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One NHS, many nationalities.
Huge thanks to every single person who helps keep the NHS going ❤️
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One thing united everyone in the assisted dying debate – the need to address the appalling underfunding of palliative and social care which inflicts so much avoidable suffering on people with terminal illnesses.
I’ve written this open letter to @andyburnham because every single day at work, I see how much more dignity, comfort, meaning and joy we could enable patients to experience at the end of their life, if only palliative and oscial care weren’t so appallingly underfunded.
I know it is unlikely you will ever see or read this letter, Mr Burnham. But I had to write it anyway.
Because a good death – with as little suffering and loss of dignity as possible – should surely be a basic human right for us all?
The underfunding of palliative care is denying too many people that right.
For far too long, dying people have simply not been a government priority.
You have the power to change that.
As a specialist in palliative medicine, I can only hope and beg you to do so.
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HE WROTE "0800-F***-YOU" TO AN NHS WHISTLEBLOWER. THE TRUST GAVE HIM AN AWARD.
A few weeks ago I posted Sharmila Chowdhury's @sharmilaxx story. That posts reached nearly 800,000 views. Thank you. That number tells me people understand exactly how serious this is. So let me give you one more detail from this case. Because it deserves its own post.
Quick recap for anyone new here. Sharmila gave 30 years of spotless service to the @NHS. She caught two consultant radiologists at Ealing Hospital billing the NHS while working privately down the road. She reported it.
They sacked her on fabricated allegations and blacklisted her across the NHS. She won at tribunal. They ignored it. She developed cancer. They carried on.
Now here's the detail.
The man who made those fabricated allegations against her was Mike McWha, the PACS/RIS manager at Ealing Hospital NHS Trust. The same Mike McWha who had already failed to upload nuclear medicine reports for approximately 100 patients over six months. Patients with potentially life-threatening conditions. Sharmila had formally raised that against him in writing before he turned on her.
He also sent an email signed off "0800-F***-YOU-B****."
That same year, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust put Mike McWha in their Annual Report and gave him the "Top Mentor" award.
Not a disciplinary hearing. Not a formal investigation. A published award. In the Annual Report.
Sharmila was escorted out of the building in front of her staff. Her colleagues were warned they would face the same treatment if they contacted her. Her name was removed from her office door within two weeks. Her post was advertised while she was still suspended.
Twelve staff members submitted written statements in her support. The Trust ignored all of them.
She won. He got a plaque.
Nearly 800,000 people looked at this case and said this matters. It does. Share this one too please.
Full case: sharmilachowdhury com
Sources: Health Select Committee written evidence | @guardian | @BBCNews | @Channel4 | @DailyMail | @Independent | @thetimes | @DailyMirror
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Hi @EnvAgency, I planned to go swimming in my river (River Roding) and checked the water quality and it’s full of sewage (often 5-7 ppm ammonia near outfalls) due to illegal outfalls putting over a billion litres of raw sewage into the river every year. The EA has not prosecuted a single one of these illegal spills or even asked Thames Water to fix them.
What should I do now?
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Jonathan gets it, how come govt doesn’t?
Why is renationalising water not even being discussed by the present government? Even though nobody's sure who the government is.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgz…
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“Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced.”
Here’s something to wrap your head around.
The only stretch of river graded as ‘Good’ is at Friars Meadow, Sudbury yet from 13th March to the 13th April Anglian Water dumped sewage into Friars Meadow nonstop 24 hours a day for 31 days straight. If you went swimming there during the Easter holidays you were probably swimming in human waste but none of it shows in the data because the EA don’t even bother testing until the middle of May.
PS the EA don’t actually test any bathing site in the country for most of the year 7 and a half months in fact. You go swimming between 1st Oct one year and 15th May the next you’re on your own.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgz…
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We extend our best wishes to the @AJEnglish team, who were attacked by Zionists in London, England.
We condemn the attack on the Al Jazeera team; the perpetrators must be brought to justice immediately.
This twisted Zionist mentality perpetrates such disgraceful acts wherever they happen to be; these individuals are by no means Jews—they are Israeli Zionist gangs.
Unfortunately, due to Zionists, the Jewish community in Europe is also under attack; Zionists are fueling antisemitism.
Whoever carried out this attack is by no means Jewish; they are godless Zionists dressed as Jews.
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Absolute bombshell. Data reveals someone made a massive 580 MILLION dollar trade on oil exactly 15 minutes BEFORE Donald Trump posted his tweet about pausing the Iran war. Someone on the inside just made a life changing fortune. The corruption is blatant.
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It is so difficult to understand why Trump launched his Iran operation - an op so clearly damaging to US national interests, the global economy, Ukraine and the US’ closest allies in Europe and the Gulf.
Then there is this….
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Is it not news-worthy…
That an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler was allegedly held in detention for 10 hours
Tortured by Israeli soldiers using burning cigarettes and nails
All to force a confession from his father?
Look at him
Because our press will rather you didn’t.
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Yet more corruption exposed.
In 2024 98%, yes 98% of all serious water company pollution incidents got downgrade by the Environment Agency to minor.
Time to end the charade, to call an end to the farce. Time for public ownership.
".. they had a cosy relationship with the water industry"
Robert Forrester, Environment Agency whistleblower, explains why the agency downgraded 98% of serious pollution incidents by the water companies to minor incidents #GMB
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Enough of the bullshit, enough of the rhetoric, enough of the fiddling around the edges, enough of rearranging the deckchairs, enough of pointless commissions and even more pointless reports, enough of the lying, enough of the deceit, enough of the gaslighting, enough of the masquerade, enough of the pretending it's time for govt to get a grip, to show leadership, to show determination, to do the right thing, to act.
It's time to put the water industry back into public ownership and the time to do that is now.
But have they got the balls?!
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These Epstein survivors are showing photos of themselves as children.
Not “barely legal” women.
Not “junior” women.
Not women capable of consent.
Children. Who were raped & trafficked and who deserve justice.
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Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised.
RT if you know it has to be.
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London please help. I’m praying for a miracle, I’ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I’m devastated
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“Don’t bother. We’re waiting to die.”
The world has failed the Palestinian people.
You included @Keir_Starmer and @DavidLammy
Thank you for trying @rohantalbot