🚨 TOMORROW! 🚨 Come and join the “hard left eco mob trying to derail NHS pay deal” in London 👇

Finally on my way to Liverpool for @rcn.org.uk Congress #RCN25. Looking forward to seeing some of the @nhsworkerssayno.bsky.social squad and joining the mental health forum as a voting member. ✊

❗️This is at the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford today. 🇵🇸

To be absolutely clear, I will not vote for Labour if they continue to support Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. I won’t be voting tactically I don’t care who that lets into power I’m not voting for a Party that can permit the wilful starvation of innocent people.

Happy May Day!

Thank you Ifhat for your support! I am standing for re-election to the female health seat on UNISON's NEC alongside Claire Miller and Kevin Corran. We also recommend voting for Adrian O'Malley for the remaining health seat. #TimeforRealChange #UNISON #NECElections2025

Proud to join colleagues from West Yorkshire Health Workers 4 Palestine for a march remembering Palestinian health workers in Leeds this weekend. #NotATarget #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

Many of the best people I meet are trans. Some of the biggest advocates for justice. No trans woman has ever threatened my rights. Today’s ruling is a win for hypothetical scenarios that barely exist in reality, and causes real life pain and anxiety for people already enduring so much.

Outside the BBC building in Leeds this lunchtime: “BBC, pick a side: justice or genocide!” #FreePalestine

Just watched ‘Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface’ as part of Leeds Queer Film Festival and 100% recommend to anyone who gets a chance to watch it. An important display of solidarity I think a few on the left could do with being reminded of right now.

This ⬇️ It’s a sign that there’s something v wrong with society if one job isn’t enough to survive on And these people no doubt would be the first to complain about standards slipping. How can you expect good service when an employee is exhausted? Would you want a doctor straight off another shift?

I’m never going to stop laughing at this

Obviously most ‘centrist’ media outlets don’t respond to those on the left-wing saying they’re focusing on the wrong things, so let me say this: your reporting is really super boring now, because it’s very clear that you’re using mental gymnastics not to call out Starmer properly.

Who needs nurses anyway?

Nursing staff are being forced to deliver care in inappropriate settings every day. Patient safety is being compromised. The true extent of the corridor care crisis has been revealed in our new report, using the testimonies of over 5,000 NHS nursing staff. Read it here: https://bit.ly/3WiS8wB

'Talk of an upcoming ceasefire deal in Gaza must be treated with caution, especially as the implementation of the terms will be fraught with difficulties', says Al Jazeera Senior Analyst Marwan Bishara. 🟥 Read analysis: aje.io/upmvx5

Free Palestine 🇵🇸🙏❤️

🚨 Tell your MP - Protect healthworkers Israel is escalating its genocide on Gaza and its attack on Palestinian healthworkers. Write to your MP to demand they push the govt to #StopArmingIsrael, and protect healthcare workers (1/5) Write here: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/healthcarewo...

Horrendous to think that nurse went to work in A&E - in already dire circumstances - and ended up a patient there herself. I hope our unions are really going to stand up for us. @rcn.org.uk

Our queen:

Wake up Streeting! Address the healthcare professional's recruitment & retention crisis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“We’re forgotten about here... nobody cares.” A Coca-Cola plant pumps millions of litres of water in Mexico's San Cristóbal de las Casas. But locals say their faucets run dry. So who is to blame for the water shortages? ⤵️

Can anyone point to *any credible* sources for the claims I’ve seen vaguely waved around, that private health has a whole load of meaningful & useful spare capacity just waiting around for NHS patients? I saw 20% mentioned but that seems to have come from industry lobbyists - about something else!

We’re supporting the #SafeSickPay campaign. Raising Statutory Sick Pay would mean millions of workers in would finally be able to afford to take time off sick when needed. Write to your MP to back the campaign: bit.ly/sickpayaction #GFTU

When we tell you that privatising NHS delivery a bad idea, it’s not “ideology”. It’s cos we know that health services redesigned by corporate stooges end up *undertreating* the poor, sick & complex - but also expensively *overtreating*/overtesting ppl where there’s money to be made. Case in point 👇

An inconvenient truth for Labour: NHS privatisation is entirely un-evidence-based and the public has never agreed to it. All evidence is that privatisation is: 1) more expensive for taxpayers, and 2) has worse outcomes for patients

I’m afraid that as a politician you sometimes have to ask the question: is the toboggan really worth it?

I’ve always said that what our social care system is lacking is yet another long and boring report

Revolting. Thinking of hospital patients and staff in Gaza; healthcare facilities are #NotATarget.

Merry Christmas! Thinking of my amazing colleagues working in the NHS this Christmas, but also those trying to save lives in unimaginable circumstances elsewhere. Wishing for peace in 2025. 🙏

A series of Israeli attacks on displacement camps and designated “safe zones” in Gaza has killed several Palestinians, including children.

I take it back… I’m requesting a refund

Hoggle: the gift that keeps giving 🎁🎅🎄

‘Dead bodies, blood and body parts all over’. At least eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Musa bin Nusair School in Gaza City, where forcibly displaced Palestinians were sheltering. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

Hereby launching a new campaign to outlaw men

Never forget that this situation was completely avoidable. When you inflict 14 years of austerity on an essential service, this is the result. KONP has been fighting for the NHS for 20 years, and we're not about to stop now. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Who won’t this government throw under the bus to save the precious billionaires? This lot won’t have *any* votes at the next election at this rate.

RIP Khaled Nabhan “She was the soul of my soul”

Private Equity Is Devouring Everything And Is Coming for Your Pets. It is taking over animal clinics. Profiteering, wage cuts, asset stripping, tax dodges are standard practice. UK govt has handed care homes and parts of the NHS to it. Disasterous. jacobin.com/2024/12/vete...

A shocking revelation today in the #PhysicianAssociates scandal It turns out the Health Secretary is using tax payers money to pay the GMC’s costs in defending the legal action brought by @anaesunited.bsky.social to protect patient safety - an outrageous use of public money youtu.be/T-BDHQop1zk?...

🚨Private healthcare companies are lobbying the Health Secretary to sign up to a new PFI deal. ⏰We’re running out of time to stop this deal. 📋Add your name to the petition now and show Wes Streeting YOU stand against new #PFI in our #NHS. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...

I’m so glad Streeting’s glittering career in the NUS and Westminster has equipped him with so much insight into the National Health Service that none one of those clowns who’ve spent years and years training and saving lives day in day out there could possibly comprehend

Oh come ON. 2.8%! The government of the workers various unions and the TUC have been falling over themselves to lavish praise on. Might as well ballot us for strike now. If you need me I’ll be dusting off my megaphone…

BBC News just said that Netanyahu being at the corruption trial, distracts from the war in Gaza. There is no war in Gaza. It's an occupation, an illegal land grab and a genocide of the Palestinians. BBC News, it is shameful of you to describe it this way. @bbcnews

Absolutely gutted to read this. 😢 Outsourcing is always a big mistake - thinking of all our colleagues in Colchester. www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2478213...

If you’re applying for PIP, the charity Turn2Us has launched The PIP Tool: a free guide to navigate the benefits process. Their goal “is to make sure you know your rights and can afford what you need to enjoy life fully.” Share widely! pip.turn2us.org.uk

“Women pushed into private sector because NHS inadequately resourced to provide timely care and treatment” There, fixed this title for you, the BBC. 🚨 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...