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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

5 years

British media went to shit first. British politics followed.

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2 years

"This is a milder variant", the PM claims, a few minutes after CMO Chris Whitty said the hospitalisation data shows clearly that this is not a mild disease.

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Why did Matt Hancock's older sister give him 15% of her company, which has won £300,000 worthy of NHS contracts?

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If there’s a less smart choice of person for The People’s Partridge to have tried to patronise than @jessphillips , I’m failing to think who she/he might be.

Peston

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“What an absolute load of rubbish... Did anyone else’s friends get contracts?” Watch @JessPhillips and @MattHancock disagree over the handling of PPE contracts during the pandemic. #Peston

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John Glen, deputy to @Jeremy_Hunt , wants to know “why doctors and nurses say they spend up to half their time not with patients, but on admin”. The Lansley reforms cut NHS management by 40% in 2012. That work still needed doing, so now it’s clinicians doing it. Happy to help.

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Andy Cowper

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4 years

Nightingale hospitals do not have staff. Just worth mentioning this.

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

This is a hell of an anecdote from Pat Cullen: "ministers coming into the room saying to me that they're shocked that nursing staff may be the main breadwinner in the family. Because they believe that it's a second salary that we don't depend on."

Is the past year's spike in strike action here to stay?

BBC economics editor Faisal Islam asks whether a historic surge in industrial action is likely to persist.

www.bbc.co.uk

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1 year

This would be an official departmental Twitter account doing blatant politics about an industrial dispute, then.

Department of Health and Social Care

@DHSCgovuk

1 year

The BMA has demanded a 35% pay rise for junior doctors. Here's their current average pay rates at different levels.

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Andy Cowper

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2 years

The problem with the Johnson administration is the lying culture, not the underlying culture.

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Andy Cowper

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5 months

It’s objectively hilarious that the Boris Johnson Fanzine can’t find one single serving NHS consultant willing to go on the record criticising the junior doctors’ strikes.

Junior doctors’ strike leader: ‘I may leave Britain to work in Canada’

Dr Vivek Trivedi and Dr Rob Laurenson are the faces of the crippling six-day junior doctors' walkout – and say they have no regrets

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Andy Cowper

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10 months

One must have a heart of stone not to laugh.

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

Junior doctors are what we might call Schrödinger's Trainees, to borrow Mike Reynolds' line: too unimportant to pay fairly, but too important to strike.

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4 years

The Nightingale Hospitals are delightful fictions. They don’t have workforces.

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Andy Cowper

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3 years

“As they say, you have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm. A lot of the NHS are setting themselves on fire to keep everyone else warm,”

NHS staff band together to survive Covid ‘war zone’

UK health service at breaking point as hospitalisations surge and staffing shortages bite

www.ft.com

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Andy Cowper

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4 months

Good thread. What should have been an uncontroversial win-win to improve medics’ working lives has been grotesquely mis-handled. The parties involved in implementing this will be forced back to the drawing board.

Alison Moore

@AliJaneMoore

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It’s becoming obvious that everyone has been sold a pup with physician’s associate roles. Docs thought they were getting a helper, someone to remove some of the burden of admin and chasing for junior docs and who could also do some routine tasks (but under supervision and 1/n

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Andy Cowper

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2 years

Well, that was £37 billion well spent. Not even a ‘notify me when back in stock’ option. Lack of the most basic contingency planning. Profound incompetence.

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

This is a result for @DanNeidle , who was courageous and ceaseless in calling Mr Zahawi out for obviously lying about his tax evasion.

Pippa Crerar

@PippaCrerar

1 year

💥Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has agreed to pay several million in tax after scrutiny of his family’s tax affairs.

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Andy Cowper

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4 years

This really is the Sinclair C5 of UK Governments, isn’t it?

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

4 years

We have not protected the NHS: we created surge ICU-ish capacity with lower staffing ratios which was not overwhelmed.

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

There are not going to be 40 new hospitals by 2030. This is an obvious untruth. To keep trying with it begs the question of whether the Secretary Of State is a fool, a knave, or both.

Steve Barclay

@SteveBarclay

1 year

Today I confirmed our manifesto commitment to build 40 hospitals by 2030. My statement 👇🏻

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

4 years

There are not going to be 40 new hospitals. This is a blatant lie.

Matt Hancock

@MattHancock

4 years

🏨40 new hospitals 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️6000 more GPs 💷 Record NHS funding I’m so excited to unveil our other plans for this county - make sure you tune in for the #ConservativeManifesto

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Andy Cowper

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4 years

@Tachyon100 For the sake of God = ‘for God’s sake’. So it’s 100% ‘for fuck’s sake’.

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Andy Cowper

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4 months

This is staggering. Even for those who know it, and have been chronicling it, it’s still staggering.

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

4 months

How has England’s NHS fared under Conservative governments? @C4Ciaran and @FactCheck have been crunching the numbers.

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

There has been much weeping and rending of garments about this strike among NHS system leaders, on the grounds of the risk of harm to patients.

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Andy Cowper

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10 months

Powerful. The Government did realise that in taking on the consultants, they were taking on some of the most articulate, dedicated and educated people in the country. Didn’t they?

lucy gossage

@lucygoss

10 months

I’m an oncologist and I love my job. But I’m striking because I know first-hand that the NHS is failing our patients with cancer and I’m striking because I know first-hand that the NHS is failing its workforce. #ConsultantsStrike

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Andy Cowper

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3 years

If Test And Trace were a nation, it would have the 83rd largest economy in the world.

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Andy Cowper

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7 years

Read this by @sarahkendzior , who consistently and correctly called Trump's ascent

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Andy Cowper

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2 years

“Sunak is promising an emergency package to force down NHS waiting lists through tougher targets led by a “backlogs task force”.” This proposed solution is based on utterly un-serious analysis of the problem.

Britain facing national emergency, says Rishi Sunak

Britain is facing a national emergency over the economy, NHS backlogs and illegal migration, Rishi Sunak says today as he pledges to put the government on a “crisis footing” from day one

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Andy Cowper

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4 years

The anarchic dismantling of lockdown smacks of contempt for the health and care staff who went through the Covid19 front-line these past few months - some of whom, of course, didn’t survive.

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

So where were these system leaders during the many maternity scandals of recent years? Or when young people needed access to adequate mental health services?

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

8 months

To attract and retain more teachers, there will be special tax-free bonuses up to £30,000, Mr Sunak says. That will calm the NHS pay strikes down nicely.

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

The ‘A&E crisis causing 500 deaths a week’ number cannot be definitively proved in real time - other than by @NHSEngland . As @ChrisHopsonNHS knows. So here you go, Chris. You always asked for honesty and transparency when you were @NHSProviders CE: publish this data. Every week.

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Andy Cowper

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3 years

The Nightingales weren't hospitals. They were a PR/last resort insurance hybrid: surge capacity, built in conference centres and sports stadia, for people who weren't critically ill. And they didn't have staff.

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Andy Cowper

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4 years

I know that most of you know, but it's worth emphasising that all this Tiers Of A Clown bullshit does not matter one bit if they do not fix Test And Trace.

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Andy Cowper

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5 years

On the new NHS buildings money announcement, worth keeping a few points in mind:

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6 years

This was the future once

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3 years

A National Insurance rise to pay for social care? The very tax that retired people don’t pay? This fuckery is getting baroque.

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Andy Cowper

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4 years

Pfizer are at the Hancock speech; the press are not.

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

Your periodic reminder that the UK’s successful vaccines procurement was mainly thanks to @katebingham2 , and its delivery mainly thanks to @NHSEngland

Adam Payne

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1 year

Rishi Sunak’s letter to Nadhim Zahawi telling him he’s sacked for breaching the ministerial code

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

Or during the collapse of ambulance/ A&E services at the end of last year? Oh, and how about the latest sitrep data showing that 13,000 beds are taken up by patients who no longer need to be in hospital every day last week, and more than 19 out of 20 adult beds being occupied?

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

8 months

The Lansley reforms cut NHS management by 40% in 2012. Of course clinicians spent more time doing that work afterwards. @Jeremy_Hunt , along with all Conservative MPs, voted for the Lansley reforms at every stage.

Lansley to slash NHS management costs

Andrew Lansley, the new health secretary, has warned Department of Health staff to brace themselves for a significant cut in their budget this year.

www.hsj.co.uk

Steven Swinford

@Steven_Swinford

8 months

Hunt says it is ‘outrageous’ that doctors and nurses spend third of their time doing admin He’s has asked all Cab ministers to come back to him with how much time front line public sector workers are spending on paperwork He says Treasury will invest in AI & tech to ease burden

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Andy Cowper

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6 years

This is how to respond to tabloid nonsense: calm, factual and right. The NHS overall needs to get way, way better at doing this.

St George's NHS FT

@StGeorgesTrust

6 years

Our response to Mail on Sunday story today about 10 St George’s doctors currently on study leave in France

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Andy Cowper

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6 years

"We choose the future". Except when it comes to the NHS, which is slipping back into the long waiting times of the past that cost tens of billions to fix.

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

But yes, of course if harm or deaths happen during this week's industrial action, it'll be the very first time there has ever been a risk to patients using NHS services in recorded history. Of course it will.

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Andy Cowper

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4 years

McKinsey banks £560,000 consulting on “vision, purpose and narrative” for new test and trace body > Baroness Harding and McKinseys: the gift that keeps on giving

McKinsey banks £560,000 consulting on “vision, purpose and narrative” for new test and trace body

DHSC drafted in consultancy to help plan permanent organisation to manage coronavirus programme

www.civilserviceworld.com

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Andy Cowper

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5 years

This is still quite wonderful, from ⁦ @TheEconomist ⁩

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Andy Cowper

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3 months

If you take out 45% of management resource, then that work doesn’t simply stop being needed. It just starts getting done by clinicians. And that is what’s happened.

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Andy Cowper

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11 months

That attempt to recruit your way out of a retention crisis has not worked so far, and may well continue not to work. Your most experienced staff are your most valuable staff.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

11 months

“It will represent… the largest expansion in training and workforce in NHS history” PM Rishi Sunak says his NHS workforce plan, to be announced later this week, will ensure the NHS has the right number of doctors and nurses #BBCLauraK

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Andy Cowper

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3 years

MASSIVE FUCKING LIE ALERT: "the backlog is a result of the pandemic", Alan asserts. No it isn't. Work of @kingsfund @NuffieldTrust @HealthFdn has tracked its growth over many years.

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Andy Cowper

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3 years

Health Minister Nadine Dorries tells nurses their husbands' pay/furlough makes the 1% pay offer OK

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“We need to restart the programme of public sector reform from before the pandemic”, Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt tells the Kuenssberg Show. He intimates that cutting bureaucracy can free up lots of clinicians’ time. Ahem.

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

Your regular reminder that the NHS backlog was not down to Covid. It was 4.4 million in January 2020 before the pandemic (), and now stands at just over 7.2 million: it’s been rising by about 100,000 a month

Returning NHS waiting times to 18 weeks for routine treatment

In January 2020 there was a backlog of over 1,000,000 patients awaiting elective surgery which needed to be cleared to acheive the 18-week standard. As a result of COVID-19, and without radical...

www.health.org.uk

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Andy Cowper

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3 years

Nope. Not a single question asked about the rate of supply of the vaccines, which is the rate-determining step. Sigh.

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Andy Cowper

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7 years

Anyone who thinks NHS managers do easy jobs should be watching 'Hospital' on BBC2 right now. Brilliant, honest and highly real television.

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Andy Cowper

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2 years

A “backlogs task force” and tougher targets are Mr Sunak’s solution What an absolute arsehole.

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Andy Cowper

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2 months

From what I’ve seen of yesterday’s EGM, this is wholly justified. If I were the RCP’s leadership, I’d be fairly concerned today. It also took a bit of moral courage to do this, which is always good to see. Nice one, Rachel.

Dr Rachel Clarke

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I was deeply honoured to be invited to be a keynote speaker at this year's @RCPhysicians annual conference. But after last night's #RCPEGM I can no longer, in all conscience, give my speech. I feel duty bound to share in public my reasons why.

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Andy Cowper

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Utter, utter bollocks from the PM there about people staying in hospital beds because they were scared of paying for residential care. IN reality, the residential care beds that would accept high-acuity patients were not there.

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Andy Cowper

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2 years

The real issue facing @Jeremy_Hunt is how little the austerity decade has left to cut. Local government funding cuts effectively destroyed social care, which is a huge part of the problem facing the NHS getting frail older people (the bulk of its regular users) out of hospitals.

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Andy Cowper

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2 years

Why do so many staff leave the NHS? It's a mystery.

John Davison

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After 29 years work for the NHS, 23 for 1 Trust, 17 as a consultant, it’s been humbling to feel so valued and appreciated.

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Andy Cowper

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3 years

Your regular public service announcement that there are no 40 new hospitals coming

The government has given six hospitals money to upgrade buildings - Full Fact

Another 21 hospital trusts were given money to plan for new buildings, but not to actually begin construction.

fullfact.org

Matt Hancock

@MattHancock

3 years

Great move by @robertjenrick . This will help us drive delivery of our commitment to build 40 new hospitals over the next 10 years 🏥

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Andy Cowper

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11 months

It does not cost taxpayers £500,000 to train a doctor. The Right Honourable Nadine Dorries MP (pro tem) is quite simply lying and making shit up here:

The cost of training a doctor - Full Fact

The government estimates that it costs £230,000 overall to get the average student through medical school. “The taxpayer” doesn’t pay for all of this because some comes in student loans.

fullfact.org

Rt Hon Nadine Dorries

@NadineDorries

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My ⁦ @DailyMailUK ⁩ column today. We tax payers pay half a million £ to train a doctor and when they are qualified, almost half of them from some medical schools head to Australia or NZ. Time to impose pay back!

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Andy Cowper

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1 year

I wonder when the bulk of NHS leaders and politicians will realise that the mental feudalism that sort-of worked on NHS staff in the past no longer flies.

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Andy Cowper

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5 months

Doctors still in their formal university training - ‘doctors in training’. Then ‘doctors’. Then for those who go on to it, ‘consultants’. ‘Junior’ is utterly anachronistic.

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3 years

“Bring in the military to review NHS management!” “Ah. Are they notoriously good at outcome measurement, resource allocation, procurement, and suchlike?” “…”

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Andy Cowper

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2 years

The dregs having a go at @bootstrapcook ought to be ashamed of themselves (but won't). Jack Monroe shouldn't be ashamed of anything.

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1 year

At some point, the penny will drop more widely that system leaders and the Government need the co-operation and good-will of the current junior doctors. We’re not there yet, but some people are remarkably slow learners.

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I'd been meaning to give the benefit of the doubt to Ms Kuenssberg's epically poor-quality piece from earlier today , but this is an evident pattern of behaviour. Her work should embarrass both herself and the BBC.

Coronavirus: How the PM's lockdown decisions were shaped

But Boris Johnson could be facing the same accusation again - that he did too little, too late.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

PM lying again re vaccination. It was not “our freedom from the rules of the EU”. UKI procured and started delivering the vaccines while still in the EU. We left the EU 31.12.2020. …

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

4 years

This is an extremely helpful timeline of @devisridhar being basically correct about everything to do with managing Covid19 right. Share it widely: store it for those who will 100% claim that 'it was all very difficult and no-one was psychic'.

raging_steel

@raging_steel

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1/n THREAD: #SARSCov2 insights from @devisridhar . Initial objective was to collate a timeline for myself, then I thought it may be useful to others too. I intended to capture one item for each month, but some months were so packed the thread grew 🙃 Brief summary at end.

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3 years

Genuinely surprising to see the @FT fall for the Government's 'blame Public Health England' strategy, terming PHE 'discredited'. That'll be the same PHE that was line-managed by @DHSCgovuk , just as the new UK Health Security Agency will be.

Hancock says he can ‘see an end’ to coronavirus crisis

Health secretary cites research suggesting vaccines are saving lives in the UK

www.ft.com

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2 years

It is a sign of daunting ignorance of a) reality and b) public policy for any senior politician to propose that the NHS backlog has resulted from insufficient tough targets and the absence of a backlogs task force, and that these things will fix it.

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2 years

You mean that the 40/48 “new hospitals”, on about whose fictional nature I’ve been going for several years, won’t be happening? Gosh. What a surprise.

Fears of delay to flagship ‘new hospitals’ after funding cut

Several of the '40 new hospitals' promised by government face further delay and disruption because the trusts are receiving less cash than needed for crucial planning work this year, HSJ can reveal.

www.hsj.co.uk

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@MattHancock Extra £20bn for the NHS is of course not coming on stream in 2019. Not on stream until 2023-24, just in case you feel like not lying/misleading.

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6 years

Patients are charged. It’s called income tax. The BMA are an utter embarrassment.

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4 years

So that's what hope sounds like.

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1 year

I know it's a shock, but the Boris Johnson Fanzine is talking bullshit about the NHS again "no other country in the world has replicated the British system" Apart from Italy, Spain, Portugal and arguably the Scandinavian countries

Labour lacks a plan to fix the NHS

Conceding that the NHS is broken is only a start; Starmer must confront the fundamental structural failings

www.telegraph.co.uk

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9 months

This looks very bad indeed.

Hospital bosses ignored months of doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby

Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors, BBC investigation finds.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

There is A Big Old Lot Of Bollocks being talked about the Health Bill going back to the Commons tomorrow.

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1 year

NHSE blames junior doctors’ strike for impending elective target failure < NHSE might as well blame me for it. About as accurate and valid a diagnosis.

NHSE blames junior doctors’ strike for impending elective target ...

A senior NHS England figure has blamed the junior doctors' strike for trusts' impending failure to hit a flagship target to eliminate 78-week waiters by next month, but HSJ understands the service...

www.hsj.co.uk

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Andy Cowper

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3 years

@lewis_goodall @mattfrei The Nightingale 'hospitals' were astute political fictions to reassure the general public. They had no staff to deal with patients (any hospitals who sent Nightingales patients had to send staff with them). They were theatre.

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Andy Cowper

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3 years

(Metaphorical) white smoke emerging from Skipton House. The new NHS Pope (CEO of @NHSEngland ) has been chosen, I’m told. Announcement planned for the middle of next week.

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2 years

Imagine if someone who knew a lot about this stuff had consistently pointed out that the ‘40 new hospitals’ claim was complete bollocks since pretty much the start.

Boris Johnson faces investigation into claims over 40 ‘new’ hospitals

Trusts reveal only five wholly new hospitals planned, as Labour says the scheme ‘exists only in PM’s imagination’

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

I'm fully aware of how big the Washington coup attempt news is. This is also quite big:

Exclusive: London will be overwhelmed by covid in a fortnight ...

London's hospitals are less than two weeks from being overwhelmed by covid even under the 'best' case scenario, according to an official briefing given to the capital's most senior doctors this...

www.hsj.co.uk

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4 years

Well, this isn't embarrassing at all

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4 years

If Public Health England were indeed not succeeding in its work, the responsibility ultimately sits with the Secretary Of State into whom it reports and to whom it is accountable. One Matt Hancock, oddly enough.

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11 months

No, I’ve just double-checked. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the leader of the Conservative And Unionist Party said this out loud, in the real world.

Adam Bienkov

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Rishi Sunak tells an IKEA worker, whose family is struggling to get treatment on the NHS, that he has a "really, really good plan" to solve the problem, which involves "being a bit clever about how we do things."

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2 years

It is embarrassing and pathetic that a candidate to be the next leader of a major party and PM does not know this.

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

3 months

Yep, the Government actually do want the entire NHS taking industrial action.

PulseToday

@pulsetoday

3 months

BREAKING: NHS England will increase funding for general practice to 2% as part of what it calls 'final arrangements' for the 2024/25 GP contract

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

2 years

Ooops. Very stupid politics to attack NHS managers.

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

2 years

Under the Conservatives, eye-watering sums of taxpayers’ money are paid out to managers and consultants. That means less investment in the frontline staff who our NHS relies on. Meanwhile many NHS workers barely earn enough to get by.

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

7 years

How can the NHS sort its bullying culture? Easy. Sack the bullies, and say why. And lose a few employment tribunals. Utterly worthwhile.

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

3 years

The ‘data, not dates’ thing lasted as long as I thought it would.

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

4 years

Mr Starmer makes a big, smart call. SAGE report recommendations ignored by the Government gave him the ammunition. If there's to be a 2-3 week lockdown, Test And Trace must be re-plumbed to move its resources under leadership of DPHs in the first 3 days after that decision's made

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

4 months

The reason ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ resonates so strongly is that so many of us have experienced arrogant, unaccountable and inhumane behaviour from Government, public sector or pseudo-public sector bodies, who rely on legal threats when their wrongdoing becomes apparent.

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

2 years

“The health secretary is formulating the reorganisation to give well-run hospitals more freedom, as well as forcing failing trusts to improve.” Genius. You could call them ‘Foundation Trusts’, and the improvement body the ‘Trust Development Authority’.

Sajid Javid plans NHS revolution modelled on academy schools

Academy-style hospitals will be set up to improve patchy NHS leadership under a shake-up planned by Sajid Javid

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

10 months

This is an untruth. The Government missed both its 24-month and 18-month RTT waiting time targets before the strikes were a serious factor. Nor is Covid19 a major factor: the backlog was 4.4 million in January 2020 before Covid hit, and rises by an average of 100,000 a month.

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

10 months

First, I gave a quick update on my five priorities. Whilst we’re on track to achieve most of them, waiting lists are not yet falling because of the strikes in our NHS. I hope those still striking will accept the independent pay offer and get back to doing what they love.

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

2 years

Just a few hours to go until DHBSC and NHS staff can use Oxford commas all they like again.

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Andy Cowper

@HPIAndyCowper

2 years

'Mr Shit, may I introduce Miss Fan?'

Shaun Lintern

@ShaunLintern

2 years

BREAKING: A very serious situation at hospitals across Lincolnshire tonight as @ULHT_News declares a 'critical incident' over "extreme and unprecedented" staff shortages. It says it is "unable to maintain safe staffing levels" leading to "compromised care" across its sites: