Neal Maskrey
@stokemacca.bsky.social
Former GP, then medicines and prescribing nationally in UK. Visiting Prof @ Keele Uni. Author of “Rebalancing Medicine”. Family, football, friends. Seeking individualised not industrialised medicine. All views my own.
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Just watched the monstrous RFK in front of the Senate Finance Committee claiming he is ‘taking the politics out of science’ whilst doing the precise opposite.
My God, the suffering and death that appalling man is wreaking.
My God, the suffering and death that appalling man is wreaking.
September 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Just watched the monstrous RFK in front of the Senate Finance Committee claiming he is ‘taking the politics out of science’ whilst doing the precise opposite.
My God, the suffering and death that appalling man is wreaking.
My God, the suffering and death that appalling man is wreaking.
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My letter in today’s Times newspaper…
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My letter in today’s Times newspaper…
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Now tagging Bea herself! @drelvey.bsky.social
I'm delighted to host a guest substack post this week by Bea Dutton, a textile artist and part time registrar in the UK - she wrote movingly about her experiences of conducting citizenship ceremonies.
This is Britain at its best. have a read!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/guest-post...
This is Britain at its best. have a read!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/guest-post...
Guest Post: "You made my Dad British"
Bea Dutton, a registrar in England, reflects on the quiet power and joy of citizenship ceremonies
christinapagel.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Now tagging Bea herself! @drelvey.bsky.social
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A lot of blue sky. Happy Wednesday.
May 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A lot of blue sky. Happy Wednesday.
How can Labour possibly get to the stage where they get something like this so very wrong? Are they not getting good advice or don’t they listen to it?
Ending visas for overseas Care Workers will likely result in Care Homes being unable to recruit & poor care for their residents. This might be you, your relatives or your friends.
Unless @teamlabouruk.bsky.social is prepared to increase payments to homes at the same time. Somehow I doubt that.
Unless @teamlabouruk.bsky.social is prepared to increase payments to homes at the same time. Somehow I doubt that.
“Can you see a day when you say no care workers should come in from abroad?” - Laura Kuenssberg
“Yes we do and we’re going to change the rules this year to prevent a care worker visa being used to recruit from abroad” - Home Secretary Yvette Cooper
We already have a desperate shortage!
“Yes we do and we’re going to change the rules this year to prevent a care worker visa being used to recruit from abroad” - Home Secretary Yvette Cooper
We already have a desperate shortage!
May 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
How can Labour possibly get to the stage where they get something like this so very wrong? Are they not getting good advice or don’t they listen to it?
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My father spent his final 3 years in an Elderly Mentally Infirm home. The care staff were from Uganda and worked impressively as a team. Dad received truly excellent care which retained his dignity and love of life despite worsening dementia. They came to his funeral, sang beautifully, hugged us. 😢
In my mother's final years of life had 5 live-in home carers from three different countries. Not a single one from the UK. Labour are making a HUGE mistake with social care, which may cost lives.
May 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
My father spent his final 3 years in an Elderly Mentally Infirm home. The care staff were from Uganda and worked impressively as a team. Dad received truly excellent care which retained his dignity and love of life despite worsening dementia. They came to his funeral, sang beautifully, hugged us. 😢
Madness is mild! I’ve a relative in a Care Home. I’d say 25% of the staff are recently arrived from overseas and they’re lovely and here. Whereas recruiting locally drew a blank. It’s frightening to think where we will be by the time / if we need care. We already know the NHS locally is 🥵😬
We need to be absolutely clear about the human cost of this policy.
More ambulances stuck outside A&Es. More patients dying in hospital corridors. More suffering. More misery. More patient harm.
Because Starmer has chosen to prioritise cheap headlines above improving society.
Way to go, Labour.
More ambulances stuck outside A&Es. More patients dying in hospital corridors. More suffering. More misery. More patient harm.
Because Starmer has chosen to prioritise cheap headlines above improving society.
Way to go, Labour.
Today's performative clampdown on migrants will gut our care homes of desperately needed staff.
We are *already* short of over 150k carers.
Banning foreign care workers will only exacerbate this - increasing suffering of society's most vulnerable members & pressures on the NHS.
It's madness.
We are *already* short of over 150k carers.
Banning foreign care workers will only exacerbate this - increasing suffering of society's most vulnerable members & pressures on the NHS.
It's madness.
May 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Madness is mild! I’ve a relative in a Care Home. I’d say 25% of the staff are recently arrived from overseas and they’re lovely and here. Whereas recruiting locally drew a blank. It’s frightening to think where we will be by the time / if we need care. We already know the NHS locally is 🥵😬
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Awful. How on earth was this allowed to happen? It feels like those of us who have spent their careers in public service are being made fools of. And it’s dangerous for democracy.
Awful. How on earth was this allowed to happen? It feels like those of us who have spent their careers in public service are being made fools of. And it’s dangerous for democracy.
How the US president and his clan ushered in a new golden age of corruption | The Observer
The presidency and personal gain now go hand in hand – and no one has been able to do anything about it
observer.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Awful. How on earth was this allowed to happen? It feels like those of us who have spent their careers in public service are being made fools of. And it’s dangerous for democracy.
Awful. How on earth was this allowed to happen? It feels like those of us who have spent their careers in public service are being made fools of. And it’s dangerous for democracy.
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As the news report that US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth had a second signal chat in which he shared detailed military plans with his family
One wonders if he was inspired by Mission Gainsborough from this episode of Blackadder Goes Forth 👀
One wonders if he was inspired by Mission Gainsborough from this episode of Blackadder Goes Forth 👀
April 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
As the news report that US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth had a second signal chat in which he shared detailed military plans with his family
One wonders if he was inspired by Mission Gainsborough from this episode of Blackadder Goes Forth 👀
One wonders if he was inspired by Mission Gainsborough from this episode of Blackadder Goes Forth 👀
Have you ever seen anything like that? (Masters golf. Rory McIlroy. Grand slam at the 11th attempt. One of the greatest sporting days ever).
April 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Have you ever seen anything like that? (Masters golf. Rory McIlroy. Grand slam at the 11th attempt. One of the greatest sporting days ever).
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Totally. Until and unless guidelines and pathways are explicitly populated with decision points and choices, SDM is arguably a bit of a losing battle.
March 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Totally. Until and unless guidelines and pathways are explicitly populated with decision points and choices, SDM is arguably a bit of a losing battle.
Once you start looking, it’s tramlines not guidelines everywhere. Inexorably leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
I looked through 7-8 national clinical pathways today. None mentioned shared decision making (an ethical and professional standard and clinico-legal obligation). They are all biomedical treatment escalators that wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny in a court of law should patients come to harm.
March 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Once you start looking, it’s tramlines not guidelines everywhere. Inexorably leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
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"By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, the network is distorting how large language models process and present news and information”
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/e...
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/e...
Exclusive: AI chatbots echo Russian disinformation, report warns
Bots from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and others spew falsehoods.
www.axios.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, the network is distorting how large language models process and present news and information”
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/e...
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/e...
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I see tomorrow is Friday.
Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day?
Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else?
I just can’t keep track.
Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day?
Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else?
I just can’t keep track.
March 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I see tomorrow is Friday.
Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day?
Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else?
I just can’t keep track.
Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day?
Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else?
I just can’t keep track.
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Zelensky’s refusal to bow to Trump was a big factor in Trumps first impeachment. Why is mainstream media not talking about this?
March 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Zelensky’s refusal to bow to Trump was a big factor in Trumps first impeachment. Why is mainstream media not talking about this?
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youtu.be/D6ouyeycWk8?...
It is time for this….
It is time for this….
Love Actually - Prime Minister's speech
YouTube video by Danilo Balu
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March 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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It is time for this….
It is time for this….
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“This is going to take time to rebuild, but today’s starting point is promising”
Our GP committee chair @drkatie.bsky.social speaking about the GP contract agreement on BBC Breakfast this morning. www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign...
Our GP committee chair @drkatie.bsky.social speaking about the GP contract agreement on BBC Breakfast this morning. www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign...
February 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“This is going to take time to rebuild, but today’s starting point is promising”
Our GP committee chair @drkatie.bsky.social speaking about the GP contract agreement on BBC Breakfast this morning. www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign...
Our GP committee chair @drkatie.bsky.social speaking about the GP contract agreement on BBC Breakfast this morning. www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign...
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This wasn’t some liberal holdover. This wasn’t a career bureaucrat. This was someone Trump’s team installed. And even she couldn’t stomach what they were doing. She wasn’t alone. Five more federal prosecutors resigned in protest. Bless their courage!
Trump Appointed Prosecutor Quits In Defiance Of His Corruption
Read her bombshell resignation letter.
www.thegodpodcast.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This wasn’t some liberal holdover. This wasn’t a career bureaucrat. This was someone Trump’s team installed. And even she couldn’t stomach what they were doing. She wasn’t alone. Five more federal prosecutors resigned in protest. Bless their courage!
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🔥 Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures!
Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not!
Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not!
Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
February 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🔥 Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures!
Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not!
Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not!
Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...