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Apr 17
Listening to Baroness 'Angie' Smith on #bbcaq @BBCPolitics 'badly explaining away' @Keir_Starmer current problem.
I thought I was listening to a sketch on John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme!
Well, since you ask me to defend a lame duck prime minister and not mention a damp squid
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25 Sep 2025
Health workers vote to strike over plan to move staff to new company
The NHS depends on support staff to keep hospitals clean, safe and running efficiently. Many are already low paid and moving them to subsidiary companies will leave them with a worse deal
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18 Jun 2025
Check out my latest article: If you were planning to hold a NIHR Newcastle PSRC/Pharmacy Research Conference at Newcastle University what would you suggest as a starting time? linkedin.com/pulse/you-were-… via @LinkedIn
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29 May 2025
Check out my latest article: Senior NHS Executives Listening to General Practice colleagues and Hearing the Patient - A Three-legged Stool
By David Black - 29th May 2025 linkedin.com/pulse/senior-nh… via @LinkedIn
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21 Mar 2025
Sir John Oldham appointed to help make NHS fit for future gov.uk/government/news/sir-j…
The appointment is a paid role, which began on 2 December 2024 for a 12-month period.
Not a Civil Service appointment.
Jobs and Growth?!
#ContinuingHealthcareScandal
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14 Feb 2025
The marketing manager at Ramside Hall must be working hard to get everything NHS NE region related to come to Durham
NHS PRIMARY CARE CONFERENCE: NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA Tickets, Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM | Eventbrite LOCATION - RAMSIDE HALL
& below linkedin.com/posts/david-bla…
Improvement in Health and Care Conference 💡
📅 24 March, 9:30am-4pm, Ramside Hall (Durham)
We are delighted to share details of this upcoming event, which we are hosting in partnership with @theQCommunity
Find out more & book ➡️ ow.ly/K7uA50UH5kY
@NENC_NHS
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28 Jan 2025
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart
the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned
The best lac
@NorthEast_CA
@KiMcGuinness
28 Jan 2025
Something very sad and wrong at North of Tyne Combined Authority.
Wanted to attend event - put on 'Waitlist'
Today email encouraging people to apply for last few tickets
But 'Computer says No!'
Organisations like this simply don't work for the likes of me!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/people-po…
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David Black retweeted
28 Jan 2025
This must be classed as an evil experiment on an unsuspecting public conducted without a protocol, without Ethics approval and without our consent.
How would you describe such people who knowingly disregard patient safety?
@wesstreeting
28 Jan 2025
The UK healthcare is a mess, you have a chance of being anaesthetised and operated on by individuals with no medical qualifications and no medical training. Even worse most patients aren't aware this is happening and have not given consent
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David Black retweeted
28 Jan 2025
NHS needs more community beds and community infirmaries run by local GPs, as part of an integrated Primary and secondary system under an integrated local executive with statutory powers
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28 Jan 2025
Something very sad and wrong at North of Tyne Combined Authority.
Wanted to attend event - put on 'Waitlist'
Today email encouraging people to apply for last few tickets
But 'Computer says No!'
Organisations like this simply don't work for the likes of me!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/people-po…
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19 Jan 2025
Is this the way to fix social care in England?
Hammersmith and Fulham is the only English council where personal care is free to anyone who needs it.
Free home care was introduced here 10 years ago, and the borough’s leaders are convinced it helps the NHS.
msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/is…
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14 Jan 2025
It is a really positive experience working as part of the Tilly Hale Carer Research Panel.
I have shared my carer experiences to help advance the knowledge of researchers for the benefit of those who are facing the realities, emotional challenges & uncertainty of providing care.
14 Jan 2025
Dr Cooper's blog, how the Tilly Hale Carer Research Panel has benefited his & others' research commissioning an art piece conveying "What it means to be a carer".
psrc-ncl.nihr.ac.uk/2025/01/…
@NHIPartners @NCL_Pharmacy @NCL_medscience @NIHRinvolvement @NIHRPSRCs
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David Black retweeted
10 Jan 2025
If you have a learning disability and are over the age of 14, you should be registered on your GP's Learning Disability Register. This will give you some benefits like having an annual health check. Watch Harshi's video to find out more- youtube.com/watch?v=ocU8XhD1…
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10 Jan 2025
This unparalleled launch in the UK of a new protein study aims to analyse blood samples from all half a million @uk_biobank participants, including second samples taken from 100,000 volunteers up to 15 years later. Discover more about this exciting work at
ukbiobank.ac.uk/learn-more-a…
10 Jan 2025
Today we’re launching the world’s most comprehensive study of proteins circulating in our bodies, which will transform research into new medical tests, drugs and treatments.
Discover more: ukbiobank.ac.uk/learn-more-a…
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David Black retweeted
10 Jan 2025
Northumbria Healthcare boss warns hundreds of new hospital beds will be needed for Northumberland's population
The hospital trust will need to provide hundreds more beds by 2040 due to an ageing population - unless the way people access healthcare changes.
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David Black retweeted
5 Jan 2025
This might interest you:
NHS needs more community beds and community infirmaries run by local GPs, as part of an integrated Primary and secondary system under an integrated local executive with statutory powers
citizen-network.org/library/…
3 Jan 2025
Nina’s Law
Enable Carers to Continue Care Visits for Disabled Patients in Hospitals
Around 1 in 8 NHS hospitals currently don’t allow external carers to operate within them, due to their policy or failures to agree terms with care companies
chng.it/tBCFD2NHN7 via @UKChange
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David Black retweeted
6 Jan 2025
New Year, New You? 🎆
Have you considered working for Newcastle City Council and making a difference for not only your community but the city itself? January sees the return of our ‘New Year, New Job’ highlighting some of the many varied opportunities within the authority.
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David Black retweeted
3 Jan 2025
Nina’s Law
Enable Carers to Continue Care Visits for Disabled Patients in Hospitals
Around 1 in 8 NHS hospitals currently don’t allow external carers to operate within them, due to their policy or failures to agree terms with care companies
chng.it/tBCFD2NHN7 via @UKChange
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David Black retweeted
13 Nov 2024
NHS staff haven’t been failing, they have been failed.
For 14 long years.
Wes Streeting would do well to remember that, and to be more careful with his language going forward.
theguardian.com/society/2024…
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