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12 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Knowing that Michael Gove plans to “re-engineer the whole NHS” really does make my blood run cold. (1/4)
thetimes.co.uk/article/7983b4…
Gove seriously claims here that “data analytics” are the key to addressing waiting lists of 5 million. No mention of 12 years of underfunding - which, of course, is what created those waiting lists. (2/4)
He wants to his theme. And technology is indeed wonderful. But underfunding, understaffing & a deliberate decade-long degradation of our NHS is what’s created those horrendous waiting lists. (3/4)
I have no doubt that the real agenda here is (a) spinning the narrative away from funding to “data” & (b) the end of the NHS as we know it - funded and delivered by the public for the public, for the greater good 😔 (4/4)
*warms

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Today @matthancock will attempt to persuade the Commons that he's behaved impeccably throughout this pandemic - and that Cummings’ accusations of serial lying are, themselves, a lie.

But the fact is, @matthancock *has* lied during the pandemic - and I can prove it. (1/16)
At the end of March 2020, the government rhetoric was all about “protecting” care homes, even as care home workers appeared on social media reporting their terror at being provided with no PPE whatsoever. (2/16)
At the time, I was working as a hospice doctor. Although hospices are classified as ‘hospitals’ in terms of clinical governance, when it comes to PPE they are counted as ‘care homes.” I.e: in supply chain terms, we were the lowest priority, just like care homes. (3/16)
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Palliative care at its beautiful best. Here’s @khhosp this evening treating patients to views of pure incandescence 💚🌱
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This is the biggest data grab in NHS history.

It involves the most private & intimate details of a person’s life.

It’s being rushed through on the sly, without transparency or dialogue.

Worst of all - unless you opt out, your medical data’s harvested. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
To those who (understandably) see the huge potential health benefits of mining a vast NHS dataset - yes, absolutely, this could do enormous good. But you simply cannot use individual medical data without informed consent. This is a rushed, sneaky, non-transparent data grab.
Of course we’re meant to be reassured by @NHSX that all data will be anonymised. But data breaches have occurred before, notably in 2014. And if it’s all so benign, why the rush, why the secrecy, why the lack of transparency? Harvesting health records on the sly is wrong.
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The elephant in the room throughout Cummings' testimony is precisely how Whitty, Vallance & others were advising the PM last March. On 12 Mar they abandoned test & trace *and* said shielding was not yet necessary.

We need urgently to hear from them now.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
On self-isolation of elderly and infirm, Whitty stated on camera on 12 Mar: "While we will need to move to that stage, we do not think this is the right moment along the pandemic to do so. But that point will come."
Incredibly, on 12 Mar the *only* advice aimed specifically at protecting those over 70 & with pre-existing health conditions was not to go on cruises.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-518578…
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It's now perfectly clear that @BorisJohnson is bringing back local lockdowns. Only this time by stealth. Without even *talking* to local community & public health leaders first.

Oh - & by making the guidance advisory only - paving the way for future 'blame residents' spin (1/3)
Every behaviour scientist & public health expert will tell you the only way out of a pandemic is *together* - with public support of & buy in to the necessary restrictions (lockdowns, travel bans etc).

Mixed messaging is disastrous - it erodes trust & public confidence. (2/3)
Yet here we are, 16 months down the line, with a govt *still* spinning, *still* obfuscating, *still* putting its popularity above people's lives.

That isn't merely weak.

It's criminal.

It will *inevitably* lead to more avoidable deaths from Covid.

And it sickens me 😔 (3/3)
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Here is how you imagine the 150k lives lost to Covid.

It’s just taken me 10 mins to walk the half kilometre length of the national @CovidMemorialUK wall, directly opposite parliament.

Each heart represents one of those 150k lost, those families changed forever.

Please share 💔
Here is St Thomas’s Hospital, directly behind the memorial wall. Tommy’s staff have been out painting hearts, honouring patients and their own colleagues who caught and died from Covid at work.
I wanted to honoury four brave colleagues from @OUHospitals - two porters, one nurse & one administrator - all of whom died from Covid last year. Thank you Philomina, Oscar, Elbert and Peter for your immense courage and selflessness.
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