Greater Manchester Patients Not Passports

@gmpnp.bsky.social

patientsnotpassports.co.uk

If you keep the NHS's budget the same but DOUBLE how much it pays for drugs, there is only one result: Patients suffer, and many die. Andy Burnham must rip up the US-UK pharma deal. Sign the petition: vist.ly/5be3y

🚨 ANOTHER parliamentary committee has urged the government to trigger the break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract! Committee chair @laylamoran.bsky.social said: "Little by little, the government’s arguments for sticking with the FDP has unravelled" 👀 Get them out!

MPs urge Labour to ditch £330m Palantir software contract with NHS

Cross-party group backs call from science and technology committee to look at alternative options, citing ‘serious mistrust’

theguardian.com

🚨The UK-US pharma deal with Trump will cost 229,000 lives in England. The deal is so bad that the editor of the British Medical Journal says it suggests "We’ll kill our poor people to make your rich companies richer”. Dear Andy Burnham, tear up this deal as Prime Minister. Thank you.

A graphic with pictures of Trump and Burnham, a Guardian headline screenshot that says "US-UK drug deal would result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests", and a demand that Andy Burnham "show Trump the red card and tear up the pharma deal"

🚨 BREAKING: We've joined with 18 other health campaign groups and unions to write to @andyburnham.bsky.social, urging him to invest in the NHS and protect our health service from profit-making corporations - including ditching the dangerous US-UK pharma deal. ⬇️

Burnham urged to ditch ‘dangerous’ UK-US NHS drug deal

Exclusive: health groups call on expected next PM to rip up agreement, which analysis suggests could lead to 229,000 excess deaths by 2036

theguardian.com

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2 in 5 international health workers are considering leaving the UK - many because they no longer feel welcome amid hostile rhetoric. New findings from @unison.org.uk show settlement changes would be a disaster for patients, staff & the British public alike. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

NHS faces migrant staff exodus as workers feel unwelcome in UK

Around 43% of international health workers are considering leaving the UK amid tightening visa rules

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We were never consulted on Palantir gaining access to our health data. But we've since made our views known. And in just 4️⃣ DAYS, MPs will debate activating the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. Tell you MP to do the right thing 👇 www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

Email your MP to demand no Palantir in our NHS

Palantir faces scrutiny for human rights abuses as MPs debate its £330m NHS data contract on 16 April. Urge your MP: no Palantir in our NHS. Act now.

amnesty.org.uk

Good to see this from children's charities among many others: earned settlement reforms likely to have especially negative impact on children and families on low income including by punishing families for accessing much needed benefits www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Three of UK's biggest children's charities demand U-turn on migration crackdown

Coram, Barnardo’s and the Children’s Society have written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood urging her to rethink plans to change indefinite leave to remain (ILR) rules retrospectively

mirror.co.uk