on assited dying it's really a shame that french parliamentaries - many much to the left of burnham - couldn't grasp the very simple concept he articulated as "personally, I think there’s something that needs to happen first. That is the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care."

Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · 6d ago

Burnham delivers significant blow to assisted dying bill as he launches attempt to ‘fix’ social care funding #AssistedSuicide #AssistedDying www.disabilitynewsservice.com/burnham-deli...

i know the notion of reinstitutionalisation has been debated but in a very short period of time the UK abandoned the cheshire west acid test and the US the olmstead act - both are major legal protections for disabled people from institutional abuse and coercion.

this summer i'm taking a phd break to intern for @gfsc.community - i wrote a blog about their community technology partnership approach & why i think it matters to the care sector. I talk about the hell that oxevision is and the key work of the stop oxevision campaign. gfsc.community/how-health-t...

How health technology is replacing care with surveillance

Surveillance technology in health and social care like Oxevision is intrusive, coercive and not fit for purpose, and much of its development links to warfare. Why is it being commissioned, and where c...

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So who DOES still use Oxevision (now LIO Health)? This is what we know

Stop Oxevision@stopoxevision.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oxehealth, the makers of Oxevision (now rebranded as LIO health), have long boasted that they supply 50% of NHS mental health Trusts in England. However, as a result of our campaign and increased scrutiny of the technology, we can now reveal this number is down to just 36%! #MadSky #StopOxevision

this is an incredibly important step and all thanks to the hard work of the campaign - thank you to them

Stop Oxevision@stopoxevision.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oxehealth, the makers of Oxevision (now rebranded as LIO health), have long boasted that they supply 50% of NHS mental health Trusts in England. However, as a result of our campaign and increased scrutiny of the technology, we can now reveal this number is down to just 36%! #MadSky #StopOxevision

"The steering group is constrained to stick within currently predicted spending" Disabled people are being asked to 'coproduce' cuts. As in The Care Crisis by Emma Dowling, this is Participatory Austerity. Labour's #PIP review is about the ideological needs of politicians, nothing else.

Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · 3w ago

Disability minister leading PIP review warns there ‘may well be reductions’ in spending #TimmsReview #PIP #PIPreview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-d...

Damning evidence from the Lampard Inquiry today about Oxevision (now LIO health). An EPUT nurse admits the benefits are “very minimal”, that it is “incredibly intrusive” and it doesn’t make observation rounds any quicker or more effective, as Oxehealth (now LIO) claim. #LampardInquiry

Disability benefits assessment must be redrawn as part of a “radical overhaul” as the system is “not fit for purpose,” the government’s landmark review into Pip will say. @jessicaelgot.bsky.social exclusively outlines the major early findings from Timms report. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Disability benefits in England and Wales not fit for purpose, Timms review to find

Exclusive: Landmark review by disability minister will call for ‘dehumanising’ assessment system to be redrawn

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SHAC Article: Over 100 Southwark Families Face Eviction from Former Notting Hill Genesis Homes 🚨 shaction.org/2026/07/08/a... Corporate landlord BMR Group Ltd bought the homes from social landlord NHG. Residents are fighting back, demanding action from Southwark Council. #NoEvictions

Social Housing Action CampaignA Community Under Threat: Southwark Families Fight Mass Evictions

Housing Campaigners Demand Council Action as Corporate Landlord BMR Group Targets More Than 100 Families Tenants on the St James Estate in the London Borough of Southwark are fighting mass eviction…

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Chelsea and Westminster is the poster child for Palantir – the first hospital to use its tech. It claims to have cut waiting lists there by 183,000. But when I investigated for @londonermag.bsky.social, I found evidence that wasn't true. Now MPs are calling for an inquiry. Read my full expose:

Palantir cleared 183,000 patients from one hospital's waiting list. Or did it?

Chelsea and Westminster Trust claimed the tech giant’s software helped it clear a patient backlog, even as its actual waiting list was rising fast

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I didn't know Diana Rose had passed and I just found out today and I feel so deeply sad! I didn't know her but her work gave me a lot of hope and also courage. I think about her words very often.

Purnell is one of the most vile DWP ministers this country has ever seen. He hates disabled people with a vengeance, & this bodes very badly for life under a Burnham government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff

Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government

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it's been a bit since i read health communism by adler-bolton and vierkant but i think the changing state of tech in mental health supports their key argument. ppl who face institutionalisation used to face abuse. it's the same today except now we also extract value from them through data collection

if it was indeed streeting's submission to the case, well, am i so not surprised that he went the authoritarian controlling judgemental way

Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is the UK health secretary's intervention in the Supreme Court case (I believe it would have been Wes Streeting at the time):

in my research i get told by ppl who were admitted in psych wards they didnt complain or advocate for their needs bc they didn't know they could - specifically about tech. the new supreme court ruling feels like the continuation of that, ppl are "happy" about being spied on bc they didn't complain

Would you want to be watched in your bedroom while you're ill in hospital? @novaramedia.com youtube.com/shorts/FwQkm...

The NHS is Paying for 'Spy Cameras' in Patient Bedrooms

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Untangling the threads: The installation of Oxevision by Oxford Health NHS Trust part two Following on from the piece earlier in the week we are now sharing part two of our deep dive into Oxford Health’s seemingly irrational decision to install Oxevision stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/u...

Untangling the threads: The installation of Oxevision by Oxford Health NHS Trust part two

Image from Charlotte Wood Twitter, 2021, showing Oxford Health and Oxehealth winning an award for the Oxvision pilot project On 3rd February we shared part one of a timeline outlining the installat…

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"Ten years later and I’m still faced with coercive practice at every turn, both from the gender clinic and the specialists that work with them." Read 'Accessing gender-affirming care should not be a source of trauma' by NSUN member, Oscar. www.nsun.org.uk/accessing-ge...

Accessing gender-affirming care should not be a source of trauma

As a child, I had no reason to doubt the motivations of the people and the systems that I was told were there to help me.

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are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost

Ministers leave door open to continuing ‘absolute scandal’ of inappropriate Mental Health Act detention #MentalHealthBill #MentalHealthAct www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ministers-le...

Ministers leave door open to continuing ‘absolute scandal’ of inappropriate Mental Health Act detention

A disabled MP has failed to persuade ministers to show exactly what progress they are making towards ensuring there are enough community services to halt the “scandal” of disabled people being inap…

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Controversial government legislation that has now become law provides no solution to the culture of abuse, neglect and exclusion within the mental health system, or its continued structural racism, say disabled campaigners. #MentalHealthAct www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-mental-h...

New Mental Health Act ‘offers no solution’ to abuse, exclusion and racism in mental health system

Controversial government legislation that has now become law provides no solution to the culture of abuse, neglect and exclusion within the mental health system, or its continued structural racism,…

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the only thing streeting is good at is exploiting contradictions no meds because it's not actually medical no psychosocial because it's not "proven" against disease 100% suffering left

The Independent@the-independent.com · 8mo ago

Why is Wes Streeting coming for my ADHD medication?

"Each technological advancement that could free up physician time has instead tightened the productivity ratchet: these “efficiency gains” have simply been used to squeeze more visits, more billing, and more profit out of every hour." 🔥

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9mo ago

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

“‘Clinical-grade’” is an example of marketing puffery designed to borrow authority from medicine without the strings of accountability or regulation. It sits alongside other buzzy marketing phrases like ‘medical-grade’ or ‘pharmaceutical-grade’ for things like steel, silicone, and supplements…”

‘Clinical-grade AI’: a new buzzy AI word that means absolutely nothing

Chatbot mental health companies are getting into clinical cosplay.

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In January the BBC covered a story about our campaign and concerns around the use of Oxevision. This is the video from the BBC South West coverage (although there was other national and regional coverage) Oxehealth have now rebranded as LIO Health youtu.be/uhrGw_jjtfQ?...

Stop Oxevision (now LIO Health) on the BBC

YouTube video by Stop Oxevision

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It can't be underestimated how important this is. Like 'SIM', this scandal has been uncovered by survivors themselves, not professionals. Anyone concerned about patient safety, the merging of the private sector & the state, misuse of technology, research ethics & human rights needs to read this.

Stop Oxevision@stopoxevision.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The statement is also available as text on our website stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/l...

the fatigue of listening to the lamprd inquiry

This afternoon, @stopoxevision.bsky.social are giving evidence at the Lampard Inquiry into uee of Oxevision in wider context of 2,000 patient deaths at Essex Partnership NHS Trust between 2000-24. You can watch the live stream on YouTube here www.youtube.com/@thelampardi...

The Lampard Inquiry

The Lampard Inquiry (formerly known as the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry) is a an independent statutory inquiry into the deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex.

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