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Roy Lilley 💙

9 months

Yes, all of my paintings you see on Twitter are for sale, in exchange for a donation to the work of an exNHS nurse, now a Franciscan, supporting refugees, mums and kids, on Rhodes. DM me for details

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Can anyone explain why ⁦ @sajidjavid ⁩ is wearing an FFP2 mask when most of the rest of the NHS is issued with masks that provide less protection. Front-line-lives-matter, too. ⁦ @trishgreenhalgh ⁩ ⁦ @CNOEngland ⁩

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Today I arranged for a daily paper to be delivered to a friend now living in a care home. Got chatting to the newsagent and discovered he pays the paper boys £12 an hour. The care home pay their staff £9.20 an hour.

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My triple jabbed friend has cold like symptoms. Now tested +tive for O’crn. Needs a PCR test. Elderly, no car, no tests available on line. They are in the Covid cul-de-sac. Can’t use public transport. No great on-line skills. What next @BorisJohnson welcome to reality

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Copy this and send it to your MP, show your partner, neighbour, re-Tweet it give it to the shops in the high street to put in the window and display it in GP surgeries and A&E… this is why the NHS is choc-a-bloc

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Just for the record; > In 30 days the NHS has delivered 5m jabs > Trusts are running at a 92.9% occupancy > GPs have seen 196.8m people ytd, compared to 175.5m same period last year >> 3.5m people have been seen within 4hrs in A&E

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Just listened to someone called Helen Wakeley , who is apparently a health minister, on the @BBCr4today talking about millions for this and that to speed this and end that with no mention of staffing or workforce. This is entirely bonkers! And borders on a fraud on the public

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There’s misinformation about GPs. Here’s facts: In August, GPs did 25m consults;14m were face2face, 9.2m were ‘tele-med’, the rest house-calls and allied-professionals. They also did 1.5m jabs.I can see why @BMA are upset.The row is fake news and fabricated and I can’t see why?

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Can anyone explain, please, why NHS are wearing surgical masks for droplet protection when FFP2 masks are designed for aerosol transmission - which is what Covid is all about? Is it why 19,000 NHS staff are off sick @CNOEngland @trishgreenhalgh what am I missing?

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4 years

There are some people who exude trustworthyness are real and genuine. I think we are looking at one.

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I don’t want to be unnecessarily morbid but this queue of ambulances will only be dwarfed by the queue of hearses outside crematoria.The evidence of ten years of austerity before Covid and the lack of system capacity.All years of Conservative government. Life is about choices

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just watched @MattHancock on the 11o’clock @SkyNews saying we shouldn’t use ‘more PPE than is needed’ What does this stupid man think nurses are doing with it! Wearing it to fancy dress parties for fun? @Jeremy_Hunt have a word with him

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here’s to a year when once more Corona is only a beer, tiers are on a wedding cake and bubbles are in your champagne

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5 years

Meanwhile doctors and nurses are busting a gut on another 12 hr shift

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2 years

It looks like the DH is about to spend £42m on consultancy, for an NHS recovery plan. Isn’t there enough knowhow, experience’s and talent in the NHS?

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I'm hearing; The city and the NHS in Liverpool Is on its knees. Running at 100% occupancy of its staffed bed base... ITU beds the most over stretched in the country. CQC decide to inspect the acute Trust - Liverpool Hospital FT. Is the anything more futile and crass

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2 years

No title required, watercolour and ink on paper

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8 months

I watched @Jeremy_Hunt on @bbclaurak this morning when he said that whilst he was Health Secretary he was unaware of RAAC buildings in the NHS. Funny that, because I knew.

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2 years

NHS Manager bashing, an easy target for lazy politicos

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@RoyLilley

3 years

Just saying: if National Insurance is rising from 12% to 13.25% it is NOT rising by 1.25%. It is rising by 1.25 percentage points. In percentage terms, it is rising by just over 10%. It is a 10% tax hike.

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Condolences, memories, inspiration, life... her name is Kate

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So, the latest, to attract overseas Dr and nurses to work here is to charge them for a visa to come and £650 for them and every member of their family to use the NHS, they will be working in and on top of paying taxes on their salaries. That’s a real incentive...

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there will be 98,000 nurses, 55,000 nursing assistants, 12,000 members of ambulance staff, including paramedics working tomorrow

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I’m not happy about the 70yrs quarantine. There are lots of fit seventy years people and a lot, under that age who have underlying conditions. This smacks of careless. casual ageism

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Let’s not lose sight of the fact, by the end of December, the NHS had vaccinated over a million people. This compares with a reported 166,000 in Germany and 138 in France. There is gargantuan work going on. @SkyNews @BBCNews

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do what Bevan did, in 1948, to pull together the broken health sector. He nationalised it and called it the NHS. Nationalise the care home market, create the National Care Service and pay for adult social care like we pay for the NHS, through our taxes

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three members of SAGE expressing reservations about the relaxation of the lockdown This is no coincidence. SAGE breaking ranks will have been coordinated, Patric Valance’s coded messages all linked. It’s a signal that changes are premature. Keep safe, everyone

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@RoyLilley

4 years

The @10DowningStreet briefing has given the clearest reasons for sustaining the lockdown and the uncertainties for the future but @bbclaurak and others insist on asking the same ‘when, when’ questions. I despair of them Which bit of ‘we don’t know’ can’t they understand?

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@RoyLilley

10 months

@ben_hock With the greatest of respect to your seniority and achievements - let’s face it, you earn enough to have bought everyone in the coffee shop a latte

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2 years

You may not come to work wearing a stethoscope or a uniform and you may not stand at the bedside but we all know, the NHS can only deliver its fabulous care, as a team. Everyone is important.

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Professor Chris Whitty to receive knighthood in recognition of his role in fighting Covid

Whitty to receive knighthood in recognition of his role in fighting Covid

PROFESSOR Chris Whitty — the “trusted” face of the Government’s daily pandemic briefings — is to be made a Sir in the New Year’s honours list. The chief medical officer became an overnight TV star…

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In the present #nhs crisis we are coming face to face with the fact that funding is not the same as investing. We cannot buy our way out of our predicament but we could have invested to have avoided it.

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@RoyLilley

2 years

You won’t find the data that expresses the exhaustion, the frustration and the sense of abandonment so many frontline people are telling me about. But you will see it in their eyes and hear it in their words. As one put it; ‘they think we’re disposable’.

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@claracluck @Joyce_Karam

Russia Confirms 4 New Coronavirus Cases

Four new cases of coronavirus have been identified in Russia, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Saturday.

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3 years

The NHS will, for the first time be led by a woman Amanda Pritchard Lord Steven’s deputy will take over at the end of this month.

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5 years

Time and again I get told, 'I'm just a nurse...' No you are not. You are a nurse and you stand-out for being a nurse. A most trusted person, trained, educated... from the sharp end to the leading edge.

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8 months

Is this for real?

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5 months

Where ever you are, who ever you are, what ever you’re doing… thank you. Watercolour on paper

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@RoyLilley

4 years

extraordinary that @CNOEngland ducked the question on how many health workers have died of CV-19 on the grounds she couldn’t name people without relative’s consent. A global number does not require individual’s details. My guess; she doesn’t know...

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3 years

waiting watercolour and ink on paper

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I thought this was interesting

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I do like this!

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1 year

@johnredwood The answer is: beds are easy but you then need the ward staff to look after the people in the beds… and there are critical shortages of people; we have fewer clinicians and beds per head of population than most EU and OECD comparator countries.

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@RoyLilley

8 years

Some people just have it, do it, lead it and make it happen.... Kate Granger

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@RoyLilley

3 years

Just been jabbed @NightingaleLDN by the fabulous @savymiss1 under the watchful eye of Chris and @JanFlint from @NHSBartsHealth vaccination centre , the whole experience beyond perfect. 👍 Well done and thank you for your pivotal part in history

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@RoyLilley

4 years

when you whatch the 10pm news tonight remember 40k tests have been mailed out and there’s no evidence of them turning into tests or honesty counted as part of the 100k test target. Can we trust the government? The answer’s in the post.

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1 year

Talks aimed at resolving NHS strikes floundered as ⁦ @SteveBarclay ⁩ insisted no pay talks without performance improvements. Fabulous idea when talking to exhausted staff doing 14hr shifts in horrible conditions.

Talks to resolve strikes end with little progress, unions say

Unite says NHS talks were a "missed opportunity", as unions say planned strikes will go ahead.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@RoyLilley

3 years

this was my first oil painting I did for my Mum on mother’s day, 50+ years ago

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@RoyLilley

5 months

The solution to the NHS’s problems is simple, gimmick-free and easy. Look after the frontline, fund it properly, make it fun to work there, stand back and watch the rest fall into place. No policy shake-up required… just a wake-up to reality.

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@RoyLilley

2 years

@johnredwood Your interest in the NHS is welcome but has it occurred to you that beds are the least of our worries. It is the staff required to look after people in the beds that is the problem. Perhaps a word with the boss of your local hospital might enlighten you.

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⁦ @wesstreeting ⁩ once again having to back track on an insult; ‘nhs using winter as ‘an excuse’ for more money’. He is simply not mature enough or knowledgeable enough to take on the SoS role.⁦ @Keir_Starmer ⁩ will have to replace him.

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@RoyLilley

7 years

Manchester NHS; resilience, courage and compassion. Thank you.

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2 years

‘Unseen’ Watercolour study

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7 years

#BBCElection I think Corbyn came out of that better than @afneil I see him in a new light. Subtle nuanced, thoughtful

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3 years

I’ve just noticed my NHS App is displaying my vaccine history!

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@RoyLilley

9 years

Just luv Twitter #ImInWorkJeremy trending. Docs telling @Jeremy_Hunt they are working over the weekend!😊

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3 years

if only all this was done before Xmas , everything was known then

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1 year

All you need to know about staffing More doesn’t mean enough…

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3 years

with many EU countries preventing travel for the Uk it seems they have control over our borders... I don’t think that was the idea?

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6 years

The great thing about the NHS is that for every £1 of taxes you get £1 of healthcare. In the private sector you might get 60p, the rest goes on loans, dividends, fast cars and franchise fees to a bloke who lives, tax-exiled, on an island.

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7 years

The morning reveals, once again, the astonishing skill and bravery of our blue light services. Thank you...

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5 years

May I suggest that before we all get carried away with Boris’ 1.8 billion bung for the NHS we realise it is just the release of savings Trusts have already made but been unable to access @sallygainsbury deals with the detail, beautifully

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No workforce plan No recovery plan No balance sheet recovery plan No plan for 40 new hospitals No waiting list plan Reorganisation More Covid admissions than this time last year … and let’s sack some people for a round of applause at the Tory Conference

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4 years

I have a sneaking suspicion Mr Cummins will resign in the next 48hrs.

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2 years

I’m an old geezer with an immune system that’s done me proud for over 70yrs. I’ve been triple vaccinated because I want to give myself the best chance not to have to pester the #NHS and keep my friends safe. #GetVaccinated please!

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1 year

The thing I find puzzling is the absence of @SteveBarclay in the midst of the NHS extremis. Perhaps his silence tells us more than anything he might say…

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@sajidjavid Don’t you think given the privations Covid has caused, obliging people to isolate and heroic people who have busted a gut to keep us safe, keep going and keeping transmission to a minimum the use of the word ‘cowering’ is ill judged and you might consider deleting this Tweet.

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3 years

A failure of politics, policy and leadership.

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1 year

@johnredwood Because the size of the workforce is not in the gift of NHSE, which was separated from the DH (who do control workforce size, recruitment and funding for HEE who run it) by the disastrous Lansley reforms.

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3 years

Too many managers? The proportion of managers in the UK workforce as a whole... 15.4%. In the NHS it’s under 5%

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Tell me, young man why did you rob a bank? Well m’lud my kids needed new trainers and I followed my instincts to provide for him... and that is the case for the defense. Oooh... not guilty!

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Feeling rather proud of myself having just had my old geezer flu jab and Covid booster. Celebrating and rewarding my bravery with a latte… heroic

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1 year

From today’s FT. If it is correct the NHS is expected to fund the pay increase, it is contrary to what the @RCN negotiated for, (wanted new money) and throws a light on the dissembling answer @SteveBarclay gave in interviews Friday . This will impact patient care @NHSEngland

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Got a bar code to pick up lateral flow test from pharmacy, they don’t have any If no one can get a test the numbers will fall and #HMG will claim spread rate is falling to carry-on with policies when the opposite is true . This is dangerous

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The NHS will have a new Secretary of State and a new chief executive at a critical time; a new Covid wave likely in the autumn , a workforce crisis, busted budgets and waiting lists around the block, social care in ruins and no IT strategy. Apart from that it’s easy!!

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4 years

He could have said... I piled us into the car,headed for my parents. Looking back, it was the wrong thing to do and I'm sorry, but I was trying to be a good dad, a supportive husband and I've turned out to be a lousy role model and I'm sorry.'

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4 years

A simple mistake anyone could make!

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8 years

The NHS isn't overspending. The NHS is carrying out more treatments and providing more care than it is funded for

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4 years

Print this page out - stick it on your fridge with a magnet thing, pin it to the notice board at work, fold it up, pop it into your bag or wallet and bring it out every time you see a politician.

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NHS not running up debt, it's running up the down escalator Not overspending, it's under invested

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1 year

No 10 says it will be ‘very difficult’ for some people to access NHS this winter ‘for a number of factors mainly the global pandemic…’ NO! It’s because of a lack of capacity resulting from austerity funding BEFORE Covid. Gimmestrength

No 10 says it will be ‘very difficult’ for some people to access NHS this winter

Rishi Sunak ‘confident’ there is funding to cope but admits service in England faces ‘unprecedented challenge’

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1 year

Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone for reading my stuff, writing to me, keeping me straight and pointing me on the right direction. Enjoy a great Xmas because you deserve it.

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That’s me… booster jabbed-up and now ready to leap tall buildings in a single stride! 👍👍💪👌Thank you NHS!

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As criticism is made of Test and Trace, right or wrong, it is important to realise it is NOT, NHS T&T, it was commissioned and run by the DHSC.

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5 years

Christmas opening hours; 24/7 today, Christmas day and every day

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8 years

#fabchangeday I've been in NHS since 1974 nothing top down has ever worked. Want to do something better? Ask the people doing it. Simples

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow watercolour and ink on paper

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7 years

Tonight the world is called #OneLoveManchester

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I watched @SteveBarclay attribute NHS waiting and delays on the impact of Covid. This is only part of the story. We went into Covid following nearly ten years of almost flat line funding,4m people waiting, and 40,000 nurse vacancies.Political amnesia is a self inflicted condition

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NHS staff get free Microsoft Teams access during coronavirus outbreak Many Trusts and CCGs have not been able to arrange home working. This should make life easier

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this is just too theatrical, staged, posed. I don’t believe a word of the whole story ⁦ @10DowningStreet ⁩

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I think I’m right in saying a band 5 nurse earns about £25578, for 150 hours a month, that’s about £14.21 an hour. *commenting for a friend*

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2 years

Can’t carry the Cabinet and ducked the tough call. We’re on our own. This will be the ‘people’s lockdown’. Politics has failed

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7 years

Diagnosis of the day!

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Should we all wear masks? Take a moment to read the conclusions here. Based on the very sensible ‘precautionary principle’ the answer is a clear, yes. Can the supply chain provide them is another question. @trishgreenhalgh is one of the authors 😷 😷😷👍👏

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I have two rules about writing my column. The first is, I never write when I’m angry and the second, I never use bad language. But today….

He is being a &^%$

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2 years

‘Twelve miles a day’ Part of the NHS at work watercolour studies

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Here with @itvnews at the Nightingale Hospital London. A hive of activity and people with quiet determination to keep us safe. Thanks to all the construction workers, working around the clock. The nation and the NHS at its best 👍👍🙏🙏🦠💥👏👏

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4 years

it turns out, the much vaunted @BorisJohnson address at 7pm is actually recorded and most of it has already been leaked... what’s the point?

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6 years

All the nurses I have met love nursing. None of them leave a job they love. They leave management, bureaucracy, bullying, anxiety, rehearsing for CQC inspections, daft policy and unnecessary pressure.

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A very quiet Christmas morning, a bike and a paint box. What’s not to like!

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