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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 3d

Virtual wards, virtual hospitals

Real waiting, real people, real needs

The choice is whether as a society we should fund it properly

We must!

Cartoon He’s waiting to see a doctor online. I put him in the corridor for the full hospital experience.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

FACT FOCUS: Republicans shut down the government to give him more time to hide the #EPSTEIN_Files.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'

This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

bit.ly

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 4d

Well it has happened.
The leadership of the Conservative&Unionist Party is advocating leaving the ECHR. Not reforming it, or working with other members to alter any rules.
Leave it. Like Putin’s Russia.
I can’t help wondering what those Tories who are rightly proud of 🇬🇧’s support for 🇺🇦 are thinking.

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 5d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder if it has ever occurred to Tommy Robinson that if he doesn't like prison, he could try not breaking the law.

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 9d

102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons

27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries

31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts

You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 8d

I spoke to @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning

Raising expectations without any support

GP online access is a good thing but it needs extra GPs & resources

The 8am rush may reduce but there are no more appts or Hp time to offer, in fact less as a online forms are dealt with

Safety vital

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 7d

I was given masks whose ear loops fell off & aprons so flimsy they ripped apart when you tried to put them on, Michelle.

Nurses and porters in our hospital died from the Covid they caught there, Michelle.

How dare you try to bleat victimisation now, Michelle?

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 7d

Michelle Mone is the polar opposite of the values that should govern public life.

She should repay what she owes immediately & get her sorry, dishonourable form as far away from the House of Lords as possible.

She, & all those other govt grifters who tried to monetise a pandemic, sicken me. Ends/

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 7d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 9d

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 9d

Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge

Labour’s tough new rules will not apply to migrants already in UK

www.thetimes.com

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Doctors’ Association UK @thedauk.bsky.social · 7d

🗣️ | “It's raising expectations for patients, but there aren’t more GPs, there aren’t more appointments. We’re already cancelling some pre-booked face-to-face slots to cope with this extra demand.”
DAUK's @drstevetaylor.bsky.social spoke to @news.sky.com on GP online access 👇
dauk.org/new-online-g...

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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 7d

The new online GP consultation system poses significant challenges to patient safety and GP workloads.

The Government has broken its promise to ensure 'necessary safeguards' have been met.

GPs in England are now entering into dispute with the Government from today www.bma.org.uk/gpcontract

Image description: white text stating "GPC England is now in dispute over unsafe contract changes" sits on a blue background, with a faded stethoscope.

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Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 8d

Read our statement on today's announcement of an #NHS 'online hospital' from @becksfisher.bsky.social. 👇

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nu...

Nuffield Trust response to the plans for a new ‘online hospital’

Becks Fisher responds to the announcement that the NHS is setting up an ‘online hospital’.

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 8d

The new 10 Year Health Plan for England is ambitious, yet in many ways, familiar.

Members of the The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS discuss the evidence (or lack of) behind the plan, and what it might take for it to be successful
@marydixonwoods.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d

One of those hereditary peers who gets to sit in the House of Lords because an ancestor did something in 1442.

When I was on twitter I genuinely thought he was a troll. Clearly has a chip the size of Offa's Dyke on those shoulders

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 8d

Why can’t all of the Democrats be posting social media like this?? Thank you Representative Sarah McBride, the escalator shoutout was top tier 🤌

This is Trump’s Government Shutdown.

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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 8d

Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social writes for @left-foot-forward.bsky.social :

"Govt now increasingly do not deny privatisation but welcome it as the way forward in which ‘the NHS’ would be redefined as a label for the ‘ecosystem’ of healthcare."

👇👇
leftfootforward.org/2025/09/priv...

Privatisation hurts patients, staff and the NHS – Labour must end it

For as long as the Government fails to deliver on its NHS promises, Labour’s days are numbered.

leftfootforward.org

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 8d

"They're just like us. The royals loved the show" is a real quote from this. Satire is dead.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8d

The Saudis didn’t pay big money for famous American comedians because they were super eager for comedy, they paid for PR like this.

Bill Burr Defends Performing at Controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival: “They’re Just Like Us”

The actor-comedian details his experience at the event: "Definitely one of the top three experiences I've ever had ... I think it's going to lead to a lot of positive things."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 8d

Asking my hairdresser to provide unlimited haircuts for less than £3 a week, including online booking & an immediate response to emergency shave at 1min before closing

That’s a NO😂😂

Meanwhile the GP practice - Wes says you must do all that & more

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 8d

GPs have done all they can to keep patients safe and provide as much as possible
1.4million people will consult today
Compare this with 67,000 in A&E

The reason for the concerns is we have a capacity problem & a funding crisis
The 8 am rush (it’s bad) will be replaced by the GP waiting list (worse)

Dr Katie Bramall @drkatie.bsky.social · 8d

If @wesstreeting thinks GPs are stuck in 20thC, visit a hospital

We are the science museum!

➡️Electronic records since 1991
➡️Online triage
➡️Ambient scribes
➡️SMS
➡️Online bookings
➡️Electronic prescribing
➡️Online referrals
➡️Video consults DAYS after 1st lockdown….

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 9d

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8d

Analysis of the British Election Study: "Reform voters are almost as distant from Labour voters as the Conservatives are, it’s kind of weird for Labour to obsess over them. Not least with the Lib Dems and Greens being much closer." (And to which Labour have lost far more voters)

British Politics' Midlife Crisis

Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

open.substack.com

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 8d

UK media being shown how to do their jobs by Brussels.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9d

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

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