If you see someone having a seizure, remember the 3 'C's: Stay CALM CUSHION their head CALL for help Our aim is to make sure everyone is #seizuresavvy and knows how to support someone with #epilepsy 💜

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Completely agree that doctors and nurses lose too much of their time to admin work But that's mostly due to a lack of managerial staff and poor IT - e.g. computers that barely turn on Neither of those are fixed by investing in "AI"

In fact, expert consensus is that the NHS does remarkably well with its below-average overall funding, woeful levels of capital investment & excessively low numbers of doctors & hospital beds per capita. None of this is to say we can't do better with the resources we have. 5/

Shaun Lintern Wes Streeting "...consultants...often feel the dead weight of management bureaucracy..." Only because we are undermanaged. This might not be popular but the push to run so lean means that NHS management in the middle tiers is emaciated. We can get nothing done. Consultants doing admin...

in Singapore the family doctor system is under developed in a country with impressive hospital services. Countries like Denmark have more lessons on primary care, community health services and social care Wes Streeting @RSylvesterTimes Richard Humphries 💚 Clare Gerada

“Streeting’s ambition is to mimic the use of apps in Singapore where the island’s HealthHub app allows users to access medical records and link up hospital and GP services.” The current state of NHS IT is very, very far away from making this possible.

Stuart Hoddinott Dr Tony Goldstone Excellent thread. Additionally, like the complexity highlighted, the no. of treatment options for diseases like cancer have increased, often necessitating more tests, more patient care discussions and more decisions than 10-20 years ago = more work per case.

I hope you’ve enjoyed the long weekend. With the release of the long-awaited 2024/25 operational planning guidance from NHS England just prior, we thought we’d turn a 30+ page document into an efficient snapshot ➡️ carnallfarrar.com/nhs-england-20… CF

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: If care is "faster, simper and fairer" why have we basically not hit the 85% cancer target in almost a *DECADE* 😢 RT if you want honest conversations about resourcing the NHS properly, rewarding staff fairly & #retaining staff to end this 👇

Just a reminder that 14 yrs ago there were no waiting lists over 18-weeks, no 12-hour A&E waits, no waiting an hour for an urgent ambulance, over 90% of cancer patients started treated within two months, everyone could see their GP within 2-days,… Then we got the Tories

Timpson’s are well-known for employing ex-offenders to help them back into work. They pay their tax. They value their staff. And then there’s this. CEO James Timpson (who’s also Chair of the Prison Reform Trust) is the new Prisons Minister. Great appointment

There is more that unites us than divides us.

Reminder for 'NHS-must-take-productivity-challenge-on-the-chin' ppl, what staff DID take on the chin was the pandemic. Then they had to go to picket lines to keep their pay anywhere near inflation. So a fair bit of discretionary effort has been withdrawn theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s…

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelenskyy against Trump and Vance!

On 10 March the government announced plans to cut NHS England by half – but then three days later it decided to abolish it altogether. Up to 10,000 jobs could go, and integrated care boards have been told to cut costs by 50 percent too. Whoever is in charge of NHS policy appears

How many more times? *Austerity doesn’t work*. More cuts to public spending is economically illiterate & morally indefensible. People didn’t vote Labour to get more Tory austerity. Tax extreme wealth, don’t slash public services ⁦Patriotic Millionaires⁩ theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

"Millions of pounds will inevitably be handed to consultancies drafted in to determine which NHS England functions must be retained. In effect, we may be trading one form of bureaucracy for another." Rammya Mathew on the end of NHS England bmj.com/content/388/bm…

What does the end of NHS England mean for the NHS and patients? Tinkering with national agencies while the health service is under immense pressure is performative politics that NHS staff and patients could do without, says Hugh Alderwick The Health Foundation bmj.com/content/388/bm…