This is so difficult. On a personal level I’ve had it with Twitter. I’ve sustained unbelievable levels of abuse here from the far-right for 4 years; and the platform isn’t what it was. However I have heard from literally thousands of people over the past few days who feel we … …can’t relinquish a foothold here, because hundreds of thousands of people who do care about the NHS and are willing to fight for it have found some small corner here.

Ok two things - I’m going to keep my account open but it won’t be the main place I communicate any more…

Just thought I’d post some screenshots showing Wes Streeting’s links to individuals and orgs associated with private healthcare.

EveryDoctor built a map- it hasn’t been updated recently… perhaps we should do that?

If these concern you, RT 🚨🚨🚨 …

Why are physician associates being paid more than many junior doctors?

Because politicians are corporatising and privatising our public healthcare system. In the short term, they are creating conditions to enable the deskilling of our NHS workforce. They are doing this by… …
1. Failing to train enough doctors.
2. Failing to retain enough doctors.
3. Squeezing the pay of doctors.
4. Eroding working conditions generally, encouraging a mass exodus.
5. Making it nearly impossible to whistleblow safely.
6. Recruiting lower-skilled staff en …

Bizarre messages from people either saying “we can only choose between Labour and the Tories” or “it’ll be your fault now when the Tories get in”.

1. We are meant to live in a functioning democracy. If that is the case, it cannot also be true that our only two options as a … …society are two neoliberal candidates who stand a hair’s breadth apart politically.

2. The way we create change as a society is by pushing for better, holding politicians to account, and forcing progress. It is madness to suggest that creating a massive majority for …

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The NHS is being systemically dismantled by politicians, and we need to do something about it.

When I set up EveryDoctor, we didn’t anticipate things deteriorating as fast as they have done. We were a group of doctors who were appalled at what was happening… …and we wanted to speak up and push back, on behalf of doctors and our patients.

Things have evolved 🚨🚨🚨

The service is crumbling- due to lack of investment, continual attacks and scapegoating of NHS staff, the longest NHS waiting lists in history, and the destruction …

Can I please borrow you for one min? I know you’re super busy! 🌟🌟🌟

There are two ways to campaign; reactively, or proactively. Politicians have done a lot of things to decimate public services. They cause so much daily drama that we’re all caught up in reactive … …campaigning. That needs to change🚨🚨🚨

We are chasing our tails, playing political whack-a-mole while they help out their mates, buy up Facebook ads, and make misleading or empty promises.

We need to find out what the public actually wants, and run proactive campaigns …

LET’S ASK THE PUBLIC WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT NHS PRIVATISATION!

Hello! I need your help please!💥🌟💙
Let me explain…

Politicians are saying we will help the NHS by involving privatisation.
1. They have never held a public referendum about NHS privatisation.
2. There is *no*… …evidence that privatisation makes things more efficient in the NHS.

We think it is time for the public to have their say 🚨🚨🚨

EveryDoctor is hoping to commission polling, to ask the public what they think about NHS privatisation and then run a huge public awareness…

Lots of people saying they’re shocked and appalled by what’s coming out of the COVID inquiry. I was in charge of EveryDoctor; fielding a huge amount of testimony both from the COVID frontline from doctors, and also hearing various pieces of confidential info (which we then… …took to the media).

None of this stuff shocks me. It was absolute chaos, a total failure of leadership, and a disaster in terms of human suffering and a lack of care from politicians.

Don’t allow the pundits and the politicians to just use this as a weapon to bash each …

You probably won’t read in the papers today about the consultant surgeon who padlocked the operating theatres shut when there was no PPE, and safeguarded lives by refusing to operate until PPE was found.

You won’t find out about the consultant who put her hand up and fought… …for safe access to masks and gowns for all staff when it was being limited.

You won’t hear about the informal rotas set up between consultants who just worked all hours, any hours, whatever was necessary to keep patients safe.

You won’t hear about the doctors who had …

There are a lot of people just like me, I think. People who had never really been exposed to socialism as a concept until its mass rise about 7-8 years ago.

This made a lot of people like me finally feel like they were hearing some politics which made sense - which would .. …improve things for a lot of people.

When that project toppled, the ensuing media attention managed to demonise the whole thing - to the point that a lot of people felt fearful to even speak about socialism anymore. We had a few years of political chaos -with a lot of people…

The reason we set up EveryDoctor is that as doctors we watched what was happening all around us during the ‘austerity years’ and beyond and we could see what was happening.

What is happening now?
🛑7.4 million people cannot access the care they need in our public healthcare … …system in England alone.

🛑this winter up to 500 people died every single week because they could not access urgent care.
🛑we are missing 124000 NHS staff in England alone and the government treat staff terribly.
🛑the health of our nation is on the decline because of …

Prominent figures who do not believe in the NHS and want it to be abolished are attempting to tell the public that it requires ‘reform’ because the original model ‘does not work’.

Let’s be absolutely clear. We do not have the original model of the NHS; the structure has been… …reformed already, beyond recognition, to introduce privatise in various ways.

The service has been severely underfunded and under-resources, to the point that the service does not function properly.

The introduction of a healthcare insurance system (which is the main idea…

Quite hard staying ‘visible’ online this week. Essentially I’ve written a book which a lot of people would like to disappear, because it holds politicians to account 🚨

As a result of this, a number of people are attacking me in various ways. My story is not complicated. I’m … …not a very complicated person (🤣).

I was working as doctor, I (and lots of other NHS staff) were deeply unhappy at what was happening - the way staff were being treated and the way patients were being affected. Eventually I decided to stop working clinically and focus on …

It’s working!😮💥💙
I’ve written a book about how politicians are betraying the NHS, and how we can fight for it, to come out just before the NHS’s 75th anniversary, so that we can use this milestone to hold politicians to account, spread awareness, + bring people on-board the… …fight for the NHS.

It would be extremely unusual to see a book about this on bookshelves of major retailers. This is an issue which matters to almost everyone and yet is poorly understood because most media outlets do not talk about NHS privatisation and the step-wise…

I have written a book about how politicians are betraying the NHS, and how we can fight for its future. It comes out in 10 days’ time, just before the NHS’s 75th anniversary💙💥

Politicians often use milestones like this for positive PR- claiming they support (or even love)… …the service, while actively undermining it by underfunding the service, failing to support staff, and allowing privatisation to infiltrate the service🚨

Let’s use the 75th anniversary to hold politicians to account instead. NHS privatisation is rarely in the news. So it’s a ..

I want to be part of a society which cares for every member of our population. Our society is moving away from that situation fast.

And a lot of this transition is dressed up in (excuse my language) bullshit. Hustle culture. Boss ‘bitches’. Hashtag winning.

I don’t want to… …hashtag win. I want to live in the sort of society which cares about the living standards of every member of every community.

It’s not flashy. It’s not glamorous. It’s food on the table. Calm homes which are warm, where people can feel safe.

Care is the thing we’re losing…

It’s v interesting. During the pandemic, I got to know a lot of politicians pretty well, because EveryDoctor brought information from NHS frontline doctors to MPs every single week, which they weren’t hearing anywhere else. 104 MPs signed up to our #ProtectNHSworkers campaign. … …many would check in with us regularly. I had their numbers, I’d link them up with senior doctors in their area who could tell them what was happening. Many were deeply concerned. We helped them to carry out research, or ask ministers questions, or lobby for particular things…

Hello! A few people are asking why doctors who do some work in the private sector are part of EveryDoctor (and it’s sort of being presented as a ‘gotcha’ moment).

Doctors are workers. Doctors’ working conditions in the NHS have been severely degraded by politicians, both in … …pay (consultant pay has decreased in real terms by 34.9% since 2008/2009), and in their working conditions which are incredibly stressful.

Doctors, like any group of workers, cannot be condemned for the individual choices they make regarding where they choose to work. It is..

Umm I have just looked up the “research” underpinning the latest government policy regarding changes to patient choice.

The research was conducted by the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (they partnered with the Patients Association but IHPN did the ‘research’).

This… …research involved an analysis of performance data looking at 6 specific areas of patients on waiting lists, and how long they had waited on average.

Now - for context; patients are on waiting lists for lots of things. Operations, and other forms of outpatient treatment…

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We have done a stock take and we have the grand total of 21 tea towels left! So I’m hoping we can run out of all of them TODAY!!
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I have written a book because politicians are destroying the NHS intentionally, and I think everyone deserves to know what’s going on 🚨

It is a *big deal* that one of the largest publishing houses in the world is publishing a book about NHS privatisation, and an even bigger… …deal that it’s coming out just before the NHS’s 75th anniversary. This is a huge milestone and will be leapt on by politicians wanting to claim their support for the service (to make them look good).

We need to take that opportunity to hold them to account instead 💙🚨…