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Paul Knight retweeted
1/17 Important thread 🧵 on the unnecessary complexity of pensions taxation and why it's unreasonable to expect individuals to "estimate" liabilities when administrators struggle. Please read to the end. #NHSPension #PensionTax
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Wainhouse Tower, Halifax lit up for #OrganDonation week
@PaulRKnight1 @Hudsonweather @CHFTNHS @NHSOrganDonor @Kate_Dearden @JoshFG @KatieMagnet
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Nick Robinson, "You've had a candidate who says Muslims should be removed from the UK"
Nigel Farage, "Really"
Nick Robinson, "You've had a candidate who claims that Africans have a low IQ"
"Why do you think that people with extreme and unpleasant views rally to your cause?"
Nigel Farage, "We've had an awful lot of candidates stitched up in the most extraordinary way. With quotes taken out of context"
Nick Robinson, "Why do they rally to your cause?"
Nigel Farage, "The truth of it is, before I got involved Reform was virtual
Nick Robinson, "I'm asking you a different question, I'm asking about you"
Nigel Farage, "No no no no no no no no no no no. They're not there because of me"
Nick Robinson, "You founded the party"
Nigel Farage, "No no no no no no no"
Nick Robinson, "You're the owner of the party"
Nigel Farage, "I've had no involvement in the day to day running of the party for over three years. These candidates were recruited before I said I would play an active role in the party. And frankly, they were so desperate for people to stand, and we employed a vetting company that didn't do the job"
Nick Robinson, "You can't run vetting but you could find £150 billion in public spending savings"
Paul Knight retweeted
"I would like to ask whether you have communicated your concerns directly to the Prime Minister who, tonight, could similarly write to me and open pay negotiations with both junior doctors and consultants?" Read @DrPhilBanfield's reply to NHS England's letter on patient safety.
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He also said the pay award was decided ‘by an independent pay review body’.
The DDRB is not independent. The Government sets its remit and appoints its members. As a Conservative backbencher said earlier this year, the Government ‘basically rigs’ the process.
Paul Knight retweeted
17/ It may sound like I'm nitpicking but it makes a BIG difference - all unions generally start from the beginning of austerity (and use RPI as a better guide to household costs). The rest of the economy has caught up (as per the charts), now its the turn of the public sector.
Paul Knight retweeted
1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: OK on the eve of junior/consultant strikes, we need to talk about these charts (NEW data just in!) 👇
We need to look at them to fix waiting lists & its increasingly clear next GE will be won or lost on the NHS
Please read the whole 🧵 & share widely / RT
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2/ You'll notice when ministers are in the media, they often talk about how hard "your viewers/listeners" have been hit by inflation. But what we need to do is separate fact from fiction (aka LIES), and it was 👇chart from excellent @jburnmurdoch @FT that really showed this well
Paul Knight retweeted
It’s #WorldHeartDay 🫀 – let's spread the word to encourage more people to confirm their decision on the NHS Organ Donor Register.
Thanks to the kindness of donors and their loved ones, 207 hearts were transplanted last year in the UK to save lives.
➡️ orlo.uk/dEsbo
ALT A graphic showing a big pink heart illustration alongside the wording 'It's World Heart Day'.
Paul Knight retweeted
If you're a surgical/medical oncologist wrestling with industrial action next week, look at this chart, shortages of staff, oncologists, pathologists, anaesthetists, all partly driven by NHS pay & conditions becoming uncompetitive. We all need to fix this, take action next week.
Paul Knight retweeted
Shame on you @NICEComms. Agreeing that healthcare professionals can offer pseudoscientific pain relief to women in labour is nothing short of a scandal. Shame on you.
New NICE intrapartum guidelines
nice.org.uk/guidance/ng235 1/
Paul Knight retweeted
Thanks so much to everyone who’s watching my first TV series #CardiacArrest on BBC4 and iPlayer. Season 2 airs tonight at 10pm. And thank you to all the brilliant cast and crew who did everything to elevate scripts by a lowly junior hospital doctor with zero writing experience.
Paul Knight retweeted
So wonderful to catch up with the brilliant @drllinos at the #OrganDonationWeek & @MY_NHSCharity stall at #Pinderfields today and chat about #OrganDonation, #HealthInequalities & #Innovation!
OrganDonation.nhs.uk
Paul Knight retweeted
I talked about consultant's pay on @TimesRadio this morning – here are some charts to go with it
1. Consultants' pay has fallen about 21% in real terms since 2010. Their pay has been eroded more than that of other medical staff, and considerably more than the average salary
Paul Knight retweeted
Important letter, please read and retweet.
Read BMA Consultants Committee Chair @Vish_Sharm's letter to @RishiSunak on reaching an agreement to end the pay dispute. You can also read our full press statement here: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
ALT The letter from BMA consultant committee chair Vishal Sharma to Rishi Sunak, dated 18 September 2023.
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'It is categorically untrue that any agreements were made locally'
Five Local Negotiating Committee chairs sign letter to @SteveBarclay calling for the health secretary to correct his 'deeply disingenuous claim' about strike exemptions on @BBCr4today
bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
ALT The full letter to Steve Barclay from LNC chairs in Sussex, West Anglia, Hertfordshire, Oxford and Derby and Burton
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Today's article in @TheTimes makes the false claim that pay loss is "a national phenomenon". In fact, doctors have been hit harder than any other group. Source - @TomHCalver Sunday Times: xitter.cf/TomHCalver/status/1644…
ALT A quote from the Sunday Times article with highlighted portion stating: "That's right, 35 per cent. Their argument is that this figure, redolent of a South American basket case economy, is their due because of real-terms earnings cuts over the past decade. The radical faction heading the junior doctors' committee of the British Medical Association (BMA), the doctors' union, knows full well that this is a national phenomenon."
ALT A graph titled All in it together: Change in real wages since 2010 by type of medical staff.
Paul Knight retweeted
Authenticity is not about expressing every opinion you hold. It's about ensuring that what you voice reflects what you value.
If you prize respect and kindness, your comments shouldn't be filled with contempt and cruelty.
Ideas are worth sharing when they represent your ideals.
Paul Knight retweeted
The Prime Minister @10DowningStreet said today "We were making very good progress before industrial action"
Waiting lists are a #PoliticalCHOICE
RT if you think this 👇was NOT "good progress" before IA & govmnt needs to change course #PayRestoration
bbc.co.uk/news/health-668079…
Paul Knight retweeted
On the eve of #OrganDonationWeek, here are 3 things to know about organ donation in the UK.
Get ready to support our awareness campaign!
We hope to inspire the country to go pink and encourage more people to confirm their organ donation decision.
ALT A graphic displays 3 illustrations connected to 3 statistics about organ donation. On the left is a pink box and text saying: '7,000 people are currently waiting for a transplant'. In the middle is the outline of a calendar page saying: 'Around 1,400 people become organ donors each year after death'. And on the right is the outline of 9 people saying: 'Every organ donor could save nine lives.'