Shaun Lintern

🚨 EXC: Antony Higginson has fought a one man war against the NHS establishment to get answers after his wife was given 6 toxic doses of paracetamol. Now the actions of 41 doctors and nurses are being re-examined after a coroner blasted their honesty: thetimes.com/article/dc5e2b…

Our research found that £1.6 billion leaked out of the NHS in the form of profits to private companies with NHS contracts over 2 years. This is enough to pay for 19,428 nurses for two years. To find out how much is leaking out from the NHS in your area 👉nhsprofitmap.org.uk

The government will increase the amount of compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal. As of 7 April, 3,273 people have received an offer and more than £2 billion has been paid out.

The @DHSCgovuk does not centrally record the number of its employees who are on performance management plans. That seems unbelievable.

I hope @Nigel_Farage retracts this false statement. I did not say Mr Tice paid the full amount. I said we don’t know what tax Mr Tice and his offshore trust paid. And the “little bit more” is an invention.

Important from @DanNeidle on the case Tice has dismissed as a “technicality” — but which actually relates to his company breaking the law by failing to pay tax. Remember, as Dan has noted, this all relates to a company which Tice had already structured in a highly irregular way in the circumstances, and which derived substantial tax benefits as a result. He now poses a big question: Did Tice treat payments from his company — which were already not subject to withholding tax as reported — as “dividends” and not “property income distributions”, thereby leaving HMRC out of pocket in his own personal capacity as taxpayer? How did his trust treat its own share of the payments from the company? Tice has claimed HMRC received what it should have whatever the company’s errors - but declined to explain how.

Streeting claims BMA are lying when they accuse govt of changing the goalposts as negotiations terms were for a 3 year deal and were accepted. He also warns costs of future strikes could come at expense of any future deal. BMA tell me they never accepted the terms.

As the latest round of unnecessary strikes come to an end, I have written to the BMA Resident Doctors Committee asking to meet the whole committee. It’s time for the BMA to be realistic and reasonable about what the country and the NHS can afford.

Crispin Odey abandons £79mn libel case against the FT over sexual misconduct claims ft.trib.al/3ScrzI8

@catherineroyuk Oooh well done and congratulations.

If you'd like to know how 'normal birth', an anti-medical doctrine, became national policy in UK maternity care, my book is out. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GPNDVRVT/…

So how is the strike going in your hospital as we approach the weekend? DM if you'd prefer to share things anonymously.

Times letters: NHS culture and failings in maternity care #Echobox=1775803855" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/comment/letter…

More than half of NHS trusts are in financial deficit:

@ScoopMaxwell Thank you.

@ShaunLintern As a parent of two doctors, I'd like to thank you for your well researched and balanced piece

Another doctors strike looms next week - I took a look at one of the central issues making doctors angry, thousands can't get training jobs. But with each pay rise they become more expensive for the NHS to train while patients wait for treatment: thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

Today, two years on from our thematic review 'The long wait', we publish a blog about the lack of progress for severely mentally unwell people in prison. Read the blog: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/a-growing…

Maternity deaths at 20-year high as NHS ‘ignores warnings’ #Echobox=1775431412" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

A mother of two, who died on the plane home from Cape Verde in 2024, kept a diary of her sickness whilst she was on holiday. Full story in today's ST @thetimes : thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

@isitsleepytime @bumblebeenush I know. Its frustrating. I requested it be changed yday. I write the article not the headline.

@ShaunLintern @bumblebeenush Buddy, what’s with the “junior doctor”

The NHS is using thousands of “locally employed doctors” on short-term contracts to keep services running. In Novintan’s hospital, two thirds of doctors on the rota are in non-training posts. “There’s a real need for all of those jobs,” she said. READ:thetimes.com/article/0a6804…

"We previously had decent progression, and we didn’t have a jobs crisis, and doctors were valued as they were back in 2008. That is not some fantasy standard that has never existed" - @fletchjack READ: thetimes.com/article/0a6804…