Shaun Lintern
@ShaunLintern
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Health Editor at The Sunday Times. National Press Awards Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Chair of @mjauk. Public interest journalism matters #E17
Joined July 2010
🚨 INVESTIGATION: Private clinics delivering NHS cataract surgery face investigation over claims they have artificially inflated costs for the taxpayer, performed unnecessary operations and incentivised high-street optometrists to refer patients to them:
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I jinxed them! Sadly due to water quality issues the NRC is not going to accept its first patients on 11 November. They almost made it but alas it will be a little later this month. Still, amazing facility that will do a lot of good.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new ��105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease: https://t.co/PnWQqNghK7
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Six hours. That’s all it took for a small business to get slammed with a 50% tariff. Elana Woldenberg Ruffman, VP of Marketing and Product Development at @hand2mind, shares how “emergency” tariffs forced her team to sprint across continents to make a children’s toy—only to be
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Eeek! Thanks to @VirgoHealth for this event this morning. Helping me to raise money for the @mndassoc by being mouthy. Was a great chat and Q&A.
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Who better to get us to think differently about nursing workforce challenges than the inimitable Prof Alison Leary? #NursingLive @alisonleary1 @annemarieraffer @ShaunLintern
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EXCLUSIVE 💥 w/@manu_midolo Nigel Farage's partner ran a eurosceptic group at the centre a secret years-long criminal investigation into fraud, money-laundering and forgery Today, two people connected to it have been convicted of diverting public funds through a network of
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@Joeybadass brought his Brooklyn energy to the latest episode of Chime’s Ball on A Budget. Powered by @chime
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Good time for the department to get stuck into organisation in breweries
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Read @WesStreeting’s letter to the BMA Resident Doctors Committee with a comprehensive offer to increase training places, put money back in resident doctors’ pockets and improve their working lives if the BMA call off their unnecessary strikes 👇
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NEW: together with @vsmacdonald and @robbieboyd_ I’ve been investigating failings in maternity care at Oxford University Hospitals for four months. We spoke with two dozen women whose care spanned 16 years. The findings are shocking. Thank you to everyone who shared their story
EXPOSED: BRITAIN'S NEXT MATERNITY SCANDAL BY @hannahsbee When a woman enters a hospital maternity ward, she places her life – and that of her baby – in the hands of medical staff. But in Britain today, that trust is being broken. Nearly half of England’s maternity units require
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"The Trust has implemented a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) at the weekend and issues with the technical roll out of the product has added to the ability to manage the current levels of pressure."
We have declared a Critical Incident due to sustained pressures across the Trust, in particular in A&E. Please only use our A&E in a life-threatening accident or emergency, using other services such as GPs, NHS111 and pharmacies in all other cases.
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This boils my blood!!! Women die giving birth, I am so sick of people saying our bodies know what to do. Try telling this to women in Afghanistan, where 638 women die per 100,000 live birth AND 50 babies die per 1000 lives births.
Birth is not an “emergency” requiring the presence of a white-coated pharmaceutical salesman cosplaying as a health expert; Birth is a natural, normal physiological process in which the woman’s body expresses the intelligence, beauty and co-creative capacity of nature, set forth
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After a brilliant 18 months in New York, I've returned to London to join The Sunday Times as a reporter. Got a tip, story or want to learn more about what I'm covering, email me: Samuel.lovett@thetimes.co.uk
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Federal investigators are taking a closer look at the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s finances. What could this probe mean for transparency, accountability, and the broader nonprofit sector?
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Odd speech from chancellor. In one sense fair enough to blame last govt for problems. But wrong to pretend all utterly unexpected and couldn’t possibly have been predicted at election or budget last year. We knew the risks when tax promises were made. And so did she.
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I do think if people believe we are becoming more violent - and a lot of people do, quite passionately - then they need to properly engage with the arguments Fraser is making here.
Is Britain becoming more violent? A look at the data:-
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease: https://t.co/PnWQqNghK7
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Rehabilitation is the misssing link in the major trauma treatment chain. Am hoping that the NRC will be the first of a series of similar centers across the UK. Early, intensive, personalised rehabilitation is key to good outcomes.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease: https://t.co/PnWQqNghK7
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The most underrated influencer strategy in 2025? Sending free stuff. Yes, influencer marketing means contracts, budgets, and carefully mapped campaigns. But sometimes the biggest wins come from something much simpler: giving the right product to the right creator at the right
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Proud and excited to read this write-up about the opening of @nottmhospitals NRC in The Sunday Times. The NRC will revolutionise rehabilitation across the country, and this story demonstrates how and why.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Britain's new £105 million rehab hospital opening on time and in budget, promising a revolution in rehab and turning around the UK's poor record for those suffering life-changing injury and disease: https://t.co/PnWQqNghK7
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Inside the £105m rehab hospital that’s about to change lives ⬇️
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Opening on time and on budget, the site near Nottingham will help patients with spinal cord injuries, brain damage and other conditions regain independence
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Lifesaving treatments for millions of Britons who suffer from rare diseases could be approved years earlier under ambitious plans by the UK medicines watchdog ⬇️
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The medicines watchdog is changing how it oversees research of 7,000 rare diseases, which collectively affect about one in 17 Britons
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"This group of patients has traditionally not been as well served by medicines as diseases that are in large populations..." says @LawrenceTallon adding the @MHRAgovuk new approach could shave years off the process to getting drugs approved for use.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Lifesaving treatments for the millions of Britons who suffer from rare diseases could be approved years earlier under ambitious plans by the UK medicines watchdog:
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What do people really think of recycled rubber and artificial turf? According to BPI’s recent survey, a strong majority of Americans see these surfaces as safe. In fact, when given a choice, 72% would choose artificial turf over grass when upgrading local fields. Confidence
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