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The war of words around the #Doctors #strike reaches a new low with #SteveBarclay acusing striking consultants of withholding #cancer treatments;

But, as Dr Vishal Sharma (BMA) observes: it was “incredibly rich of the secretary of state to invoke time-critical procedures when his government has overseen a steep increase in waiting lists that saw them reach record levels even before any strike action took place”.

Its the #Tories that have caused the #NHScrisis not the doctors!

On Wednesday, the #NHS #strikes reach a crescendo with the two separate #Doctors walk-outs dovetailing so all doctors are out on strike.

I know I keep saying this, but its worth repeating.

The #Tories are not only engineering the general #NHScrisis they are goading the Doctors into continued action, to serve the political Tories narrative...

Don't be taken in... this balme for these strikes lies with the Govt.

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#supportourNHS

Ramping up pressure on the #Tories over the #NHScrisis, consultants are staging a 3 day walkout during the #Tory conference.

This follows the 2 day strike starting today & further #strike action in October.

As Ministers & MPs go on news programmes to express their 'disappointment' in the action(s) & claim their offer to the BMA is 'reasonable'...

ask yourself, who do you trust more: #politicians or #doctors?

This is a crisis engineered in Westminster!

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#SupportTheStrikes

Healthwatch England concludes that the continuing #NHS #strikes compounded an already severe issue of #patients waiting for treatment & its impact on wellbeing.

Indeed, while in the short-term they are right this may make things worse, lets not forget that political pressure (short of striking) has had little impact on the #Tories defunding of the NHS which is a direct cause of delays.

This is a battle for the health of our country.

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#SupportTheStrikes

theguardian.com/society/2023/j

The GuardianNHS cancellations causing ‘catastrophic health impacts’, says watchdogBy Andrew Gregory

In just over an hour the #NHS #radiographers start their #strike.

I know I keep saying this, but if in the next couple of days your #treatment is delayed due to their action, please remember no-one in the NHS wants to harm #patients.

The strikers have been backed into a corner by an aggressive policy of defunding the NHS carried out by a party contemptuous of our #HealthService!

Lay this at the #Tories door and...

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#supportourNHS
#GTTO

Following the current #JuniorDoctors strike (yes, I know JDs are misnamed, they're a lot more mature than 'juniors' & have more responsibility), the #Consultants strike last next week will make it a pretty full spectrum of #NHS staff taking strike action....

What is there not to understand?

The #healthservice needs proper funding, well-paid/happy staff (with reasonable conditions) and an an end to the endless budgetary attrition from the #tories.

#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourNHS
#GTTO

Today the latest strike by #JuniorDoctors starts;

a lot of people will be angry about the disruption to the #NHS.

Don't blame the doctors; they've been pushed by the #Tory wreckers until this seems like their only option.

If you need to blame someone for your cancelled consultation, or delayed operation, then make sure you blame the #Tories!

This strike (as with the #nurses previous action) is a direct result of an #NHScrisis caused by Tory defunding!

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#supportourNHS

In advance of the #JuniorDoctors' strike, we need to be clear what is going on here.

A group of #health professionals have been pushed & pushed until they see no alternative but to strike; while a Govt. that is trying to find ways of distracting us from what is really going on will seek to blame the #strikers for the disruption.

So:

The #Tories have engineered the #NHScrisis, of which these strikes are merely a symptom.

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#GTTO

& revive of #healthservice

As we head towards a(nother) #JuniorDoctors #strike... once again its worth emphasising that this is a strike that has been directly caused by the #Tories defunding of the #NHS, their callous attitude to the well-being of others & their strategy of driving (rich-enough) #patients into the arms of private #healthcare.

If #RishiSunak or #SteveBarclay actually wanted to reach a deal with the BMA/Junior Doctors they could, but they are choosing not to.

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#supportourNHS

Very clearly #SteveBarclay is hoping the #NHSStaffCouncil meeting tomorrow will vote in favour of the middling & (at least partly) unfunded pay deal on the table, leaving the RCN & Unite isolated in their continuing #strikes... so lets hope the other #unions recognise this as the divide & rule tactic always used by bullying management and find some way to accord with their members' voting without leaving the RCN & Unite exposed.

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#supportourNHS

Two charts for context in the current #workforce crisis in the #NHS - unsurprisingly if you dramatically reduce the real pay of your staff, they look elsewhere for work.

The mechanics of the #Tory defunding of the NHS laid bare.

The wreckers have been at work for some time & repairing the NHS will be a generational task - there will be no quick-fixed for Labour to push through, other than starting by restoring funding levels, of course!

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#GTTO

Since 2017, 147 #Education & #Healthcare workers have died from #mesothelioma (caused by #asbestos):

what this tells us is that the defunding of these sectors, robbing maintenance budgets to keep things going, is having a fatal impact on the sectors' #workers.

Failure to remove asbestos from #schools & #hospitals is killing the staff.

not only won't the #Tories pay health/teaching staff properly they've engineered a situation that kills them at work.

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#SupportourTeachers