EMERGENCY LETTER TO POLITICAL LEADERS ABOUT THE SITUATION IN GAZA 🚨
We feel compelled to speak up- the situation in Gaza is a humanitarian emergency + our political leaders must call for an immediate ceasefire. Add your name here and then please RT! ➡️
Spot on comment from Professor Chris Whitty on today's attacks being hurled against GPs; “I would stick to the advice that is an old saying but it’s completely right, which is never worry about criticism from somebody you wouldn’t take advice from.”
We have now been told by 6 doctors in different areas that their workplace is being told to throw away waste vaccines (from missed appointments) at the end of the day instead of giving NHS staff their second dose. We're compiling written evidence then will approach the press.
We went to court today with
@GoodLawProject
, to apply for a cost-capping order for our 4 PPE cases against the government. We are delighted to announce that we've been granted the cost-cap and can continue to pursue these cases together. We MUST hold the government to account.
**BREAKING NEWS** The government acted unlawfully.
@EverydoctorUK
+
@GoodLawProject
received judgement this am in our legal case. The judge said that the VIP lane for ministers’ friends + contacts was unlawful. When NHS staff needed govt to act responsibly, it broke the law. RT🚨
In 2015, Jeremy Hunt pledged to increase the GP workforce by 5,000.
In 2019, Matt Hancock pledged to increase the GP workforce by 6,000.
Today, there are 1,904 fewer full-time GPs than 2015.
#TeamGP
🚀Aaaaaaand we’re off!! 🚀
We’re projecting onto parliament tonight to make our message clear:
No one should profit from public healthcare 💙
It’s as black + white as that.
RT if you agree
#ScrapNHSBill
We're getting closer and closer to the truth. Today in court
@MattHancock
was ordered to disclose texts and WhatsApp messages between senior officials and those seeking access to the PPE VIP lane. He has until 7th May to comply with the order.
The Times. The Spectator. The Daily Mail. There is a coordinated attack on GPs by the media going on right now. It’s a political tactic. They’re trying to turn the public against NHS staff & distract us from the Health & Care Bill going through parliament. Please don’t let them.
STATEMENT:
The EveryDoctor team was alerted to a tweet by Stella Creasy MP this morning, expressing her unhappiness at being included on our map, which details MPs' links to the private healthcare sector. Stella Creasy questioned our methodology and requested that her entry be...
Well this is interesting..🚨We were contacted by a representative of an MP recently, who was very angry about being featured on our map of privatisation. The behaviour was appalling, frankly. We are digging into more data, and have found that the same MP took a huge sum ...
I’m Matt, an NHS nurse, and an organiser at
@NurseSayNO
I’m on strike tommorow. I wish I wasn’t - I’d much rather be doing my job of looking after people. The average nurse in the UK has lost 20% of their income the last 10 years. We have no other choice to
#NHSStrike
So let’s get this right, under the Health and Care Bill private companies like Virgin, can sit on new Integrated Care Boards, but there’s no slot for a representative from a mental health organisation. This is disgraceful
#ScrapNHSBill
The Telegraph have joined The Times, The Spectator and The Daily Mail, in their misleading attack on GPs. It’s a political tactic to turn the public against NHS staff & distract us from the Health & Care Bill going through parliament. Please don’t let them 🙏
Terrible testimony is being shared with us by NHS doctors today. We’re working out if it’s safe to take to the press (if we can keep identities safe).
The NHS is falling apart and this government is watching and doing nothing 🚨
Sadly the news that our Health Secretary is someone who "repeatedly lies" isn't that new to us - or to the NHS staff who tried to share the truth about PPE last year. We took the government to court for them. We're asking
#WhatsThePlanMatt
? for them and...
So far 9 MPs have pledged to lobby with us &
@nurses_united
for a 15% across-the-board NHS pay rise 👇👇👇
Claire Hanna MP
Christine Jardine MP
Kate Osborne MP
Virendra Sharma MP
Mick Whitley MP
Ian Byrne MP
Dan Carden MP
Zarah Sultana MP
Kim Johnson MP
If it passes, the Health and Care Bill will remove the duty to provide secondary care, allowing hospitals to discharge patients prematurely. This isn’t scaremongering. It’s there in black & white. We’re not the ones poised to make millions privatising the NHS 💰💰💰
#ScrapNHSBill
...all his earnings totalling in excess of £55000 to charity.
It is
@EveryDoctorUK
's position that it is the source (not the destination) of the funding or benefit that matters.
We oppose all links between MPs and the private healthcare sector.
Ends.
Wes Streeting's financial links to the private healthcare sector since the last General Election wouldn't fit into one screenshot🚨
So we've popped them all below👍
If this concerns you, please RT this thread💙
To every person who says "there is nothing wrong with MPs having links to private healthcare, we're just going to share two pieces of information🚨👀
1. Owen Paterson received £99,996 from Randox, a clinical diagnostics company. 👇...
On Monday we invited all 650 MPs to attend our briefing on NHS privatisation. We've heard back from 23.
To stop the sell-off of our NHS and keep it in public hands, we need as many on board as possible.
Don't see yours below? Help bring them to the table & tag them now
Sajid Javid just called our analysis; that this Bill will accelerate privatisation in the NHS “nonsense”. We’ve heard this (& far worse) from so many MPs over the last few days. They hide behind ‘healthcare free at the point of use’. Let’s make it clearer for them…
We disagree with MPs holding jobs with private companies, like this one which has paid Iain Duncan Smith £25000🚨
💙If you agree with us and think it's wrong, RT💙
Here's the link to our map of privatisation👉
...of money from the *same* donor several years ago too! Pretty glad we weren't swayed by their aggression, and left the initial entry on the map. We'll be adding the additional information very soon. 🚨💙
There was more GP-bashing by the press over the weekend - this time from the Telegraph. This seems to be a campaign by the right-wing media to turn the public against NHS staff & distract us from the Health & Care Bill going through parliament...
Please don’t let them 🙏
Hello to all the brilliant NHS supporters! This is Julia. Normally I do most of my campaign work through my personal account
@JujuliaGrace
but I’ve been locked out, so I’m in
@EveryDoctorUK
instead. Please can you RT+follow to help build this account? The NHS is collapsing 🚨…
🚨Our BRAND NEW map of NHS privatisation is now live! 🗺️
It lays bare for the very first time the true scale of NHS privatisation in England. And it is shocking.
Explore it 👇 And this is just the start...
Wow, that’s a lot of shares owned by Tom Tugendhat in an IT company selling services to the healthcare sector, isn’t it? 👀
We’ve built a map showing MPs’ links to private healthcare. You can take a look here👉
The spotlight’s on you Matt. It wasn’t good enough, and we never, ever want NHS staff and patients to face this again.
Join the 13,000 already speaking up and add your name here, then please RT!
Do you think that a private commercial property company should be running an NHS ambulance service?
If the answer is no, please RT this. We need everyone to understand that politicians are privatising the NHS
#NHSPrivateAmbulances
🚨🚑💙
In 6 days time we'll be in court against the government over dodgy PPE. We're holding them to account for failing to protect NHS workers + patients 👩⚕️🏥💙
Pls retweet to build our following, so we can update as many people as possible about what happens next week.
Julia Hartley-Brewer wrote a tweet three days ago with factually inaccurate information about EveryDoctor and
@JujuliaGrace
. We would really appreciate it if you could report the tweet to Twitter. Thank you in advance; we will keep you updated with what happens.
Wow John Redwood MP😮🚨, that is a lot of money you've earned from a company with investments in the global private healthcare sector🚨
If the links between MPs and the private healthcare sector concern you, please RT this to help spread awareness of what's happening....
Our High Court trial against the government has officially ended. We don’t know when the verdict will come through yet, but we promise... we’ll keep holding the government to account. We’ll keep asking
#WhatsThePlanMatt
?
And we’ll keep fighting for a better NHS 💙
The 2nd reading of the new Health and Care Bill in is less than 48 hours’ time ⏰ and it spells disaster for the NHS.
It will allow vast swathes of the NHS to be sold off. We'll need your help to make a LOT of noise over the next 2 days. Watch this space 💙
Erm, Theresa May was given £97,000 by an investment company with $11 billion worth of equity investments in the healthcare sector.
She was given it for making a speech.
It falls within the rules. But are you happy about it?
We're not🚨
👉
IMPORTANT: We have heard that NHS Trusts+CCGs are being instructed to bin waste doses of vaccine (left over at end of day) instead of using these doses to vaccinate NHS staff with second doses.
This is terrible. We will ensure that this reaches the national press
@EveryDoctorUK
🚨By 294 to 244 votes, MPs have just passed the Health & Care Bill 🚨
We are appalled but we're not giving up. Our fight to
#ScrapNHSBill
doesn't end here...
In fact our movement to halt + reverse NHS privatisation is just beginning, join us:
Another MP and member of Boris Johnson's team with links to private healthcare providers is Priti Patel.
Documents uncovered by Good Law Project in the course of another legal case over the government’s controversial PPE contracts found…
GPs fought COVID with insufficient or out-of-date PPE - some had none at all. They did everything they could to keep patients&communities safe - & they’re still doing this. No matter how many attacks they get, we’re here for GPs+all NHS staff 💙
#medtwitter
#TeamGP
#ScrapNHSBill
🚨 The Health and Care Bill has just passed its second reading 356 votes to 219 🚨
But we haven’t run out of chances to stop it yet. And we promise, we won’t stop fighting to
#ScrapNHSBill
🚨NHS screenshots🚨
We are sharing these screenshots of messages which were sent by a leader of an Integrated Care System, because we are desperately concerned for patient and staff well-being. We considered taking them to a journalist, but we are fed up of seeing reporting..
...A transaction took place between an organisation associated with the private healthcare sector (Aviva) and Stella Creasy. The fact that she chose to give this money to charity is immaterial, in our view.
What we are interested in is the receipt of financial benefits, or...
🚨We sent an email last night to our mailing list, naming the MPs with the strongest financial links to the private healthcare sector since the last General Election in 2019. Buckle up, because this is shocking (to us)🚨
...
Sajid Javid claims this Bill contains recommendations that most NHS staff have asked for. That’s not what we’ve heard from our thousands-strong community of NHS workers. This Bill does *not* focus on staff support or recruitment
#ScrapNHSBill
Gosh Liam Fox MP, that's a lot of donated money!👀
1. £10000 from Private health insurance advisors.
2. £20000 from a producer of diagnostic tests.
Anyone else concerned by this?🚨
If so, please RT.
Receiving some feedback, along the lines of "why are you opposed to NHS privatisation if the businesses make things more efficient?"
We have been researching this for a while. We haven't come across a single example of a private company making things more efficient in the NHS.
Current press attacks on GPs are a political diversion to draw attention away from the Health & Care Bill making its way through parliament. Don’t let them divide them, stand with NHS staff 💙
#medtwitter
One audience member, a Consultant surgeon, addressed the 🐘 in the room earlier;
"It's a sad indictment that Thérèse Coffey isn't here - no one from the dept. of Health is." And that "after 20 years in the profession my perspective is that the health service is broken and...
On 28th December, Dr Julia Grace Patterson received a text message from someone claiming to be Julia Hartley-Brewer, following her tweet containing factually inaccurate information about our masks…
Location 2: the headquarters of
@PHE_uk
In 2016, the gov carried out a flu simulation called Exercise Cygnus to test our pandemic readiness. We fell far short. The report was buried & most of its recommendations ignored. Next time we must be better prepared.
#WhatsThePlanMatt
?
The Health and Care Bill may have passed its 2nd reading this week but we haven’t run out of chances to stop it yet. Find out why we must
#ScrapNHSBill
from
@JujuliaGrace
👇 and pls read + RT if you agree 💙
"I called my GP this morning at 8.30am & was seen at 11.40am. I thank God every day for the NHS….also want to mention that my mums GP did a house visit to make sure she was OK. The NHS staff are all doing an amazing job." - Donna, North Lanarkshire 💙
#TeamGP
It is deeply concerning to see that Dr Rosena Allin-Khan has accepted 2 large donations from someone with strong links to the health insurance industry 🚨
Does it concern you to see how many senior Labour politicians are on our map? If so, please RT💙...
What we’re against is profit making OF ANY KIND in our NHS. It’s already happening. Nearly 10% of the NHS’ total budget goes towards private providers atm. This bill will increase it. That’s why we need to
#ScrapNHSBill
GPs are in crisis. Primary care services are completely overloaded as a result of the pandemic. This situation is unsafe for NHS patients & staff. We're meeting with NHS England today, and to help lift the lid to raise public awareness of the pressure GPs are facing...
Rachel Reeves (current Shadow Chancellor) received a donation of £14840 from a senior advisor to CVC Capital Partners. They have extensive private healthcare and pharmaceutical/health technology related investments🚨
Does this concern you? If so, RT💥
...
If you've ever signed one of our petitions, bought a mask, invited your MP to our briefings, shared a newstory that mentioned us... and much more(!) then thank you, you make our community what it is 💙comment below & we'll follow you back as a thanks!
“We have a short term emergency with workforce burnout”
@Jeremy_Hunt
. Just to be clear Jeremy, you’ve done more to damage the NHS workforce than anyone. But...
The new Health and Care Bill spells disaster for the NHS.
Unless millions of us speak up NOW - and our MPs join us - this Bill will go through. Do not let the government get away with this.
Watch this space 👀 RT, tell others, we’ll be launching something later today 👍
It's official. The wrong masks were bought 😷
Masks supplied by Chinese firms through Ayanda Capital for NHS workers to use were not fit for purpose.
Over 880 health and social care workers died. This cannot happen again.
#WhatsThePlanMatt
?
Yet again a government minister is taking credit for the vaccine rollout - an NHS success story. We must give credit where it’s due, to our amazing
#NHS
and volunteers, and do everything we can to protect it in the future.
#ScrapNHSBill
MPs may have passed the Health & Care Bill, but this isn’t the end.
As the Bill continues through the House of Lords’ committee stage, we'll keep fighting to
#ScrapNHSBill
🔥 because most people WANT a truly public NHS 💙 Pls RT if you do too.
The press are at it again - this time it’s the
@spectator
who are bashing GPs. Their recent article demanding GPs stop "hiding behind their telephones", is a misleading attack on NHS staff who are battling the backlog as quickly as they can...
benefits-in-kind, which enrich politicians in any way. This is not limited to the personal receipt of money.
When benefits are provided to MPs by private sources, this is then used in various ways. The money may be given to charity. It may build an MPs' team, or perhaps fund...
Foreign Office officials were not as convinced about the robustness of Pestfix as a company likely to supply safe PPE as
@matthancock
was. Looks like the FCO was right.
Another enormous donation to a Labour MP, this time Dan Jarvis👀🔎🚨
MPs make decisions about the future of the NHS. We don't think they should take donations from those with private healthcare interests. If you agree, RT 💙
Here's the link to our map🗺️👉
🚨 MPs are voting on the Health & Care Bill tomorrow 🚨
Pls RT to get
#ScrapNHSBill
trending and help us hit our crowdfunder target to carry our fight into the House of Lords and beyond 👉
Soon we’ll be live-tweeting from central London with a new action to make our message loud + clear to all MPs who’ll be voting on the Health & Care Bill tomorrow: we must
#ScrapNHSBill
Pls RT to help get
#ScrapNHSBill
trending no.1 before then!
in-house barrister
@megs1970
(who conducted all of this research) went through the Register of Members' Interests extremely carefully. Here is the screenshot of the marked up entry relating to Stella Creasy:
As you can see, the entry appears under "Employment and earnings"...
THREAD: As doctors we find
@stellacreasy
’s use of the word “unhinged” in her tweet about those at
@everydoctoruk
and their supporters who respectfully disagree with her incredibly disappointing and offensive to patients with mental health problems.
This is unhinged - no I am not in pay of a private healthcare company because they made donation direct to my local nightshelter when asked in lieu of a speaking fee. Neither are
@Bonn1eGreer
or
@TorstenBell
or
@ArloBrady
who also spoke. Learn the difference before mudslinging.
Could we hit 100,000 followers by the time parliament comes back in September??? Only with your help! 🙌
Our key fight this autumn is going to be to halt + reverse NHS privatisation. Pls RT to help us grow stronger!
15 MPs have registered so far for our briefing on NHS privatisation on April 29! Thank you 💙
Ben Bradshaw MP
Dan Carden MP
Debbie Abrahams MP
Ian Byrne MP
Kate Osborne MP
Kim Johnson MP
Margaret Ferrier MP
Pauline Latham MP
Peter Dowd MP
Rachel Hoskins MP
Wera Hobhouse MP...
...astonishingly declaring just last month that the "NHS doesn't need cash".
Mr Barclay, patients are coming to harm🚨
What is your plan?
If you want to know Mr Barclay's plan, RT this please.
***ENDS***
@EveryDoctorUK
Link to article ⬇️
Dear
@Telegraph
, why are you platforming a doctor who lost his job due to media attacks on NHS staff? Are you doing this to distract people from the Health & Care Bill that’s making its way through parliament???
#AskingForAFriend
#ScrapNHSBill
Please show solidarity to the workers who are being treated with contempt by this government. They are enduring relentless assaults on their working conditions, and when they turn on the news, they invariably see coverage which undermines their importance and gaslights them. …
Today’s the last day of our High Court trial against the government over their inappropriate PPE contracts.
Stay tuned today for the final raft of updates from court from us,
@JujuliaGrace
&
@megs1970
Well that's an *enormous* donation, Yvette Cooper. £63388! Anyone else concerned about this? 👀
Why are our politicians taking huge donations from those with interests in private healthcare?💙🚨
Check out our entire map here:
A huge number of unusable FFP2 masks were purchased in vast quantities by the DoH last year.
@MattHancock
says he relied on advice from a senior
@NHSE
official when buying but so far refused to provide us with copies of this advice. Today the judge ordered him to do so by 7th May
"No Prime Minister is going to say ‘we're going to privatise the NHS’... they're going to manufacture consent for these changes through under-funding... Cuts and privatisation go hand in hand" -
@RichardBurgon
#ScrapNHSBill
We’re halfway through our High Court trial against the government. We brought these cases because of frightening stories from our members on the frontline 💙Like this, from one of our GP members...
Why has Angela Rayner accepted huge donations from two individuals who work for companies with extensive investments in the private healthcare sector?🚨👀
She accepted £50,000 in this way in 2021.
If this concerns you, please RT💙
...not the only MP who has taken money from individuals or companies related to the private healthcare industry and donated it to charity; Jeremy Hunt MP appears on the map because he took £12000 from a private healthcare related source and paid it to charity. In fact he paid...
...a field trip which can further a cause the politician supports.
Any of these things enable politicians to do something beneficial to them (or to build relationships or their public image) as a result of taking money from the private healthcare industry.
Stella Creasy is...
"Doctors within our network are reporting that they know patients are now dying because they're unable to deliver the care that is required" -
@JujuliaGrace
on
@SkyNews
yesterday.
#NHSCrisis
Pls write to your MP to demand they act to
#ReviveTheNHS
now:
Pls read and RT our open letter to
@BorisJohnson
in the
@guardian
today. 👇
The road to recovery is steep; planning is needed now to help
#NHSstaff
and the public move forward from their collective grief and trauma.
We're calling for a UK-wide
#COVID19
Trauma Recovery Plan.
Unless millions of us speak up this Bill will go through. Write to your MP before Wednesday to ask them to stand up for the NHS and
#ScrapNHSBill
now 👇