More NHS outsourcing as management of bank staff contracted out - John Lister @protectournhsbanes.bsky.social lowdownnhs.info/news/still-m...

In research from the OECD group of developed countries, Britain ranks joint bottom for nursing pay when compared with the average UK wage.

Excellent report from John Lister on the shameful decision of Bath, Swindon & Wilts Hospitals Group to outsource its essential #NHS bank staff to private company Pulse: The Lowdown share.google/rqb6RySD3u0a...

Keir Starmer, deliver the "biggest wave of insourcing in a generation" you promised Sign the petition to add your name to this demand: vist.ly/54fc5

A scary canter through Streeting's final 'gift' to the NHS. The single patient record aka Single Palantir Record will have all your medical data, available to whoever the sec of state sees fit, to sell or use for 'any legitimate purpose' with no opt outs. First task for James Murray is to bin this.

Excellent report from John Lister on the shameful decision of Bath, Swindon & Wilts Hospitals Group to outsource its essential #NHS bank staff to private company Pulse: The Lowdown share.google/rqb6RySD3u0a...

For years, we have warned that bringing Palantir into the #NHS will erode patient trust. Now, we learn that Palantir staff have been given "unlimited" access to our identifiable health data. Patients have never consented to this. Palantir needs to go.

Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said: "The so-called independent sector...uses [the NHS] as a safety net. There are long established concerns about risks to patients in private hospitals and the fact that the NHS picks up the tab when things go wrong." www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

Sepsis almost killed me – and my private clinic didn’t wa... share.google/1bGy0CmI5JdY...

Is your personal medical information safe from profit-seeking under the government’s plans for the NHS? GPs block data sharing in fight over new contract lowdownnhs.info/comment/gps-...

Unless we change the voting system, we will see this at the next general election as well. With votes split across five or more parties, power can be won on as little as 25% of the vote. This needs to be a wake-up call.

Making cost-savings off the back of hardworking NHS bank staff? Surely Bath, Swindon & Wilts Hospitals Group could coordinate their bank staff management without resorting to privatisation? Concern at plan to hand hundreds of NHS staff to private company | Somerset Live share.google/5JTzXlljsOaE...

🕊️ Today is World Press Freedom Day. A free media is essential to hold power to account. Yet around the world, journalists continue to face intimidation, threats, and even death. 🗣️ We call on all governments to build a world where those that uncover corruption and injustice are safe.

Making cost-savings off the back of hardworking NHS bank staff? Surely Bath, Swindon & Wilts Hospitals Group could coordinate their bank staff management without resorting to privatisation? Concern at plan to hand hundreds of NHS staff to private company | Somerset Live share.google/5JTzXlljsOaE...

NHS Patient Data is currently being shared with ICBs Although ‘anonymised’ given the specifics of the data this is not entirely accurate Palantir is involved already in many (not all) ICBs & NHS Trusts The ‘OPT OUT’ doesn’t work bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Bath, Swindon & Wilts Hospital Group is planning to outsource its bank staff to private company Pulse, seeking cost savings by no longer having to pay employer pension contributions, meaning highly skilled, experienced #NHS staff lose out. Please sign the petition to object: c.org/pYfnf7vhb8

Excellent work by @chpithinktank.bsky.social - their calculator shows that in our ICB area £423.4m from NHS funds went to private firms, with £23.7m leaking out in profit to private providers. This could have paid for 134 extra NHS doctors or 285 extra NHS nurses 💔

Many updates on NHS privatisation at www.nhsforsale.info/overview/wha...

Very well done, local volunteers in Somerset! 🌿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Bath, Swindon & Wilts Hospital Group is planning to outsource its bank staff to private company Pulse, seeking cost savings by no longer having to pay employer pension contributions, meaning highly skilled, experienced #NHS staff lose out. Please sign the petition to object: c.org/pYfnf7vhb8

Sound up.

Yes indeed! And thousands of constituents have also written to their MPs with their serious concerns about Palantir's involvement in our publicly funded #NHS www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The CDC is on the Brink, the editorial in this week's @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Operose sending emails to GP Partners - come and join us! The same Operose who Samantha Jones was CEO The one that employed PAs at the expense of GPs The one owned by a hedge fund whose owner is now based in Dubai It’s a corporate takeover of GP Practices aided by Government cuts

Israel accused of war crimes over killing of Lebanese journalist www.channel4.com/news/israel-...

Odd that this report doesn't mention the fact that many #NHS community healthcare services, incl. health visitors, have been outsourced in recent yrs to private firms (as in our local area, where the provider is owned by a private equity firm). Could this be a factor? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alarming post from Nicola on Substack: our local #NHS Foundation Trust Hospitals are planning to outsource their 'flexible NHS staff' to a private for-profit firm, owned by private equity. They want to save money by reducing bank staff T&Cs/pension support naj562.substack.com/p/nhs-privat...

Private firms made £1.6bn out of the NHS in the last two years That could have paid for over 9000 doctors Long waiting lists, crumbling hospitals, corridor care - patients are suffering while profiteers line their pockets How much profit is leaking out of your local NHS? vist.ly/4y8yn

Nice visual gag from SNL UK nails why Palantir has no place in the NHS. Palantir are specialists in harm, not health. Its record is in targeting people, not caring for them. This isn't "putting ideology above patient safety” – in the NHS, it’s one and the same: www.youtube.com/shorts/0j0Z9...

‘Not the NHS Again!’ A new podcast series released every Friday. This week ‘The GP employment crisis’ with GPs Dr Sarah Jacques, Dr Neena Jha and Dr Steve Taylor youtu.be/bT08Zoj7F3A?...

If a referendum was held on whether to nationalise water (backed by @windrushwasp.bsky.social, Feargal Sharkey), how would people vote? A majority support PUBLIC OWNERSHIP! 70% of Conservative voters 89% of Labour voters 90% of Lib Dem voters 87% of Reform voters (Green data unavailable)

🔥🔥 OVER 16,000 have already signed the petition to stop BlackRock buying up our GP surgery buildings. Our NHS is not for sale. Our NHS is not their cash cow. Our NHS is not their piggy bank. Add your name now 👉🏻 vist.ly/4xb6i

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...

More support needed for NHS community physio services @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social 'Findings from the 2025 stroke physiotherapy workforce survey suggested there were 26% fewer physiotherapists than national guidance recommends in community stroke services' www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

So many people writing to their MPs are concerned about their #NHS health & personal data being held by an FDP designed & operated by Palantir, implicated in providing data for US ICE raids. Safety, confidentiality & ethics are the issues here, not ideology www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NHS staff boycott Palantir’s data platform “It makes me feel sick every time I log into the thing and I know I’m not alone in that. Colleagues are avoiding the news because it makes them feel terrible.”  www.ft.com/content/dbb6...

To save our NHS, more income has to flow to the government. They could start by looking at the taxes paid by big business.

🔴Reform UK Councils Are Dismantling the Fight Against Climate Change Nigel Farage’s party is spreading climate change denial, while blocking any localised action to deal with the threat, an academic analysis of Reform councils has found bylinetimes.com/2026/03/24/r...

This is exactly why so many transparency campaigners are calling for crypto donations to be banned

PFI: Still draining NHS budgets decades on - John Lister lowdownnhs.info/private-prov...

'The Medact briefing urges trusts and ICBs to “urgently decline” FDP, and for NHS England to terminate the contract, saying partnering with Palantir risks weakening patients’ trust while “driving out locally tailored and trusted data solutions”.' #NHS www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Anna Foster challenging Israeli UK embassy spokesperson to justify Israeli attacks on the Pars gas field and on devastating attacks on civilians in Iran and Lebanon, which of course, in any rational world, he can't. Excellent journalism from a Middle Eastern expert #r4today @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Only 12.7% of GP trainees feel confident they’ll find a long‑term GP role within six months of qualifying. Our latest blog looks at what’s driving that uncertainty and why employment pathways matter. 👉 Read in full today: https://bit.ly/4uhwNTH

Trump demands Zambia’s critical minerals… or else he’ll cut up to 1.3 million off from HIV meds. We urgently need global cooperation to fill these aid gaps and allow countries to stand up to Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

'The Medact briefing urges trusts and ICBs to “urgently decline” FDP, and for NHS England to terminate the contract, saying partnering with Palantir risks weakening patients’ trust while “driving out locally tailored and trusted data solutions”.' #NHS www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

LeedsKONP will be there 💪