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Sep 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Therese Coffey's 'Plan for Patients' fails to heal the gaping wound of NHS staff shortages.

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Includes this little-noticed but big NHS announcement from yesterday: 'Continuity of Carer', a national plan to allow women to see the same midwifery team throughout their pregnancy, has been paused.
Why? Because of a lack of safe staffing levels.
Why is CoC a good thing? The NHS: "It is a model of care provision that that is evidence-based. It can improve the outcomes for most women and babies and especially women of Black, Asian and mixed ethnicity and those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods".
The idea of having the same midwife before, during and after birth is unsurprisingly v popular among women. It was their single biggest request of their services in the 2015 National Maternity Review.
Yet there simply aren't the staff to support it nationwide.

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Sep 22
.@theresecoffey doubles down on idea of shopping around for NHS hospitals
*Reveals she waited 9 hours in A&E this summer, then gave up
*Next day went to hospital '3 miles away' and was seen swiftly.
@wesstreeting: govt saying "get on your bike" for healthcare
Big unanswered Q on the new Health Secretary's new plan: where will the money come from to fund her £500m extra to tackle delayed discharges this winter?
If it's coming from the NHS, that's a hefty half a billion hit to its existing budget plans.
Or is it new Treasury cash?
Coffey's closest clue to this was this: "This £500 million acts as the down payment in the rebalancing of funding across health and social care as we develop our longer term plans." Implication is it's coming from NHS budget but unclear.
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Sep 22
Rees-Mogg coming under attack from Tory MPs over fracking. Veteran backbencher Greg Knight says:
“Is he aware the safety of the public is not a currency on which some of us choose to speculate?”
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That Sir Greg Knight burn in full.
Hard to see the political upside of this. Gift to Lab in north, Lib Dems in the south.
Lot of pain for a policy that may never actually result in any extra shale gas (and would take yrs to have any material impact, as @KwasiKwarteng warned).
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Aug 27
As the Tory leadership race enters its final straight, @theipaper Weekend has got you covered.
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.@singharj @RichardVaughan1 and me on @BorisJohnson's chances of a comeback.

“I think I’d walk over hot coals to stop it,” one senior ex-minister says. “I think a lot of us would try to kamikaze that."

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But one ally says “If he ever wanted to (lead the party again), of course that option is still there for him in the future.
“The Red Wall without Boris has gone now,” another says. “Those people didn’t vote for the Tories, they voted for Brexit and they voted for Boris.”
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Aug 16
Chief executive of Ofwat, David Black, on @BBCr4today sounding very much like a spokesman for the water companies, rather than their regulator.

Suggests critics have a "confusion" between company returns and dividends, adds the industry is "complex" + "difficult to understand"
DB: “Companies are competing on international capital markets. It’s important that they are able to earn a rate of return.”

@MishalHusain “So, those who think that regulation has failed, they’re confused?”

DB “There isn’t sufficient account given for what is happening.”
Black also said net investment had increased "fourfold since privatisation".
(NB Mrs Thatcher actively prevented publicly owned water boards from borrowing to invest).
Meanwhile, here's FT stats on falling capital investment + company debt
ft.com/content/86ac79…
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Aug 13
'In the past week, Truss and Sunak have resembled a pair of drunken crewmates on the deck of the Titanic, clumsily punching each other as the ship heads towards the iceberg. Amid the chaos, the voters are left to nervously eye the flimsy lifeboats.'

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On @trussliz: 'In many ways she’s having the political equivalent of a “hot girl summer”, freed of the shackles of a previous relationship that tied her to “Tory tax rises”.'
And on @RishiSunak: 'It’s his lack of contact with ordinary voters, as much as his lack of contact with a card reader, that the Truss camp has exploited. Truss backer Kemi Badenoch this week said Sunak was a “super-technocrat”, and it wasn’t meant as a compliment.'
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Aug 4
"I've changed my view on that" says @trussliz.
The Sunak campaign will say she could talking about anything - but this time she was referring to building on the green belt (when confronted by the excellent @KayBurley with a quote from 2019).
Now, when confronted with her line that there was a 'misrepresentation' of her policy on cutting pay for northern teachers and nurses, Truss admits "I have changed the position on it."
So she now says she *wasn't* misrepresented? She changed her position.
Imagine this as PM
@trussliz: "I am someone who is honest and upfront.."
@KayBurley: "Should good leaders own their mistakes? You blamed the media"
@trussliz: "I am saying the policy has been misrepresented by other people."
Viewers' heads will be spinning at this stuff.
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