This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week. I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding. This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need. In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric. @CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's. Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are). These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government. So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices. I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye. So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting. We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch? Thank you @channel4news for covering this story. #palliativecare #hospicecare #NHS

I see the @EnvAgency are up to their old tricks again. They sit back and allowed, no licensed, three tonnes of uranium to be dumped into the River Ribble. The Ribble by the way, and its estuary, are one of England's most heavily protected sites listed as a site of special scientific interest, a special protection area and a Ramsar site. And the @EnvAgency does what exactly? Err, nothing!

Good luck to @CliftonRobbies L1s today at Surbiton 🙌 @JadeVardonCardy @swsportsnews instagram.com/stories/clifto…

Great (if stressful) final match of @EnglandHockey Women’s Prem League phase 2. Congrats @CliftonRobbies L1s taking a 2-1 win vs Sutton Coldfield L1s. A battle all the way! A grandfather’s very exciting 89th birthday experience 🤣 @JadeVardonCardy @swsportsnews @AlanCardy857528

WOMENS HOCKEY (another) brilliant result for #Bristol hockey's #Clifton W1s yesterday, winning 2-0 @HolcombeHC to again cement their status as one of the top #womenshockey teams in the country... southwestsportsnews.com/hock… #WHLPrem @CliftonRobbies ♀️🏑 🔵

WOMENS HOCKEY another important Premier Division win for #Bristol's @CliftonRobbies yesterday southwestsportsnews.com/hock… #womenshockey #WHLPrem

WOMENS HOCKEY Tomorrow's top free-to-see national & #regional #womenshockey fixtures today... southwestsportsnews.com/hock… #SWwomenshockey #WestHockey #SouthHockey ♀️🏑

The sun shone on @ExeterUniHC ladies today. A 4-1 win against Harleston Magpies L1s. Great match to watch 🙌 @swsportsnews

Metastatic breast cancer has been relabelled as ‘MODERATELY Severe’ meaning life-extending drugs are now too expensive for people who aren’t in Scotland according to @NICEComms Metastatic breast cancer KILLS every one who has it. It is INCURABLE. How is that only moderately severe? One day my own life could be cut short be sure NICE has enforced a postcode lottery. Do we all need to move to Scotland to get extra months of life? @BreastCancerNow

This is what I’ve been saying for years for early stage #breastcancer patients & it looks like developments are looking promising with reducing risk of recurrence 🙌 @ICR_London @RobClarkeLab @METUPUKorg @GM_Cancer @orourkeclaire1 @ProfNDerakshan ASCO 2024: New ultra-sensitive blood test predicts recurrence of breast cancer, months or even years before relapse #ASCO24 #fearofcancerreturn #FCR icr.ac.uk/news-archive/asco-…

Further to England Netball’s announcement this morning regarding Netball Super League 2.0 and the shock exclusion of Team Bath from season 2025 onwards, Team Bath has issued the following statement: netball.teambath.com/2024/05…

This is no shock, this has been known for years. The younger you are the more risk there is especially if you live a long time after a primary cancer ... #notrocketscience now here comes the long paid research piece that they did... #breastcancer cam.ac.uk/research/news/stud…

Commissioning 1️⃣3️⃣9️⃣ Naval Officers into a career with… …Pride🫡 & Honour🏅 Welcome to the Royal Navy 🇬🇧🫡⚔️🌊🤝 Global 🌎 Modern 🛜 Ready ✅ #MadeInTheRoyalNavy @CaptAndyBray @RNJobsUK

180 new leaders are welcomed into the Naval family after passing out at @DartmouthBRNC in front of family and friends.

139 officers commissioned at recent passing out parade @DartmouthBRNC @CaptAndyBray totnes-today.co.uk/news/youn…

Here’s a clip from yesterday’s interview on @bbcsoutheast regarding the lack of funding, research and support into Secondary Breast Cancer. You can see the full feature on my instagram sophieblake72 Thank you @MarkNormanNews for highlighting this issue so well #livingwithcancer

📰BREAKING: Researchers uncover how to target dormant ‘sleeping’ #BreastCancer cells and prevent relapse. Find out more 👇 icr.ac.uk/news-archive/resea…

Thank you ⁦@kate_pickles⁩ for this interview covering the #EnhertuEmergency Outrage as thousands of breast cancer-stricken women in England are denied life-extending drug available in Scotland | Daily Mail Online dailymail.co.uk/health/artic…