I don’t often get angry, but I feel really rattled tonight. EveryDoctor has devoted a significant portion of our limited resource to fighting the government in 4 legal cases since last May. When we took them on initially, my husband was working on the frontline in ICU, and our...
doctor members were experiencing unimaginable horrors. Taking these cases on was a leap at a time when we were already fighting for adequate supplies, fighting for really basic protections for NHS staff. It was a big deal to us and our members; and frankly at times it has been...
Re-traumatising for members to have to confront these PPE cases; to confront the knowledge that while they soldiered on in bin bags, VIPs were being handed billions in public money, often for unsuitable PPE.

Despite the knowledge that we are co-claimants being in the public...
domain, and our own efforts at dispersing this information, we are being ignored consistently by the media outlets covering these cases. And this weekend we’ve been described by one journalist as ‘silent partners’ in the cases.

We are not silent partners. We are the doctors...
Who trawled our dossiers of evidence to create statements as co-claimants. We are the doctors who understand what really happened on the frontline. And we’re bringing these cases because they matter. Because we hope that if we win, that NHS staff will never face this again...
that a pandemic plan will be created and adhered to and that none of our friends and colleagues will ever, ever die needlessly in this way again.

NHS staff matter. Please cover their stories. I have given up my medical career to fight for NHS staff. We will not be silenced.

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I wish the media would stop scapegoating GPs. @EveryDoctorUK represents a lot of GPs. This has been the hardest winter ever; many organised the first vaccine centres with barely any support+ it was a gargantuan effort on the run-up to Xmas. They weren’t given up-front funding...
to pay staff. They set up vaccination centres when there was a lot of uncertainty about the vaccines still, and they did this alongside their usual work (busier than ever before). When GPs can’t answer the phone or don’t have appointments, that’s because they’re underfunded...
Understaffed and over-worked, like every other aspect of the NHS. If you are frustrated, please tell your MP. The government needs to invest properly in the NHS in order to care for patients better. It’s not GPs’ fault💙
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Why are doctors in court again today against the government?

@EveryDoctorUK+@GoodLawProject have 4 legal cases against the government, being heard in May re dodgy PPE. They’re withholding key evidence🚨

We know there was a VIP channel; those who knew ministers...
were up to 10x more likely to be awarded PPE contracts at the height of the first wave. To put this in context; NHS staff had no PPE. Or they had bin bags. Or they had to make PPE out of theatre curtains or cling film or laminator sheets. And meanwhile, instead of purchasing...
PPE from appropriate suppliers, public money was handed out like smarties. Hundreds of millions to friends or associates or donors. It’s an absolute travesty. And as we work on our legal evidence as the May court dates approach...
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23 Apr
During the first wave of the pandemic, the following things happened:
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2. People all over the country came together to sew scrubs. Lots of people did this, again, for no money whatsoever.
3. Doctors I represent were told they had no access to central supplies of PPE, and were advised to sort themselves out (they made PPE out of laminated sheets...
and sanitary towels. They went to B+Q and bought any face masks they could find. Many didn’t have any. Many frontline workers died. They were unprotected, and they died.
4. The notion that any of these people would be seeking financial compensation, or profit, or tax breaks...
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23 Apr
🚨Right guys, we have a challenge🚨
This “let’s blame Dom” story has probably been timed to push the PPE scandal articles off the front pages. We need everyone to understand what happened in court yesterday against the government.
💙Pls RT this thread.
🤞Can we hit 1000 RTs?🤞
IMPORTANT
🚨What happened in court yday?🚨
As you know, @EveryDoctorUK and @GoodLawProject are taking the government to court, because they entered into PPE deals with companies who had no experience in supplying PPE. As doctors, we are deeply concerned about the risk...
this placed on NHS staff+patients. We need to get to the bottom of the ‘VIP lane’ where ministers handed out contracts to friends and associates. People with no business supplying medical items. Hundreds of our friends and colleagues died, many with no PPE. These cases are...
Read 6 tweets
22 Apr
🚨IMPORTANT🚨
What happened in court today?👩‍⚖️
As you know, @EveryDoctorUK and @GoodLawProject are taking the government to court, because they entered into PPE deals with companies who had no experience in supplying PPE. As doctors, we are deeply concerned about the risk...
this placed on NHS staff+patients. We need to get to the bottom of the ‘VIP lane’ where ministers handed out contracts to friends and associates. People with non business supplying medical items. Hundreds of our friends and colleagues died, many with no PPE. These cases are...
so important.

As the cases continue, the government are holding back info. Important info, like names of VIPs who applied for PPE contracts. We need that information in order to hold the government to account. The judge has said today (GOOD NEWS) that these names are...
Read 5 tweets
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IMPORTANT
🚨What happened in court today?🚨
As you know, @EveryDoctorUK and @GoodLawProject are taking the government to court, because they entered into PPE deals with companies who had no experience in supplying PPE. As doctors, we are deeply concerned about the risk...
this placed on NHS staff+patients. We need to get to the bottom of the ‘VIP lane’ where ministers handed out contracts to friends and associates. People with non business supplying medical items. Hundreds of our friends and colleagues died, many with no PPE. These cases are...
so important.

As the cases continue, the government are holding back info. Important info, like names of VIPs who applied for PPE contracts. We need that information in order to hold the government to account. The judge has said today (GOOD NEWS) that these names are...
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