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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RT @mndassoc: Jake, 14, received a mountain bike through an MND Association grant after his dad’s diagnosis. 🚲. “It’s brought a real spark….
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RT @thetimes: Wes Streeting spoke out about the care of ethnic minority pregnant women before a new report, which will detail shocking exam….
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Wes Streeting says there is a racism problem in the health service, where a quarter of black women say they’ve experienced discrimination
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RT @ShaunLintern: 🚨 NHS England boss Sir Jim Mackey ordered hospital leaders to take a tougher line with the BMA ahead of strikes next week….
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Sir Jim Mackey talks of ‘different approach’ by NHS for Friday’s five-day strike, with routine operations and ‘priority treatments’ going ahead as planned
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RT @ShaunLintern: Black women are subjected to racist treatment on NHS maternity wards, @wesstreeting says as a new report by @fivexmore to….
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Wes Streeting says there is a racism problem in the health service, where a quarter of black women say they’ve experienced discrimination
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RT @thetimes: Sir Jim Mackey talks of ‘different approach’ by NHS for Friday’s five-day strike, with routine operations and ‘priority treat….
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Sir Jim Mackey talks of ‘different approach’ by NHS for Friday’s five-day strike, with routine operations and ‘priority treatments’ going ahead as planned
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In a letter to hospital chief executives on Friday, NHS England told them to maintain more services and to keep routine operations going “to the fullest extent possible”, as well as continuing with “priority treatments.” . Sets up tough talks locally with BMA over derrogations. .
🚨 NHS England boss Sir Jim Mackey ordered hospital leaders to take a tougher line with the BMA ahead of strikes next week. He said: "We all tolerated levels of harm and risk last time that I really just don’t think we should anymore." With @HarryYorke1
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RT @emilydugan: New: the hundreds of parents being investigated for child abuse when they seek help or diagnosis for their sick children. h….
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Some of society’s most vulnerable are being torn from their families by officials who claim their parents are fabricating illness
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RT @timespolitics: NHS put up with harm of last strikes, says boss — but not any more
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Sir Jim Mackey talks of ‘different approach’ by NHS for Friday’s five-day strike, with routine operations and ‘priority treatments’ going ahead as planned
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From Tom Kark KC - lead counsel at the Mid Staffs Inquiry (his final submission was almost better than the final report) and author of the Kark report on manager regulation:
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But the @TheBMA & @thomasdolphin said: "The BMA urges NHSE to reconsider its current instructions to hospitals, which should instead be preparing to postpone non-urgent planned activity ahead of next week’s strikes, to ensure a safe service that matches levels of staff available".
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🚨 NHS England boss Sir Jim Mackey ordered hospital leaders to take a tougher line with the BMA ahead of strikes next week. He said: "We all tolerated levels of harm and risk last time that I really just don’t think we should anymore." With @HarryYorke1
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Sir Jim Mackey talks of ‘different approach’ by NHS for Friday’s five-day strike, with routine operations and ‘priority treatments’ going ahead as planned
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🚨 Senior NHS managers are to be regulated by the @The_HCPC with a barring list to prevent those guilty of misconduct from working again in the NHS. @wesstreeting says this "will slam the door in the face of unsuitable managers"
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RT @APPGBlackHealth: @ShaunLintern @wesstreeting @fivexmore The structural racism must end! .Thanks for highlighting Shaun and @fivexmore….
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Black women are subjected to racist treatment on NHS maternity wards, @wesstreeting says as a new report by @fivexmore tomorrow details the experiences of hundreds of women. The Sunday Times has the preview: .
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Wes Streeting says there is a racism problem in the health service, where a quarter of black women say they’ve experienced discrimination
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RT @sbdrysdale: Premature babies in UK to be immunised against winter virus RSV - BBC News
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From late September, 9,000 babies and vulnerable infants in the UK will have a long-lasting injection.
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RT @JanetWilliams99: We @Infactuk @Emma4facs want to thank @Christian4BuryS for his support and standing up for those harmed by #valproatec….
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For decades, the drug Valproate was prescribed to expectant mothers with epilepsy without informing them of the effect this could have on their unborn babies...
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RT @pressgazette: Rupert Murdoch and Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker have defied threats from Donald Trump and published a bawdy bir….
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The president threatened to sue The Wall Street Journal over its report on a letter sent to Jeffrey Epstein on the sex offender's 50th birthday.
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RT @UKHSA: ICYMI, new data shows high levels of confidence in the UK’s childhood vaccination programme. 90% of parents also agreed that va….
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RT @mndassoc: The day didn’t end when the ice melted. Seckin and her family were joined by Ellis, who is also living with SOD1 MND his fa….
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Social care, delayed discharge, death. What a sad coroner's case that sum up the systemic failure taking place across the NHS:
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