Various adjectives describe NHS staff, from senior managers to frontline nurses & doctors - burned out, despairing, desperate, distressed, guilty, anxious, depressed, suicidal. But complacency? Come on. We know better than anyone the NHS is on its knees - we long for change.

Link to Wes's @LBC interview here:

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting Whose headline?

@EdwinaLL @wesstreeting LBC - link in thread

@doctor_oxford I’m certainly not trashing NHS staff - on visits it’s often NHS staff highlighting the waste, inefficiency and case for improvements! The complacency comes from the assumption that money will solve all the problems and that the money is there. If only that were true!

@wesstreeting But Wes have you seriously met anyone, anywhere, who thinks simply that “more money will solve the NHS’s problems”? Pls point to anyone who claims this. It’s clearly not binary & never has been. *Both* reform & adequate funding urgently needed. Staff are desperate for reform too!

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting I feel very greatly for all NHS staff whatever their remit. I cannot interpret Wes Streeting's interview in the same manner as you. None of the medical staff, porters, cleaners etc are responsible for the very real dangers of over-spending. He means management and Government.

@doctor_oxford @PWGTennant @wesstreeting I get so fed up about politicians talking about broken and complacent or whatever NHS- and saying how they’d reform it. It’s so different to my experience of working in it- it doesn’t need reforming- they just need to let us get on with it- instead of all the pettiness-

@doctor_oxford @mikegalsworthy @wesstreeting “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein

@doctor_oxford @mikegalsworthy @wesstreeting Because he’s trash

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting Labour are playing an obscene game, their spads are on the right, and are cultivating a neoliberal outcome for Starmer, Streeting is deployed to inspire the Tory voters who can afford private healthcare. Sunak’s 74 SEZs are installing patchworks of privately run sovereignties…

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting I feel that Wes Streeting is doing more damage to the Labour Party right now than they realise.

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting The issue is mismanagement of funds and resources.

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting Is that in-between tick tocks and striking

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting Starmer might want to consider the latest polls, which indicate a fair slip in Labour's position and also that the NHS is the electorate's highest priority. Streeting is probably not his greatest electoral asset.

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting What did you expect from Labour?

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting Because he's a bloody Tory and you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting YOU don't have to convince you what you know is true, and you can't convince those who choose not to be convinced. All you can do is hope 'they see the light' and see what you see. True in all walks of life currently.

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting Seems to go out of his way to insult NHS staff, who is he trying to appeal to here? It's so incredibly disappointing, especially from a Labour politician. Even after all these years and the prospect of a new govt, we are still completely sideless.

@doctor_oxford @wesstreeting