Dr Phil Hammond 💙 That last sentence of yours is a very important one that lots of people are missing.

Perhaps you missed my columns about Hadiza Gawa-Baba, David Sellu and Ed Jesudason? Although I do get the point you’re making.

Seriously, stop what you’re doing and watch Vorderman here… shining a mirror up to our complicit media. Searing. Brave. Thank you Carol Vorderman

It would cost £6bn/year for 10 yrs to bring housing standard up to decent level in UK. More than 50 places across England & Wales acting on #SDH in spite of central government inaction, with Scotland now working with @MarmotIHE. I am optimistic & hopeful Keir Stammer will act.

The autumn leg of my UNDOCTORED tour kicks off in Leeds in a couple of weeks, then pootles round 25 other theatres. Tickets from £20-£35, unless they start to sell out in which case fuck you and I'll make them all £350. adamkay.co.uk for dates and tickets.

I really enjoyed the show in Edinburgh, partly because Adam invited me backstage for wine and stuffed olives. But mainly because it wasn’t a rant about how awful the NHS is and encouraging people not to be doctors. It acknowledged the reality of pressures in the NHS, but

Dr Phil Hammond 💙 Thank you so much, Phil, and for settling the invoice so promptly.

A third of NHS staff are also #carers - much higher than in the general population. Caring responsibilities have a significant impact on someone’s ability to work. Female NHS staff and those aged 51-65 are most likely to be caring for someone. Read more: nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/what-…

Why we have a retention problem #6209 I used to think workforce policy makers failed to consider the demographics of its workforce. Now I think it actually exploits the fact that its largely female and cant be as mobile as a way to suppress wages. Sticky floor

What both sides agree on in the Letby debate is that it is unusual to have so many failed resuscitations on a neonatal unit in such a short space of time. One side argues that it was murder, the other side argues that the unit simply wasn’t up to the task of coping with so many

Today our patron BAFTA award winner author and former doctor Adam Kay is calling on every NHS organisation in the country to plant a memorial tree to honour the lives of health workers who have died by suicide. The statistics are shocking - one doctor takes their life every

I cannot understand why the fact that these were written under therapeutic guidance was not brought up by her defence in court, and furthermore why Kathryn de Beger, the hospital therapist whom Letby was seeing, was not called upon to testify.

‘I am evil I did this’: Lucy Letby’s so-called confessions were written on advice of counsellors The Guardian David Wilson, a professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, who specialises in serial killers, said in his view the so-called confession notes were

I’ve never seen nearly all of the established media pivot so quickly from “Burn the witch”  to “could Lucy be innocent?” I changed my opinion last September, based on the quantity and quality of experts writing to Private Eye Magazine. These arguments must be tested in the court of

I broke the story of the Bristol heart scandal in Private Eye Magazine in 1992 and was summoned to give evidence to the public inquiry in 2000. One of my main impressions was its statistical rigour. It examined in great detail whether more babies died at Bristol 1. Because of

I should point out that I have corresponded at length with the lead prosecution expert Dewi Evans, and one of the Chester paediatricians, and they are still both certain beyond reasonable doubt that Letby is guilty. I do not know the answer, but the counter arguments are very

I’m afraid taking everyone’s word for it is not how you investigate potential miscarriages of justice. They always start with a strong feeling that we should trust the court to make the right judgement. And then it changes over time, often not because of new evidence but because

Letby changes legal team for CCRC application. First they will need to download hundreds of thousands of court documents and find willing named experts to evaluate them to show that the evidence in her original trial was misinterpreted and/or incomplete. bbc.com/news/articles/…