Would you support Student Loan forgiveness for NHS workers including Doctors & Nurses? 30% for 3 years NHS work 70% for 7 years 100% for 10 years Need to break the pay impasse @jamesmurrayldn.bsky.social This is currently being ignored by Government as an option

Top health official held shares in key children’s home operator Ex-Operose CEO The same Operose that operated General Practice on the cheap unsafely Now in charge at DHSC www.ft.com/content/710e...

Top health official held shares in key children’s home operator Ex-Operose CEO The same Operose that operated General Practice on the cheap unsafely Now in charge at DHSC www.ft.com/content/710e...

NOT THE NHS AGAIN! Magic or is it? Tony Blair in the news is a reminder that the Blair Govt were responsible for PFI, with hospitals, schools left with huge payments for years. 70% more costly than Govt borrowing! PFI & PPP (Public-Private Partnerships) youtu.be/VA2_ojbgS-4?... @weownit.org.uk

Entrusting the future to AI and in particular Palantir Don’t do it!

You could be on the other side of the street from another GP surgery and not be able to offer a service, just because you’re in a different ICB It’s a lottery, depending on which part of the country you’re in! It could be you! 🤞🏼 www.pulsetoday.co.uk/analysis/spe...

Entrusting the future to AI and in particular Palantir Don’t do it!

Calling all General Practice & Community Pharmacy colleagues @NPA1921 past Chair Nick Kaye & @DAUK_GP Dr Steve Taylor, discuss “A debate across the divide of practice & pharmacy: are we stronger together, or better alone?” Watch the debate unfold: youtu.be/963lS4bzMMI?...

Do you have two minutes to help us end the corridor crisis in the NHS? Corridor care poses huge risks to the health of patients and the safety of NHS staff. Use this tool to write to your MP, urging them to take action on corridor care: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Calling all General Practice & Community Pharmacy colleagues @NPA1921 past Chair Nick Kaye & @DAUK_GP Dr Steve Taylor, discuss “A debate across the divide of practice & pharmacy: are we stronger together, or better alone?” Watch the debate unfold: youtu.be/963lS4bzMMI?...

NOT THE NHS AGAIN! Magic or is it? Tony Blair in the news is a reminder that the Blair Govt were responsible for PFI, with hospitals, schools left with huge payments for years. 70% more costly than Govt borrowing! PFI & PPP (Public-Private Partnerships) youtu.be/VA2_ojbgS-4?... @weownit.org.uk

The data in GP records was a ‘aid memoir’ of consultations It was & is a sharing of information between the patient & their GP to aid their care The fact that people have decided it was more than that is the problem It is NOT NHS database It is an individual’s shared history

The data in GP records was a ‘aid memoir’ of consultations It was & is a sharing of information between the patient & their GP to aid their care The fact that people have decided it was more than that is the problem It is NOT NHS database It is an individual’s shared history

🗣️ | “It reflects the complexity of funding streams in general practice. GP practices, the BMA, RCGP have been asking for money to be moved to the core contract [to help practices hire GPs] rather than it being manipulated via ARRS.” @drstevetaylor.bsky.social in this @gponline.bsky.social report

Curiously, the people redesigning NHS employment models are rarely redesigning their own terms and conditions. In every NHS reform, insecurity seems to travel downward. myemail.constantcontact.com/Even-more.ht... @roylilley1.bsky.social

Curiously, the people redesigning NHS employment models are rarely redesigning their own terms and conditions. In every NHS reform, insecurity seems to travel downward. myemail.constantcontact.com/Even-more.ht... @roylilley1.bsky.social

You could be on the other side of the street from another GP surgery and not be able to offer a service, just because you’re in a different ICB It’s a lottery, depending on which part of the country you’re in! It could be you! 🤞🏼 www.pulsetoday.co.uk/analysis/spe...

Expect to see a lot more of this kind of sovereignty-preserving market intervention.

🔎 From the archive: Nigel Farage Claimed There's 'No Money in Politics' Just Before Running for £91,000+ MP Job — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social 🔁 Relevant again: As more questions are raised about Farage’s £5m ‘gift’

Palantir - get it out of here! open.substack.com/pub/drdavidn...

"Trump could leave today and this doesn't change – because it became a community, and then it's people's identities" My fascinating interview with @noellecook.com and Liz Smith on their film 'The Conspiracists' – following why women attracted to MAGA and 'conspirituality' believe what they do 👇

UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students - www.ft.com/content/ded7... I don't really understand why any administration would not try to reverse the fall in overseas student numbers, but I guess I'm a naive liberal

Is your personal medical information safe from profit-seeking under the government’s plans for the NHS? GPs block data sharing to highlight concerns & protect patient data. Get Palantir out of #NHS lowdownnhs.info/comment/gps-...

Instead of real hospital & community beds, we have 10,000 ‘virtual beds’ (in your own home) which cost £165 per day (the same as the annual cost of a GP services) The unpaid carers subsidise this, as do community services Yet hospital trusts, NHSE & DHSC ‘clap’ themselves for their cost savings

This might surprise you but when we had more District Nurses and community teams both of these things were possible a mere 10-15 years ago Reinventing the wheel but at 3 -4x the cost When hospital teams run community services the costs are much higher This could be done very differently

GP practices are patient data protectors The new Health Bill will remove the GP & move the data controller (protector) role to the Secretary of State for Health Your sharing data ‘opt-out’ may not be protected in the same way I have ‘opted out’ but doesn’t stop sharing data

Thanks James. Non-paywalled version below. Meanwhile I’ll get onto Slate - the original version used to be free

Instead of real hospital & community beds, we have 10,000 ‘virtual beds’ (in your own home) which cost £165 per day (the same as the annual cost of a GP services) The unpaid carers subsidise this, as do community services Yet hospital trusts, NHSE & DHSC ‘clap’ themselves for their cost savings

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

There is only one European nation with fewer hospital beds per capita than the UK Sweden but they have the highest number of care home & nursing home beds 26% fewer care home beds 23% fewer nursing beds Fewer hospital beds Then people wonder why A&E is blocked

There is only one European nation with fewer hospital beds per capita than the UK Sweden but they have the highest number of care home & nursing home beds 26% fewer care home beds 23% fewer nursing beds Fewer hospital beds Then people wonder why A&E is blocked

‘NOT THE NHS AGAIN!’ latest Streeting’s left us his ‘Ten Year Health Plan’: no implementation, funding or workforce - just his belief in AI, his private donations & his ambition. @drstevetaylor.bsky.social @dauk-gp.bsky.social @keepournhspublic.bsky.social #tenyearplan youtu.be/UGJmv5U-tDw?si…

The Doctors Association UK continues to raise its concerns over plans for a new single patient record Alarm among doctors & health experts about the proposals to hand the health secretary sweeping new powers to control patients’ data The plans are in the Health Bill dauk.org/dauk-continu...

The Doctors Association UK continues to raise its concerns over plans for a new single patient record Alarm among doctors & health experts about the proposals to hand the health secretary sweeping new powers to control patients’ data The plans are in the Health Bill dauk.org/dauk-continu...

Not the NHS again! This week’s podcast Is there really an NHS Plan? With Tony O’Sullivan keepournhspublic.com and Mark E Thomas 99-percent.org youtu.be/UGJmv5U-tDw?...

Not the NHS again! This week’s podcast Is there really an NHS Plan? With Tony O’Sullivan keepournhspublic.com and Mark E Thomas 99-percent.org youtu.be/UGJmv5U-tDw?...

KILL BILL - The Health BILL

🗣️ | "It’s trying to do things cheaply without investing in what we really need. "A face-to-face appointment with a GP is an important interaction that makes a massive difference." @drstevetaylor.bsky.social on reports patients are receiving serious diagnoses via the NHS app dauk.org/technology-m...

KILL BILL - The Health BILL

Wes Streeting’s final shot as he ran out the door Your NHS data is not going to be safe You will have NO meaningful OPT OUT of data sharing GPs have seen this coming & will stand with their patients Palantir et al will have access & Government controls medconfidential.org/2026/wes-str...

Translation: the Sec of State for Health can, and I have no doubt will, sell your data to the highest bidder in spite of denials. Claims it's for "planning for the future" or research are nonsense. Don't want your data shared with Palantir? Tough, cos that's where it's going. This must be stopped.

GP practices are patient data protectors The new Health Bill will remove the GP & move the data controller (protector) role to the Secretary of State for Health Your sharing data ‘opt-out’ may not be protected in the same way I have ‘opted out’ but doesn’t stop sharing data

🗣️ | “The current fit notes system isn’t working well for patients, GPs or employers. “It often lacks the nuance to deal with specific situations and reasons people have for not being able to work." @drstevetaylor.bsky.social welcomed a new fit note pilot scheme dauk.org/fit-note-ref...

Greater Manchester still says no to #NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin Manchester showing the way England needs to go Wales and Scotland agree No to Palantir www.theregister.com/public-secto...

The NHS App: A digital illusion at the crossroads of trust and power yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/...

I guess that’s why it’s over for Wes

I guess that’s why it’s over for Wes

Fearing a change in Labour leadership, Thames Water creditors rush a takeover plan. Want regulator to go easy on abuses. Still want dividends. Customers will be fleeced. There can be no market-based solution. No competition Captive customers No substitute goods Must nationalise. archive.ph/eJoHP

Time for a new direction from a new Heath Secretary Conversation on ‘Not the NHS Again’ Podcast YouTube.com@NottheNHSAgain @jamesmurrayldn.bsky.social @keepournhspublic.bsky.social @doctor

Time for a new direction from a new Heath Secretary Conversation on ‘Not the NHS Again’ Podcast YouTube.com@NottheNHSAgain @jamesmurrayldn.bsky.social @keepournhspublic.bsky.social @doctor