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Physician associate seeks medical advice from Facebook group. Is this the NHS you want?

Online advice: do you want your healthcare to come from someone who needs to ask a Facebook chat group for guidance about your symptoms?

This is the kind of bungling, know-nothing health ‘care’ your Tory (and Labour) political leaders want to force on you:

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You aren’t safe while your health is in the hands of Labour or the Conservatives.

Where will it end? Selling you for parts?


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Are the Tories planning to fraud you into thinking they’re cutting NHS waiting lists?

The Conservative government is planning to move 40,000 children from the main NHS waiting list to a less conspicuous one, according to news agency Reuters.

The aim, it seems, is to make the Tories look better before the general election, despite not having achieved their aim to cut the number of people waiting for NHS treatment:

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You can read the full article here.

If true, this is an attempt at deception, in order to gain an advantage. Considering the difference between ministerial salaries and the donations that MPs in government receive, in comparison with what opposition MPs get, it’s in order to gain a pecuniary advantage.

In other words – if true – it would be attempted fraud.

Last time I checked, that was a crime.


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Will ‘Breathtaking’ do for the NHS what ‘Mr Bates’ did for sub-postmasters?

Fresh from the success of Mr Bates vs the Post Office, ITV is about to screen another drama based on real-life political developments.

Breathtaking is based on the diary of Dr Rachel Clarke – @doctor_oxford on ‘X’ – and aims to show the facts about what was happening in the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic, contrasted with the Tory gaslighting of the public that was taking place at the same time.

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Peter Stefanovic has already seen it:

Here’s the trailer:

The BAFTA advance screening of the series was introduced by Michael Rosen, whose life was saved by NHS care after he contracted the virus – and it gave rise to an extraordinary coincidence:

Clearly, emotions are already running high around this new series.

As for Dr Clarke – her campaigning for an NHS that is able to do its job, free of the political interference that has restricted its abilities for more than a decade, continues. And she continues to inform us as the Tory government’s mismanagement steadily worsens the service we receive.

Here’s what she told us earlier this week:

Perhaps Breathtaking will remind us all of what we had to endure while the Tories were partying in Downing Street and giving away billions of pounds of public money to their friends for so-called “protective equipment” that simply wasn’t up to scratch.

In an election year, I’d say that makes it well worth watching.


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Rishi Sunak’s NHS fail in a single social media post

Rishi Sunak in a hospital: he can get in because he can afford to jump the 7+ million-strong queue he and his Tory colleagues have created.

This just about sums up Tory health policy for the last 14 years:

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It is as Prem Sikka explained in a speech to the House of Lords (and an article for Left Foot Forward):

The government has reduced access to healthcare.

That was, is and remains the entire point of everything the Tories have done with the National Health Service since 2010 – and is the reason millions have died while awaiting NHS care under their rule.


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Rishi Sunak’s NHS waiting lists excuses are nonsense

Rishi Sunak at a hospital: he made big speeches, rolled up his sleeves… and made matters worse.

Rishi Sunak has admitted that he has failed to cut NHS waiting lists, despite having promised to do so.

He made the confession in an interview with oily TV presenter Piers Morgan, but there’s a sting in the tail:

Did you spot the excuse? “Industrial action has had an impact.” Pathetic.

He also said nurses had received a pay rise – which was actually a real-terms pay cut.

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Peter Stefanovic put these lies to rest in the first few seconds of the following clip (and the rest is well worth watching too):

And Left Foot Forward has also had a few things to say:

Sunak wants you to believe that record-high waiting lists are the result of factors beyond the government’s control, such as the pandemic and subsequent strikes among NHS workers over low pay and poor conditions.

Except, as many have pointed out, the total number of people waiting for treatment was at a record level even before the pandemic, and had been rising every year since 2013.

In fact, the waiting list for treatment has been growing for much of the last decade, passing three million in 2014, four million in 2017, five million in 2021 and seven million in 2022.

In February 2020, the last full month before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the waiting list stood at 4.57 million.

The Royal College of Nursing has also previously hit back at Sunak’s claim that strike action has resulted in soaring waiting lists.

The RCN said last year: “Waiting lists were growing long before the pandemic and strike action – and the prime minister should take responsibility for the knife-edge position of the NHS and not point the finger.”

Do I have to point out how vital it is that you bear all this in mind when you consider where to put your ‘X’ on the ballot paper at the general election?

Source: Why Rishi Sunak’s excuse for failing to cut NHS waiting lists doesn’t add up – Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK’s progressive debate


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Rishi Sunak lies that 18-week waits for NHS services have fallen – or he’s an imbecile

Rishi Sunak: I always thought he looked nervous in this image. He could also be dishonest. Or just plain stupid. Your choice!

How courageous (in the Yes, Minister sense of the word) of Rishi Sunak to come out with an outrageous lie in a newspaper – that is published just hours before a TV news report debunks it, never mind Full Fact.

Here it is in brief:

The Full Fact article says:

The Prime Minister said in a comment piece in the Telegraph that the government had substantially reduced 18-week waits since January 2023. This is not true.

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Waits for non-emergency treatment of more than 18 weeks in the NHS in England have actually risen in that time. Health is devolved so that NHS England is the part of the health service that the UK government controls.

The article came out the same day (January 31) as Channel 4 News came out with this:

Full Fact, in an act of astonishing charity, suggested that Sunak was mistaking 18-week waits with 18-month waits – which have reduced significantly.

This Writer reckons that’s letting the prime minister off lightly.

He’s the one in charge. The buck stops there. And he needs to have the facts at his fingertips.

If he doesn’t, who knows what other clangers he’s been dropping left, right and centre?

So either he lied in Parliament, which is a cardinal sin of UK politics, or he’s an imbecile, which should be a cardinal sin of UK politics.

Either way, I don’t want to have him running my country into the dirt for one minute longer than I have to. How about you?


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Major event TONIGHT launching campaign to end complicity in NHS decline

The headline probably doesn’t do this even justice so here’s Dr Julia Grace Patterson to explain:

The speaker at this event, Dr Bob Gill, knows everything there is to know about how the NHS has been abused, deprived and dismantled over the past 14 years by Tory governments and complicit organisations. Whatever he has to say will be worth hearing.

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If you care about your health, sign up to the mailing list (link above) and attend the event.


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The Conservatives’ health service failure – summed up in a single graph

Trolley wait: this was almost unheard-of in 2011 but after 13 years of Tory rule, the number of people waiting 12 hours or more on a trolley in a corridor for NHS attention has increased by more than 3,000 per cent.

This Channel 4 News report speaks for itself – almost.

Take a look, then I’ll spill the beans:

There’s just one element missing – the fact that these massive, and increasing, failures are due in their entirety to Conservative government interference in our healthcare, in order to create a false case for privatisation.

The Tories have been obsessed with ending the National Health Service as a means to keep the people of the UK healthy, and focussed on turning it into a means of creating a profit for greedy fatcat health company shareholders and executives.

The fact that your health – or the health of people you know – has suffered as a result is of no concern to them at all.

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And with Labour under Keir Starmer and Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting promising also to increase privatisation, there seems to be no end in sight for the agony.

So, who are you planning to support at the general election this year?


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Hundreds of doctors to sue NHS because government PPE failings gave them Long Covid

One MORE time: the PPE used in UK hospitals is pictured bottom right. Hundreds of doctors are now suing the UK government because they say they contracted Long Covid due to the inadequacy of the PPE they were provided.

In a sane country, wouldn’t this be enough reason for a government to take action to recover the millions (billions?) of pounds it wasted on useless Personal Protective Equipment during the Covid-19 crisis?

Hundreds of doctors plan to sue the NHS, claiming a lack of proper PPE left them disabled with Long Covid.

The case centres on an NHS diktat to downgrade the level of masks when the virus took hold. Staff were only required to wear blue surgical masks, plastic aprons and gloves.

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They claim they are facing financial ruin and that authorities should have known they were being placed at risk.

The government could recoup a huge amount of money, just by taking action to claw back the money wasted on inadequate PPE.

For example: what about the £203 million given to PPE Medpro, the company pushed through the illegal Tory VIP lane for contracts by Michelle Mone, who’s said to have profited by £65 million from the deal?

That could provide a million quid in compensation for more than 200 doctors with Long Covid.

And its just the tip of the VIP lane iceberg.

Why does the public purse always have to pay for the profligate failures of the government?

Source: Hundreds of doctors to sue NHS after lack of proper PPE left them disabled with Long Covid – Mirror Online


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Less-trained ‘physician associates’ are taking over from doctors – because they’re cheaper

Physician associate: training for these not-doctors is cropping up all over the place (this is at Chester University).

If you fall ill or are injured, would you like to be treated by a proper doctor – or would you accept treatment by a so-called ‘physician associate’ who is far less well-trained, but cheaper, and whose employment is intended to make a bigger profit for private health companies?

Here’s Damo to explain what this latest healthcare nightmare is all about:

Already two deaths have been linked to PAs. This means the Tories have intended to make those deaths possible.

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And Labour too – because PAs appear to be part of Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting’s plan for the NHS. They certainly didn’t lift a finger to stop them becoming part of your future – if you have a future at all under the ministrations of these not-doctors.

Don’t just take Damo’s word on this. Here’s an actual doctor:

You have your instructions!

Please tell your MP you want the NHS to be staffed with proper doctors – and if private companies don’t want to spend the money, they shouldn’t be part of the service. You can find out how to get in touch here.


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