Charles West
@West_GP
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I've been GP, Health Service manager & Health Informatician; Councillor, Parliamentary candidate & NHS campaigner. Now I walk, play music & at being a GrandPa.
Shrewsbury
Joined December 2009
Will somebody please #ShutTheMuskUp A ill-informed rich American using inflammatory language about various European countries looks rather ridiculous.
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Hospital league tables are a recycled bad idea, even Blair ultimately rejected. How does it help, to know a local hospital has been ranked above/below others? I don’t wanna “shop around” & I’m not helped by stigma/punishment heaped on my local hospital. Wes Streeting is clueless
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This is awful. I can’t believe the public is in favour of core NHS services being privately delivered for shareholder profit
Wow. A local NHS consortium bid for this contract - yet it’s just been awarded to @HCRGCareGroup, the private company that was once Virgin Care. @HCRGCareGroup will now - for profit - provide community care across all of Bath, Swindon, NE Somerset & Wiltshire. Heartbreaking 😔
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If P&O, DP World are pulling £1 billion investment because of criticism of their disgusting abuse of people How about we say no thanks to companies that abuse staff And seek investment from those who have better standards instead? Thoughts?
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We’ll be watching you @BBCNews for every minute of exposure you give to Reform you must give at least as much to @TheGreenParty
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@West_GP @BBCRadio3 Stopped listening because I work with words and can’t concentrate if there’s chat.
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Oh dear @BBCRadio3 used to be the Music Programme. After years of dumbing down we were at least left with two concerts a day (Lunchtime and evening) when we could hear whole pieces of music rather than excerpts and chat. Now we have lost six concerts a week 1/2
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Dear 🇬🇧, Here’s your weekly reminder that 10 years ago, your NHS was ranked the #1 healthcare system on Earth. You don’t need a new system. You need a new govt that won’t destroy your public NHS to feed a private system. Your family isn’t safe in #ToryBritain. #SOSNHS
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Come on guys. I know you're sick of the climate catastrophe, but the UK government clearly hasn't woken up to it. Petition to stop all new oil and gas development. https://t.co/FNJ9Gy8AB5
petition.parliament.uk
We want the Government to stop all new oil and gas developments, including the planned Rosebank Field Development.
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Monday was another damning day for the government at the Covid Inquiry. It is becoming clearer what the recommendations from the Inquiry are likely to be… But there is also a bigger question raised about criminality… 1/n
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Middlesbrough yesterday. Another big skip of what looks like unused hospital equipment rumoured 2 b what wasn’t used in Nightingale Hospital- if true-a shocking waste of useable equipment & money! Why not use it? Doesn’t seem faulty? Who has pocketed the money from contract?
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Brexit Dead Ringer: The truth about the NHS at 75 years https://t.co/tJnJnIZdnK via @YouTube
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It took years to learn the deadly lessons of cigarettes. We can’t wait so long for vaping https://t.co/mr0LtAHSXo
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Nicotine is a drug that shouldn’t be dressed up in cartoon packaging and sweet shop flavours
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Yes please, the duet from the end of Act 1 of B&B is sublime. @MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3
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This weekend coming up... The links between Greensill who went into liquidation owing the UK almost £400m lent by Tory gov, and Zahawi (whose phone messages were conveniently deleted) and the BBC chairman Richard Sharp. And of course David Cameron, the former Tory Prime minister
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Welcome @sharivahl It's good to have you on @BBCRadio3 I remember so well the care (almost reverence) with which we treated gramophone records in former days.
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This evening’s concert on @BBCRadio3 comes from Prussia Cove which is in Cornwall; except that it was recorded in the Wigmore Hall which is in London. I am confused. Perhaps @PetrocTrelawny can explain? I am @CharlesW@Mastodon.Scot
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