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Neal Maskrey

@stokemacca.bsky.social

Former GP, then medicines and prescribing nationally in UK. Visiting Prof @ Keele Uni. Author of “Rebalancing Medicine”. Family, football, friends. Seeking individualised not industrialised medicine. All views my own.

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Alf Collins@alfcollins.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Just watched the monstrous RFK in front of the Senate Finance Committee claiming he is ‘taking the politics out of science’ whilst doing the precise opposite. My God, the suffering and death that appalling man is wreaking.

Neal Maskrey@stokemacca.bsky.social · last yr.

How can Labour possibly get to the stage where they get something like this so very wrong? Are they not getting good advice or don’t they listen to it?

Dr Steve Taylor@drstevetaylor.bsky.social · last yr.

Ending visas for overseas Care Workers will likely result in Care Homes being unable to recruit & poor care for their residents. This might be you, your relatives or your friends. Unless @teamlabouruk.bsky.social is prepared to increase payments to homes at the same time. Somehow I doubt that.

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · last yr.

My father spent his final 3 years in an Elderly Mentally Infirm home. The care staff were from Uganda and worked impressively as a team. Dad received truly excellent care which retained his dignity and love of life despite worsening dementia. They came to his funeral, sang beautifully, hugged us. 😢

Louise, Prof/Dr@louiselocock.bsky.social · last yr.

In my mother's final years of life had 5 live-in home carers from three different countries. Not a single one from the UK. Labour are making a HUGE mistake with social care, which may cost lives.

Neal Maskrey@stokemacca.bsky.social · last yr.

Madness is mild! I’ve a relative in a Care Home. I’d say 25% of the staff are recently arrived from overseas and they’re lovely and here. Whereas recruiting locally drew a blank. It’s frightening to think where we will be by the time / if we need care. We already know the NHS locally is 🥵😬

Dr Rachel Clarke@drrachelclarke.com · last yr.

We need to be absolutely clear about the human cost of this policy. More ambulances stuck outside A&Es. More patients dying in hospital corridors. More suffering. More misery. More patient harm. Because Starmer has chosen to prioritise cheap headlines above improving society. Way to go, Labour.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · last yr.

As the news report that US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth had a second signal chat in which he shared detailed military plans with his family One wonders if he was inspired by Mission Gainsborough from this episode of Blackadder Goes Forth 👀

Neal Maskrey@stokemacca.bsky.social · last yr.

Once you start looking, it’s tramlines not guidelines everywhere. Inexorably leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

Alf Collins@alfcollins.bsky.social · last yr.

I looked through 7-8 national clinical pathways today. None mentioned shared decision making (an ethical and professional standard and clinico-legal obligation). They are all biomedical treatment escalators that wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny in a court of law should patients come to harm.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · last yr.

I see tomorrow is Friday. Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day? Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else? I just can’t keep track.

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

@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social, queen of evidence, has done a systematic review of what scant research exists on Physician Associates in the UK. Great work.

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

'The absence of evidence of safety incidents [..] appears to have been misinterpreted by policymakers to mean that there are no safety concerns with the substitution of doctors with PAs. This is an error of logic which, if not corrected, is likely to cost lives.' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....