Had a great day with this brilliant lot at #mjasymposium .
Thanks for having Doctors’ Association UK 💙
Lots to learn about #whistleblowing , medical journalism,data, fact checking and more!

The wrong lesson from the Holocaust: the German government deports a leading war surgeon who was elected as Rector of the University of Glasgow this month to prevent him from describing in Berlin the atrocities he witnessed while serving in Gaza.
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Starvation. The unacceptable face of Israel’s war on Gaza.

A doctor from an international aid agency took these pictures 10th April at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

The desperate parents gave permission to publish these.

Why didn’t the Tories borrow a trillion pounds in 2016 very cheaply and rebuild the nhs and the infrastructure and build a million houses. Restart sure start fund the universities rebuild the crumbling schools build 100 new hospitals. Oh silly me they were engaged in something…

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What????

This is disastrous, hideous news. NHS England are hacking back the mental health support for hospital staff. One doctor takes their life every three weeks. One nurse takes their life every single week. These numbers will now INCREASE. Victoria Atkins - please do the right thing.

Invited to address a conference in Berlin about my work in Gaza hospitals during the present conflict.
The German government has forcibly prevented me from entering the country
Silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany's complicity in the ongoing massacre.

We know that people are as unhappy as ever with the #NHS , but is this reflected in how services are performing? Are any green shoots of improvement visible? Let’s take a look at today’s performance statistics release:

I’ve been seeing adverts for a local private GP service.
Thought I’d check out the prices.

This is not affordable for many people but the work will be increasingly popular for burnt out GPs fed up with abuse.

I dread the consequences of a future two-tier system.

UK population ⬆️7% - 2012-23
GPs ⬇️ 7%
District nurses ⬇️42%
Health Visitors ⬇️30%
Learning Disability Nurses⬇️23%
School Nurses⬇️25%
Nursing home beds ⬇️ 12%
Residential Care home beds ⬇️16%
Social Care ⬇️
7.7m⬆️ waiting for hospital
1.6m ⬆️waiting for diagnostic investigations

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

More costs added to the ‘eat out to help out’ scheme as documents finally released about the £2 million spent on focus groups to try and get public to support an idea for which no scientists were consulted and almost certainly accelerated a second wave 😡 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Julian Patterson Health Service Journal Definitely hard to separate satire from journalism at the moment hsj.co.uk/finance-and-ef… I’ll leave David Oliver to read below the line I just am pleased I have a subscription thanks as ever to Macmillan Cancer Support

You suspect the real reason for the proposed crackdown by the UK gov. on rough sleepers is because they provide very visible evidence of the mess the Tories have made.

The Health Secretary just denied on Sky News that the Criminal Justice bill going through parliament could criminalise rough sleepers if they cause a nuisance which includes 'excessive' smells

“it is not what’s in the bill” she says

IT IS! THATS EXACTLY WHAT THE BILL SAYS!!

What’s going on at the Royal College of Physicians? Trisha Greenhalgh Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 Louella Vaughan & I spoke to Medscape. However, good news is that there is now a light at the end of the tunnel
medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/wh…

We're told pensions are 'unsustainable', the Post Office is 'unsustainable' and now that the NHS is 'unsustainable'. They were all entirely sustainable before the private sector starting looting the public sector.

Here’s a snapshot of just 20 letters rec’d this afternoon from hospital & other NHS colleagues

Half need us to do something eg refer, order investigations, send info back

It’s not just GP time, but admin & secretarial too - when 95% staff are in hospitals