example of the grass is greener syndrome than the sudden hysteria surrounding Andy Burnham? He lost to Ed Miliband in 2010. He was thrashed by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015. Now he’s capped bus fares in Manchester and he’s seen as the all-conquering, returning hero and the saviour of Labour and the country?

Plans to transfer hundreds of NHS 'bank' staff from Bath, Salisbury, and Swindon to private firm Pulse this August are being called "unacceptable". Is this the "stealth privatisation" people fear? Read: bathvoice.co.uk/2026/05/14/bat…

As NHS Ambulance paramedic if I divulged a patients details to anyone other than an appropriate DR or Nurse, I would be sacked. Yet we have a government (former health secretary, @wesstreeting) handing over personal and confidential pt data to american company, Palantir.

As NHS health care professionals we have intense training EVERY YEAR throughout our career in GDPR, sharing patient records, ensuring consent…. Yet our health secretary just sold off our personal data to Palantir - a foreign company involved in genocide BEHIND OUR BACKS!! 🚨🚨

WTAF???!! As his final act, Wes Streeting just signed off ALL OUR PATIENT RECORDS to Palantir WITHOUT our knowledge or consent & then resigned “Your medical notes, prescriptions & DNA will be used however a politician decides; you’ll have no say & no choice” TO PALANTIR!!! 🚩

Why are the NHS waiting lists going down? Because people are removed, and they are being paid to remove them. £33 per patient. That was £11,583,000 paid to do NOTHING just in March. That's nearly £150m a year, enough to hire 30,000 Doctors.

📰 NEWS: @AnthonyNolan and @GOSHCharity launch “UK-first” research study to transform lives of children receiving cell therapy Read more: oncologynewstoday.co.uk/anthony-nolan-… Harley (pictured) was eight when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a type of blood cancer.

Has everyone forgotten what Labour have achieved in under two years? With three more years just imagine how things could be! DON’T DO THIS!

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2 trainee ACPs literally training on the job to do exactly what I'm doing today as a medical doctor. They couldn't even name the main arteries supplying the brain. Even the qualified ACP had no idea which symptoms/signs corresponded to the different areas of brain involved

It is 6.40am on a Tuesday in May. The BBC weather, on the radio in the kitchen, has promised sunny intervals. Brian, looking out at the fell, sees Doris already in the lee of the wall, head slightly down, wool flat against her left side. He puts down his mug. He reaches for his coat. By 10.30am, the rain has come in horizontal off the fell, and the BBC has updated the forecast. Doris was twenty-six minutes ahead. She is, by Brian's working tally, twenty-six minutes ahead on about 70% of weather changes. Sheep have, anatomically, several reasons for this. A coat of wool that responds to humidity at a level of measurable precision. Wool fibres swell by approximately 16% in diameter at high humidity. A sheep moves slightly differently in damp wool than in dry wool, and Doris has been doing that calculation in her own body for her entire working life. Olfactory receptors significantly more numerous than the human equivalent. Sheep smell the change in the air long before a human notices the cloud has started to lift. Barometric pressure sensitivity, well-documented across livestock species. Doris can feel a storm coming before the storm is visible from the gate. She does not know it as a forecast. She knows it as a slight discomfort, and she addresses the discomfort by moving to the lee. Behavioural rules of thumb developed across millions of generations: lie down before rain, find the lee before wind, move uphill before flooding, move downhill before heavy snow. These are not chosen behaviours. These are the heritable wiring of an animal that has, in the British uplands, had to be right about the weather for ten thousand years. Brian has, on the farm next door, been watching the flock for thirty-one years. He has observed Doris's behaviour against the BBC forecast more times than he can count. The BBC has not, to our knowledge, attempted to recruit her. The BBC's loss. The forecast said: sunny intervals. It is, by 10.30am, raining. The sheep was right. The sheep is always right.

Freezing GP training expansion during an NHS workforce shortage is reckless. Patients already face long waits for appointments, and delaying new GP posts risks worsening access to care when the system urgently needs more frontline doctors. #WesStreeting telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/0…

The UK is not a football club. Chopping and changing managers is for Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. We don’t need another Tudor. Starmer is a third rate communicator with no skills in picking people and leading teams. But toppling him midterm without an obvious alternative is a recipe for political and financial instability