Please help us show support for NHS staff, who need your backing more than ever before.
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Jan 10, 2022 • 37 tweets • 15 min read
NHS staff have had an awful lot of abuse for speaking up about the benefits of vaccines, many had gone quiet as a result. But this week they have been speaking up in their droves.
Because vaccines save lives.
Still unconvinced? If you won’t listen to us, listen to them 🧵👇🏻
Um…@DailyMailUK what is this? How we have gone from clapping to telling exhausted staff they shouldn’t take leave?
Let’s set the record straight shall we? 🧵👇🏻(1/9)
We have a workforce crisis in the NHS. That existed before the pandemic. Why? We have a retention problem. We can’t retain staff because they feel so devalued, are asked to do too much with too little and end up burning out and leaving.
This was pre-pandemic.
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Jan 3, 2022 • 21 tweets • 10 min read
Personal tweet now. We are receiving a lot of messages from NHS staff who are really struggling. Can’t get out of bed, can no longer face going into work, have no idea how to get through the next shift - struggling.
Please know we are here for you. Here’s where to get help 👇🏻🧵
Contents:
1️⃣ Who to call if you are suicidal
2️⃣ 24/7 📞📱💻 if you are in crisis
3️⃣ Helplines for:
NHS staff
bereaved staff
doctors/dentists
nurses/midwives
students
addiction/alcohol
your family
4️⃣ Services for:
England
Scotland
Wales
5️⃣ Counselling
6️⃣ Peer support
Jan 23, 2021 • 13 tweets • 9 min read
NHS staff are risking their lives every day to save ours. We are overwhelmed that so many people are asking how they can give back. Here is a thread of 10 ways you can show your support, with some of the most wonderful initiatives you can donate to or fundraise for. Please RT 🙏🏻
1) Support a local hospital charity 🏥
Recently @charity_shc gave its 12000 staff an extra paid day of annual leave as well as a free coffee and lunch. Similar initiatives are going on at trusts across the country.
10 times the Conservatives have backed privatisation of the NHS.
Featuring Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab and many more.
Please RT if you think everyone should be aware.
1. “Our ambition should be to break down the barriers between private and public provision, in effect denationalising the provision of healthcare in Britain.”
Jeremy Hunt, Former Health Secretary
2005 quote from 'Direct Democracy', co-authored by Hunt
THREAD: £9 billion of the NHS budget was spent on private providers last year.
The common response we receive is: “So what? As long as it’s still free for me.”
But we'll all be worse off if the use of private providers continues to grow and here’s why… theguardian.com/society/2019/j…1. The NHS payment system is complicated. Hospitals get ‘paid’ with government funds for each case or procedure they perform.
Private providers can and do receive this 'payment' instead, winning £15 billion of NHS contracts over the past 5 years.