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This winter, #NHS staff across the country will be battling horrific conditions whilst trying to save lives & provide care for patients.
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This winter, NHS staff across the country will be battling horrific conditions whilst trying to save lives and provide care for patients. To show our support and gratitude for health workers, we have...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This winter, #NHS staff across the country will be battling horrific conditions whilst trying to save lives & provide care for patients.
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Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said:
"If the NHS fails, the economy fails. Now isn't the time to say there's ‘no more money,’ but to invest for the future while creating a fairer taxation system so the rich pay a fair share.”
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"If the NHS fails, the economy fails. Now isn't the time to say there's ‘no more money,’ but to invest for the future while creating a fairer taxation system so the rich pay a fair share.”
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NHS plans cuts to jobs and services to avoid £6.6bn deficit | Morning Star
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May 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said:
"If the NHS fails, the economy fails. Now isn't the time to say there's ‘no more money,’ but to invest for the future while creating a fairer taxation system so the rich pay a fair share.”
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www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...
"If the NHS fails, the economy fails. Now isn't the time to say there's ‘no more money,’ but to invest for the future while creating a fairer taxation system so the rich pay a fair share.”
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March 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Expect Labour to announce the reopening of workhouses for the ‘deserving poor’ any day now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Expect Labour to announce the reopening of workhouses for the ‘deserving poor’ any day now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social
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March 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Number of additional NHS appointments delivered by Labour in first 7 months
= 2 million.
Number of appointments delivered by NHS in 7 months = 79 million.
Waiting list = 7.46 million.
All adds up to need for new thinking + funding.
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social
= 2 million.
Number of appointments delivered by NHS in 7 months = 79 million.
Waiting list = 7.46 million.
All adds up to need for new thinking + funding.
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Number of additional NHS appointments delivered by Labour in first 7 months
= 2 million.
Number of appointments delivered by NHS in 7 months = 79 million.
Waiting list = 7.46 million.
All adds up to need for new thinking + funding.
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social
= 2 million.
Number of appointments delivered by NHS in 7 months = 79 million.
Waiting list = 7.46 million.
All adds up to need for new thinking + funding.
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social
Losing touch with NHS reality: government trajectory to two tier service. bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r345
Losing touch with NHS reality: government on trajectory to two tier service
Launer recalls a patient vignette in a government pamphlet about a patient called Sarah with sinus pain and hearing loss who is referred by a nurse practitioner for a CT scan. She uses the NHS app to ...
bmj.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Losing touch with NHS reality: government trajectory to two tier service. bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r345
Gaza’s health system is “completely eviscerated” - what happens now? bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r361
February 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Gaza’s health system is “completely eviscerated” - what happens now? bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r361
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Our co-chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social writes for @novaramedia.com about the potential dangers of AI in healthcare and how it can seriously affect patients.
A hard-hitting must read.
novaramedia.com/2025/01/17/t...
A hard-hitting must read.
novaramedia.com/2025/01/17/t...
The Scandal Hit US Health Insurance Company Deeply Embedded in the NHS | Novara Media
US health companies which have used AI to deny giving patients care are providing NHS services. The government must stand up to them, argues John Puntis.
novaramedia.com
January 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Our co-chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social writes for @novaramedia.com about the potential dangers of AI in healthcare and how it can seriously affect patients.
A hard-hitting must read.
novaramedia.com/2025/01/17/t...
A hard-hitting must read.
novaramedia.com/2025/01/17/t...
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Our co-chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said:
"Plans to divert resources to the private sector, seek private investment for infrastructure and embrace the failed market reforms of 25 years ago are a huge concern."
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...
"Plans to divert resources to the private sector, seek private investment for infrastructure and embrace the failed market reforms of 25 years ago are a huge concern."
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...
Government and NHS boss ‘rewriting history’ on disastrous PFI
morningstaronline.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Our co-chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said:
"Plans to divert resources to the private sector, seek private investment for infrastructure and embrace the failed market reforms of 25 years ago are a huge concern."
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...
"Plans to divert resources to the private sector, seek private investment for infrastructure and embrace the failed market reforms of 25 years ago are a huge concern."
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...
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Our co-chairs @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social & @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social write here about how this govt is wrong to embrace the private sector to provide the country's healthcare.
Read it here 👇
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...
Read it here 👇
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...
NHS under threat: Labour is wrong to embrace private sector
Diverting public funding to grow private-sector ‘spare capacity,’ actively undermines the funding and staff available to the NHS and results in a worse service, write JOHN PUNTIS and TONY O’SULLIVAN
morningstaronline.co.uk
February 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Our co-chairs @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social & @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social write here about how this govt is wrong to embrace the private sector to provide the country's healthcare.
Read it here 👇
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...
Read it here 👇
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...
Labour’s fixation with the power of the private sector to solve the problems of the NHS lacks evidence and is irrational. @keepnhspublic www.bmj.com/content/388/...
John Launer: Losing touch with NHS reality
A wonderfully absurdist NHS fantasy has been doing the rounds on social media. It stemmed from a case vignette in a government document, Reforming Elective Care for Patients ,1 in a text box illustrat...
www.bmj.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Labour’s fixation with the power of the private sector to solve the problems of the NHS lacks evidence and is irrational. @keepnhspublic www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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@drjohnpuntis.bsky.social has written for Keep Our NHS Public on the dangers of further health sector privatisation, criticising government blind spots in plans announced by the Prime Minister in January.
More here 👇
More here 👇
Privatisation is the cause of NHS challenges, not the cure
Dr John Puntis has written for Keep Our NHS Public on the dangers of further health sector privatisation, criticising government blindspots in plans announced by the Prime Minister in January. Dr P…
doctorsinunite.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
@drjohnpuntis.bsky.social has written for Keep Our NHS Public on the dangers of further health sector privatisation, criticising government blind spots in plans announced by the Prime Minister in January.
More here 👇
More here 👇
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The NHS faces its biggest crisis yet outside of the pandemic. Are you frontline staff affected by this?
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The NHS faces its biggest crisis yet outside of the pandemic. Are you frontline staff affected by this?
We can help with free, qualified counselling & support. We've helped over 1m people - we can help you too. Contact us in complete confidence via our website.
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January 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🚨Please share 🚨
The NHS faces its biggest crisis yet outside of the pandemic. Are you frontline staff affected by this?
We can help with free, qualified counselling & support. We've helped over 1m people - we can help you too. Contact us in complete confidence via our website.
You are not alone.
The NHS faces its biggest crisis yet outside of the pandemic. Are you frontline staff affected by this?
We can help with free, qualified counselling & support. We've helped over 1m people - we can help you too. Contact us in complete confidence via our website.
You are not alone.
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Ambulance handover and shorter A&E waits can only happen in combination with a functioning social care system.
"Dr Tim Cooksley, of the Society for Acute Medicine, said it was "concerning" the Health Sec felt the need to spell out the priorities for frontline staff."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Dr Tim Cooksley, of the Society for Acute Medicine, said it was "concerning" the Health Sec felt the need to spell out the priorities for frontline staff."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Prioritise safety not A&E target, NHS leaders told
Health Secretary Wes Streeting delivers message amid mounting concern about winter pressures.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Ambulance handover and shorter A&E waits can only happen in combination with a functioning social care system.
"Dr Tim Cooksley, of the Society for Acute Medicine, said it was "concerning" the Health Sec felt the need to spell out the priorities for frontline staff."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Dr Tim Cooksley, of the Society for Acute Medicine, said it was "concerning" the Health Sec felt the need to spell out the priorities for frontline staff."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Our co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said:
"This is the true cost of Tony Blair’s ill-conceived PFI deals: hospitals crippled by debt, wards in disrepair, and trusts paying back many times their original investment — decades after the fact.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hosp...
"This is the true cost of Tony Blair’s ill-conceived PFI deals: hospitals crippled by debt, wards in disrepair, and trusts paying back many times their original investment — decades after the fact.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hosp...
Hospitals haunted by £44bn in PFI debts
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 7, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Our co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said:
"This is the true cost of Tony Blair’s ill-conceived PFI deals: hospitals crippled by debt, wards in disrepair, and trusts paying back many times their original investment — decades after the fact.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hosp...
"This is the true cost of Tony Blair’s ill-conceived PFI deals: hospitals crippled by debt, wards in disrepair, and trusts paying back many times their original investment — decades after the fact.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hosp...