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Mar 30 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Only 36% of people are satisfied with our NHS - the lowest level in 25 years.

And understandably so.

Millions are waiting for treatment. We're terminally short of staff. But for the real reason, we need to dig deeper. To explain why the...
theguardian.com/society/2022/m…
...failings in our NHS are not the fault of staff; who are fighting to do their best in a broken system, but those who are meant to hold ultimate responsibility: our government.

Let's start here👇
This week sees the end of free universal testing...
nursingnotes.co.uk/news/workforce…
While thankfully the govt updated the policy, and free COVID-19 tests will continue to be available for specific patients and NHS and care staff, the risk remains too high.
gov.uk/government/new…

At the same time...
…the government are taking away free staff parking.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-609216…

Over the last 2 years, free hospital parking for NHS staff has cost ~£130 million. Apparently too high to justify the boosted morale and huge benefits it brought.

While also this week we learned...
... over £700 million has been wasted by the govt to store items of PPE - including 3.6 billion items that CAN'T BE USED.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
On the day...
the Ockenden report into the Shropshire maternity scandal is published, and the same week we've seen COVID rates once again hitting record highs;
one NHS story is not grabbing headlines...
independent.co.uk/news/health/sh…
inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
...the government's Health and Care Bill which heads back to the Commons today.

A Bill which provides no new funding, no additional staff or support, that will accelerate NHS privatisation and force a top-down reorganisation precisely when it isn't needed...
...people's satisfaction with the NHS is at its lowest level in 25 years, and it's clear why.

Because at every chance this government has had to prioritise patients and staff - they've chosen not to.

There is still hope...
There is enduring support across voting lines for an NHS funded by general taxation & available free of charge; theguardian.com/society/2022/m…

But if that's the NHS we really want to protect, we must fight for it. #JohnsonMustAct
Please sign now: bit.ly/JohnsonMustAct

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