Thank you to all those #NHS staff who are working so hard with all their skills & experience to care for so many sick patients (in the face of severe shortages of hospital beds, doctors, GPs & community/social care facilities) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The 3rd edition of our World Inequality Report is prefaced by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & Jayati Ghosh. It comes at a challenging political time, but is more essential than ever to continue the historic movement toward equality. Explore the report ▶️ wir2026.wid.world

Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said: “The private sector isn’t a pressure valve for the NHS. Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff, so shifting more NHS money their way only pulls people out of an already thin workforce." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is the main thing the resident doctor strike action is about, not the pay - though that helps retain doctors. If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS. Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants

An alarming cautionary tale from @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social about profit extraction from UK social care by private equity owned firms, a tale not heeded by ICBs (or DHSC) when outsourcing NHS community care to the private sector

Let’s really ‘Bring back the Family Doctor’ Wes Streeting NHSEngland with a real patient focused contract and real funding to make it happen Patients want to see GPs & GPs want to see patients ‘Your GP, here for you’ time to make it happen & it’s in your hands

Millions extracted in profit from publicly funded social care lowdownnhs.info/private-prov...

Thoughts on #COP30: 1/ This is the first time in years delegates have been brought face to face with those on the frontline. The indigenous communities are the heroes of this COP. They refused to be silenced. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

NHS private finance diverts money away from healthcare, towards the pockets of private shareholders. Cat Eccles MP’s motion can force the government to drop their NHS private finance plans from the Autumn Budget. ✉️Take 2 mins now to email your MP to sign the motion and protect patients.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... My letter to the Guardian

Our co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social was proud to speak at @weownit.org.uk protest against another round of disastrous PFI in the NHS. Effectively buying health centres on credit cards whilst giving money to shareholders, is not a sensible or responsible way to support our health service.

Thanks to our brilliant supporters who turned up in the cold to protest outside the DHSC building today. Like the 17,000+ people who signed our petition, they don't want the NHS burdened with decades of debt. The message is clear: Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, no new private finance in our NHS!

It is highly unlikely that the GPs and their teams are doing less, much more likely that you can’t see what they are doing.

Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny …evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy

Rachel Reeves needs to save money - how about 💰renegotiating wasteful old PFI contracts 💰NOT introducing new ones Right now 🏥Hospitals are paid for up to 27x over 🏥NHS trusts spend more on PFI debt than on medicines Sign now, deadline Tuesday 👇👇👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n...

🤔We asked Dr John Puntis, Co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public, if using the private sector helped the NHS with its capacity issues. @keepournhspublic.bsky.social.bsky.social 🚨Spoilers: it doesn't. #publicownership #NHS #SOSNHS

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.

Reverse the “dire state” of community nursing lowdownnhs.info/community-he...

I’m at ##COP30 with movements from across the world working to end the rule of the fossil fuel corporations. This week we’re focussing on ISDS. We need to end this toxic system.

Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Nick Robinson just couldn't resist getting in a gabbled dig at Alan Rusbridger as being an 'old leftie' (thumbs up from Gibb). Respect to Alan for ignoring such tabloid journalism BBC #r4today

NHS staff on the frontline are being forced to plug gaps in services that should be filled by skilled managers and admin staff, according to a new report www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose. The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it. I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

A petition signed by thousands has been delivered to the Treasury, urging the Chancellor to fix the broken student nurse finance system, and to governments across the UK. Student nurses need better financial support and we’re demanding governments take urgent action. ⬇️

Climate campaigners on their 'Voyage to Resist the End of the World' 💚 #COP30 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Patients seeking help with their mental health face a ‘one size fits all’ approach provided by a private company. They deserve better" thebristolcable.org/2025/10/bris... Via @thebristolcable.bsky.social @protectournhsbanes.bsky.social

So many community healthcare services (formerly NHS or not-for-profit CICs) have been been outsourced to private providers since the 2012 Health & Social Care Act. Is the profit motive a factor in the decline in numbers of highly trained district nurses?

Our latest report charts the decline in the number of district nurses, down 43% since 2009 📉 It also places the decline in the context of government ambitions to shift more care out of hospital and into the community, where district nurses play a key role. Read the report: buff.ly/gezemDJ (2/2)

How Reform UK might threaten our NHS Reform UK has plans for the NHS that could be the tip of a slippery slope towards the healthcare nightmares suffered by Americans northeastbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust plans to cut 150 admin posts - the people working behind the scenes who keep our hospitals running. Longer waits, missed calls and risks to patient care will follow. Please sign & share their petition✍️ www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...

The cost of the Covid Inquiry so far amounts to 0.01% of annual Gov spending. The likes of Nigel Farage and Ian Duncan Smith are now saying this is too expensive, and it should be wound up. That's 0.01% for an inquiry into the worst public health crisis in a generation. 1/4

If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

If the same money were invested directly into expanding NHS ward space, staff, and theatres - or even more importantly social care capacity to help discharge patients safely - the long-term impact would be far greater. Instead, we’re paying for short term relief instead of building resilience.

And while the government described this as “spare capacity,” it’s not free capacity. It’s paid-for capacity, at a premium, from the same pool of NHS consultants and anaesthetists who already work in overstretched trusts. We’re not conjuring new staff out of thin air - we’re moving them around.

It is absolutely good news when patients get seen faster - I won’t dispute that. BUT - before we celebrate too loudly, it is worth asking what this latest “use of independent sector capacity” actually means for the NHS itself and whether it actual fixes any of the fundamentals.

#Cholera is spreading fast. As for so many infectious diseases, we do have the tools to intervene… but poverty, neglect, disasters, and lack of real political buy-in perpetuate an epidemic ecosystem. @who.int @drtedros.who.int #MedSky #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Marmot places are having tangible results on health and wellbeing. Just ask these people who are busy making it happen

the new Plaid Cymru assembly member for Caerphilly sounds like a proper community-minded character: "Still a councillor, he also has four voluntary jobs, working in two local schools, a community coffee shop and a foodbank...." www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...

The problem with the single patient record: do you want the person doing yr hearing test in the high st to have access to your psychiatric diagnoses, incontinence, alcohol issues? Fully accessible free text is promised - what does that mean for Pt-Dr confidentiality? doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

Astonishing skills - surgical & musical! #NHS www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Corridor care is now a year-round reality. Almost 3 in 5 physicians reported delivering care in a temporary space over the summer, according to our latest snapshot survey. We’re calling on the #NHS & governments to address & prevent this practice for good. 🔗 ow.ly/g4aj50XeLFL

Over the past 30 years the number of hospital beds in England has halved & hospital beds are under even more intense pressure during winter. Find out how the number and type of hospital beds has changed over time and how this compares with other countries: https://bit.ly/48Arl5X

There are shortages of GPs because Government & NHS England has failed to fund GP practices to retain, employ or increase their capacity A cut in funding by 20% £/patient in the last 10yr & investing in other roles instead & now have unemployed GPs who are unable to get work Simply fund practices!

Staff tell of 'lack of care and compassion' as more than 25,000 workers at NHS hospitals issued with car parking fines, Channel 4 News investigation uncovers. 📩 Read the full story in our newsletter: channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

As an employer would you... Send builders to work without ear protection? Send steeplejacks without a harness? Send Motorway staff with no high Vis jacket? Then don't send ambulance workers without wellbeing support. NHS has a duty of care, make sure they honour it. Petiton: c.org/PGBww7YNsb

❌ Thames Water want to pollute ILLEGALLY for the next 15 years. Thousands of you have already said NO by signing our petition ✉️ Next? We're taking it to Ofwat's inbox ✍️Take 1min now to send an email to Ofwat, explaining why they must say no to 15 more years of illegal pollution