Politicians; please start talking about threats against NHS staff.

I gave up my job to lobby to protect my colleagues. I receive emails telling me the sender wishes I were dead.

1500 frontline health and social care workers have died of this virus. They were not protected by..
this government. They gave their lives. And the waves of trauma and grief and stress just keep coming. They keep on coming, because the NHS, in a health crisis, is the last line of defence. And when our leaders do not take responsibility, are not accountable, lie, gaslight...
And bluff, the public don’t know what to think. The public haven’t been supported economically. The public are given unclear public health messaging. The public are grieving.

And who takes the hit? Who is abused when that hurt spills over to anger and violence? Frontline...
staff take the hit. Graffiti scrawled outside their workplaces. Chants as they leave hospital. Doors kicked in. Abuse, abuse, abuse. A roaring tide of abuse.

NHS staff are the best of us. And they have endured too much already.

It is not enough, politicians, to put on a...
pin badge, or clap, or profess your love to a service which has been starved of funding under your watch. Your admiration of staff who are let down time and time and time again.

Speak UP. Stamp it OUT.
NHS staff do not deserve abuse.
We’re watching you for your response now.

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I’m not ‘meant’ to write this tweet thread. I’m ‘meant’ to just talk about the NHS. But frankly, I stopped working in the NHS because I received threats about what would happen to me if I ‘carried on like this’, and if you’re up for shelving your medical career because you’re...
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The US just, just avoided this.
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We are contacting healthcare leaders across the UK and will be approaching trusted journalists...
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This is the next phase of the pandemic’s health emergency.

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Disgusting.

I will never ever forget what you put NHS staff through. Never.
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