🚨We sent an email last night to our mailing list, naming the MPs with the strongest financial links to the private healthcare sector since the last General Election in 2019. Buckle up, because this is shocking (to us)🚨
... ...The biggest earner by some distance is John Redwood, Conservative MP for Wokingham.  He earned a whopping £699,250😮 between 2020-2023 from Charles Stanley (fund managers with large investments in global private health providers)...

LAUNCH🚀💙🚨
EveryDoctor privatisation map- PFI data.

1. PFI debt is bad for the NHS.
2. Successive governments entered into projects with private companies to keep the spending off the public books.
3. We're paying for it now, and will continue to until around 2050... ...
4. The government should pay off the debt and wipe the slate clean, but they're not doing that.

It has been tricky to find the data for this info on the map 🚨 (this is explained in the FAQs): everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-privatisat…

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🚨NHS screenshots🚨
We are sharing these screenshots of messages which were sent by a leader of an Integrated Care System, because we are desperately concerned for patient and staff well-being. We considered taking them to a journalist, but we are fed up of seeing reporting.. ...on the NHS crisis which covers the current situation but fails to identify the root causes of problems or hold the government to account for failures.

These patient safety failures are happening up and down the country and are not caused by staff or by patients. They were...

🚨 Announcement thread 🧵

For the last 18 months we've been building a movement to halt + reverse #NHSPrivatisation.

We've run MP briefings, public webinars, sent 12,000+ letters & ad vans round London, projected onto parliament and built an interactive map.

Now we're... ...excited to launch our next step: a series of in-person events across the UK!

We'll be in Edinburgh, Brighton, Harrogate, Birmingham + Cardiff this autumn and we'd love you to join us: bit.ly/Events-Sign-Up💙

Our online community is incredibly powerful. Now we want to…

Why did we build a map of NHS privatisation + outsourcing? 🗺️💙💰

🧵 A thread:

Lots of people are (rightly) worried about #NHSPrivatisation, but they see it as something to avoid or prevent happening in the future.
The truth is - it's already here.

Privatisation has been... ...creeping into the NHS for 30 years.

This transfer of assets into private hands has landed the NHS in major debt, created a postcode lottery for patients & as published in the Lancet; led to an increase in ‘treatable mortality’(preventable deaths)...
thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

We’ve sent our letter to Boris Johnson 📨

With more than 12,000 signatures, thank you so much to everyone who joined us to demand #JohnsonMustAct 💙And we’ll be sure to share any response we receive with you. bit.ly/JMA-letter-Eng…

As healthcare is… …a devolved issue, we’ve also sent letters to Nicola Sturgeon; bit.ly/JMA-letter-Sco…

🧵 from one of our doctor members yesterday:

"I’m a consultant obstetrician of 10 years. I’ve seen it all. It takes a lot to make me cry.

I cried on the way to work in the car this morning listening to Jeremy Hunt on radio 4 regarding the Shrewsbury and Telford report... ...I cried for all the babies and families, lives needlessly lost and ruined.

I cried for all the staff in those units broken by the system which has let down so many.

I cried with frustration at Mr Hunt's statement that hospitals “need to be hungry” to find out why...

Only 36% of people are satisfied with our NHS - the lowest level in 25 years.

And understandably so.

Millions are waiting for treatment. We're terminally short of staff. But for the real reason, we need to dig deeper. To explain why the...
theguardian.com/society/2022/m… ...failings in our NHS are not the fault of staff; who are fighting to do their best in a broken system, but those who are meant to hold ultimate responsibility: our government.

Let's start here👇
This week sees the end of free universal testing...
nursingnotes.co.uk/news/workforce…

🚛 Today our ad van toured Westminster to highlight the links that exist between some politicians and companies who are profiting from public healthcare.

Next up: Ranil Jayawardena.
The MP for North East Hampshire... ...Ranil Jayawardena's constituency office space was paid for by Serco, a total value of £18,999.96.

Serco, which had revenues of ~£4.4 billion last year, was 1 of the biggest companies behind (the inaccurately named) NHS Test and Trace system. The same system which wasted...

Another MP and member of Boris Johnson's team with links to private healthcare providers is Priti Patel.

Documents uncovered by Good Law Project in the course of another legal case over the government’s controversial PPE contracts found… ...a personal link between our Home Secretary+a consultant working for the firm Pharmaceuticals Direct Ltd.

The same firm who were awarded a PPE contract worth £28.8 million in May 2020 💰

And another one worth £102.6 million in July 💰💰

Both awarded without competition...

🚛 Today our ad van is touring London to raise awareness of the multitude of links that exist between private healthcare companies and (far too many!) of our MPs 🚨

Next up is Stephen Hammond... ...the Conservative MP for Wimbledon (who also served as a Minister in the Department of Health+Social Care from Nov 2018-July 2019) Stephen Hammond became a Non-Executive Director of OptiBiotix Health Plc; a biotechnological research company, last year.

Upon his appointment...

The government's Health & Care Bill will accelerate #NHSPrivatisation. And is it any wonder given the links between private healthcare companies and members of Boris Johnson's team?

We're taking a deep dive into these links today, and next up is Samantha Jones... An ex-director of new care models at NHS England, Samantha Jones recently stepped up her role in Number 10.

But before that she was the Chief Executive of Operose - the UK subsidiary of the giant US private healthcare corporation Centene. During her time there she oversaw…

We're taking a deep dive into the links between some high-profile politicians and private healthcare companies today.

First up: Sajid Javid.

And his links with the California-based company, C3ai which delivers AI software to the health sector... ...our current Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has around £45,000 worth of shares in the company.

He also spent 10-12 days and received £151,835 per annum for "providing advice on the global economy, geo-politics and market opportunities" to them...

On 28th December, Dr Julia Grace Patterson received a text message from someone claiming to be Julia Hartley-Brewer, following her tweet containing factually inaccurate information about our masks… Dr Patterson has never shared her phone number with Julia Hartley-Brewer. Her employer talkRADIO has Dr Patterson’s phone number on record for legitimate journalistic purposes. If this text message was from Hartley-Brewer, it is likely that she has accessed it inappropriately...

7 dominoes threaten to topple our NHS this winter…

1. ✂️ CUTS
A decade of underfunding means the total number of NHS hospital beds in England has more than halved over the past 30 years, from around 299,000 in 1987/88 to 141,000 in 2019/20...

Source: kingsfund.org.uk/publications/n… 2. 😷 COVID-19

Over 605,000 patients have been admitted to hospital with Coronavirus across the UK since the pandemic began. With Delta, Omicron and new variants likely to emerge, this number will keep on rising...

Source: coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/health… #NHSDomino

Our focus today is PFI - a.k.a Private Finance Initiatives. Today, PFIs drain an average of £2 billion from NHS Trust budgets every year. How exactly? 🤔 Here’s a little history… Initially launched by the Conservative government in 1992, and expanded enthusiastically by the Labour government in 1997, PFIs were a method of financing public infrastructure projects via private partners. They allowed...

Today we’re focusing on MPs - the only way we’ll #ScrapNHSBill is if enough of them speak out. So we wanted to start the day with a big **thank you** to the 30 MPs who’ve stood up for the NHS so far by expressing their interest in starting an All Party Parliamentary Group on… #NHSprivatisation: thank you @BellRibeiroAddy 💙@labourlewis 💙@RLong_Bailey 💙 @DanCardenMP 💙 @BethWinterMP 💙 @mgreenwoodww 💙 @PutneyFleur 💙@IanByrneMP 💙 @KateOsamor 💙 @IanMearnsMP 💙 @ClaudiaWebbe 💙 @MickWhitleyMP 💙 @marykfoy 💙 @yasinforbedford 💙 @GlindonMary 💙...

Our final thread to mark "Freedom Day" from an anonymised EveryDoctor member on the NHS COVID-19 frontline:

"Over the past 2 weeks there has been a noticeable shift in the hospital where I work. Our cohort of patients is younger this time. Largely unvaccinated people... 💉 Another, my age, had just got her first dose - its effects had not had a chance to protect her. Our ward is full up with people with a single diagnosis - COVID-19 pneumonia. We were already busy trying to catch up with all our patients who have been neglected over the past 18m...

Thread No. 6 of "Freedom Day" anonymised EveryDoctor Member stories:

“I'm a self-employed GP working in London 111 clinics, urgent care clinics in A&E, and in GP practices. The demand we face currently is unprecedented. Every appointment is booked within minutes... ⏱️ of telephone lines opening. Waiting times in A&E are frequently 3 to 4 hours long.
COVID-19 patients are exponentially rising across the board. Staff are tired+burnt out. Patients are angry+frustrated. This is not sustainable.

Thread No. 5 from our "Freedom Day" set of anonymised stories from doctor members on the NHS COVID-19 frontlines:

“It is an utter nightmare. Kids’ school bubbles are bursting all over the place. Most colleagues have children at home. Some GP practices have… ...genuine staffing crises due to isolating staff. The rates of COVID-19 cases are climbing exponentially 📈 Hospitalisations are climbing 📈 Numbers of ventilated patients are increasing 📈 If the government could only have waited until the majority of the population...

"Freedom Day" Thread Twitter No.4, another awful anon story from our doctor members on the NHS COVID-19 frontline:

“I’ve been a fully qualified GP for 7 yrs. I've worked in inner city practices where we've been very short staffed before but somehow we always got through it... But now, we are short staffed due to sickness from long COVID, Mat leave, staff leaving, and staff isolating. And we just can’t cope and morale is at an all time low. Today for example I was the only regular doctor on-site for 14,000 patients... 🚨