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Incredibly, an NHS trust has told staff they can’t take part in “debates, activites & events that may be politically controversial” during the election campaign.

To be crystal clear. This is a democracy. We can & will speak out as loudly as we fit 💪 #NHS
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Please @NHSEngland can you ensure all trusts desist from sending out these threatening & wholly inaccurate statements to staff? Candour is a cardinal NHS value & no trust should seek to curb our free speech.
@NHSEngland Same applies to @NHSScotland where, according to this piece, some NHS trusts are also threatening staff inappropriately.
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Rachel Clarke
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These beautiful #DearLife lungs have come to life!

I’m describing sitting next to my Dad, 25 years ago, transfixed by Dennis Potter’s televised description of the extraordinary ‘nowness’ of life as his death from cancer looms.

#DearLife is published next month, 30th Jan ❤️🌸
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Here is that famous Dennis Potter interview in full... "the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom..." - just beautiful.
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Rachel Clarke
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As an NHS palliative care doctor, it’s my #publicduty to inform the public that 9 years of brutal underfunding have run the NHS into the ground. We want to care for you brilliantly but we are at breaking point. The NHS won’t survive another 5 years of this.
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A few examples from the NHS frontline. When I qualified in 2009 nobody lay on a trolley in an ED corridor in my hospital. Nobody. Now it’s routine. Every winter. With ambulances queuing round the block. With staff & patients equally desperate. In the world’s 6th richest country.
Now I meet patients in agony, in sheer desperation, who have waited well over a *year* for a simple hip replacement. Some are trapped inside by their pain. Some fall, inevitably, and fracture that hip. 9 years ago? You’d have your surgery in weeks. The contrast is diabolical.
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Rachel Clarke
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Seems @BorisJohnson’s lying is contagious.

Last week @MattHancock tweeted we had “thousands” more GPs.

A lie.

Now @UKStatsAuth has called him on it.

So he quietly deleted the tweet, hoping no-one would notice.

@MattHancock you are a liar.
independent.co.uk/news/health/he…
And incidentally, @matthancock, you once replied to a tweet of mine telling me you loved my passion for the NHS. Please tell me how lying about that same NHS does anything other than demoralise staff with similar passion. The NHS deserves better.
For clarity, it’s just been pointed out to me that this piece is 11 months old and not from today, as I thought. So @MattHancock’s actions are not from this week. The facts (the lie, the authorities’ censure, the deleted tweet) remain the same.
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Breaking: Labour vows to introduce free dental check-ups for everyone. The party will make all Band 1 treatments - check-ups, X-rays and a scale and polish - free at the point of use. Dentistry is one of the few NHS services patients currently pay for. thetimes.co.uk/article/labour…
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Please read & act on this long but incredibly important #NHS thread...

Gimms founding member and longtime dedicated public service campaigner at @ThePublicMatter Deborah Harrington, who when asked 'How much of the NHS has already been privatised?'

Answered -
Pretty much all of it.

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The ‘NHS’ Foundation Trusts are companies which run subsidiary companies and compete with one another for contracts and sub-contract to the private sector for ‘extra capacity’. 2/
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✨Ellen Nicholson 🔶 RN QN MA
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The #NHS Long Tem Plan highlights what nurses across primary care have been declaring for a while - ‘Make better use of existing staff nurses, physios, pharmacists need a far greater role’.
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2. Successful change & innovation requires all professionals to be valued & enabled to practice at the top end of the skill set. Structures & culture within #NHS sometimes minimise this.
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This week we'll be looking at 5 key challenges affecting the #NHS & #SocialCare workforce. We want to hear YOUR views through our #TalkHealthandCare platform on how we can improve your experience working in the sector. The first challenge explores whether staff feel empowered…
🎯CHALLENGE: Staff don’t always feel in control or empowered about the decisions regarding the care they provide, leaving them feeling unsupported by their colleagues. We want to create an environment where staff can fulfil their potential. Have your say: dhscworkforce.crowdicity.com/category/29628
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1/8 My favorite #quote by #JosephStalin, which explains the scientific, #DialecticalMaterialist explanation of true freedom in material reality, not just as an abstract ideal. #StalinIsBack #StalinLives #JVStalin #Stalin #StalinQuote #StalinQuotes #Truth #MELS #MarxismLeninism
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5th July 2018 will be the 70th birthday of our beloved #NHS.

This THREAD argues that it is in severe danger under this #Toryshambles government, with #Brexit posing an imminent & particularly invidious threat.

To #SaveOurNHS we must work tirelessly together to #StopBrexit.
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With each box maybe 000s of orgs, & England only:
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