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No. Not again.

After 10 yrs serving in the British army, including Iraq & Afghanistan, Taitusi Ratucaucau has just been billed £27k by the NHS for an emergency operation to remove a brain tumour.

This is grotesque @pritipatel @ukhomeoffice. Fix it now.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/m…
Thank you @ameliagentleman for highlighting this poor man’s plight. I dearly hope @BritishArmy will intervene on his behalf ... please?
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This is a grossly irresponsible tweet. You know full well multiple causes of a death can be certified. And yet - as hearsay, no evidence - you allege NHS doctors are breaking the law to miscertify patient deaths. This is so unprofessional. Report to @gmcuk if genuine concerns.
For those concerned by this tweet, death certificates allow multiple illnesses to be recorded as causes of death. When a cancer patient dies from Covid-19, one or both conditions may be included, depending on the nature and level of the contribution to the death caused by each.
Doctors take the job of completing death certificates immensely seriously & weight very carefully indeed which conditions to include and why. These are legal documents of enormous importance to families. Getting it right matters to us deeply.
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Rachel Clarke
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Cannot believe @matthancock is *still* trying to shift goalposts on his testing target. He promised 100k tests a day. Not nebulous "testing capacity". Actual tests. If he fails to deliver, how can he possibly be trusted?

Please, UK media - do not let him get away with this.
I have capacity to fit at least 20 Matt Hancocks inside my garden shed, but if they don't come round in person, they'll only have themselves to blame.
Perhaps this will jog @matthancock's memory:
channel4.com/news/factcheck…
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Note how @matthancock is trying to reframe the 100k tests per day target.

Now he refers to 'testing capacity', citing 40k/day - despite only 18k actual tests yesterday.

But 'capacity' doesn't just mean lab space. It means people to do the tests. (1/3)

bbc.co.uk/news/health-52…
'Capacity' means the swabs, the reagents, the lab staff and - crucially - the testers, people physically reaching suspected cases, getting the tests actually done.

According to Hancock, the small matter of getting the test to the case appears entirely irrelevant. (2/3)
But carers & NHS staff spread all over the country can't always drive to a testing centre that's many miles away.

So where is the testing workforce, @matthancock?

And why are you talking in magical & misleading 'capacity' terms? (3/3)
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