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Harry Eccles Profile picture
@Heccles94
Nov 19, 2022 • 8 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
Key points about the #NursesStrike - a thread from a nurse!

- More Nurses than ever are leaving the profession
- England along has over 46,000 nursing vacancies
- Staff shortages effect us all
- understaffing compromises patient safety

#FairPayforNursing #EnoughIsEnough #NHS
@theRCN and it's members will ensure patient safety throughout any strike action.

For many years patient safety has been at risk and Nurses pour in extra time and energy to try and minimise that risk, but it gets harder and harder and something has to change. @SouthEastRCN
Nursing pay has been rising below inflation for years meaning real term pay cuts. This correlates directly with less nurses staying in the job.

Nursing requires a degree to enter, and experience takes many years to gather. We have to retain and fairly pay experienced nurses
We also have to encourage new intelligent, passionate and caring people into the proffession, alongside retaining the staff we have

#FairPayForNursing #EnoughIsEnough @RCNWestMids
If Nurses get fair pay restoration, they have more money on which they pay tax, and more money to spend in their local economies. Furthermore with better staffing the NHS could save billions on agency staff.

@NurseSayNO #NHS #SOSNHS
Moreover, with a properly staffed NHS you have safer and more timely treatment and care. You have time for innovation and health promotion. This improves patient outcomes, and saves billions by reducing the financial burden of ill health.

#FairPayforNursing @theRCN @eiecampaign
Nurses are members of the public. We have family in hospital and on waiting lists. We stand on behalf of our colleagues, our patients and our NHS.
The decision on pay is a political one and lies with the government.

#FairPayforNursing @RCNWestMids @NurseSayNO
We thank you for your support, and kindly ask you contact your MP if you support the Nurses Strike. We also ask that you share this message, and stand with us to fight for a safely staffed NHS. Thank you

#SOSNHS #SaveOurNHS #FairPayforNursing @eiecampaign @NurseSayNO #NHS

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Jul 14
Here are my concerns about Victoria Atkins and Wes Streetings blanket ban on puberty blockers and the political discourse surrounding it.

Please actually read it before responding. 🧵
The idea that a political notion should override clinical decision making concerns me.

Prescribing is highly regulated, and there are ways in place to monitor current prescribing. All prescribing decisions are important and require scrutiny, and clinicians are highly trained.
Many areas provoke strong political feeling, such as abortion, or safe drug prescribing (shooting galleries etc) - however, these political discussions can never override the individual's right to the healthcare they need, when they need it.
Read 6 tweets
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Apr 15
@IoWBobSeely 1) those figures are for health social care, not just the NHS.

2) those figures include PPE fraud and dodgy Tory VIP lanes

3) those figures include the money draining out to private agencies to plug staffing shortages.

4) that includes the money skimmed of to private CEOs
@IoWBobSeely 5) it includes A global pandemic

6) the article said we have not lost EU staff, yet we know 9000 international nurses are leaving per year

7) the NHS budget goes up every year. That's how it works. When you account for increase in demand etc you see the funding shortfall
@IoWBobSeely 8) correlation is not causation. That money has not necessarily been saved by Brexit. Look at the state of borrowing in the country under your govt.
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Apr 13
The problem with current labour plans and the NHS. Please read.

Labour say they will use the private sector to reduce NHS waiting times (which sounds very sensible) - unless you know what is actually going on.

There is NO spare capacity in the private sector.
In 2021 NHS doctors about 140,000, private FTE about 700.

There are not empty hospitals full of nurses waiting to do operations.

There is one pool of nurses, doctors and AHPs. They either work for the NHS or the private sector.
Sending more work to the private sector means they draw more staff away from the NHS. This means NHS waiting lists go up further, more private is used, and on we go.
Read 11 tweets
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Mar 22
A thread 🧵

@UKLabour - a health warning.

Is the NHS safe with Labour?

A review of current Labour policy, ideology and intent.

#SOSNHS
Intention.

Now @wesstreeting has made it clear the current Labour leadership see the role of private healthcare increasing in the NHS.



They say innovation will help the NHS, and it's okay as it will remain free for patients. Let's check this out...thenational.scot/news/23932636.…
Firstly, the evidence shows that increasing private sector involvement in the NHS is linked to worse outcomes.

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Also, if money is leaving the NHS to go into private pockets, the service has less money to reinvest. This pushes the NHS closer to collapse.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02-2…
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Aug 19, 2023
A thread on the NHS crisis, and how the Tories are getting away with it 🧵

Check it out 👇👇👇👇👇

#SOSNHS 💙 Image
When the government announce 'record funding' they fail to announce how much demand has grown, and how much has already been cut.

Compared to France and Germany the UK has underfunded the NHS by 40bn per year for 10 years. That's a deficit of 400bn pounds. Image
As an example, look at the trend in bed supply.

12,000 cut by the Tories.

5000 promised for this winter, then only 900 promised. Why don't the media challenge this?
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Aug 15, 2023
The Tories plan an #NHSweek to try and trick the public into thinking they care about the NHS.

We don't want an NHS week.

We want an NHS for life!

RT if you agree.

#SOSNHS Image
Remember, the Tories are trying to sell of our NHS by increasing private capacity which weakens the NHS.

We cannot allow this false narrative to prevail Image
The Tories lie about increasing funding by manipulating the stats - the truth? Image
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