Q: How do you trick the population into believing that asylum seekers are becoming a bigger and bigger issue? A: Stop processing asylum applications. Cynical? That's exactly what the Tories did. The % of asylum applications completed within 6 months fell from 80%+ to ~10%.

1/29 We need to talk about these graphs 👇 We have nurses & junior doctors on strike & consultants potentially joining them very soon. Lets talk about inflation & pay. How to fix this car crash (& perhaps more importantly, how NOT to). Please read full 🧵 to end and share / RT

Left: Rishi Sunak says there are 2,000 more GPs than there were in 2019. Right: BBC Reality Check, "there are 823 fewer GPs now than there were in 2019."

So it turns out that a senior member of the Government that pushed through a huge change to our democracy can publicly admit it was a deliberate attempt to suppress the vote, and not a single official body thinks this is in any way worth investigating bylinetimes.com/2023/05/23/no-…

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“In one of the most notable moments in sports history, Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped thinking he had completed the race. A Spanish athlete, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him, and after

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?

Striking because we love the NHS and can't bear to see it starved to death. In solidarity with junior doctors, nurses and all our NHS colleagues. We are committed. We care. We all deserve fair pay. #consultantstrike The BMA

This highly disturbing report finds that sexual harassment, sexual assault, & rape occur frequently & appear to go unchecked in the surgical environment in the UK owing to a combination of a deeply hierarchical structure & a gender & power imbalance. academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar…

New research has found that sexual misconduct is rife among colleagues in the UK surgical workforce, with women disproportionately impacted and staff believing organisations are not doing enough to protect them. Read more at news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-hea…

"The commonest scenario is that a junior female trainee is abused by a senior male perpetrator, who is often their supervisor” Everyone working in surgery should be ashamed-the perpetrators, the bystanders who do nothing & the system that protects them bbc.co.uk/news/health-66…

Harrowing new research from University of Exeter & University of Surrey working with The Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery has revealed the extent of sexual misconduct within the UK surgical workforce in the last five years. bit.ly/3sR490t 🧵[1/3]

We have published this Leading Article in response to the article on sexual misconduct in the UK surgical environment. BJS welcomes reports on initiatives on how to reduce sexual misconduct and increase gender equality within the surgical field. academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar…

How it started (Aug 21)… …how it’s going (Sept 23) *Big* paper out in BJS To be clear: #Healthcare staff are being sexually assaulted & raped. Today Now In the #NHS More than reported below, for certain academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar… #medtwitter #orthotwitter #surgery

Women and men are living different realities: sexual misconduct in surgery is real and needs independent investigation #MeTooSurgery Read our research paper here, and our report with full recommendations on our website academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar…

Our workplace is unsafe and we are breaking the silence. Read our full report addressing our findings and recommendations #MeTooSurgery wpsms.org.uk/docs/Breaking_…

“Sexual misconduct occurs frequently and appears to go unchecked in the surgical environment owing to a combination of a deeply hierarchical structure and a gender and power imbalance” The Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar…

SWiMS welcome the The Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery report. It’s time to make surgery a safe space for all. bbc.co.uk/news/health-66…

This is an everyone problem and needs both seismic systemic change as well as grassroots calling out of "banter" and culture change Surgery should be a safe space for everyone to work- not just the chosen few #metoosurgery

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