NHS SCIENTIST RAISED HUMAN TISSUE ALARM Dr Rajai Al-Jehani was a biomedical scientist at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (@RoyalFreeNHS), also holding an honorary post at University College London (@ucl). She worked inside UCL's Institute for Liver and Digestive Health. From that position she noticed something that made her deeply uncomfortable. She believed human tissue was being quietly redirected into for-profit commercial activities. The people she pointed the finger at were not strangers. They were colleagues. Massimo Pinzani was Director of the Institute and also Chair and second largest shareholder of a company called Engitix. Giuseppe Mazza was a PhD student in the same building and simultaneously CEO and largest shareholder of that same Engitix. Nothing to see there, obviously. Dr Al-Jehani did what every NHS speak-up poster tells you to do. She raised concerns. She contacted her union. She spoke to the Freedom To Speak Up Guardian. The Trust's Freedom To Speak Up Guardian was informed of her disclosures back in November 2017. The investigations were completed. Nobody told her. She was dismissed. On 15 August 2022 an Employment Tribunal ruled she had been unfairly dismissed and subjected to a series of detriments by Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust because she had made protected disclosures in the public interest. @thetimes ran the story under a headline about claims of a human tissue trade. UCL's linked investigations were suppressed. NHS has posters in every corridor telling staff to speak up. What those posters leave out is the small print: speaking up is fine, keeping your job afterwards is a different matter entirely. SOURCES @thetimes @alexander_minh @guardian @HSJnews @BylineTimes

🚨 BREAKING: The Assisted Dying Bill will be reintroduced to Parliament next week by Labour MP Lauren Edwards

❗️305 avoidable deaths every week ❗️equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every week This national health emergency was Streeting’s legacy, tho he claimed his job was done. Marginally lower waiting lists are down to ‘validation’ and ‘data scraping’ - deaths continue. 🙈Streeting chose to ignore years of validated shocking data from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine on avoidable deaths caused by delayed access to urgent treatment. 🔍We cannot allow the new Health Sec to ignore this - urgent action is needed now @keepnhspublic @TheDA_UK @EveryDoctorUK @JustTreatment @RCollEM

NEW: The Assisted Dying Bill is returning to Parliament this week. Labour MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce it on Wednesday after coming 2nd in the private members’ ballot. “The process has been frustrated by a small minority”, she argues.