Abhorrent 😡

The more I think about this, the more angry I get. He’s a fucking scumbag. A man without the wit or wisdom to scrape onto a Reform UK parish council, yet somehow squatting in the Oval Office like a bad smell that won’t leave the room. A grotesquely awful human being.

If you need more evidence that Mary-Ann Stephenson shouldn't have been appointed as Chair of the EHRC here it is!

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The BMA is aware of serious concerns across this Trust over bullying, and the loss of experienced and capable senior staff linked to poor culture. We’ve raised concerns about Dr Noble’s treatment and await national and regional intervention. www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/people/...

Hoads Wood cost £15m to clear. Kidlington is estimated at £25m. Waste Crime costs the economy at least £1bn every year. Six large scale organised waste crime sites have come to light in the last five weeks alone, in addition to the six sites the EA knows about. Most are never cleared. We need reform

Excellent thread re the impact of masking on virus spread and the need for the UK to get real about it.

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

A patient survey on NHS maternity services has found that mothers from ‘deprived’ neighbourhoods and with long-term mental health conditions were more likely to feel dissatisfied with treatment. #womenshealth #midwifery #midwives #neonatal #nhs #pregnancy #birth www.nursingtimes.net/womens-healt...

Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS, 1946: “The State will provide a certain standard of dentistry free, but if a person wants to have his teeth filled with gold, the State will not provide that.” Read his whole speech. So many questions are settled. sochealth.co.uk/national-hea...

That’s an obscene amount of energy. Meta should foot the bill.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social hi BBC (only BBC account on here!). Why is your reporting on flu not mentioning that people under 65 can only get the nhs flu vax if they meet specific criteria?! The best way to stop flu is to make the NHS vax available to all.

The NHS / Streeting and BBC are encouraging people to have the flu vax, but most people aren't eligible for an NHS vax. Those under 65 have to meet specific criteria. The best way to reduce flu is to make the vax available to all on the NHS.

Citizens of countries including the UK and France will have to disclose the past five years of their social media history to visit the US even though they are covered by visa waiver schemes, under new proposals by the Trump administration. www.ft.com/content/683b...

Interviewing future medical students gave me that rare thing: hope for the NHS Devi Sridhar www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops

Apparently the figure is £27 billion spent on claims since 2019 🤯

An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.

Do we still have a Labour Government or did I miss a Reform take-over? 😡

Really looking forward to having to prove my sex repeatedly in a restaurant, in the event I want to do something outrageous like order food or go to the lav

Very important thread clarifying the Supreme Court case now being misrepresented by some as a trans bathroom ban. I hope the Girl Guides and others who have made anti-trans decisions on the basis that the law requires them to will now roll back their decisions.

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Fundamentally: this means that whatever has motivated a change in policy by Girl Guiding is not about the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland. It was something else.

Trans people without a GRC would have been considered their 'biological' sex for the purpose of the EA regardless of how FWS was decided. So no matter what, trans girl guides would have been 'male' under that Act. If they could be lawfully included notwithstanding that before, they still can be now.

The government has just published amendments to the Employment Rights Bill which remove the cap on compensatory awards for unfair dismissal and substitutes a 6 month qualifying period (not 2 years) or for submitting claims. Might wake a few NHS employers up?

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Massively disappointing decision from the Girl Guides and completely unnecessary from a legal perspective.

A disgrace.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Definitely worth a watch! substack.com/@thedangerou...

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This is a Trump shakedown of the NHS that nobody voted for. The government will divert billions of pounds away from frontline NHS services- all on the whim of a foreign president They must put the deal to a vote in Parliament.

Very interesting new polling on views about the NHS www.health.org.uk/sites/defaul...

‘Unique’ nursing degree apprenticeship offers fast-track route A new degree apprenticeship to “upskill” nursing associates to become registered nurses in 15 months is being launched. #nursing #apprenticeship #nursingassociate #nurses #education #university www.nursingtimes.net/education-an...

Drop in immigration to UK ‘serious challenge’ to healthcare workforce Continued falls in UK immigration levels could create “serious challenges” for the NHS, healthcare leaders have warned. #workforce #nhs #nursing #immigration #healthcare #nurses #policy www.nursingtimes.net/workforce/dr...

NMC looks for ‘concrete measures’ to remove bias from FtP process The regulator is to consult with unions and a group of senior Black, Asian and minority ethnic registrants on measures to cut out ethnic and gender bias from fitness to practise (FtP) process. www.nursingtimes.net/professional...

Still incredible how a terminally stupid person can have such an influence over the world. Denmark now has a team monitoring Trump’s crazed pronouncements throughout the night for an early morning intelligence briefing.

I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk. That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.

Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.

Experienced community nurses forced down to lower-paid roles Experienced nurses are routinely being driven out of senior roles and pushed down to lower paid positions according to a new report from the Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing (QICN). #nursing www.nursingtimes.net/community-nu...

Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?” Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."

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GMC consultation open on Fitness to Practice rule changes (summary and link in article below)

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

Unnecessary, unwelcome, unworkable and uncalled for. The EHCR having to leak its own guidance to a client paper tells you all you need to know. This is unworkable and businesses can not afford it. It would increase hostility and conflict and ultimately require everyone to have a genital ID card.

Ukraine is on the brink of an historic betrayal by Trump to Putin. Keir Starmer must bring our European allies together to back Zelensky, starting by seizing frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.

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You couldnt make it up. Countries enforcing race or gender diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies will now be at risk of the Trump administration deeming them as infringing on human rights. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...