Love waking from a nap to hearing @harrybakerpoet on BBC Radio 6 Music on #HarryBakerDay

Unimpressed by travel money service at M&S Pudsey (Owlcotes). Pre-ordered euros online, arrived during the hours it can be collected. Yet staff on their break & no-one else available to serve me until they return. I'll go elsewhere for my travel money in future!!

Dr Steve Taylor Wes Streeting Department of Health and Social Care I pay my Barber per haircut. Two a month costs me twice that of once a month. I want a skilled Barber too, not a BarberAssociate. I have to book my preferred Barber (Franco, presently) a week+ in advance. Their app is easier to use than yours too, Wes, and they ask me to

GPs want patients to be able to see GPs Yet Wes Streeting is not listening to their concerns There are unemployed GPs & practices with too little funding to employ them Online access 8am-6.30pm without the support will be a disaster for patients & will reduce actual appts

Wes Streeting will be known as the Secretary of State who introduced waiting lists to GP Practices There is 69 already on ours ready for tomorrow Well done Wes Streeting

If Wes Streeting thinks GPs are stuck in 20thC, visit a hospital We are the science museum! ➡️Electronic records since 1991 ➡️Online triage ➡️Ambient scribes ➡️SMS ➡️Online bookings ➡️Electronic prescribing ➡️Online referrals ➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown…. 1/x

And guess what? NHS England own data from August: I’ve just found the following dataset: digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor… “Submissions via Online Consultation Systems in General Practice, August 2025” Well well well… 🕵️‍♀️   2/x

NHS England According to this data 💥5,967 (over 96%) of practices in England have at least one online consultation system   💥5.1 million patient online submissions occurred in August 💥3.5 million clinical, the rest admin (For context every A&E nationwide offers 67,000/day) 3/x

NHS England On average 88.9 submissions per 1,000 patients in August 2025 The range = 0 to 884.8 online consults, per day, per practice Why do NHS England Department of Health and Social Care insist on treating all practices the same? Why can’t we temporarily pause online when we are full? This is not safe 4/x

NHS England Department of Health and Social Care Not just opinion of General Practice but also Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) I wonder what CQCProf & GMC think? This break’s Jess’ Rule 5/x

NHS England Department of Health and Social Care General Practice Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) CQCProf GMC We lack the resources, capacity and capabilities to meet the needs of our patients if we can’t switch off online requests when we are full Not to mention mandating we MUST contact the patient THAT SAME DAY no matter how many patients contact us 🤯 Not safe 6/x

NHS England Department of Health and Social Care General Practice Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) CQCProf GMC Patients deserve safe & quick access to their GP Any economics student will explain if you need quick + safe, it won’t be cheap But GP costs under £140 per pt per year - less than your pet insurance Less than the cost of 🍎 a day! & we know continuity of care saves lives 7/x

NHS England Department of Health and Social Care General Practice Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) CQCProf GMC Accurx Klinik UK TPP Telemed eConsult keen to work with practices to make this safe NHS England Department of Health and Social Care why won’t you join us? 8/x

NHS England Department of Health and Social Care General Practice Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) CQCProf GMC Accurx Klinik UK TPP Telemed eConsult Pls, Wes Streeting Stephen Kinnock Let us talk Let’s support your ambition but give us a guarantee that you won’t breach practices that are trying their best to deliver this Get NHS England to engage with Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) recommendations in interest of pt safety Patients Association 9/x

NHS England Department of Health and Social Care General Practice Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) CQCProf GMC Accurx Klinik UK TPP Telemed eConsult Wes Streeting Stephen Kinnock Patients Association And so too support your ICBs & teams under huge pressure & redundancy threats to work WITH their practices again supporting patient safety Again this is the need for co-production not top-down diktat Trust your 6,331 neighbourhood health services = Your GP practices! 10/11

NHS England Department of Health and Social Care General Practice Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) CQCProf GMC Accurx Klinik UK TPP Telemed eConsult Wes Streeting Stephen Kinnock Patients Association Pls RT if you care about - patient safety - speaking truth to power - want better access to your GP - worry about future of NHS GPs want to work WITH this govt Talk to us! Shaun Lintern Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 Dr Luke Evans MP Parody RCGP Mail+ Roy Lilley 💙 Dr Rachel Clarke The BMJ

@DrKatie.BSky.Social Wes Streeting I took my son to an OP appointment this Monday They can’t do EPS to community pharmacy from the clinic line we do in GP Only to hospital out patient pharmacy- in another building-tiny pharmacy for size of the hospital- so many people-stressful for my autistic son-no place to sit

NHS England Department of Health and Social Care General Practice Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) CQCProf GMC Accurx Klinik UK TPP Telemed eConsult Wes Streeting Stephen Kinnock Patients Association Shaun Lintern Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 Dr Luke Evans MP Parody RCGP Mail+ Roy Lilley 💙 Dr Rachel Clarke The BMJ Guardian news The Mirror Dr Steve Taylor Channel 4 News GoodMorningBritain ITV News Helen Maguire BEM MP 🔶 Silver Voices (Dennis Reed Director) Stephanie deGiorgio Dr Ellen Welch Dr Peter Prinsley MP Karin Smyth Carol Vorderman

@DrKatie.BSky.Social Dr Steve Taylor Wes Streeting I am not a “laggard”. 1st GP in Cheshire to use online test requesting and 1st to make a C&B referral. My patients have been able to book appointments for 18 years IT/online is currently not safe for patients