🚨 Angela Rayner has given councils permission to sell off allotments to raise money. 8 sell offs of ancient rights have happened so far, including to build houses. The history of allotments goes back to the 1500s and is tied deeply to land access, food security, and social

This lesson from the USA should be learnt in the UK. Get these monopolies out of the NHS, no private shareholder ownership of clusters of GPs, get Palantir out of our NHS data contracts, and stop imagining it will be any different than disastrous privatisation of water.

NHS England has not changed physician associate (PA) role descriptions in line with Leng review recommendations & its own advice to GPs Failed leadership, failed policies, failing NHS England Pulse pulsetoday.co.uk/news/workforce… GP Online gponline.com/its-mess-nhs-f…

41% less prison offices than we had 20 years ago, in a growing prison population. Less fire stations Less Fire Officers Less Police Officers Less school places Less NHS beds Less road repairs Less GP places Less NHS dentists Less police stations Less post office Where's all

Petition: Improve breast screening uptake for women in Wales petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/2467…

GP UNEMPLOYMENT No record of employment in GP practices 19% of 2018/2020 27% of 2021 31% of 2022 33% of 2023 46% of 2024 6900 qualified GP in are either back in hospitals, locums, left UK or unemployed - such a waste of training Graphic from 2018-2025 digital.nhs.uk/binaries/conte…

So many people commenting that GPs should suck it up & stop whinging about 20% cuts in NHS funding £169pa / person is all that’s paying for a year’s worth of GP practice access More GPs are being recruited to work privately I believe in access for all not the healthy & wealthy

Started as a GP 32yrs ago! Full day 9hrs 27 face to face appts - 1hr lunch break (no golf) 10yrs 9hrs 27 f2f + 7 tele - 30mins lunch 20yrs 9.5hrs 28 f2f + 12 tele - 15mins lunch 30yrs 10hrs 40-50 mixed F2F/tele/econsults - lunch at desk - extra 1 hr home Change needed!

New GPs qualified this week & they could provide 1 MILLION EXTRA GP appointments to patients EACH MONTH... But they can't, because they cant get a GP job The GOVT needs to urgently fix this paradox #endgpunemployment

How is this even possible? We have a desperate shortage of GPs, patients are waiting weeks for a GP appointment yet fully qualified GPs can’t get work. Surely this needs fixing urgently Wes Streeting gponline.com/huge-rise-gp-c…

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As we watch Keir Starmer and his team expand NHS privatisation, please remember that he was elected to become Labour leader saying specifically that he would remove NHS private outsourcing. He then quietly dropped this pledge in Summer 2022. This isn’t OK 🚨

Not finding roles for newly-qualified GPs wastes taxpayer investment in their training and risks losing doctors to the private sector or abroad. It is also a missed opportunity to improve access to NHS primary care services, ease hospital pressures and improve population health.

New Royal College of General Practitioners data shows 4,200 GPs finished their training last week. But many are struggling to find work. That’s why we’re calling on the Government to urgently provide ring-fenced funding to fix the GP unemployment crisis. bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/… #endGPunemployment

"Thames Water could be sold to a Chinese firm after public rescue." So we are possibly about to sell Thames Water 💧 to CKI more often known as CK Infrastructure. Would that by any chance be the same CKI that is owned by CK Hutchison Holdings who in turn own about 70% of the Kelda

Waiting lists & how the data is problematic Don’t believe everything you read

Can AI provide nurses, home carers, beds in the community, OTs and Physios Come on Wes Streeting AI will make the discharge summary easier to read maybe but it won’t provide beds There is a shortage of beds in hospitals & the community

"Most of Windermere polluted with sewage bacteria". Remember when govt made big noise and said it was going to clean up Windermere? So how's that one working out for ya? theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a…

🚨 Public hospitals are being gutted while privately owned/run 'community diagnostic centres' fill the manufactured gaps. Costs UP, profits UP, existing services destabilised. Stealth privatisation dressed up as convenient & necessary. Problem, Reaction, Solution!

Did you know that in 2024 the EU introduced a new version of the urban wastewater treatment directive, it "applies stricter treatment standards to water in urban areas, including the removal of micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals and microplastics". As we're no longer a