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BREAKING: Exclusive: Investigation launched after NHS staff access care record of man killed by tiger hsj.co.uk/technology-and-inn…
Beware the 'chat over lunch' with a journalist (especially when they're taking notes). NHS England chair Penny Dash tells @SarahNev that NHS reforms are “causing quite a lot of squealing” from staff ft.com/content/d3ebfda8-4580…
Alastair McLellan retweeted
The drugs are excessively expensive and barely work, if at all. The experts are calling for virtue signalling, not effective action and should be ignored.
As one trust CEO said to me recently, the best way to reduce your maintenance backlog is to demolish a few buildings. Which is all well and good if an alternative way has been found to provide services - but a bit alarming if not
The ever rising NHS maintenance backlog figure is both shocking and useless. It shows how bad the estate is, but equally, no government is ever going to invest £bns in something as unsexy replacing boilers. We need a better measure that might link to meaningful action
Repair backlog for NHS buildings has now risen to £17bn...
The rate of growth may have slowed down, but still a huge barrier to care provided by the NHS
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The NHS is on course to hit the government's hospital waiting list pledge by 'the end of the parliamentary term'. The only problem is that it's the NEXT parliament, not this one (ie 2034, not 2029) hsj.co.uk/quality-and-perfor…
Compare this performance with the comments made by @wesstreeting as he quit as health sec in April and made his bid for PM. Worst piece of political mis-selling on the NHS since Bojo's '40 new hospitals' pledge
Alastair McLellan retweeted
Extraordinary to see the intemperate responses to @HSJEditor @HSJnews HSJ editor's quite legitimate defence of the contribution NHS managers make.
Hi Alastair
Can we stop the HSJ awards tomorrow and see how many followers you and @HSJnews would have?
And can we have a breakdown of the income HSJ makes out of these awards please?
Thank you
@parthaskar @DrSteveTaylor @iDrSunny @medicalmodelbri @kcisc @DrNeenaJha @pash22
Alastair McLellan retweeted
Humbled and honoured to be a judge at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards and attend their spectacular awards ceremony. An inspiring celebration of teams whose dedication and innovation make care safer. Congratulations to all the finalists and winners! @HSJEditor @HSJnews
Great to see 'Sure Start' back (sort of), but I think it's reasonable to conclude from the conference speech by @YvetteCooperMP that the enthusiasm to significantly recover hospital performance in the near(ish) term that marked the Streeting period is waning.
Alastair McLellan retweeted
Across my Trust and partner organisations I see amazing managers; values driven, smart, hard working and ethical. They work alongside all colleagues at every level in the trust with amazing clinicians, patients, communities and families. All lead together.
Ex-minister would sack half of managers he has met ‘in a heartbeat’ ift.tt/rOl1bPB
Great speech an' all. But I think we can conclude the AB's government does not have the same (unrealistic) expectations for NHS recovery that Starmer's did. That's largely a good thing, but I do worry we are normalising some pretty terrible performance
If I were @AConstance23 I'd be demanding @zubirahmed issues an apology to his managerial colleaugues before being allowed to work again in the Scottish NHS
The former minister and surgeon @zubirahmed had shared his views on NHS managers with me privately. Good to see that he has now decided to out himself as an idiot hsj.co.uk/workforce/ex-minis…
The former minister and surgeon @zubirahmed had shared his views on NHS managers with me privately. Good to see that he has now decided to out himself as an idiot hsj.co.uk/workforce/ex-minis…
The question I would ask is 'are NHS commissioners purchasing care from care providers that threaten migrant staff in this way?' If they are, they should demand a change of behaviour
"There is modern slavery happening right now."
Migrant care workers are told to stay silent, accept poor treatment and endure exploitation because they are tied to a single employer.
It's a system that traps workers with abusive employers.
We need a better way. #FairVisasNow
Alastair McLellan retweeted
"There is modern slavery happening right now."
Migrant care workers are told to stay silent, accept poor treatment and endure exploitation because they are tied to a single employer.
It's a system that traps workers with abusive employers.
We need a better way. #FairVisasNow
Another front opens in the AI revolution/apocalypse
8 words that are saying a lot
"AI now functions as a determinant of health"
nature.com/articles/s44360-0…
Alastair McLellan retweeted
Wes Streeting really did pick the best moment to resign. Avoided having to deal with the inevitable rise in the elective waiting list, and make any of the difficult decisions about how to move 1000s of NHS staff into Dept of Health
It looks like the government will have to (quietly) drop its flagship NHS promise (to cut NHS hospital waiting lists) writes @Jamesillman ahead of the Labour Party conference hsj.co.uk/expert-briefings/r…
