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šØ Hundreds of NHS staff a year are being investigated for sexual misconduct with many allowed back to work even after being found guilty.
Now Britain's top surgeon says enough is enough and a radical overhaul is needed to protect staff & patients:
thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/aā¦
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New patient experience standards for the NHS are set to be launched in a few weeks - aimed at keeping patients informed while they wait to tackle one of the biggest areas of complaint about lack of info. In the print edition of your Sunday Times:
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NHS chiefs in Leeds were warned against splitting neonatal care over two sites, The Sunday Times has found. Sources fear up to 3,000 cases of possible harm. Report by my excellent colleague David Collins
thetimes.com/article/3de29f4ā¦
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Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally
thetimes.com/article/f3af995ā¦
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This censure motion was made and voted on by attendees (online and in person) at the BMA resident doctors conference which took place yesterday.
Here is some detail sent to members. Plus @DoctorsVoteUK response saying @fletchjack has been censured bt @BMAResidents committee and urging docs to vote against the deal:
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UK medics fear they wonāt get NHS job because they studied abroad thetimes.com/uk/education/arā¦
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Here is some detail sent to members. Plus @DoctorsVoteUK response saying @fletchjack has been censured bt @BMAResidents committee and urging docs to vote against the deal:
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Strikes by resident doctors called off - new offer to be put to members. Scant details so far
At the last moment, ahead of next weekās action, the Government has moved and made a new offer for resident doctors in England.
Strikes for 15ā19 June have been called off while members vote on a new offer covering jobs, pay and progression.
The choice is yours:
Vote YES and accept the offer, or vote NO and return to escalated industrial action.
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Here is some detail sent to members. Plus @DoctorsVoteUK response saying @fletchjack has been censured bt @BMAResidents committee and urging docs to vote against the deal:
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District nurses replaced by cheaper staff, investigation reveals thetimes.com/uk/scotland/artā¦
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The APPG on Patient Safety is planning to block the abolition of @theHSSIB and we have the lead letter in @thetimes today, signed by a cross-party group of MPs. I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times:
Healthcare safety and guarding patients' data. thetimes.com/article/ad3ceadā¦
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Jun 11
This is just incredible. I am struggling to find NICE guidance which would support this as a care pathway for someone needing antipsychotics (Iām a horrified GP in a different area)
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Fed up. Just spent 14 weeks at @nottsinquiry didnāt miss a minute as this was all I could do in my daughter Graceās name against all those who failed.
Get to my desk and this is what Iām greeted withā¦ā¦
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Health sec @jamesmurray_ldn says "he cannot go further on pay" for resident doctors but he does want to talk about other changes to the deal urging the BMA to get back to talks.
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Jun 11
New health secretary James Murray tells #NHSconfedexpo the focus on improving targets and 10 year plan remains adding he is not bringing a change of direction but a change of gear on the pace of reforming the NHS.
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šØ Two children in England have died from measles this year. One child died from āacute measlesā and another linked to the late effects of measles. So far this year there have been 736 cases compared with 959 cases for the whole of 2025.
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There will be a new mental health strategy, Sir Jim Mackey says adding the service has been too restrictive on what means you get care with a lot of people excluded from services and he specifically cites young people's mental health #NHSConfedExpo
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Sir Jim Mackey says the NHS "will be straight out of the box" with a response to the Amos review on maternity as part of "running towards problems" #NHSconfedexpo
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NHS England chief Sir Jim Mackey references Manchest synagogue attacks and says the NHS, as biggest employer, has got a big responsibility to "become absolutely and completely intolerant of these sorts of horrors and divisions" #NHSconfedexpo
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Breaking: the Artemis III mission will include Italian @esa astronaut Luca Parmitano. I met him last year in Houston and he has certainly got the experience. He told me about the near-disaster he experienced on a space walk from the ISS. Scary stuff.
thetimes.com/uk/science/artiā¦
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Absolute tosh discussed in Parliament this morning over abolishing Healthwatch England. Ministers totally tone deaf on the well documented history of the NHS and DHSC diminishing patient voice. Their simple answer seems to be "we'll do it better this time, honest". They won't.
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