Labour has said little on child poverty, although the shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, has pledged a “strategy for not just reducing child poverty but ending child poverty”.
Just had our busiest ever week in the outpatient antibiotic clinic (OPAT).
73 treatments delivered, saving an equivalent number of bed days.
That's an average of over 10 patients per day who can be at home with their families, even go to work in some cases, but more generally just get well in their own environment.
It's equivalent to half-emptying a ward for the week.
Plus, our service is about £500 / day cheaper than inpatient care, so we just saved the NHS about £36,000.
Just because Rishi and Keir were talking about the nation's security this week on their election campaigns it doesn't mean either of them will acknowledge the MAJOR cybersecurity incident effecting the NHS right now.
It's just words, they don't intend to live up to them, just say them and hope that we believe them
Trying to set up the NHS app to be able to view and manage my mum’s medical records and appointments has turned into a kafkaesque odyssey of mismanagement, endless repetition and dead ends.
I’m tech literate and determined. How the fuck are people my mum’s age supposed to navigate this crap alone?
As you walk into surgery, check in with a QR codes: Really big with the over 80s.
While our politicians are prancing about on stage making performances some serious shit is going down with the NHS and the Nation's cybersecurity, not that anyone in charge seems to care.
I don't work in Infosec, but there are paragraphs in this article which will horrify them because of the mess the hack has revealed.
As a patient in the effected area, this is MY data that's flying around thanks to Russia 😡
These attacks should be treated as terrorism and investigated as such, and if the filth are too busy doing fuck all, use MI5. And jail those guilty for several decades. #NHS
The number of people with private health insurance has risen to nearly 6m in the UK (the highest since the 2008 financial crisis) and the number of paid-for hospital admissions continues to rise (by 7% last year).
As we always like say... 'follow the money'.
If you want to see the aim of Tory defunding of the NHS & the crisis in public healthcare they have engineered in the last decade... all you need to do is look at who (which companies) are benefitting!
RT by @CarolineLucas: PFI was a failure that still costs public service budgets dearly. And Labour’s NHS plans are full of MORE creeping privatisation.
In Brighton, concern for the future of the #NHS is huge. People here don’t want a Labour govt without Green MPs to defend it. #privatisationfail