It remans unclear whether T-levels are a viable gateway into NHS careers & a useful way of trying to deal with the shortage of entrants to nurses & other NHS staff training.

Currently they seem to be less able to retain students than other routes, suggesting after five years this has not been the solution to staff recruitment & training that had been promised.

Part of the problem may be knowledge of the difficult working conditions they would enter on gradation?

#NHS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4g04j1l9xo

Everything Wes Streeting is proposing for the #NHS is about #privatisation on steroids #UKPol

Wes Streeting will vote against the assisted dying bill & is getting his department to assess the costs of provision.... but he then said that looking at the money saved in the NHS be assisted dying was a 'slippery slope', and:

'I would hate for people to opt for assisted dying because they think they’re saving someone somewhere money, whether that’s relatives or the NHS'....

The problem with the last statement it sort of sounds like a threat, not a dismissal?

#AssistedDying #NHS
h/t FT

A heartbreaking story of how the problems in the NHS (caused, lets be clear, by 14 years of Tory defunding & attacks on the health service) have real world effects on those depending on the NHS to save their life (or in this case not).

The patient's partner recognises its not the individual staff to blame for what happened, its the way the NHS has been wilfully damaged....

if Wes Streeting thinks league tables will solve these problems he's very wrong!

#health #NHS
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/13/nine-hours-52-minutes-did-dave-strachan-ambulance-wait-cost-him-his-life

One element of the problems the NHS faces is the experience of its staff; as it sees both Covid period returnees retire, and others leaving after burnout or dissatisfaction with working for the NHS, the health service has an increasing proportion of early career staff (see the example of nurses & midwifes below).

Less experienced staff can be slower to diagnose & may (often rightly) seek further tests. This isn't a problem individually but overall can slow down heath care.

#Health #NHS
h/t FT

Having learnt little from the problems caused by school league tables, now Wes Streeting looks interested in introducing hospital league table into the NHS.

Its just what a workforce already patterned by overwork, exhaustion & burnout, does not need.

With the NHS already losing staff as fast as it can train & recruit them, this just looks like one more body blow intended to strengthen the appeal of the private sector...

not so much a 'solution' as a further attack.

#NHS #health
h/t FT

If you are concerned by the role of Big Tech in the NHS (and specifically the role of Oracle, then you will find much of interest (and likely some stuff you're already aware of) in Corporate Watch's report on Oracle's work in the NHS.

#BigTech #Oracle #health #NHS #privatisation

https://corporatewatch.org/horroracle-the-big-tech-giant-embedded-in-our-nhs/

“This #Labour government is squandering the opportunity to effect transformative change. It's refused to lift the two-child benefit cap; scrapped universal pensioners’ winter fuel payment; is failing to take action to avert climate catastrophe; supports privatisation of our #NHS; thinks it acceptable to accept gifts from wealthy donors."

Beth Winter, ex Labour MP also "blasted Labour for continuing to arm Israel in the face of the ongoing onslaught against #Palestine."

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24697965.former-mp-quits-labour-blasts-authoritarian-keir-starmer/

I don’t want to bang on, but really think we’re glossing over the fact 78 Tory MP’s are standing down rather than face an election - that’s 78, I mean we should be giving this more attention-78, seventy fucking eight

#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #nhs #costofliving #Sunak #toryracists #GeneralElectionNow #BrexitBenefits #rishisunak #BrexitHasFailed #inflation #election #Election2024 #GeneralElection #farage #michaelgove #Gove

“A doctor, arrested and jailed for her involvement in Just Stop Oil protests, has had her medical licence suspended for five months

(…)Doctors' Association UK said: "This is a story of a clinician being punished for raising serious concerns about dangerous inaction on the greatest threat to global health we have ever, or will ever
experience”

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #globalwarming #gmc #nhs #ukpolitics #freespeech #uk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pygw71w3go

Legal campaigners challenge UK.gov decision to redact #NHS-#Palantir contract - https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/20/legal_campaigners_challenge_government_decision/ "the Palantir contract drew criticism owing to sections relating to data privacy being heavily censored." IOW, we won't have data #privacy...

#NHS Probes Whether #Palantir Campaign Breached Contract Terms - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-05/nhs-probes-whether-palantir-influencer-campaign-breached-contract-terms "Palantir hired agency to counter misinformation about NHS work; Contract prohibits any marketing without written consent" I can't read article, but headlines give gist

#NHS England published heavily redacted #Palantir contract as festivities began - https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/nhs_england_published_heavily_redacted/ "most of the section describing "protection of personal data," blacked out, which confirms plenty of evil stuff to hid there. this must be stopped... #privacy

#NHS hit by ‘severe drug shortages’ due to #Brexit red tape
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-brexit-medicine-supply-shortage-b2442211.html