Thread by @JujuliaGrace

We’ve been trying to get an important story into the press for a week, and it keeps being delayed because of these politicians and everything they are. Everything they’ve done. Their actions are the reason the article exists in the first place. NHS patients and their staff…

…are working in unsustainable conditions. The system is collapsing. The Conservative Party are accelerating privatisation, starving the service of resource and not caring about the consequences.

The consequences are deaths. The consequences are staff suicides. The…

…consequences are desperately unwell patients lying on the floor at home overnight. The consequences are extremely sick mental health patients waiting in an A and E for 10 days waiting for a bed. The consequences are staff leaving in droves; driven out by the maddening stress…

…and personal toll of shouldering the responsibility of failings from this government for years and years. Watching your patients suffer. Telling your patient that this isn’t available, that isn’t available, their relative is 5 hours’ drive away. The car park’s sold off…

…so pay £10 at the meter. Their relative’s 5 hours away because the mental health beds were cut and that’s the nearest (private) hospital the NHS is paying to care for patients. Their operation’s been postponed again. And again. And again.

And it’s not the fault of staff…

…(despite what the Daily Mail would have you believe). And it’s not the fault of ‘lazy’ patients or ‘greedy’ patients or ‘entitled’ patients.

It’s the fault of this government, who have failed to take care of the NHS, failed to take responsibility, prioritised money over…

…the public’s very health, their very lives.

And now the NHS is in absolute crisis. Absolute crisis. It is horrifying.

And yet where’s the horror? I don’t see anything in the papers. Do you?

I’ve had enough. I have absolutely had it. I’m not sitting around while MPs preen..

…and posture and pivot and power grab.

I demand that this government, this new Health Secretary, the current Health Secretary sorts it out. And if he doesn’t stay in post long, I’ll petition whomever comes after him. And whomever comes after them.

This is not good though…

…we are lucky to have some of the best healthcare workers in the world. We had a service we were proud of.

I’m disgusted with what they’ve done to our NHS. I’m horrified and terrified. If you are too, please sign here. It takes 30 seconds to speak up: bit.ly/StepUpSteve