Today over 3500 GPs will have qualified to join the workforce There is a huge problem, there aren’t enough jobs, the DHSC & NHSE are failing to fix GP employment They have cut GP practice funding by 20% in 10yrs @andyburnham.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social your issue to fix now

GP practices provided 35,000,000 appointments in June 50% more than 2019 Sadly too many in the media ignore this Many commentators refuse to accept the truth In the end GP practices will close, GPs leave & GPs will be blamed despite doing more for less year on year

GPonline@gponline.bsky.social · 2d ago

General practice in England delivered nearly 35m appointments in June this year - a new record that is 46% above the same month in 2019, GPonline analysis shows. Full story: www.gponline.com/general-prac...

“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”

The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.

Layla Moran says Reform UK are raising small boats again to distract from the Clacton by election where Nigel Farage is facing a Bin

Your occasion reminder that there are now more Surgeons than qualified GPs That GP practice appointments are now 31-35m a month That the number of operations hasn’t changed And the share of NHS funding to GPs has reduced considerably And yet GPs asked to do more whilst hospitals do less 🤷🏻‍♂️

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterday

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.

More detail with links to evidence and a nice chart in my substack post 12/12 christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...

We are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closures

A response to yesterday's News Agents podcast...

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Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

This is the very sad reality of a broken system that is letting people down. We must fix this so that it never happens again. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

More than 30,000 died last year waiting for social care help

The proportion of frail and elderly adults in England who get support has halved in 20 years and more than half of requests to local authorities are rejected

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The scale of the explosion in for-profit children’s homes in England is revealed in the latest Ofsted stats: the number of homes has risen by 20% in the last year and by 70% since 2022.

Why Badenoch's claim about last Tory government creating '14,000 new prison places' was misleading - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat

‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat

We spoke to Nick Bridge, a former diplomat who was the UK's special representative to the UN on Climate Change from 2017 to 2023.

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Reform UK levy on employing overseas staff ‘would harm NHS and social care’

Reform UK levy on employing overseas staff ‘would harm NHS and social care’

Exclusive: Experts say policy could also cause shortages of school teachers and drive some universities to bankruptcy

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And this is why disabled and older people in England are currently forced to sit in their own urine because they can’t get to the toilet.

📌 Watchdog, Health Foundation (HF), Study found there was “no meaningful difference” in discharge delays at NHS trusts that had adopted the Palantir FDP tool and those that had not. www.ft.com/content/cbd1...

Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says

Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform

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This is the most important thing any Prime Minister could do for Britain. Massive issue that we are mostly in denial about. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Andy Burnham tells BBC NHS 'will collapse' without social care reform

The prime minister says he would not want to leave office without bringing in "substantial change" to the social care system.

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Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 11.1 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 1.1 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen by 0.9 per cent of GDP since 2012-13 ⤵️

It is extraordinary how it has become a sort of “settled wisdom” these days that Net Zero is an absurd aim, a sign of mad political correctness, and “has got to go”, when our planet is literally burning to death.

Peter du Toit@peterdutoit.com · last wk.

You see everything is connected. The marine heatwaves off the coasts of Europe make heatwaves on land more intense, which in turn dries out vegetation, which then creates perfect fire weather conditions. Brought to you by the world's refusal to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels.

Devolving power in the NHS is long overdue. UK has the most centralised, top-down health service in the world. Thanks Nuffield for this timely paper! #healthpolicy

Nuffield Trust@nuffieldtrust.org.uk · last wk.

Burnham has promised to “take power out” of Downing Street and devolve more power to local areas. But how should the new Health Secretary navigate bringing the devolution agenda to the #NHS? Read our blog 👇

🚨 EXC: NHS England has suppressed the work of investigators carrying out dozens of national clinical audits. NHSE has stopped investigators alerting media, watered down recommendations and limited the way their reports are written, published and used: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

NHS accused of suppressing investigation reports on poor care

Health bosses are watering down auditors’ recommendations for improvement

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It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.

Did you know a barrister is facing jail just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has kept trials fair since 1670. We can't let it be silenced now. Add your name to defend fair trials👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Sign to protect the right to a fair trial

Imagine being called for jury duty, but advised against using your own common sense. ❗A top barrister is now facing contempt of court proceedings, simply for reminding a jury of their rights. If judg...

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As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.

FFS - The Times used to be a vaguely serious paper. (Chart shows 5 days of movement on ten year gilts).

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2w ago

Borrowing costs rise after Andy Burnham speech

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling

Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.

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⚠️ The loss of European Union (EU) nurses from the NHS caused more than 3,700 additional hospital deaths in the three years after the Brexit referendum, according to researchers. Utterly heartbreaking.

Loss of EU nurses after Brexit 'responsible' for more than 3,700 deaths

The loss of EU nurses from the NHS caused over 3,700 additional hospital deaths in the three years after Brexit, accordi

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Black doctors in England four times less likely to get training places than white counterparts

Black doctors in England four times less likely to get training places than white counterparts

For one placement, black applicants had a less than 1 in 100 chance of being offered a place, NHS data shows Black doctors in England are four times less likely to be offered a training place than their white counterparts, according to analysis. As part of their medical training, doctors across the NHS are able to apply to placements within specific branches of practice such as psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology, and emergency medicine. Continue reading...

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