2/ Meanwhile, the supposedly independent #CovidInquiry has contracted a company that worked with the Cabinet Office during the pandemic!
With @STOPAIDS, we wrote to the Inquiry Chair Baroness Hallett to express our concerns about this disturbing connection…but got no response🤷♀️
3/ Throughout the pandemic we’ve seen time and again how the profits of corporations have been put above the health & interests of patients.
These decisions have cost lives - and the government must be held to account. This can only happen through a genuinely impartial process.
4/ On the 3rd anniversary of the #UK lockdown, we remember the 220,000 lives lost to #Covid here, as well as millions more lost globally. The government’s failed strategy of vaccine nationalism left poorer countries vulnerable - with devastating impacts⬇️ justtreatment.org/covid-stories/…
5/ We cannot allow these same deadly mistakes to happen again. Corporate profits must never be put before public health.
If you agree, join Just Treatment and help us hold the government to account: justtreatment.org/join
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In today’s #AutumnStatement@Jeremy_Hunt & @RishiSunak have unleashed a new wave of austerity on the British people and our public services. They claim to be “putting the #NHS first” with a £3.3bn funding increase. But in reality, this is a real terms cut -here’s why…
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The context for this budget is that our health service is already at breaking point. After 12 years of Conservative governments, we’ve got millions on waiting lists, overwhelmed ambulance services, and underpaid and overworked staff leaving in their thousands…
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This NHS crisis has been years in the making. A report by the Health Foundation revealed that the UK has spent around 20% less per person on health each year than similar European countries over the past decade. That’s a gap of £40bn.
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🚨 Why the government's #NHS funding pledge falls far short of what’s needed 🚨
A thread...👇🏼
After more than a decade of chronic underinvestment, our NHS has been left in a deeply precarious position. It’s good that the government has recognised this, but the proposed funding boost will not be enough to fix the major problems facing our health service.
We need at least an extra £33bn a year to bring the NHS up to the same level of investment seen in France and Germany, in order to match or surpass their numbers of health workers, beds and scanners. The government’s new policy is only offering less than £6bn a year.
Elizabeth has witnessed the difference between the UK and US health systems. She knows the human cost of high prices. Don’t allow the US to sabotage access to meds on the #NHS.
EPIC THREAD!!!...
There has been a lot of debate on the impact of a #tradedeal with #Trump on #NHS medicine prices. Here’s a thread detailing why people are right to be worried… 1/
Firstly, the US has history. #Bigpharma spends more influencing politicians in Washington than any other industry. So the US has repeatedly used #trade agreements to force changes on countries that will boost the industry’s profits. 2/