Elspeth Moncrieff

These are not “overdiagnosed” patients. These are some of my sickest patients—presenting with recurring syncope, chest tightness, exercise intolerance, dizziness, headaches, brain fog, and profound fatigue. 2/14

New York just kicked Palantir out of its hospitals. We can do the same for the #NHS. Parliament debates Palantir's contract this Wednesday - email your MP and ask them to attend ⬇️ foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/pala…

They only acknowledge Covid when it causes rich people to not make more money as fast

It’s Time To Consider Whether Patient Input Remains Cost Effective In Healthcare

Medical Community Concerned By Public’s Tendency To Notice Their Own Symptoms

1G) Fire up covid vaccine research again. Don't cut corners. More research on effects. More research on efficacy. Boosters available for everyone. AND EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT THEM.

We're paying for the decimation of our NHS. We're paying for substandard care, PAs/ACPs/ANPs £25-£75m a year to be precise. We're lining the pockets of private enterprise. Streeting's rubbing his hands.

By 2035, the wealth of the richest 200 families will be larger than the whole GDP of the UK. That's not 'hard work' - that's a rigged system. Tax the super rich.

Anyone can become disabled Disability is not a moral failing. It’s not something that only happens to people who did “something wrong” It’s not an anomaly Most people will experience disability at some point in their lives Helping us fight for better support benefits everyone

I was thinking of this earlier.

We put humans on the moon. Eradicated continents of certain diseases. Removed the bacteria from our drinking water. It’s truly baffling that our scientific progress stops just short of removing viruses from the air.

NEWS: Labour to ration NHS referrals Labour’s plans to ration NHS referrals are deeply concerning and will affect us all. Instead of being referred directly to a specialist when your GP thinks it’s needed, now your doctor will have to email a specialist and you have to wait for them to email back their view. Once your GP gets the email back, they either need to call you in for another appointment, or provide that specialist's assessment to you by letter. Then you will need to wait and see whether that advice (given without seeing you in person) works for a period of time, before then going back to your GP again, and asking again to be referred to a specialist if you are still suffering with the health issue. The result? Longer waiting times for specialist care, while specialists spend more time writing emails than actually seeing patients and using their expertise. On paper, waiting lists will therefore look significantly shorter, but only because fewer people ever make it onto them. You are not on a waiting list while the GP is waiting for the specialist to send their advice (without seeing you). You are only on a waiting list when, and if, you then request later to be seen by the Specialist, once you've gone through all of the process above. ⁠So all of this means the Government can announce they've cut waiting lists massively, but what is actually means is longer waiting times for specialist care for all of us as patients, and specialists spend their time writing emails not seeing patients.

An unsupervised, not medically qualified Physician Associate attempted Lumbar Puncture unsuccessfully SEVEN TIMES on an Autistic young woman PA refused to give patient Diazepam Doctors had advised due to her Anxiety & Autistic Made her move with needle in Back Falsified records

Disabled people don’t owe you our medical history and diagnosis. You’re not entitled to know “what’s wrong with us” just because our disability is visible. Then if we flip the tables and ask you what your medical history is, you get defensive. It doesn’t feel good, does it?

I'm fucking furious. Covid is AIRBORNE. So what does the hospital recommend? wAsH yOuR hAnDs A good idea in general, but IT DOES NOT PROTECT YOU FROM COVID OR ANY OTHER AIRBORNE DISEASE (including flu, measles, TB). This is dangerous incompetence on an industrial scale

BREAKING: Letters show Keir Starmer was personally warned as DPP about Post Office lawyers’ malpractice, but ignored the warnings - his CPS team continued using Fujitsu’s seriously flawed Horizon system in its own cases (@ComputerWeekly ⁦@KarlFl⁩) computerweekly.com/news/366641051…

The last 24 hours have shown what many have said for a long time. Britain's role as an accomplice to Trump's America must end. We must urgently decouple from a rogue US & seek security with allies closer to home. That starts with suspension of the US bombers on British soil.

Last thursday I went to a meeting with colleagues from across the county. I hadn't seen some of them for a year. I spent a couple of hours overall chatting, and so many of their lives are dominated by health problems. Not just the old ones. The young ones too. I was devastated by the string of horrors. One woman whose husband (40s) has been diagnosed with early onset parkinsons. One man whose wife (40s) has been wheelchair bound for four years from 'long covid/vaccine damage'. One woman whose brother, a previously healthy orthopedic surgeon (50), dropped dead from a stroke. Another woman whose husband (40s) had a stroke but didn't drop dead. One woman would have been there but wasn't because her husband has just died of bowel cancer. Two people (50s) about to retire due to health problems. One guy whose young children had both been in hospital with lung problems from persistent illness. One woman whose brother (40s) is in palliative care for a brain tumour. These were just the ones I had conversations about. This was just *the recent news*. I already knew of other people in the group who have had heart attacks and strokes and other problems themselves. I didn't speak to everyone. I think about half the people I spoke to had something big going on. Death only accounted for a small proportion of the problem. Serious illness accounted for most of it. One of the couples, the illness of the husband led to the wife's early retirement to care for him. Several of these people were previously healthy with healthy lifestyles. Not overweight, not homeless, not addicts, not ill fed, not exhausted. Just infected again and again. And some of them... it wasn't what they said, but how they looked. People can age terribly in even just a year.

Wes Streeting has been the Labour MP for Ilford North since 2015 and is currently the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Wes is very much the focal point in the government’s pay dispute with doctors in the NHS. He has described the British Medical Association (BMA) as a ‘“cartel-like union and no longer a professional voice for doctors.”’ He has also called striking doctors “delusional”. The Institute for Government has described Wes’ approach to reforming the NHS as ‘“chaotic and incoherent”.’ Accusations have been made against Wes Streeting that he is deliberately targeting doctors and medical staff who voice their support for the Palestinian people. Organisations such as Healthcare Workers Against Censorship and Doctors in Unite have demanded an end to what critics perceive as a ‘“witch-hunt”.’ Wes has sometimes been a source of controversy because of his attritional, factional and confrontational style. He has been accused of bullying political opponents in the Commons. The @ElectoralCommUK website shows that Wes has personally received £705,258.66 in donations. The bulk of these donations have come from one man - the private healthcare executive Peter Hearn. Peter Hearn has been funding Wes’ career for at least ten years - directly and through his companies - The OPD Group and MPM Connect Ltd. The following donations and perks have been given to Wes: £40,000 over 5 payments from Peter Hearn directly. £218,000 from Peter Hearn and The OPD Group in 4 payments. The most recent payment - £55,000 in February 2026 - while the BMA dispute has been ongoing. £96,000 over 3 payments from Peter Hearn and MPM Connect Ltd. £18,500 over 5 payments from Sir Trevor Chinn. £13,000 from Kevin Craig. £45,000 over 6 payments from business executive, tech entrepreneur, founder of the Bank of London and LGBT advocate Anthony Watson. £80,000 over 5 payments from billionaire hedge fund manager and former Tory donor John Armitage. £15,000 from Ruth Driscoll who is associated with @mariecurieuk . £37,500 over 2 payments from the opaque organisation Labour For The Long Term. @Labourlongterm £3,143 from @unisontheunion £7,000 from the @CommunityUnion £70,000 over 2 payments from Francesca Sainsbury Perrin. £4,700 from Labour Friends of Israel for a fact-finding trip to Israel. ✈️ 🇮🇱 £14,600 in 2 payments from Lord Waheed Alli. £16,000 over 2 payments from LGBTQ activist and publisher of @DIVAmagazine Linda Riley. £10,000 over 3 payments from PR executive Daniel Hughes. £5,000 from Red Capital Ltd. £5,000 from Lord Matthew Oakeshott. £2.229 from Lee Petar. £4,460 in 2 payments from Stephen Grabiner. £2,200 from Louise Jacobs. £2,225 from James Libson. £2,230 from Claire Menton. £2,230 from Joseph Grabiner. £2,230 from Miriam Grabiner. £2,000 from Miles Webber. £2,230 from David Menton. £30,000 from the former Mayor of the West Midlands Richard Parker. £2,498 from SRE Hotels Ltd. for a speaking engagement at the Cliveden Book Festival.📕 £1,160 in tickets and hospitality from the @FootballAssoc for a Taylor Swift concert. 🎵 £1,050 in tickets and hospitality from @SkyArts for the @hayfestival . £600 in tickets and hospitality from F.S. Global Ltd for the @glyndebourne Festival. With his approx. £180,000 salary, expenses, donations, speaking engagement fees, radio appearance fees and various perks, Wes has enjoyed a very successful career as an MP. And as an MP, Wes initially voted to retain the two-child benefit cap, voted to scrap the winter fuel payment (in January 2025, Wes told pensioners to “layer up and put the heating on”), voted for the welfare changes that will impact people who are disabled and unwell, voted against an inquiry into grooming gangs and voted to restrict trials by jury. ‘The Labour Party - Working For You’. @UKLabour @wesstreeting @TheBMA @itvnews @BBCNews @Channel4News @SkyNews #LabourDoorstep #LocalElections2026 @_LFI @TheGreenParty #TheLobby @IlfordNorthCLP

Not enough radiologists to get your cancer scan reported @wesstreeting doesn't care about that. He doesn't want doctors he wants alphabet soup practitioners. There could be extra radiologists in the 1000 jobs he took away playing politics rather than caring about patients