Tony O’Sullivan
@DrTonyOSullivan
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Co-chair @keepnhspublic | https://t.co/EYzvfDKX06 | https://t.co/TFBmCuG8nv | @savelewishamAE | Follow me at @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social
Lewisham, SE London
Joined August 2011
It’s Streeting holding our NHS drs, nurses, staff & patients - to ransom - NOT the other way round. ❗️Don’t fund investment in the NHS by suppressing NHS staff wages ❗️42% of resident doctors ending their 2yrs foundation are unable to find a job ❗️1000s of drs forced abroad
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It is Streeting holding our NHS doctors and nurses and other staff - to ransom - NOT the other way round
Haunting words from Dr Susie who we spoke to earlier: "A huge number are leaving. Conditions [in NZ/Oz] are better; their system isn't as crumbling as ours, but if they make a life there - why would they come back?" Stand with your Resident Doctors. We'll miss them if they go.
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🤔We asked Dr John Puntis, Co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public, if using the private sector helped the NHS with its capacity issues. @keepnhspublic 🚨Spoilers: it doesn't. #publicownership #NHS #SOSNHS
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“Where does the private sector get their staff? From the NHS. They cherry pick patients. They can’t help you in an emergency.” John Puntis makes it clear that it makes no sense to use public money to invest in private sector capacity as happens in eye care. #FitForTheFutureNHS
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in 2016 the NHS tried to cut headcount; managers, admin, back office. redundancy cheques were huge the work didn’t go away. It came back as consultants on day-rates, interims and agency cover. Consultancy spend trebbled to £22.65m in just two years.
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I want to take a totally unearned lap. After 25 years as a Green Party activist and 84 years as Bernie Sanders' brother I celebrate the emergence of two young men, Zack Polanski and Zhoran Mamdani, who will be leaders in the battle for a new and better world. A day for optimism.
Huge congratulations to @ZohranKMamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚
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The simplistic and hateful nonsense from Reform UK has to be challenged.
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The Cambridgeshire train stabbings are absolutely horrific - and beyond traumatising for the passengers. Some are using these attacks as evidence that the UK is in the grip of violent anarchy. That's not true. Violence has, thankfully, been plummeting for many years.
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Time and again we told @NHSEngland & @DHSCgovuk @wesstreeting @SKinnock that this roll out of online consultations isn’t ready. We were ignored. Our concerns dismissed. The software isn’t safe. Here’s some real life examples of what’s going on now. It’s frightening….
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Please consider supporting this legal fund drive: Did you know NHS health workers are being bullied, threatened, suspended and investigated by the GMC, accused of ant1-sem1t1sm for expressing opposition to gen0c1de in Palestine. This legal defence fund is necessary to defend
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HW4P are a grassroots organization who advocate for health workers in Palestine and the right of the Palestinian people to an independent sovereign decolonised healthcare system
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Our latest contribution to @SectorFocus is out now! 👀 Read how Health Secretary Wes Streeting's plans to expand private provision in the NHS undermines our health service - you won't want to miss this one! By our Co-Chair @DrTonyOSullivan 👇👇 https://t.co/In2TIr7h8q
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I’ve written a piece with @NeoDoc11 for @bmj_latest about the urgent need for reform of the expert witness system if we are serious about representing science and statistics accurately in criminal trials, and preventing miscarriages of justice https://t.co/MlaMumxtrh
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Concerns about the role of expert evidence in criminal trials centre on ensuring that judges and juries hear a fair and balanced interpretation of complex, nuanced, and uncertain medical evidence in...
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Shocking stats coming out from the RCN today. Racism has no place in our society, or in our NHS. Next month we're holding an important event in London exploring this very issue. Find out more & get tickets: https://t.co/ylmlZRJenO
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Let’s reject migrant scapegoating and stand together for a better NHS and social care service for patients and staff.
Racism towards nurses has hit a 'crisis point' in the UK. That's the stark warning from the nursing and midwifery regulator. It comes as a report from the Nurses' Union finds that incidents of racism have increased by 55% in the last three years. But with many too scared to
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"The number of NHS appointments, tests & operations delivered by private hospitals & clinics has increased by c500,000 this year; now at 6.15 million." Every appointment moved to private hands weakens the NHS we all rely on. This wasn't Bevan's plan. https://t.co/unf56ChvKT
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Using spare capacity in the private sector is key to the government’s target of ensuring that 92 per cent of patients in England should wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment
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Tired of the toxic anti-migrant rhetoric dominating politics? Know our NHS wouldn’t survive without migrants? Then join us, with @ZackPolanski, @zarahsultana & many others - to stand up for compassion and truth. Register now: https://t.co/ylmlZRJenO
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In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family – a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents
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If Labour wants to touch welfare, they should make it more generous, and linked to a transformed social care system free at the point of use. @keepnhspublic
no Reeves you could improve it but what you mean is you want to make it more oppressive @EndSCDisgrace
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Come to Manchester for this conference on social care transformation and resistance! @EndSCDisgrace brings great speakers to a great venue. Free social care - like the NHS - that's what we want! Register https://t.co/Pvw1nrLSfq
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@Rebeccasmt I am sorry that you experienced this A family member recently received an unexpected and life threatening cancer diagnosis in a similar way via text Political interference in the UK health service has stripped away empathy and humanity It is a disaster
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Thank you for sharing this. Sorry to hear your experience but it’s so important. This new(ish) government and @wesstreeting are pursuing an ‘apps, tech and AI are the answer to everything’ dangerous path. 20-30% of ppl will be disadvantaged and even more will be short-changed.
First time ever writing about something personal. Please be kind 🙈 My GP told me my diagnosis over text. Is this Wes Streeting’s vision for the NHS?
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