Shaun Lintern
@shaunlintern.bsky.social
Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety
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· Apr 20
Private cataract clinics investigated while making millions from NHS
Health service bosses fear price inflation and unnecessary operations are costing the taxpayer. Now a fraud unit is getting involved
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🚨 INVESTIGATION: Private clinics delivering NHS cataract surgery face investigation over claims they have artificially inflated costs for the taxpayer, performed unnecessary operations and incentivised high-street optometrists to refer patients to them: www.thetimes.com/article/245f...
🚨 Student midwives are being stopped from graduating and forced to extend training "to make up for deficits in theory and practice" the NMC has said. 67 separate concerns have been raised with the NMC about university courses in the past year:
www.thetimes.com/article/24e9...
www.thetimes.com/article/24e9...
Student midwives blocked from graduating after training ‘failures’
The regulator has intervened after The Sunday Times revealed that dozens of courses are still promoting ‘normal birth’ ideology
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November 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🚨 Student midwives are being stopped from graduating and forced to extend training "to make up for deficits in theory and practice" the NMC has said. 67 separate concerns have been raised with the NMC about university courses in the past year:
www.thetimes.com/article/24e9...
www.thetimes.com/article/24e9...
"I see evidence midwives don’t have the training, understanding, to manage women who are very sick because of the change in the characteristics of women giving birth. What worries me is curricula are not moving with the times to recognise that change" - Prof Marian Knight of @Mbrrace
🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's maternity crisis has deeper roots, extending into the universities trusted to train the next generation of midwives. A majority are still promoting a normal birth ideology while women are more complex than ever:
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
Stop promoting natural birth ideology, midwife courses told
Despite a litany of scandals, universities are still pushing ‘normal birth’ over medical interventions. Now our investigation has prompted the regulator to act
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"I see evidence midwives don’t have the training, understanding, to manage women who are very sick because of the change in the characteristics of women giving birth. What worries me is curricula are not moving with the times to recognise that change" - Prof Marian Knight of @Mbrrace
The NMC wrote to all universities on Friday telling them to stop promoting normal birth and gave them 1 month to alert the NMC to any deviations from their approved course material.
🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's maternity crisis has deeper roots, extending into the universities trusted to train the next generation of midwives. A majority are still promoting a normal birth ideology while women are more complex than ever:
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
Stop promoting natural birth ideology, midwife courses told
Despite a litany of scandals, universities are still pushing ‘normal birth’ over medical interventions. Now our investigation has prompted the regulator to act
www.thetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The NMC wrote to all universities on Friday telling them to stop promoting normal birth and gave them 1 month to alert the NMC to any deviations from their approved course material.
Reposted by Shaun Lintern
Before I did midwifery training I worked as a nurse on renal dialysis and liver transplant units in the 90s.I remember being shocked by newly created direct entry midwives who knew little about diabetes monitoring or blood gasses. I wonder if the issue here is curriculum of direct entry midwifery?
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Before I did midwifery training I worked as a nurse on renal dialysis and liver transplant units in the 90s.I remember being shocked by newly created direct entry midwives who knew little about diabetes monitoring or blood gasses. I wonder if the issue here is curriculum of direct entry midwifery?
🚨 Exclusive: A damning inquiry will reveal tomorrow how NHS leaders ignored warnings over unsafe hearing tests 12 years ago leaving 300 children permanently disabled.
@camillakingdon.bsky.social labels it a "disaster" and calls for a change in leadership:
www.thetimes.com/article/2f23...
@camillakingdon.bsky.social labels it a "disaster" and calls for a change in leadership:
www.thetimes.com/article/2f23...
Hundreds of deaf children misdiagnosed in NHS ‘disaster’
Many were wrongly given the all-clear when they needed hearing aids or cochlear implants, permanently stunting their development
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November 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🚨 Exclusive: A damning inquiry will reveal tomorrow how NHS leaders ignored warnings over unsafe hearing tests 12 years ago leaving 300 children permanently disabled.
@camillakingdon.bsky.social labels it a "disaster" and calls for a change in leadership:
www.thetimes.com/article/2f23...
@camillakingdon.bsky.social labels it a "disaster" and calls for a change in leadership:
www.thetimes.com/article/2f23...
🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's maternity crisis has deeper roots, extending into the universities trusted to train the next generation of midwives. A majority are still promoting a normal birth ideology while women are more complex than ever:
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
Stop promoting natural birth ideology, midwife courses told
Despite a litany of scandals, universities are still pushing ‘normal birth’ over medical interventions. Now our investigation has prompted the regulator to act
www.thetimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's maternity crisis has deeper roots, extending into the universities trusted to train the next generation of midwives. A majority are still promoting a normal birth ideology while women are more complex than ever:
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
Eeek! Thanks to Virgo Health for this event this morning. Helping me to raise money for the @mndassoc.bsky.social by being mouthy. Was a great chat and Q&A.
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Eeek! Thanks to Virgo Health for this event this morning. Helping me to raise money for the @mndassoc.bsky.social by being mouthy. Was a great chat and Q&A.
Reposted by Shaun Lintern
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease:
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
Inside the £105m rehab hospital that’s about to change lives
Opening on time and on budget, the site near Nottingham will help patients with spinal cord injuries, brain damage and other conditions regain independence
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease:
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
Did you know we have the 2nd lowest number of rehab beds in Europe? Six in 10 patients who need rehab following a trauma don't get it.
The new national rehab centre is redesigning rehab care promising to return £3.3bn to the economy. Read more 👇
The new national rehab centre is redesigning rehab care promising to return £3.3bn to the economy. Read more 👇
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease:
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
Inside the £105m rehab hospital that’s about to change lives
Opening on time and on budget, the site near Nottingham will help patients with spinal cord injuries, brain damage and other conditions regain independence
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Did you know we have the 2nd lowest number of rehab beds in Europe? Six in 10 patients who need rehab following a trauma don't get it.
The new national rehab centre is redesigning rehab care promising to return £3.3bn to the economy. Read more 👇
The new national rehab centre is redesigning rehab care promising to return £3.3bn to the economy. Read more 👇
Reposted by Shaun Lintern
Physio leader, Miriam Duffy,and her team show exactly what is possible when rehab is not an option. The new national rehab centre is exactly what any of us would want if we had a catastrophic event. This is the blueprint. Thank you Shaun for covering this important exclusive. #RightToRehab
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease:
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
Inside the £105m rehab hospital that’s about to change lives
Opening on time and on budget, the site near Nottingham will help patients with spinal cord injuries, brain damage and other conditions regain independence
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Physio leader, Miriam Duffy,and her team show exactly what is possible when rehab is not an option. The new national rehab centre is exactly what any of us would want if we had a catastrophic event. This is the blueprint. Thank you Shaun for covering this important exclusive. #RightToRehab
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Lifesaving treatments for the millions of Britons who suffer from rare diseases could be approved years earlier under ambitious plans by the UK medicines watchdog: www.thetimes.com/article/0653...
New drugs to be approved faster so patients don’t wait years
The medicines watchdog is changing how it oversees research of 7,000 rare diseases, which collectively affect about one in 17 Britons
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Lifesaving treatments for the millions of Britons who suffer from rare diseases could be approved years earlier under ambitious plans by the UK medicines watchdog: www.thetimes.com/article/0653...
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease:
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
Inside the £105m rehab hospital that’s about to change lives
Opening on time and on budget, the site near Nottingham will help patients with spinal cord injuries, brain damage and other conditions regain independence
www.thetimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease:
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
www.thetimes.com/article/21c3...
NHS England's former CEO Amanda Pritchard received pay in lieu of notice of £105,000-£110,000 and a Lieu of Annual Leave payment of £5,000-£10,000. Her salary was £265,000-£270,000. She left NHSE in March and joined @GSTTnhs
NHSE's annual report:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69036e...
NHSE's annual report:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69036e...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
November 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
NHS England's former CEO Amanda Pritchard received pay in lieu of notice of £105,000-£110,000 and a Lieu of Annual Leave payment of £5,000-£10,000. Her salary was £265,000-£270,000. She left NHSE in March and joined @GSTTnhs
NHSE's annual report:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69036e...
NHSE's annual report:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69036e...
GMC restrictions placed on surgeon suspended from Addenbrooke’s after concerns over operations www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/gmc-res...
GMC restrictions placed on surgeon suspended from Addenbrooke’s after concerns over operations
CUH is reviewing 800 cases.
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
GMC restrictions placed on surgeon suspended from Addenbrooke’s after concerns over operations www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/gmc-res...
'Neglect' and 'gross failures' led to deaths of mum and baby in home birth tragedy www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
'Gross failures' led to deaths of mum and baby in home birth tragedy
A coroner ruled Jennifer and Agnes Cahill died in a 'Victorian-aged tragedy' played out in the modern day
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
'Neglect' and 'gross failures' led to deaths of mum and baby in home birth tragedy www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Am having to visit my parents in Stoke a lot more regularly at the moment thanks to the horror of #MND but one silver lining is a decent supply of fresh Staffordshire oatcakes in London. #ifyouknowyouknow
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Am having to visit my parents in Stoke a lot more regularly at the moment thanks to the horror of #MND but one silver lining is a decent supply of fresh Staffordshire oatcakes in London. #ifyouknowyouknow
Wes Streeting has put junior doctors on notice that taxpayers’ cash will not fund more training posts if they continue to strike, in interview with Sunday Times
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/afbe...
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/afbe...
Junior doctor strikes will mean fewer jobs, Wes Streeting warns
The health secretary says walkouts from November 14 could force him to scale back plans for more specialist training posts
www.thetimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Wes Streeting has put junior doctors on notice that taxpayers’ cash will not fund more training posts if they continue to strike, in interview with Sunday Times
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/afbe...
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/afbe...
🚨 EXC - Cannabis isn't safe for young brains with teens smoking it regularly facing an 11 times higher risk of psychosis later in life, warns Britain's top psychiatrist:
www.thetimes.com/article/17fa...
www.thetimes.com/article/17fa...
Cannabis isn’t safe for young brains, UK’s top psychiatrist warns parents
Aggressive lobbying and fashionable CBD are blamed for complacency about long-term effects
www.thetimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
🚨 EXC - Cannabis isn't safe for young brains with teens smoking it regularly facing an 11 times higher risk of psychosis later in life, warns Britain's top psychiatrist:
www.thetimes.com/article/17fa...
www.thetimes.com/article/17fa...
Waitrose-rejected autistic volunteer receives job offer from Asda
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Waitrose-rejected autistic volunteer receives job offer from Asda
Tom Boyd's mum says she is
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Waitrose-rejected autistic volunteer receives job offer from Asda
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
CQC boss Julian Hartley has resigned from CQC in the wake of the Govt announcing an inquiry into maternity at his old trust. This was always going to be a problem for him - he had recused himself of any decisions on Leeds while at CQC but it was getting more difficult. 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
CQC boss Julian Hartley has resigned from CQC in the wake of the Govt announcing an inquiry into maternity at his old trust. This was always going to be a problem for him - he had recused himself of any decisions on Leeds while at CQC but it was getting more difficult. 1/2
BREAKING: Resident - junior - doctors in England will go on strike for five days in November 14th to 19th over jobs and pay the The BMA has just announced.
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
BREAKING: Resident - junior - doctors in England will go on strike for five days in November 14th to 19th over jobs and pay the The BMA has just announced.
The CQC is to prosecute the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust following the death of 16-year-old Ellame Ford-Dunn in 2022. She absconded from a ward at Worthing Hospital and later killer herself. The trust will appear at Brighton Magistrates Court on Monday 27 October.
October 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The CQC is to prosecute the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust following the death of 16-year-old Ellame Ford-Dunn in 2022. She absconded from a ward at Worthing Hospital and later killer herself. The trust will appear at Brighton Magistrates Court on Monday 27 October.
Reposted by Shaun Lintern
Looks like University Hospitals Plymouth is already in the depths of a Winter crisis. 10 hour wait in A&E
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October 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Looks like University Hospitals Plymouth is already in the depths of a Winter crisis. 10 hour wait in A&E
@shaunlintern.bsky.social
@shaunlintern.bsky.social
Lewis Moody was the idol of 30-year-old Tom Davies. Now both have #MND.
www.thetimes.com/article/5d8e...
www.thetimes.com/article/5d8e...
Lewis Moody was the idol of 30-year-old Tom Davies. Now both have MND
When amateur player heard about England star’s diagnosis he felt a connection neither he nor his hero would have wanted. He and his doctor partner Alex tell their own story
www.thetimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Lewis Moody was the idol of 30-year-old Tom Davies. Now both have #MND.
www.thetimes.com/article/5d8e...
www.thetimes.com/article/5d8e...
Six people a day are diagnosed with #MND At any one time, 5,000 people live with the devastating effects, eventually unable to walk, talk or eat etc. One of them is my mum and I've yet to find the words that adequately describe the horror that is MND.
Lewis Moody diagnosed with motor neurone disease – what is it and what are the symptoms: www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...
Lewis Moody diagnosed with motor neurone disease – what are the symptoms?
Former England rugby player Lewis Moody has been diagnosed with the condition
www.independent.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Six people a day are diagnosed with #MND At any one time, 5,000 people live with the devastating effects, eventually unable to walk, talk or eat etc. One of them is my mum and I've yet to find the words that adequately describe the horror that is MND.