“The answer is not just to threaten perpetrators with the full force of the law but to tackle the root causes. Patient flow would improve immensely if social care services were put on a sound footing rather than being omitted from the long-term plan for the NHS“
@drjohnpuntis.bsky.social

Universal access to a GP is the cornerstone of the NHS. But govt intends to contract with private sector to build neighbourhood centres & provide primary care - and to shift funds from hospitals to community, when both are essential for safe healthcare.
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...

‘NHS Jobs’ official online recruitment service for the NHS in England & Wales advertises PRIVATE healthcare jobs!!
HCA, The London, CHEC etc
PROTEST - get your MP challenging Wes Streeting use of private ‘spare capacity’ taking NHS staff & funds to build new private capacity to compete with the NHS

* Portugal’s amazing success decriminalisation of drug use
* Uruguay’s inspiring transition to green energy
Much talk of the NHS (I was one interviewee for Ch.1) healthcare in the USA. Good too to meet Amanda @thkonp.bsky.social there

A great evening with @natashakimiz.bsky.social with her really hopeful book ‘Another World Is Possible’
* UK’s universal healthcare
* Finland’s universal public education
* Singapore’s affordable housing for all
* Norway’s equalising childcare responsibilities and parental leave

Book event | Another World is Possible
Tonight at Libreria, 65 Hanbury St, London, E1 5JP 7pm with author Natasha Hakimi Zapata discussing her book including a chapter on the NHS, with interviews with @johnrlister.bsky.social Prof Allyson Pollock & @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social

Good on Mark Serwotka on @bbcquestiontime
youtube.com/shorts/zYRHPw2…
See you tmrw 12md on the NHS Bloc in support of the national demonstration from the BBC

Dear Community
Please watch this video and help @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
campaigning 20 yrs this year!
10 hospitals saved
Bit.ly/KONPAPPEAL

‘Are the NHS and social care safe under this Labour government?’

Join the zoom meeting Monday 6pm
@DrTonyOSullivan speaking at @covidactionuk’s public meeting

Register at bit.ly/catosapr

Hancock dismisses the Covid Inquiry as ‘naive’ -
What a charlatan and one absolutely guilty of Misconduct in Public Office
x.com/haveigotnews...

Wes Streeting and Guardian’s Pippa Crerar are debating ‘England’s health & social care system is in crisis. How does Labour plan to turn it around?’
We don’t want parasitic privatisation in the NHS or discredited PFI. Private health undermines the NHS, extracting funding & staff.
Join us 25 Oct

With the NHS in crisis, and 14,000 dying avoidably in just one year, the Labour Government is wholly wrong to invest £2.5 billion to give the private sector a stronger base from which to parasitise NHS staff and funding long term #RestoretheNHS
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...

Labour Government must fund the NHS to end the crisis behind 14,000 avoidable deaths - NOT fund the private health sector to further undermine the NHS. @keepournhspublic.bsky.social Month of Action

Rising mortality of women & infants is shocking, safe care is not guaranteed. Huge accumulation of wealth by UK corporations & billionaires point to absolutely wrong priorities. Black women risk losing their life is x3-4, their babies x2. Govt must fund the NHS to meet this system-wide emergency.

One day outside King’s
G4S, Falck, Elite etc
‘Cherry picking’ bits of the NHS and fragmenting care

Another huge London protest today against what the Israeli Government has done, is doing in Gaza and West Bank in Palestine - Genocide without doubt

The single most serious issue facing the NHS is the impact of staff exhaustion and burn out, the sense of moral injury. Restoring staffing levels & pay justice will do more for patient safety than league tables & top-down bullying.
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...