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Dr Tony O’Sullivan

@drtonyosullivan.bsky.social

Co-chair Keep Our NHS Public Retired NHS paediatrician

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Samantha Wathen@samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's always good to get in the Guardian, especially when it's an exclusive. Never underestimate the value of good press work and relationships in furthering the cause. People are now (rightly) outraged by this story today who didn't know about it yesterday.

Keep Our NHS Public@keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said "The screaming contradiction is that while NHS funding for its own trusts is so limited that ELFT has to make £25m cuts, govt are happy to hand £2.5bn to private firms to expand their capacity to treat NHS patients” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Keep Our NHS Public@keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said "The screaming contradiction is that while NHS funding for its own trusts is so limited that ELFT has to make £25m cuts, govt are happy to hand £2.5bn to private firms to expand their capacity to treat NHS patients” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

NHS mental health trust plans £25m in cuts to jobs and services

Body providing care in east London and Bedfordshire accused of ‘unfathomable and unacceptable’ move

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Dr Tony O’Sullivan@drtonyosullivan.bsky.social · 4w ago

@andyburnham.bsky.social, you say this is Labour’s last chance: it is also the last chance for the NHS. Our @keepournhspublic.bsky.social plea to you: The NHS and care: a chance to rebuild trust #NHS #EndCorridorCare #EndNHSprivatisation keepournhspublic.com/the-nhs-and-...

The NHS and care: a chance to rebuild trust

Policy commitments and actions are needed urgently A policy statement from Keep Our NHS Public By Co Chairs Tony O'Sullivan and John Puntis A new Labour leadership has an opportunity to reset t...

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Helen Salisbury@helensalisbury.bsky.social · last mo.

GPs are spending too much time dealing with minor issues online instead of looking after our frailest patients. As a profession, we need to ask ourselves where we can do the most good? and then prioritise our efforts in that direction. doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...

Helen Salisbury: Prioritising frailty

Some of my older patients continue in robust health until very near the end of their long lives, but many are less fortunate. As the years pass they acquire more conditions, along with more medicines ...

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Dr Tony O’Sullivan@drtonyosullivan.bsky.social · last mo.

‘Keir Starmer failed the NHS. The next Labour leader must do better. 'We need commitment to a publicly funded, provided and accountable NHS, not an ever-closer relationship with the parasitic private sector' #SOSNHS #EndCorridorCare @keepournhspublic.bsky.social leftfootforward.org/2026/06/keir...

Keir Starmer failed the NHS. The next Labour leader must do better.

'We need commitment to a publicly funded, provided and accountable NHS, not an ever-closer relationship with the parasitic private sector'

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Richard Burgon MP@richardburgon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tony Blair has nothing to offer Labour in 2026. His neoliberalism, backing of endless wars and acceptance of inequality are exactly what Labour must break from if it wants to rebuild support and defeat the far-right.

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Richard Burgon MP@richardburgon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

PFI in our NHS was a costly disaster. It funnelled billions away from patient care and into the pockets of private firms. I've written to the new Health Secretary urging him to ditch Wes Streeting's plan to use private finance schemes to build new neighbourhood health centres.

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Dr Tony O’Sullivan@drtonyosullivan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Dear me! NHS England and trusts hunkering down for a fight to drive Palantir’s involvement with the NHS Federated Data Platform and suppress opposition through by threatening staff @keepournhspublic.bsky.social @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2026/04/14/n...

NHS Staff Told ‘Stop Criticising Palantir or Lose Your Job’

NHS staff have been told they might lose their jobs if they criticise NHS England’s controversial £330m contract with IDF-contractor Palantir.

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Dr Tony O’Sullivan@drtonyosullivan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Some Palantir employees now have access to all NHS email addresses of staff, no permission from staff needed. This will ramp up calls to end the £330m contract with Palantir and its Foundry asap @keepournhspublic.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Alarm in health service over Palantir staff being given NHS email accounts

Exclusive: Sources believe AI tech company’s engineers have been granted access to directory of up to 1.5m staff

theguardian.com

Keep Our NHS Public@keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"The latest reports that training places could be restricted if strikes continue reveal something deeply troubling. Training, the very mechanism by which the NHS sustains itself, is being positioned as a bargaining chip." Excellent from @jatinderhayre.bsky.social metro.co.uk/2026/04/07/s...

Striking resident doctors like me are sick of being scapegoated

You cannot run a healthcare system on goodwill alone. You cannot retain a workforce by devaluing it.

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Keep Our NHS Public@keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today, @fletchjack.bsky.social Chair of the Residents Drs committee at @bma.org.uk spoke to our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social We stand by Resident Doctors in their fight for pay restoration and decent working conditions. There can be no NHS without them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvbe...

Dr Jack Fletcher, chair of the BMA Resident Doctors Committee, live from the picket line April 2026

YouTube video by Keep Our NHS Public

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Samantha Wathen@samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: People who need support to cope with everyday life are incentivised to get support. I've been a national press officer for nearly a decade, but slap my ass and call me Judy - this may be the biggest scoop I've ever come across!! Sincerely, The mother of 2 "incentivised" autistic teens

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4mo ago

"Children and young adults are “incentivised” to get an ADHD or autism diagnosis and there has been a “medicalisation of distress”, a government inquiry has concluded." [Times front page]

Children ‘incentivised’ to get ADHD and autism diagnoses Eleanor Hayward - Health Editor , Max Kendix - Political Correspondent Children and young adults are “incentivised” to get an ADHD or autism diagnosis and there has been a “medicalisation of distress”, a government inquiry has concluded. The interim report commissioned by Wes Streeting, the health secretary,found there were incentives to seek a diagnosis because it is the “gateway” to unlock access to special adjustments at school and work. There was “credible evidence of increasing psychological distress” behind a rise in mental health diagnoses, it said, but normal difficulties may also “increasingly be interpreted primarily through a medical lens”. Nearly one in ten young adults “self-identify” as autistic and there has been a particular increase in diagnoses among girls when they move to secondary school. The report said common childhood behaviours such as restlessness were being medicalised. “Historical analyses show that behaviours in children once regarded as within the range of normal variation, or even as something to be welcomed in some contexts, are now more often interpreted as requiring intervention or treatment,” it said.
Dr Tony O’Sullivan@drtonyosullivan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When the NHS has been funded to meet the needs of the population, private healthcare has been static. Its growth shows how successive govts failed to support this essential public service to provide universal healthcare for all. A growing private sector undermines resilience & strength of the NHS…

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Keep Our NHS Public@keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our protest last week drew national and international attention. Corridor care is dangerous and inhumane and must be urgently addressed by this govt. 16,600 people die AVOIDABLY every year - this is nothing short of a national disgrace. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Doctor warns of deaths from A&E delays as campaigners to protest corridor care

NHS 'horror stories' have sparked a protest over corridor care by NHS staff, patients and campaigners

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