#save the NHS

[pseudowho]

Three cheers for @mrhaitch for lovingly walking me out of A&E, with my freshly ruptured spinal disc, while I'm off my face on pain relief and looking like a sad raccoon, while he looks as handsome as usual.

Anyway, I'm injured.

I did it by playing too hard with my toddler.

Thanks to the emergency services for their thrilling rescue.

Ugh.

-- Haitch xxx

[lost-carcosa]

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Sajid Javid calls for patients to pay for GP and A&E visits | NHS | The Guardian

We must resist this in the strongest possible way.

[top-the-cat]

[midnight-love-song]

Why are mental health assessments always conducted by people who would’ve mercilessly bullied you in school

[heulwenflower]

Why I won't go to the doctor

Hello doctor

Yes I'm 20

Biologically?Well I have a vagina if that answers your question

19 stone isn't why I'm here

What's the problem?Well it's hard to explain

In one sentence it would be pain

It never leaves me

Day or night

Radiating my body

Never straying to far from my back

I'm sorry to bother you about this aswell

But tiredness weighs on my life

I carry it aswell as I can but its just getting too big

I can't go to events as often as i want

because it'll always be there

And for days after it'll bring a plauge that I can't shake

This is a bit embarrassing but I can't keep it secret anymore

It's my down belows

And it's a war zone

It's the world's strictest border force

Letting no one in

If you try to sneak in it'll push you out

Then attack itself for not being strong

While my tap keeps dripping

I know I've told you this before

But my heart is a runner when I stand still

I keep going dizzy and I see no sight in end

When I'm so used to seeing it start to fade to black

Don't roll your eyes

But I still feel sick everyday

I just don't complain because it's normal now

I know we're running out of time but just one more thing

My bones want to escape my body

Rolling,locking,grinding

Trying to break free

I know all of this is silly but please believe me

There an old curse I've been to ashamed to speak

I can't be haunted anymore so please believe me

Doctor Doctor

What's your answer?

It's all in my head and to get on a treadmill

Well alright then

[bottlesandbarricades]

NHS: *buckling and crumbling before our eyes due to underfunding, neglect and privatisation*

Rishi Sunak: I love maths. maths is great. I think you should all be forced to do maths till you’re 18

[totallyhussein-blog]

After clapping for the carers during lockdown, what now for the NHS?

As Keir Starmer is set to warn that "things will get worse" in the UK before they get better, Channel 4 have highlighted reports of care workers being ripped off, abused and exploited here in the UK.

The Royal College of Nursing is calling on the government to launch a full and urgent investigation, and to work on policy solutions to eradicate these practices. Here is the report.

And despite paying income tax and national insurance, NHS nurses from overseas are being “pushed into poverty” because of rules that deprive many people coming to work in the UK of welfare benefits for five years after they arrive.

A Royal College of Nursing report, based on a survey of more than 3,000 foreign nurses, warns that the policy “punishes” people for coming to work in the UK and is “risking a mass exodus of international nursing staff” from the NHS.

[ceevee5]

The Tories want to run in 2024 on how they’ve made the country better. Good luck with that.

[goodstufflabourhasdone]

Junior doctors have been taking strike action on and off since MARCH 2023. Finally it looks like a deal might happen.

The latest strike alone resulted in over 60,000 appointments being cancelled, so it's great that the Chancellor Rachel Reeves is trying to sort this out.

[andysouldancer]

Headline

Should the wealthy pay for NHS care?

Read, pay to jump queue!

[voxpeople]

Phil Foden Leaves England Camp to Attend Daughter's Dentist Appointment

England forward Phil Foden has left the team's Euro 2024 camp to join his daughter for her six-month dental check-up, the FA has confirmed.

Questions have been raised over how the added travel will effect Foden's form, the 24-year-old having previously left the team for the birth of his third child. However, he is expected to return to train with the team ahead of their next match against Spain on Sunday.

[lost-carcosa]

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

People saying on that NHS post there’s nothing we can do til 2024...

Voting is not the only way to influence the country you live in. In many ways, it’s the least effective way.

If you vote IDK, Labour, and think job done, you’re part of the problem.

The number one thing you can do to help save the NHS right now is to support the nurse’s strike, and the junior doctor’s strike. Will the aims of these unions solve the whole problem? Obviously not. But supporting the strikes sends a general message to the government about who’s side “the public” are on, and what the public will accept.

Things you can do to support the strikes:

1) Donate to strike funds. Long term strikes struggle, because people don’t get paid. Many nurses can’t afford to save much on their current wage. Many doctors come out of med school with crippling commercial debt and not in a good financial state. These things make it hard to strike. So if you can help people go on strike for more days, that’s super important.

2) Visit picket lines. Picket lines are in effect protests- if you’d go on a protest march for the NHS, then go and visit the picket line. Talk to whoever’s on the picket line and offer your soldiarity and support. This makes a huge different to striking workers. If you can bring those on the picket line hot drinks or snacks, this will likely be super appreciated!

3) Post about your support for the strikes on your social media. The mainstream media are trying to run with the message “no-one” supports the strikes. You can help combat this.

4) Similar to the above, phone in to talk radio, write letters to newspapers expressing your support of the strikes.

5) Challenge people who criticise the strikes. E.g. if someone says “They’re putting people at risk by striking” you can say “the Tories are putting the NHS at risk of collapse, so they have to do something”.

I’m sure those nurses who have been on strike will have more to add, as they’re the ones facing this directly!

[letstalkbeautyuk]

Lots of Political badges being sent out this week to so many lovely customers. We have some new designs in the shop.

[gerbertphrog]

I fucking hate my GP service They open at 8:30, so I call instantly and the message is

{thank you for calling xxxxx medical centre, were closed right now our opening hours are 8:30-] (I hang up)

I call back instantly {thank you for calling xxxxx medical centre, unfortunately our safe daily capacity for appointments has been filled}

It is STILL 8:30

HOW in less than 60 seconds has every appointment been taken I need a regular appointment every 3 months they WONT prebook me i have to call on the day I have VERY passive aggressively filled out a form that will be seen in "up to 2 working days"