As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

.Zack Polanski is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish). Zack is spot on.

1. Reagan’s speech is real 2. It’s public domain 3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians 4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check 5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs

NHSE’s winter plan is inadequate. 500k patients waited >12hrs in English EDs Jun-Sep alone. Our knackered ED teams are looking for lasting action so we have beds for our patients, not non-existent “quick wins,” job freezes, and managers playing “war games” independent.co.uk/news/health/nh…

Wes Streeting, from the party of organised labour, threatens workers that if they go out on strike over pay he'll cancel their essential training. Labour, on the side of working people until they stand up for themselves, & then its sneers & threats.

alan drummond Blaming non-urgent patients for ER crowding is a zombie idea. youtu.be/-4hZgEDBiZg?si… @GatewayRuralH

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A bit of background info on Wes Streeting that you won’t have been given in his TV interviews today - particularly in regard to discussions about junior doctors and the NHS There will have been no mention of the amount of money Wes has received from wealthy private healthcare

I got assistance because my mom went psycho and got my dad fired from his job and then killed herself! Some situations you cannot “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” 🩷 let’s all try to be more empathetic

The Chancellor is blaming Brexit for the mess we're in but not making the changes needed to fix it, can you really call that a strategy?

"We have a five- or six-party-system trapped in the body of a two-party electoral system." Tim Bale explains why multi-party politics is here to stay 👇 Voters want real choice. We need a proportional voting system that makes it possible.

So doctors are legally obliged to reject a £15 box of chocolates from a patient as a “conflict of interest”… …but the bloke in charge of the ENTIRE BRITISH MEDICAL SYSTEM can take ~£400K from “private health sources” since coming into office… …and that’s totally okay???

When: -4 multinationals dominate the development and production of seeds and pesticides. -Single firms monopolize each of the domestic markets for nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers. -5 companies control the nation’s meat and poultry industries. -2 or fewer

So we have shortages of senior nurses/AHPs in their roles Senior nurses and AHPs on drs rotas Whilst drs walking dogs and sat in their pants watching cash in the attic The architects? On new years honours lists, pocketing final salary pensions and in the House of Lords Nice

Why is there no money to fund jobs for actual GPs, but there is a magic money tree to fund jobs for non-doctors (ACPs, ANPs, PAs etc)? Wes Streeting Non-doctors do not have the knowledge, qualifications or training to replace GPs It's unregulated And it's unsafe

I’ve seen unemployed doctors driving Ubers, stacking shelves in Tesco…& now working as a dog walker?! Waiting lists are soaring as patients can’t see doctors…but doctors are unemployed & the gov are PAYING MONEY for non-doctors to take their roles?! EMPLOY THE DAMN DOCTORS!

A message of unity Assume the usual racists will just attack and deflect as idiot commentators and politicians demand of them

I agree with Ed ⬇️ The case of the former Reform Leader in Wales Nathan Gill exposes how deep Russian influence can reach. We need a full investigation into foreign money and interference across our politics, wherever it leads.

Isn’t this incredible. All the rhetoric we hear about thousands more GPs and hospital doctors and the reality is under and unemployment of doctors when patients are screaming out for an appointment with a doctor and waiting list are sky high. Shocking

50% of the UK do not vote because they are disillusioned with the current system where the leaders change but tactics don't It's always feed the billionaires and hit everyone else with sticks The Green's could change that, lets hit the billionaires with sticks and feed everyone