Our team of doctors have decided to step up our campaign, because of a wholly inadequate response to the crisis within the NHS, in which hundreds of people are needlessly dying every single week. This government and leaders across the UK are failing to treat this situation…
…with the urgency it deserves.
Up to 500 people needlessly dying per week. That’s the same as several planes crashing every week and every person on-board dying 🚨
Where is the urgency? Where is the action? We demand that the step up NOW to save lives…
… we are beginning to ask other organisations to join us in declaring that this is a #HumanitarianCrisis and must be treated accordingly.
We need as many people demanding action as possible.
Please click, sign and RT. Every patient and every staff member deserves better…
It is NOT just about underfunding. Successive governments introduced an internal marketplace, devolved responsibility outwards from governments to local areas over a period of decades. They then opened up NHS contracts to private providers and others, fragmenting the service…
…they have now pulled down budgets so that the fragmented system does not work and they do not hold responsibility for this, and can scapegoat local leaders.
And following the pandemic what have they done? They have ignored the calls from healthcare leaders that the service…
…will collapse.
They have tried to go ahead with a data sharing plan which was only halted by campaigners and the public speaking up.
They pushed through a Bill which many people fear will allow private companies to infiltrate the NHS more easily.
It’s very difficult to read smears about the credibility of EveryDoctor.
I set up @EveryDoctorUK because I and many other doctors saw that the NHS was being destroyed and patients and staff would be the victims.
Anyone could have started this. Any doctor. But it …
…happened to be me (mostly because I had two babies close together and a lot of time to think, and probably felt a degree of freedom to focus on this temporarily because I have an incredibly supportive husband).
The smears were immediately so intense that I gave up my…
…hopes to return to NHS practice and instead moved to rural Ireland and took up a part time role as a child and adolescent psychiatry doctor (I had been warned I would be reported to the gmc for my campaigning activities and thought I would be safer in Ireland) …
Hi Tom! You seem to have some misunderstandings about @EveryDoctorUK. We represent our members+run campaigns decided upon democratically by doctor members. All of this information is on our website. If you have further questions, our Head of Policy @megs1970 is happy to answer.👍
…Dr Megan Smith is an NHS consultant anaesthetist and a barrister.
My information comes from the network of 400,000 people I am connected with, along with my own experience working within the NHS (for 8 years), and from the experience I have gained interacting closely with…
UK politicians for the past 3 years.
Many leaders of organisations do not currently work in the job of those they represent. Unfortunately it’s impossible - I work 60-70 hours a week, my husband is an ICU consultant and I have 2 small children.
I am highlighting this to almost a quarter of a million people because I am very worried about it. We have run about 26 parliamentary briefings since the first wave of COVID and so I have written and responded to a lot of correspondence from politicians across the political…
…spectrum for almost 3 years now.
Patterns emerge, stock responses are used, campaigners are attacked or discredited at various time points. We store a lot of this information.
There has been a sea change in the responses from both major political parties. Conservatives…
…who used to reply in polite terms have become aggressive, sometimes pointedly so, against our work.
But I am more shocked by Labour. We used to receive dozens of individually crafted responses written by MPs to their constituents, with concerns, offering to write letters…
To all those people who are berating people going on strike; where did you get the idea that corporations and capitalism is more important than the safe running of our public services? Why do you believe that peoples’ long distance commute into cities is good? Those workers…
…themselves should be able to live near work if they choose. Many of them can’t, specifically because of the wealth disparity in this country. Many of those businesses you’re worried about ‘going under’ during this period wouldn’t be going under if they’d been supported by…
…this government properly. Supported during COVID. Supported with their energy bills.
Don’t put your anger on other workers who are having a bad time. Who have been put upon. Who have done their bit and done their it and put up through austerity and pay freezes and no PPE…
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’…