I've been GP, Health Service manager & Health Informatician; Councillor, Parliamentary candidate & NHS campaigner. Now I walk, play music & at being a GrandPa.
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Will somebody please #ShutTheMuskUp A ill-informed rich American using inflammatory language about various European countries looks rather ridiculous.
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Hospital league tables are a recycled bad idea, even Blair ultimately rejected. How does it help, to know a local hospital has been ranked above/below others? I don’t wanna “shop around” & I’m not helped by stigma/punishment heaped on my local hospital. Wes Streeting is clueless
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This is awful. I can’t believe the public is in favour of core NHS services being privately delivered for shareholder profit
Wow. A local NHS consortium bid for this contract - yet it’s just been awarded to @HCRGCareGroup, the private company that was once Virgin Care.
@HCRGCareGroup will now - for profit - provide community care across all of Bath, Swindon, NE Somerset & Wiltshire.
Heartbreaking 😔
We’ll be watching you @BBCNews for every minute of exposure you give to Reform you must give at least as much to @TheGreenParty
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Stopped listening because I work with words and can’t concentrate if there’s chat.
Oh dear @BBCRadio3 used to be the Music Programme. After years of dumbing down we were at least left with two concerts a day (Lunchtime and evening) when we could hear whole pieces of music rather than excerpts and chat. Now we have lost six concerts a week 1/2
Should I join Threads? euroblog.jonworth.eu/should-…
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Dear 🇬🇧,
Here’s your weekly reminder that 10 years ago, your NHS was ranked the #1 healthcare system on Earth. You don’t need a new system. You need a new govt that won’t destroy your public NHS to feed a private system. Your family isn’t safe in #ToryBritain.
#SOSNHS
ALT The 2013 Commonwealth Fund Overall Healthcare Rankings. The UK’s public system was ranked 1 overall. The privatised US system was ranked last overall. Private healthcare is always worse for patients and worse for the taxpayer. You don’t need a new system. You need a new government that won’t catastrophically defund the NHS.
Come on guys. I know you're sick of the climate catastrophe, but the UK government clearly hasn't woken up to it.
Petition to stop all new oil and gas development.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Charles West retweeted
Monday was another damning day for the government at the Covid Inquiry.
It is becoming clearer what the recommendations from the Inquiry are likely to be…
But there is also a bigger question raised about criminality…
1/n
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Middlesbrough yesterday.
Another big skip of what looks like unused hospital equipment
rumoured 2 b what wasn’t used in Nightingale Hospital-
if true-a shocking waste of useable equipment & money!
Why not use it? Doesn’t seem faulty?
Who has pocketed the money from contract?
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Rishi Sunak said today at #PMQs that rising NHS waiting lists is down to industrial action.
Well how about the last 13 years of rising waiting lists?
ALT graph depicting the rise in the number of people on NHS waiting lists for consultant-led elective care from august 2007 to May 2023. The graph shows there has been a consistent rise from 2008 and way before the start of industrial action by the BMA at the end of 2022.
Brexit Dead Ringer: The truth about the NHS at 75 years youtu.be/lCJDdA3M9m4 via @YouTube
It took years to learn the deadly lessons of cigarettes. We can’t wait so long for vaping
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Yes please, the duet from the end of Act 1 of B&B is sublime. @MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3
Charles West retweeted
This weekend coming up...
The links between Greensill who went into liquidation owing the UK almost £400m lent by Tory gov, and Zahawi (whose phone messages were conveniently deleted) and the BBC chairman Richard Sharp. And of course David Cameron, the former Tory Prime minister
Welcome @sharivahl It's good to have you on @BBCRadio3
I remember so well the care (almost reverence) with which we treated gramophone records in former days.
This evening’s concert on @BBCRadio3 comes from Prussia Cove which is in Cornwall; except that it was recorded in the Wigmore Hall which is in London. I am confused. Perhaps @PetrocTrelawny can explain?
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