“A doctor, arrested and jailed for her involvement in Just Stop Oil protests, has had her medical licence suspended for five months
(…)Doctors' Association UK said: "This is a story of a clinician being punished for raising serious concerns about dangerous inaction on the greatest threat to global health we have ever, or will ever
experience”
“The British Medical Association (BMA) has said it is "very concerned" by a tribunal's finding that a doctor's participation in Just Stop Oil protests amounted to professional misconduct
… She said: [BMA] "Climate change has been declared the biggest potential health crisis in the world by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Hmmm... so Doctors are over-burdened & their working lives need to be improved. But cutting the requirements for mandatory additional in-career training seems an odd area to focus on.
Odd, that is, unless you start from the position that it will be impossible to expand the number of doctors in the mid-term & so easing off their hours cannot come from increasing the workforce.
This looks like NHS England trying to make the best of an impossible situation.
"Of the 850,000 people who are long-term sick, fully half say they have depression or anxiety," said Sunak in such a manner today that these were not real illnesses.
....
"It would be wrong to sit back and accept this growing trend."
JFC, the #UK is so desperate for a #GeneralElection which must be called in the next 6 months ... But not before the #Tories make one more attack to damage the #NHS
I don't but one of our sons works for the NHS in Manchester.
Meanwhile Wes Streeting has taken £175,000 from donors with links to private health firms since January 2023. Labour will come for the SNHS given half a chance.
#ClimateDiary It seems, IS, utterly crazy, that amidst everything else the UK government is ruthlessly continuing its clampdown on climate protesters. But it is.
Excellent article by Natasha Walter here on how Dr Sarah Benn got 30 days in prison for holding up a placard saying “Stop New Oil” and overall recent developments:
“the direction of travel is fast and frightening and its repercussions are growing.”
#ClimateDiary and now Dr Benn has also been found guilty of professional msiconduct, by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal. This is deeply wrong. Holding up a sign and protesting - for planetary, human health! - does not constitute medical misconduct. I hope many #doctors will speak up against this. #NHS#JustStopOil#ExtinctionRebellion
I’m looking at the reports that #starmer#labour#ScottishLabour are going to commit to replacing Trident. An obscene amount of money so that Starmer can sit with the ‘big boys’ at the nuclear table. #jackiebmsp must be proud and salivating at the thought of retaining her seat at the expense of the #nhs and #socialcare. #scottishindependence now!
I wish for all the people who believe #trans kids should be subjected to double-blind studies of the effectiveness of hormone treatments to themselves subjected to the first double-blind studies of the effectiveness of parachutes.
"The sheer number of people waiting over 18 weeks for vital heart care shocks and saddens me – it would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Without urgent intervention, such long waits on this extreme scale will continue to put people at unacceptable risk of death or disability for years to come.”
Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, consultant cardiologist and associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation #HeartDisease#NHS#NHSWaitingLists#UKPolitics
And you're not going to fail Wes?
Going to shoehorn in more Private Healthcare while destroying the NHS, aren't you?
Think Queer kids don't know their own minds as well, don't you Wes, even though you're Queer yourself.
Maybe don't go to a Pride Wes, we don't want you there.
This man betrays his own kind for politics, think the NHS is safe with him?
A 70 year old fried collapsed and died in the toiet of his private room - on an NHS ward his life would probably have been saved. The only time my partner used his work-provided BUPA, he had a tonsillectomy from a dodgy practitioner, developed bleeding and was told to take a taxi back to the Lewisham practice. I decided we should go to A&E at nearby Charing Cross. He haemorrhaged in the room there. Would have died in the taxi. https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-private-healthcare-deaths-invest-nhs#cs=d5c349708a2763b5cf3283cddfe14d73_1712648897_336~cid=630902
@davidpnice even back in the eighties my friend was studying to be a surgeon, now a Professor of Radiology.
When I asked about private hospitals he told me he'd never use one for an operation because the risks from complications were much higher. Because if anything goes wrong they can't handle it and have to get you to an #NHS hospital.
I never forgotten that and things are much worse now IMO. Profit kills, maims and abuses and #UKLabour are fools to consider using it.
Why when the NHS is in crisis does the 'solution' seem to be increased private healthcare, but when the railways hit crisis point, it was finally the state that had to step in...
The solution to constrained funding is not to introduce more suppliers who by their very market character need to make a surplus out of any available funding....
And yes, in Wes' terms... if saying that makes me a middle-class Leftie - then so be it!
I am getting there quickly. From Tofu eating wkerati to leftie middle class supporter of a properly funded NHS in on quick change of government (in London).
What a despicable arse that man is (£165,000 so far this year in donations from private health care).
#Budget#UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.
“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”
This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 25/n back to a reality most of us in the UK inhabit on a daily basis: the crumbling public sector. Found this report on NHS dentistry’s struggle for survival really very moving just now. #NHS#dentistry#UKpolitics