NHS consultant anaesthetist, barrister, director @everydoctoruk. No to NHS privatisation. DMs not read but happy to chat via legal@everydoctor.org.uk.
May 25, 2021 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
1) THREAD This morning @EveryDoctorUK is in court for the final day of our PPE trial v @matthancock (NHS staff’s gaslighter in chief!). Our counsel, the super Jason Coppel QC, will spend this afternoon replying to the govt’s case that the VIP lane conferred no advantage (hmm 🤔).
2) Watch the 😳ometer rise as we go through the details of what government says was all acceptable and above board. It is the government’s case:...
Apr 23, 2021 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
After @JujuliaGrace’s kind words, I thought I’d introduce myself properly and say a few words about why the PPE procurement challenges that @EveryDoctorUK is pursuing against @MattHancock are so important to doctors.
I am a consultant anaesthetist in a major London teaching hospital (views all my own and 100% not those of my employer, nor is anything that I say here a reference to my experience at my own place of work which I love). I have been on the frontline in every wave of this pandemic