💜✊ Care workers are rallying at Westminster and Holyrood today Together, they are saying: ✅ Keep the current five-year route to settlement 🛑 No retrospective rule changes 🤝 A sector‑wide visa scheme for social care and a fully funded Fair Pay Agreement for all care workers #FairVisasNow

BMA GPs committee for England to ballot GPs on an alternative strategy for general practice that'd allow GPs greater freedom to provide private services. The gov't must act to stop NHS privatisation. Please write to your MP and share tinyurl.com/633wcdhx

The future of GP services is at stake. Ask your MP to sign EDM 329 tabled by @IanByrneMP to ensure the future of general practice in England as a comprehensive service available to all free at the point of need. No to NHS privatisation. tinyurl.com/n5ps5n8d

Ian Higginson from @rcem.ac.uk again telling it like it is: "We continue to see a lack of solutions designed to tackle the root causes...Instead, we are fobbed off with recycled ideas that haven’t ever worked.." 300 AVOIDABLE deaths. Every. Single. Week. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said: “It is unbelievable that a health service contract was in the first place awarded to a company so well known for its association with death and attacks on civil liberties.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-...

New Health secretary, same old nonsense. "Up until a few weeks ago I was working at the Treasury" Says it all, including that he's yet another in a long line of Heath secretaries that know nothing about health. I'm so tired.

The UK health department’s top official was a shareholder at a private equity-owned children’s care home business, which imposed sharp fee increases on local authorities. Read more here: ft.trib.al/BQiQeYW

NHS PENSION SCANDAL: How BSW Hospitals Group cut pensions to meet savings targets lowdownnhs.info/topics/staff...

Shameful from Reform and a good example of why you should never share anything by that godawful aggregator account, which just happens to be run by a Reform councillor. Obviously prostate cancer is a particular problem for black men, who are twice as likely to suffer from it in their lifetimes

Tomorrow’s Podcast with @thedauk.bsky.social NOT THE NHS AGAIN! PFI or PPP - It’s magic or is it? Tony Blair in the news reminds us the Blair Govt were responsible for PFI (Private Finance Initiative), with hospitals, schools left with huge payments for years. 70% more costly than Govt borrowing!

We want people to run our NHS - let's stop stripping the care out of healthcare keepournhspublic.com/petition-nhs...

KONP works tirelessly to remind those in positions of power that the NHS must never be replaced. Our health service is free at the point of use, where care is based on clinical need, not on the ability to pay. Support KONP to help KEEP OUR NHS PUBLIC 👇

On the picket line this morning with health visitors in Wales, working for Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board who are fighting for pay. We meet government next week. Solidarity ✊ #Wales

“These returns match the returns generated by the owners of 5 private eye clinics, who have generated an average 32% profit from delivering NHS funded cataract surgery, with some companies making a 50% margin.” Privatisation - legalised theft blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said: "Migrants make our NHS and are over 20 per cent of its workforce. Labour must end austerity, end the hostile environment, and start to respect our staff again. This starts at the top.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nurs...

An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba

This is what 15 years of Conservative rule and 18 months of Wes Streeting have done to our NHS It is time for the government to reverse NHS privatisation and invest in rebuilding our NHS

Did a Podcast for @frontline19.bsky.social with @drstevetaylor.bsky.social from @thedauk.bsky.social I'm honestly just over it. It's not rocket science & it won't cost the Earth. Don't expect people to be able to look after us if no one cares enough to look after them www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_7W...

A reply from Keep Our NHS Public to Streeting's resignation. And an awful lot of those waiting list reductions are due to 'list clensing' - removing names if the patient doesn't immediately respond when contacted. keepournhspublic.com/wes-streetin...

The next Health Secretary must deal with the fake doctors scandal and implement the Leng Review thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/lif...

What do NHS staff see as the biggest causes of problems facing the health service? Increasing demand: 48% Not enough funding: 46% Shortage of staff: 43% Poor management: 35% Bad govt policy: 21% Privatisation: 21% Bureaucracy: 18% Covid-19: 14% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

87% of NHS staff would describe the NHS as being in a weak state Strong state: 10% (-2 from 19-28 Feb 2025) Weak state: 87% (+1) yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

NHS staff increasingly believe Wes Streeting is doing a bad job as health secretary and that the Labour government is handling the NHS badly Streeting as health secretary Good job: 22% (-3 from 19-28 Feb 2025) Bad job: 53% (+13) Labour handling of NHS Well: 24% (-6) Badly: 66% (+13)

Labour's Immigration Bill is the most immoral and repugnant thing this Government has done. It would mean a care worker who came to this country looking after our elderly, working night shifts on low pay, would wait 10 years to apply for citizenship But an investment banker could apply in 3 years

When is "insourcing" not actually insourcing? Typically, it means bringing jobs back in-house. In the NHS, it means bringing private companies into our hospitals. Without knowing the difference, we can’t have an honest conversation about the future of our health service.

Dangerous for patients, unfair to APs put in a position beyond their scope and bad for doctors losing out on job opportunities. Trusts desperately trying to save a few quid due to systemic and ongoing underfunding comes at a real cost for all involved. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

As an NHS psychologist I can’t emphasise enough how important it is to get this dangerous company out of our healthcare systems and out of our country. Sign the petition and share it with your loved ones and followers. Our lives may depend on it.

NHS NE London spent £237m on private companies last year. £29m leaked from our front lines in profits. Over £40m went overseas. We are clear - you can't privatise the NHS to better health. Let's invest in the NHS not profits. (Check out your own area here: profitmap.squarespace.com/nhs-profit-l...)

"Our #NHS is 'running on empty' and in danger of a complete breakdown. The cuts are so serious that patient safety is being risked." I joined hundreds of Unite members and activists in Westminster in protest at planned cuts to NHS budgets and head counts. #SaveourNHS

It was great to take part at @unitetheunion.bsky.social rally today opposing NHS job cuts and redundancies. The NHS ALREADY has 100k+ vacancies, putting huge pressure on patients and workers. Cutting yet more staff is completely nonsensical - and will be highly damaging.

Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS Nothing to see or everything to see Palantir must be removed from the NHS

The Guardian has decided to showcase 2 letters from senior doctors who don’t support strike action. Where’s the counter-point in this, @guardian? I am hearing from lots of consultants who wholly support the strikes. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Dear me! NHS England and trusts hunkering down for a fight to drive Palantir’s involvement with the NHS Federated Data Platform and suppress opposition through by threatening staff @keepournhspublic.bsky.social @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2026/04/14/n...

Every year is the highest spend on the NHS. That was true even under Tories. It’s because of inflation. Bread is more expensive too. The key thing is: does the NHS budget keep up with “health service inflation” (~4%)? It did not during 14 years of the Tories, which is why the NHS is on its knees.

And, given that we now have so much of the English NHS privatised/outsourced, we know that not all of that 3% budget increase goes to patients. Some is diverted to profits rather than people.

Congratulations to Jubilee Street GP practice for being rated Outstanding once again. Just 12 years ago, it took 18 months of campaigning with GPs, staff, activists & patients to keep this & 4 other practices open, when funding cuts threatened to sink them. www.gpcaregroup.org/news/celebra...

Homes for health, homes for people not profit

When I started work in NHS management my organisation (the local CCG) was responsible for organising healthcare for under 600k people. Now after two reorganisations (3 CCGs merged to make an ICB, then 3 ICBs merged to make a bigger ICB) it's responsible for organising healthcare 3.5 million people.

Do you ever start writing a post, realise you can't sufficiently put into words the level of hurt, anger and injustice you feel, and then abandon it? That's how I feel about the government's attitude towards our Residents. 2020 anyone?? I am so done. share.google/SEsg1BoHyvz1...

Private sector, see a Dr. In the NHS, the plan is for you to see anyone but a Dr. That is a political choice, & it is putting lives at risk UK already has fewer Drs per head than 🇪🇺 No other nation is responding to that gap by designing Drs out of patient care Training more! dauk.org/dauk-respond...

Sign Foxglove’s open letter to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social - we welcome moves from ministers to keep Palantir out of our NHS: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...

I work in a team that until recently (50% running costs cuts stopped it obvs) worked to fix interface issues between GPs and trusts. Lack of responses from advice and guidance was a very common issue. Requiring GPs to get a response before referring will be a major patient safety issue.

Tomorrow NHS dental charges in England will rise once again. Remember, this won't put an extra penny into a service on the brink. Patients will pay more to cover for stealth cuts. 👇 https://www.bda.org/news-and-opinion/news/england-charge-hike-a-kick-in-the-teeth-for-millions-on-modest-incomes/

99% have said no. GPs and GP registrars across England have overwhelmingly rejected the Government’s imposed contract changes for 2026/27. These plans would pile unsafe, unfunded workload onto already stretched practices, putting patient care at risk.

GPs across England have sent a clear message. Nearly every GP who voted has rejected the Government’s imposed contract that would pile on work and be unsafe for patients. GPs want to work with Government on a new contract that’s properly resourced and sustainable. It’s time to return to the table.

All power to their collective elbows. All NHS staff have been treated appallingly for over a decade - including being shamefully abandoned after 2020. Nothing will change for staff OR patients without them taking a stand. I will ALWAYS be proud to stand beside them. @bma.org.uk

There's been no shortage of promises of change. But what we've ended up with is more of the same. As a failed contract turns 20, NHS dentistry needs real reform and fair funding. Sign our birthday message to Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting. https://bda.eaction.net/20yearsofhurt

📍Meet 12pm at Park Lane, Saturday 28 March. Full route + accessibility information: togetheralliance.org.uk/access