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Anyone trust Labour Health Sec “Silly Boy” Wes Streeting’s 2024 election promise *not* to undertake YET ANOTHER top down reorganisation of the NHS?

Me neither!

Nor, more importantly, does Steeeting’s nemesis, Roy Lilley, in his regular NHSManagers.net blogpost!

In fact, our Wes is about to embark on the 23rd major reorganisation in Roy’s lifetime - instead of focusing on cutting waiting lists!

@UKLabour

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Do-better.html?soid=1102665899193&aid=-5wv7bQVvXw

#Press #UK #NHS #Labour #Streeting #Reorganisation #EpicFail


Is it safe? Is it spying? Disquiet over NHS ‘magic eye’ surveillance camera in mental health units

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/30/mental-health-surveillance-camera-oxevision-nhs

Campaign calls for investigation into the use of Oxevison amid concerns over care and its effect on patients

KEWL🌀NEWS

##SURVEILLANCE #MENTALHEALTH #NHS #PRESS
Illustration of a young woman in varied sleeping positions. Photograph: Ian Hooton/Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF


Fantastic news! Long Covid research grants restored due to the efforts of advocates all over the country.

Never let anyone silence you or convince you that your voice doesn’t matter.

We all have power, and even those of us who are disabled can make a difference in our own way.

Speak up, demand accountability and work together. Change is possible!

https://thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/update-recover-long-covid-pathobiology-grants-restored/

#uspoli #longcovid #nhs #hhs #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #chronicillness #disability


“Wes Streeting and the Guardian just got the treatment they deserved at a live event”

by Steve Topple in The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour

“Therefore, it was good to see him [Streeting] getting shouted down by the very people his government’s policies will be affecting. And, we can expect to see even more of this type of resistance over the next few months”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/25/wes-streeting-guardian-protest/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #BenefitsHarmer #Streeting #DWP #Cuts #NHS #Hypocrisy #Lies #ToryContinuityParty


Always love to receive these messages from the #NHS

“Thank you so much for donating on 18-Dec. Your donation has now been issued to Northern General Hospital. Every donation counts.”

#SaveALife #GiveBlood


“Health privatisers’ nightmare vision for 2040 NHS co-created by man running Streeting’s ’10yr plan’”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour

“Davos document ‘Vision of England’s Health System in 2040’ by McKinsey, scandal-ridden UnitedHealth and others lays out nightmarish end for the NHS”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/02/26/health-privatisers-nightmare-vision-for-2040-nhs-co-created-by-man-running-streetings-10yr-plan/

#Press #Labour #Streeting #Starmer #NHS #Privatization #McKinsey #UnitedHealth #Kibasi #CoPayments #LabourCorruption #LabourFriendsOfBigBusiness


Scottish Labour are in some mess. Not content to revel in the tag 'Red Tories' it seems as if Anas Sarwar wan't to be Red Reform. Not only seeking more private interference in the NHS but wanting to emulate Musk and cut public service funding.

I keep thinking Labour can't stoop any further...

Even the Guardian is scunnered.

#Labour #AnasSarwar #LabourUTurns #Scotland #Musk #RedTories #NHS #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/20/the-guardian-view-on-scottish-labour-a-defining-moment-for-anas-sarwar?CMP=share_btn_url


Starmer & Streeting are both total c*nts!

“Video: UnitedHealth, deeply embedded in NHS, says its ‘critical’ role is to prevent ‘unsustainable’ treatment”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour

“22yo US man died after price of asthma inhaler increased by $473 – CEO’s comments put spotlight on govt’s NHS health rationing plans”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/02/16/video-unitedhealth-deeply-embedded-in-nhs-says-its-critical-role-is-to-prevent-unsustainable-treatment/

#Press #Britain #UK #NHS #UnitedHealth #UHG #OptumRX #Witty #ICS #Starmer #Streeting #Labour #Rationing #Neoliberal #ProfitBeforePatients


Labour MPs rake in over £300k from donors linked to private healthcare

Those donors will be expecting their pound of flesh!

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24937265.labour-mps-rake-300k-donors-linked-private-healthcare/

http://archive.today/2025.02.16-095019/https://www.thenational.scot/news/24937265.labour-mps-rake-300k-donors-linked-private-healthcare/ (archived)

#NHS #Labour #SafeInTheirHands #UkPolitics
Photo: three heads, caption Rachel Reeves, Dan Jarvis and Josh Simons collectively registered over £100,000 in donations alone


Overall, there is rising budget deficit among English NHS Trusts, partly due to staffing costs (temporary & contract staff) driven by both the ongoing staff recruitment & retention problems, and the impact of strikes in 2025.

However, as the FT notes 'trusts with the steepest declines in their finances had on average significantly increased their expenditure on outsourcing care to the independent sector'!

The use of private health providers continues to drain the NHS of money!

#health #NHS


“NHS doctor punished for speaking out on Israel’s genocide is taking legal action”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk

“The Canary has spoken to a doctor who is crowdfunding a legal challenge after his NHS bosses sought to punish him for speaking out on Israel’s genocide in Gaza”

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/02/11/dr-nadeem-crowe/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh

#Press #NHS #RoyalFree #Hospital #FreeSpeech #Denial #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Crowe #CrowdFund #Tribunal


How is 'rule making not rule taking' going then Starmer?

UK bends over and takes it.

This is the thin end of the #wedge and the next things we will see (in not particular order) include the relaxing food regulations to allow the US to flood the UK with meat with poor #biosanitary and #welfare standards, full access to the #NHS by the companies who with the worst performing health system in the West to fruition, poor working standards and...

http://archive.today/2025.02.11-065734/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trump-steel-tariffs-news-2l8n3rdks

#Starmer #UsSanctions
Grphic. The Stars and Stripes in the backgoound with a MAGA hat hanging from the edge, steel pipes overlaid with an EU flag amd Starmer looking pensive


After the Private Finance Initiative (and linked developments) driven forward by the Blair Govt. not only caused excessive costs to the NHS (detailed by the National Audit Office in 2018), but produced badly build hospitals, now erstwhile Blairite Matthew Taylor, (CEO NHS Confederation) is calling for PFI to be revived to help meet the backlog of maintenance & building in the NHS.

Sure, lest forget how it played out last time & just make the same mistakes again... madness!

#NHS
h/t FT
#nhs


The Tory engineered crisis in the NHS is clear in everyday waiting lists & rationing of treatment(s), but it is also perhaps even more seriously evident in the growing projected costs of repairs & maintenance delayed;

moreover, the worse cases (those with most risk of disruption to health care) are growing.... whatever else Streeting thinks will help the NHS, job No.1 has to be the repair of vital infrastructure... AI tools are no help there!

This cannot continue

#NHS #health #infrastructure
Chart: The NHS faces a growing bill to fix high-risk repairs that could cause major disruption & injury. Cost to eradicate NHS maintenance backlog by risk category (£bn in 2023-24 process)

Shows total rising from just over £6bn in 2016 to over £12bn in 2024, with the promotion in the significant or high risk categories growing at a faster rate than low & moderate risk repairs


I’m shocked but not surprised! These people have NO humanity whatsoever!

“Video: NHS and Israel contractor boasts about killing people for profit”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour

“Palantir CEO Alex Karp – who has huge contract to manage NHS data – says he’s sure shareholders are ‘enjoying this as much as I am’”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/02/06/video-nhs-and-israel-contractor-boasts-about-killing-people-for-profit/

#Press #UK #NHS #Data #Palantir #Israel #Genocide #Participation #Thiel #Trump #Neoliberalism #Starmer #Labour


Wonderful! 😞

Palantir CEO Alex Karp – who has huge contract to manage NHS data – says he’s sure shareholders are ‘enjoying this as much as I am’

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/02/06/video-nhs-and-israel-contractor-boasts-about-killing-people-for-profit/

#GazaGenocide #CambridgeAnalytica #NHS #Labour #AlexKarp


The long & damaging shadow of the Tory engineered crisis in health care has many dimensions..... here, a lack of physiotherapists is having (potentially) life-long effects on young people whose rehabilitation from injuries is delayed.

In general the crisis in health care is no longer news, but its depth & scope still can be shocking.... repairing this damage will take years & will ask a lot of people's (political) patience.

#health #NHS

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/31/children-in-uk-suffering-irreversible-harm-due-to-physiotherapy-delays


For decades now studies had shown that nearly 30% of administrative costs in a US hospital are related to accounting. The NHS had nearly no such thing, government employees providing a service.

Countries like Germany, Canada, and all those providing #insurance were in a gray area between the #NHS and the US. That is huge overhead of accounting and climbing costs of pharma/bio/med products.

The 2 models between socialized health care and insurance are broadly misunderstood.
@therightarticle


How organisations learn (or don't learn) from complaints can be a key indicator of how healthy the organisation's culture is... so its no real surprise that after a decade & a half to Tory attrition & engineered crisis, the NHS does not have such a greta record on companies...

Perhaps more tellingly, some people fear complaining will impact on their care, which suggests patient-staff trust is also an issue.

The Tories' shadow over the NHS remains dark

#Health #NHS

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/27/nhs-care-report-survey-healthwatch-england-complaints


Wes Streeting (in the Times earlier this month via today's Guardian):

'We’ve got to identify a system of funding for healthcare that is more effective than the one we have currently got, and at the same time carries those who can’t afford to pay'.

To me this sounds like a;
a basic safety net for the poor;
a full spectrum, pay for use NHS for the bulk of the population; and
a quicker(?) private health care system for the rich?

This is not the NHS people want or voted for!

#NHS #health


As corridor nursing is normalised, perhaps training for it will become the thing....

#Health #NHS
Banx (FT) cartoon: in a corridor three nurses are talking under a sig that says: Corridor Nurse Training School. One says: 'whose turn it is to be the patient?'


An A&E nurse sums up the problems in the NHS:

'The vast majority of the time we are providing treatment, but I wouldn’t call it care'...

This view from the A&E department just reinforces the argument that its not technology or organisational realignment that will solve the health care crisis, its the better treatment of staff & the expansion of their numbers to ease the unbearable strain(s) they're currently under.

Forget the tricks focus on the staff!

#health #NHS

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/20/nurse-accident-and-emergency-hospital


'New report into NHS shows horrors of corridor care
Shocking testimonies from nurses state there is "no dignity to being nursed in a public corridor"'
Starmer and @UKLabour prefer to spend money on supporting the #genocide and #ethniccleansing of #palestine
https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/new-report-into-nhs-shows-horrors-of-corridor-care/?mc_cid=0a0a0beb7b
#uk #nhs


While the details are not as yet clear, it *does* seem that Labour's strategy for helping ease the crisis in the NHS will involve halving the number of targets the NHS is required to work to from 32 to 16... definitely a move in the right direction, although a lot will depend on which targets are retained, and how they are expected to be met... but still likely good news

#NHS #health

h/t FT


This only gets worse, as the poor get poorer, resources scarcer,people more desperate,the more they will crack down & prevent any form of peaceful protest - who’d have thought in the UK in the 21st century you’d have to have a protest in support of protesting- I stress non violent for the Farage-ists out there 

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #nhs #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #standuptoracism


No one with a brain can do anything except applauds the RCN for highlighting this - the headline from the Morning Star sums it up.

But - Once Again - the crisis in the country's Mental Health services is being ignored.

Why are vulnerable, mentally unwell, people not worthy of headlines highlighting their plight?

"RCN REPORT SLAMS ‘INHUMANE’ STATE OF CARE IN THE NHS"
https://pressreader.com/article/281487872004350

#NHS #MentalHealth #journalism


As with so many organisational crisis, the NHS crisis is about workforce planning & the treatment (and experience) of staff.

Medical staff are over-worked & often under-paid, working in often crumbling buildings & too often bare the brunt of social breakdown (manifesting as health problems).

So lets listen to healthcare workers: make their lives better, invest in the environment they work in & employ more of them, and much (but not all) the crisis would be eased!

#healthcare #NHS


“Green party suggests plan for more NHS patients to be treated in independent sector could mean 'backdoor privatisation'.” Looks pretty front door to me! #NHS #Privatisation


Tell me how you measure me and I’ll tell you how I behave - old truism

Doctors will be given £20 each time they consult with a specialist to see if there is an alternative to hospital visits

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/05/cash-incentives-for-gps-under-labours-radical-plan-to-cut-nhs-waiting-lists

I wonder whether someone has seriously modelled the effects (positive and negative) of this scheme? More an attempt to paper over (not even fix) some symptoms rather than the underlying causes.

#NHS #ClutchingAtStraws #LabourIncompetence


It would have been even more interesting to include #Cuba to chart, with a fraction of per/capita cost of Italy and even better health report than the US for 3 decades now.

Also, the #EU chosen countries displayed are among the worse performers, while the recent years' #UK demolition of #NHS can be seen by a sharp right turn.

The difference between socialized health system and state insurance is far more significant.

@nwchapman


'Labour’s Wes Streeting witch-hunts UK healthcare workers who oppose Gaza genocide'
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/19/suhk-d19.html
#uk #nhs #gaza #genocide @UKLabour