"I see evidence midwives don’t have the training, understanding, to manage women who are very sick because of the change in the characteristics of women giving birth. What worries me is curricula are not moving with the times to recognise that change" - Prof Marian Knight of @Mbrrace

The NMC wrote to all universities on Friday telling them to stop promoting normal birth and gave them 1 month to alert the NMC to any deviations from their approved course material.

Before I did midwifery training I worked as a nurse on renal dialysis and liver transplant units in the 90s.I remember being shocked by newly created direct entry midwives who knew little about diabetes monitoring or blood gasses. I wonder if the issue here is curriculum of direct entry midwifery?

🚨 Exclusive: A damning inquiry will reveal tomorrow how NHS leaders ignored warnings over unsafe hearing tests 12 years ago leaving 300 children permanently disabled. @camillakingdon.bsky.social labels it a "disaster" and calls for a change in leadership: www.thetimes.com/article/2f23...

🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's maternity crisis has deeper roots, extending into the universities trusted to train the next generation of midwives. A majority are still promoting a normal birth ideology while women are more complex than ever: READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...

Eeek! Thanks to Virgo Health for this event this morning. Helping me to raise money for the @mndassoc.bsky.social by being mouthy. Was a great chat and Q&A.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease: www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...

Did you know we have the 2nd lowest number of rehab beds in Europe? Six in 10 patients who need rehab following a trauma don't get it. The new national rehab centre is redesigning rehab care promising to return £3.3bn to the economy. Read more 👇

Physio leader, Miriam Duffy,and her team show exactly what is possible when rehab is not an option. The new national rehab centre is exactly what any of us would want if we had a catastrophic event. This is the blueprint. Thank you Shaun for covering this important exclusive. #RightToRehab

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Lifesaving treatments for the millions of Britons who suffer from rare diseases could be approved years earlier under ambitious plans by the UK medicines watchdog: www.thetimes.com/article/0653...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease: www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...

NHS England's former CEO Amanda Pritchard received pay in lieu of notice of £105,000-£110,000 and a Lieu of Annual Leave payment of £5,000-£10,000. Her salary was £265,000-£270,000. She left NHSE in March and joined @GSTTnhs NHSE's annual report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69036e...

GMC restrictions placed on surgeon suspended from Addenbrooke’s after concerns over operations www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/gmc-res...

'Neglect' and 'gross failures' led to deaths of mum and baby in home birth tragedy www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Am having to visit my parents in Stoke a lot more regularly at the moment thanks to the horror of #MND but one silver lining is a decent supply of fresh Staffordshire oatcakes in London. #ifyouknowyouknow

Wes Streeting has put junior doctors on notice that taxpayers’ cash will not fund more training posts if they continue to strike, in interview with Sunday Times READ: www.thetimes.com/article/afbe...

🚨 EXC - Cannabis isn't safe for young brains with teens smoking it regularly facing an 11 times higher risk of psychosis later in life, warns Britain's top psychiatrist: www.thetimes.com/article/17fa...

Waitrose-rejected autistic volunteer receives job offer from Asda www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CQC boss Julian Hartley has resigned from CQC in the wake of the Govt announcing an inquiry into maternity at his old trust. This was always going to be a problem for him - he had recused himself of any decisions on Leeds while at CQC but it was getting more difficult. 1/2

BREAKING: Resident - junior - doctors in England will go on strike for five days in November 14th to 19th over jobs and pay the The BMA has just announced.

The CQC is to prosecute the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust following the death of 16-year-old Ellame Ford-Dunn in 2022. She absconded from a ward at Worthing Hospital and later killer herself. The trust will appear at Brighton Magistrates Court on Monday 27 October.

Looks like University Hospitals Plymouth is already in the depths of a Winter crisis. 10 hour wait in A&E @shaunlintern.bsky.social

Lewis Moody was the idol of 30-year-old Tom Davies. Now both have #MND. www.thetimes.com/article/5d8e...

Six people a day are diagnosed with #MND At any one time, 5,000 people live with the devastating effects, eventually unable to walk, talk or eat etc. One of them is my mum and I've yet to find the words that adequately describe the horror that is MND.

Lewis Moody diagnosed with motor neurone disease – what is it and what are the symptoms: www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

On @lbc.co.uk discussing this story in the next few minutes

There is an institutional culture in many parts of the NHS of focussing wholly on money, and just not doing credible patient impact assessments when considering any cuts to service. Or worse, having them done and treating it as unimportant for many reasons nothing to do with patient health.

🚨 Exclusive: New leaked document proves @NHSEngland was warned a decade ago about failures in child hearing test centres across England. Hundreds of children have been harmed, some left with lifelong problems: ▶️ www.thetimes.com/article/294c...

NHS advisers are expected to rule against routine screening for prostate cancer, dealing a blow to campaigners pushing for more checks www.thetimes.com/article/700d...

A high-profile conspiracy theorist influenced her daughter to reject chemotherapy in favour of alternative treatments, which ultimately led to her death, a coroner has ruled www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Former chief nurse of England, Sarah Mullaly, the Bishop of London, will be the next Archbishop of Canterbury

MND patients fighting for a treatment for the disease denied because of hospital capacity is truly scandalous. Sadly this won't help my mum but the NHS can and must do better for these families: t.co/9qQPs2qxqs

This week the covid inquiry will hear evidence about the pandemic’s impact on children and young people. Dame Rachel de Souza, children’s commissioner, says children are still paying the price for school lockdowns. www.thetimes.com/article/ae39...

At the #mjaawards last week, our chair @shaunlintern.bsky.social spoke incredibly movingly about why we do what we do. See more detail and our list of winners on the MJA website. mjauk.org/2025/09/17/t...

Families face unfair ‘luck of the draw’ over NHS continuing healthcare decisions www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An NHS doctor accused of sexually assaulting multiple patients, including children, while working in 2 hospital A&Es is expected to be charged within weeks after the conclusion of a 4-year police investigation www.thetimes.com/article/a3ac...

"We have received written advice from the CPS on submission of a case file, and all agencies continue to work collaboratively to enable a final charging decision to be made" -Staffordshire Police

Operation Anzu has seen hundreds of families sent letters by the NHS asking them to contact Staffordshire police, after a trawl of thousands of records for patients seen by this doctor:

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An NHS doctor accused of sexually assaulting multiple patients, including children, while working in 2 hospital A&Es is expected to be charged within weeks after the conclusion of a 4-year police investigation www.thetimes.com/article/a3ac...

UK doctors who are guilty of sexual misconduct are not being appropriately sanctioned due to weak disciplinary processes, research reveals. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The number of people providing 35 hours or more a week of unpaid care increased from 1.1 million in 2003/04 to 1.9 million in 2023/24. New requests for support increased from 1.8 million in 2015/16 to 2.1 million in 2023/24, mainly from working age adults www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

One of the best things in the Hillsborough Law Bill is not the duty of candour on public officials, as welcome as that is, but news that bereaved families will have publicly funded legal representation at inquests. Finally an equality of arms that's been lacking for so long

Another maternity inquiry wholly focused on care delivered on labour wards. The policies and targets set for those trusts by DHSC, NHS England, and their response to concerns is conspicuously absent.

I'm glad to see my local trust will be reviewed as part of the national maternity investigation. I have been supporting a family harmed in the trust and they deserve a full review and, more importantly, action to change the culture and operations of the service.

14 NHS trusts to be focus of national maternity investigation are named www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Heading to Manchester for @events.hsj.co.uk Patient Safety Congress - two days of full on discussion of all things safety & quality. I'm looking to forward to Penny Dash keynote tomorrow, @marydixonwoods.bsky.social challenging keynote panel & Dr Matt Morgan delivering the James Reason lecture

My last big harvest of the year

National mental health director Claire Murdoch resigns with immediate effect claiming political pressure for a new person...her resignation letter....👀

Britain will be one of the first countries in the world to get a fat-busting once-a-day pill next year, the boss of @EliLillyandCo told me. He also revealed hopes of a "once-and-done" treatment for obesity: Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/9565...

The doctor quoted by Dr Aseem Malhotra in his speech today was listed in 2020 as having a financial interest in a rival Covid vaccine and company.