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Nov 1 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Do you know what I thought about this morning when I saw the cover of Matt Hancock’s new book? I had a flashback to a phone call I received from a doctor whose nurse colleague had just died of COVID-19, and she hadn’t been provided with safe PPE. I remember standing on a street..
…feeling numb with anger, and I remember crying with this doctor, standing in the middle of Brick Lane. We were running a campaign called #ProtectNHSWorkers involving over 100 MPs.

Matt Hancock failed to protect so many people. And now he’s published a book of his…
…diaries?

It is an insult to every single person he failed to protect during their hour of need.

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Nov 2
I was directed to yet more abuse and misinformation earlier about myself and the non-profit organisation I run with other doctors. I’ve tolerated this for years, and I’m not sure why I’ve suddenly hit my limit, but I have. I felt like I was going to have a panic attack. ..
… enough. Enough. I’m going to go offline.

All information about our structure and governance is publicly available on our website. We hold ourselves to high levels of transparency and accountability, and take this incredibly seriously. As our platform has grown, the efforts…
… to attack our work have heightened, and as the ‘figurehead’, I absorb the bulk of these. The organisation is run and managed by 3 directors of which I am one. The other two directors work within the NHS as consultants in major teaching hospitals . Any inference of ‘dodgy’…
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Oct 25
In case you were wondering, some Conservative politicians have constructed a new, incredibly narrow, definition of what NHS privatisation is, to enable them to deny that it is happening.

They say that unless a patient is paying for a service, privatisation does not exist…
…this is absolute nonsense. Privatisation is the introduction of private interests in the pursuit of profit, and the increasing corporatisation of the NHS structure itself. All of this is being done to dismantle the NHS.

The costs to patients are the final piece of the …
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Oct 24
It’s been a tough weekend, because COVID deniers have been showering myself and EveryDoctor with abuse, talking about death penalties towards those who ‘promoted lockdown’. All of this while my husband (who I’d tweeted about) was in ICU, on-call and caring for patients…
…the wave of misinformation and disinformation grows and grows, and a lot of doctors and scientists have become targets. It has caused many people to keep their heads beneath the parapet because frankly it’s terrifying. I’ve had people trying to work out where I live…
…blah blah blah. It’s exhausting and can make you paranoid. And the only thing I have found over the past 2 years which helps, is to grow. Growing, getting louder, provides safety because it stops being one person speaking up. It becomes a crowd, a collective. And if one…
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Oct 14
Quick note, because I’m being hounded by trolls again.
1. I assume the trolls are becoming more active because we’re about to launch our new campaign. That’s what usually happens.
2. Some misinformation is circulating about us. I’m not going to draw attention to it, because…
…it tends to ramp up if any one troll thinks they’re having an impact. But if anyone has any questions about our legal structure/ processes, you’re welcome to email our in-house barrister Dr Megan Smith, who’s also a full-time NHS consultant. She can be reached on…
…legal@everydoctor.org.uk.

3. We are working incredibly hard in the background to get this campaign launched. In the meantime, we need as many people as possible to join EveryDoctor. Holding the government to account this winter is a team effort. On an individual level, if…
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Oct 14
Why is ‘NHS’ or ‘impending humanitarian disaster’ or ‘this winter in the NHS will be terrifying’ or something not trending?

We’re not exaggerating. I’m losing sleep over it. Yesterday, the worst A and E 4 hour wait metrics EVER were announced🚨

It was good to see the BMA put…
…out a statement.

Where is the political opposition?
Where are the Royal Colleges?

We are pulling together a national campaign to fight back. We need your help please. We will need help putting up posters and stickers to raise awareness. We’ll need help…
…sharing messages online, and we need you please to join EveryDoctor as a supporter member. We need to be able to grow our team resource this winter to cope with the pressure which will come. Lots of people are joining (thank you). Every small donation makes a big difference…
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Oct 7
Alright, I’m going to be brutally honest.

This winter is going to be a total disaster in the NHS. It is already in a really terrifying state because of the inaction of this government. Ambulances are simply not arriving for many hours to people who desperately need attention…
…the waiting lists break their own records every single month; getting longer and longer. 6.8 million people currently awaiting treatment in England alone. We are missing almost 10% of the ENTIRE NHS workforce right now in England. In the devolved nations it’s bad, but in…
…England it is the worst.

It is October. No one else is going to run a massive patient and staff safety campaign. It is up to us.

We are a small non-profit but have an incredible network of staff and supporters. We can do this, but we cannot do it alone. I do not know what..
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