Kidney and informatics doctor amongst other things. Personal opinions only
Joined June 2011
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4 Jan 2024
Thank you @Se_Railway for switching platforms for the 1938 Hayes line train without an announcement. A pleasure to be standing for another 15 mins in pouring rain fir no good reason
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28 Apr 2023
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: No wonder jnr doctors & nurses don’t feel valued. Not everyone is “feeling poor”equally @bankofengland . What gvmnt has done to their pay 👇 is an absolute disgrace
RT if u think @SteveBarclay @Jeremy_Hunt @RishiSunak should #PayRestoration & save our NHS
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11 Apr 2023
£66.55 for 3 full qualified and highly skilled doctors to save yours or a loved one’s life is an absolute disgrace!
With pay restored this would be:
10yr doc = £37.88
7yr doc = £33.09
1yr doc = £19.06
TOTAL = £90.03
We’re not asking the earth!
#JuniorDoctorsStrikes ✊🏼
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Cormac Breen retweeted
5 Mar 2023
We’ll always support NHS staff who fight against unfair working conditions
Please RT if you will too
Fair pay will help improve staff retention, increase the workforce size and boost morale
Or in other words, benefit every single person who uses, or may need to use, the NHS
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5 Mar 2023
Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay
Nor an offence for which they should be penalised
But a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community.
Please RT if you agree
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6 Feb 2023
Journalists are asking the union-bashing question ‘Are patients safe in hospital this week?’ when what they should be asking is ‘Are patients ever safe in hospital now as a result of government under-funding?’ NHS staff are the only responsible people here. The government is not.
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25 Jan 2023
Tulip Sadiq asks the prime minister about the welfare of 200 unaccompanied migrant children who’ve gone missing.
Tory MP Jonathan Gullis heckles ‘well they shouldn’t have come here illegally’.
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, the Tory Party find a new low
#PMQs
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23 Jan 2023
Charging the sick for being sick.
Mark my words: this will be end of the NHS if the Tories have their way.
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22 Jan 2023
Fairness is fundamental to society. Asking public sector workers to accept a bigger drop in real income than private sector is unfair. The cash is there and raising incomes in line with core inflation is not inflationary. So why do it? Tax cutting ideology theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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13 Jan 2023
Asking for an NHS literally on its knees @Jeremy_Hunt...
Do you still agree (with yourself) its "crazy not to fix this" and are you still "on the case", Mr. Chancellor?
RT if you want the chancellor to fix this 👇
30 Sep 2022
Thanks for reaching out @RoshanaMN I've been raising the pensions issue repeatedly & it was a key recommendation in our recent workforce report. It is crazy not to fix this when there is such a big capacity crisis in the NHS - will keep on the case... publications.parliament.uk/p…
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7 Jan 2023
All you need to know about staffing More doesn’t mean enough…
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5 Jan 2023
Pls don’t let the govt gaslight you into thinking it’s ‘normal’ for patients to be dying in their droves at home, in ambulances, in corridors, in cupboards. Excess deaths are 26% higher than usual. This isn’t normal, it’s grotesque.
A humanitarian crisis, yet Sunak does nothing.
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5 Jan 2023
It's quite startling that for the second time in three years, the Tories are blatantly letting people die to make millions for their friends - and no one's talking about storming any Bastilles.
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3 Jan 2023
Guardian front page, Wednesday 4 January 2023: Doctors condemn ‘delusional’ PM after he denies crisis in the NHS
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2 Jan 2023
In these circumstances, it is untenable for the Government to be digging in for a long fight with NHS staff over pay.
I urge them to signal a new approach.
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2 Jan 2023
Please retweet if you, like me, want to know what exactly @SteveBarclay is doing to address the horrific conditions in the NHS currently 🤷♀️
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2 Jan 2023
For those who don't fully understand what is up with the NHS, here is a thread for you that might help.
I'm a consultant physician working as a doctor in the NHS in Yorkshire and Wales for 32 years now. I have experienced the NHS at its best (2008) and its worst (2022).
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Cormac Breen retweeted
23 Dec 2022
Let’s start with the most striking: the astonishingly clear association between the governing party, health spending and the functioning of the NHS.
Waiting lists swelled under Major, shrunk under Labour as health funding soared, before climbing again under Tory austerity.
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23 Dec 2022
NEW:
Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events
It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks
enterprise-sharing.ft.com/re…
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21 Dec 2022
On *every* key NHS performance indicator since 2010, this govt's track record is one of deliberate, engineered destruction.
Take cancer waits - a particularly iniquitous eg.
It's not nurses & paramedics who are harming patients.
It's @RishiSunak, @Jeremy_Hunt & @SteveBarclay.
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