@DefendourNHS

Defend our NHS: campaigning to stop NHS privatisation. Meet in Wirral, members from Merseyside & beyond. Join us on Facebook nationally.

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My full piece here. theguardian.com/society/2024…

Good palliative care can alleviate the pain of dying – this bill means Labour must fund it | Rachel...

Making dying easier is not the solution when NHS, social and palliative care are simply not there for patients

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Dear @wesstreeting, You said that part of the reason you couldn’t vote for the AD bill was the lack of adequate palliative care in the UK. You are the health secretary. Will you now pledge publicly & immediately to fix that? Or are dying people not enough of a priority?
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Bereaved relatives who 'suffered worst consequences of pandemic' demand to speak at Covid-19 Inquiry mirror.co.uk/news/politics/b…

Families who 'suffered worst' during pandemic demand a voice at Covid-19 Inquiry

Baroness Heather Hallett, who chairs the Covid-19 Inquiry, has received letters from 200 bereaved relatives furious that disgraced politicians ‘are using the inquiry to defend their legacies’

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Cat Hobbs@CatHobbs26 Nov 2024
Revealed today: Thames Water has a potential new buyer 3 things you need to know...
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lan Byrne MP
@IanByrneMP26 Nov 2024
Solidarity to all the @unisontheunion striking members today fighting for better terms & conditions. @LivvHousing it’s now time to start meaningful consultations with @unisontheunion @unitetheunion to end this dispute which is affecting my constituents in West Derby.
Knowsley Unison@KnowsleyUnison26 Nov 2024
UNiSON Livv contact centre on their 9th day of action! Solidarity
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Today the APPG on #MND has been re-established with @IanByrneMP elected Chair and @AphraBrandreth, @MichaelPayneUK & @OllyGloverLD as Vice Chairs. The Group will work to highlight the challenges people with MND face and campaign for better access to high quality services.
Several people are sitting round a wooden table. There is a banner behind them with the MND Association logo, and the text on the banner reads 'The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Motor Neurone Disease'.

ALT Several people are sitting round a wooden table. There is a banner behind them with the MND Association logo, and the text on the banner reads 'The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Motor Neurone Disease'.

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I want to acknowledge the incredible courage of the covid-19 bereaved families who shared their witness statements at the Covid-19 Inquiry today. We are the ones with lived experiences, carrying the voices of our loved ones taken too soon. #CovidInquiry
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We Own It@We_OwnIt26 Nov 2024
🚨 NEW 🚨 Data just out would put England in the bottom 4 nations in Europe for bathing water cleanliness. Only 64% of sites meet the "the highest, cleanest classification." Based on 2023 data, JUST Albania, Poland, and Hungary performed worse. weownit.org.uk/england-among…
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Replying to @DefendourNHS
Conclusion= "case for change" is as fantastical, unreliable & lacking in evidence as the "fantasy" economics indulged in by Govts, NHSE, ICBs,providers/trusts When we all know the aim is to deny us care by whatever means they can get away w whether closing hosps,beds, using PAs
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Imagine the headline when a GP practice fails patient care due to lack of training in … Safeguarding Resuscitation Doesn’t follow current guidelines on care FYI this has been happening up and down the country for decades to make sure patients are kept safe @BBCNews do better
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@BBCNews26 Nov 2024
Afternoon GP appointments suspended for training bbc.in/4i8qBae
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Please retweet/share If you can get to London on Friday 29th November please go to this protest #AssistUsToLive
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Save CRH@SaveCRH22 Nov 2024
@LeedsKONP @natalieben @ExMomentum_NHS @CalderGreens @EveryDoctorUK @GeorgeMonbiot @CatHobbs @We_OwnIt @KernowDamo @THKONP @DefendourNHS @M_Star_Online @Dis_PPL_Protest @HuddsQuakers @rednailfox
Save CRH@SaveCRH22 Nov 2024
NHS Integrated Care Systems' cuts aren't safe but PwC wield axe on the most broke, regardless. NHS England is taking performance management functions off ICBs & giving Trusts new responsibilities. New operating and oversight frameworks to follow bit.ly/4hYjmSl

NHS Integrated Care Systems’ cuts for “balanced budget” aren’t safe – but PwC to wield axe regard...

NHS underfunding is now so dire that in the first four months of the 2024/25 financial year, NHS trusts and integrated care boards were “in deficit” to the tune of just under £2bn ̵…

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As a GP practice we lost a third of Nursing home residents in the first wave due to the decisions made by leaders to discharge infected patients to homes It’s hugely concerning that this was done without mitigation of the risks #BREATHTAKING
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Sobering new @TrussellUK stats out today. In just 1st 6 months of this year, food banks in the Trussell community provided 1.42 million emergency food parcels. 508,000 were for children. Close to record levels of need, 69% higher than 5 years ago. 1/7🧵
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'This cannot go on': Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time Food banks in the Trussell network are now handing out 69% more emergency food parcels than 5 years ago Poverty is the big issue we should all be talking about bigissue.com/news/social-jus…

'This cannot go on': Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time

Campaigners are calling for the government to end "the normalisation of a charitable response to poverty", including food banks.

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lan Byrne MP
@IanByrneMP18 Nov 2024
Meanwhile in the 6th richest country in the world… More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high. We cannot carry on like this. #ScrapTheCap #RightToFood #PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice theguardian.com/society/2024…

More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high

Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century

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Lynn Pavitt@PavittLynn18 Nov 2024
Replying to @keepnhspublic @DrTonyOSullivan
NHS has been Underfunded for 14 yrs, WE WANT OUR NHS & STAFF TO BE HAPPY AGAIN
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Our co-chair @DrTonyOSullivan said: "50k patients deteriorating or dying in corridors and on trolleys waiting for over 12 hours for a bed is not a sign of staff failure but of systemic neglect of our health service, its staff and patients." morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…

NHS winter crisis begins as doctors accuse government of ‘writing off’ patients

THE NHS winter crisis has already begun, leading A&E doctors have warned as a survey shows 83 per cent are treating patients in corridors.A new snapshot poll from the Royal College of Emergency...

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Will our pain ever be taken seriously? Will we be believed? #endometriosis #womenshealth BBC News - Gynaecology waiting lists in UK double, leaving women in pain - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyv…

Gynaecology waiting lists in UK double, leaving women in pain

Around 630,000 women are waiting for gynaecology appointments as waiting lists double in four years.

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Emergency doctors have sounded the alarm over an approaching winter crisis that they say is already putting patients in overstretched A&E departments at risk theguardian.com/society/2024…

Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments

Royal College of Emergency Medicine warns of ‘unacceptable risk’ posed by lack of funding to NHS

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