Doctors in Unite

#Doctors in Unite is: 🚑 The UK’s oldest medical trade union ✊ The home for #progressive doctors 🏥 A powerful voice against privatisation and unsafe workplace conditions Things need to change. Join a #union doctorsinunite.com/join-us/

@foxglovelegal.bsky.social has "published a new report on Palantir’s NHS England contract. It shows that the figures used to defend the spy-tech firm’s role in the health service don’t stand up, and that ministers kept repeating them in Parliament even after the NHS had admitted as much."

Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

Write to your MP and ask them to support Early Day Motion 329 on the future of General Practice. Seeing your NHS GP must always be free at the point of use.

cydsafiad, @bmacymru.bsky.social ✊

Solidariaeth, @bma.org.uk Wales ✊

This petition is only a few signatures short of requiring a government response, on one of the cornerstones of the NHS under threat: continuity of care. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

On Thursday 1st October, patients, NHS workers and activists across England are taking action to say NO to Palantir in our NHS. Coordinated with activists across North and South America, Europe and Australia, we’re all showing up to demand an end to all contracts and partnerships with Palantir.

Major opinion poll shows that every constituency in the UK except four would vote to reverse Brexit and rejoin the EU

Climate change is (obviously) a public health emergency. We wrote to the Labour party in 2020 to make this case. The UK government should be working to prevent and mitigate the effects of climate change on all of us.

The @nebriefing.bsky.social should be prime time viewing every evening. Failing that, find a screening near you here 👇 www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

"Reform has no interest in the work I came here to do. They are not serious about governing Wales. They are far more interested in division, opposition and headlines than in finding solutions." www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

When Margaret Thatcher privatised our water, she told MPs to wait and see before judging. Well, we've waited. We've seen (we've arguably seen too much). Now we are judging. Water privatisation has been a monumental failure. Public ownership now

A real joy to meet @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social today. Thank you for keeping up the pressure on kicking Palantir - and all the US big data tech bro companies - out the NHS. You can read the @keepournhspublic.bsky.social briefings here: keepournhspublic.com/palantir-out...

First AI clinical negligence claims lodged 👇

The National Data Opt-Out mentioned can be accessed here, for UK residents not wishing to share their data: www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-dat...

"We join health campaigners across the UK in calling for a pause in the national rollout of the Federated Data Platform. The Government should give notice by the Autumn that it will use the break clause to end the contract in February 2027; and it must prepare for an alternative now."

LMCs voted earlier this year for a ballot on switching to a 'Plan B' semi-private contract. Writing for GPonline, @drtomriddington.bsky.social warns this would risk alienating the patients GPs see every day - and urges GPs to change tack. Full story: www.gponline.com/viewpoint-pl...

If Andy Burnham wants some oven-ready reforms to social care, the campaign End Social Care Disgrace has some brilliant ideas. You can read more about their work here (with thanks to Dr Brian Fisher):

Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.

Prime minister Andy Burnham has promised fair pay for care workers and a National Care Service. New figures reveal how much carers earn.

Climate change is (obviously) a public health emergency. We wrote to the Labour party in 2020 to make this case. The UK government should be working to prevent and mitigate the effects of climate change on all of us.

"Far too much strategic time and effort is wasted on NHS reorganisations. Whilst we believe that the NHS does need to be reshaped we think this can be done organically as particular needs are identified. Economies of scale can be achieved, where they exist, by organisations co-operating together."

"Far too much strategic time and effort is wasted on NHS reorganisations. Whilst we believe that the NHS does need to be reshaped we think this can be done organically as particular needs are identified. Economies of scale can be achieved, where they exist, by organisations co-operating together."

"In these circumstances it might be thought that a Labour government would prioritise public health. Instead spending on public health is falling in real terms, services for physical activity are being abandoned, and there are wide disparities in the availability of services".

👉Sign My Petition: www.neilforpoole.co.uk/government-contracts-petition

I've got a plan to clean up British politics. 🚫No second jobs for MPs. 💷Cap political donations. ❌No contracts for party donors. Politics should work for you - not the highest bidder. Let's stop the sleaze for good!

Open letter to Andy Burnham from lots of excellent organisations including: @doctorsinunite.com , @thedauk.bsky.social , @keepournhspublic.bsky.social , @fbunational.bsky.social , @nasuwt-official.bsky.social , @medact.bsky.social , @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social , @strikemap.org Please share 👇

Forty years on, Britain’s privatisation experiment has enriched shareholders and hollowed out public services — it’s time to try something different. @kbayliss.bsky.social's guest post on @graceblakeley.substack.com: substack.com/home/post/p-... Kate's book 'Privatising humanity' is out now #booksky

Great stuff here from the co-chairs of @keepournhspublic.bsky.social

Congratulations Andy. Change is coming - and with it there should be a recognition that AI is not the answer to the NHS' problems. Invest in healthcare staff, not tech bro fantasies.

The shift to a privatised 'Plan B' option for NHS General Practice "would undermine the foundation of the National Health Service in England and would exacerbate health inequalities", say MPs. An early day motion opposing any such move is gaining signatures👇

Ian Higginson from @rcem.ac.uk again telling it like it is: "We continue to see a lack of solutions designed to tackle the root causes...Instead, we are fobbed off with recycled ideas that haven’t ever worked.." 300 AVOIDABLE deaths. Every. Single. Week. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Giver and taker firms have donated £47m to political parties over 25 years. 💰 These same companies went on to score £60 BILLION in public contracts since 2015. This is everything people hate about politics. Ban firms from getting contracts with Governments they pay to elect.

Oil firms are raking in billions from Trump’s war in Iran. A crisis for the world is a payday for them. Some politicians are calling to take money off pensioners or disabled people. Tax these profiteers instead.

Great to get some press today on this important survey - which will predictably and disappointingly get very little airtime. Streeting hasn't mentioned it once today... But we will.

Too many Poole families face the worst of both worlds. Low wages and sky-high housing costs. Local Housing Allowance is meant to bridge the gap. But it’s been frozen while rents keep rising. We need higher wages and a safety net that works - so no one is left behind.

Recognising unpaid care as work is one long overdue part of tackling the UK's care crisis. Doctors in Unite have been involved with End Social Care Disgrace, who have a local election campaign pack here: endsocialcaredisgrace.org/local-electi...

Absolutely bang on 👇

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"You cannot run a healthcare system on goodwill alone. You cannot retain a workforce by devaluing it. And you cannot fix a crisis by blaming those who are holding it together." Excellent piece from @jatinderhayre.bsky.social metro.co.uk/2026/04/07/s...

We could have made a deal to avoid this strike action, but the government moved the goalposts on pay at the last minute and then removed the offer of 1000s of much needed training posts. Dr Emma Runswick on BBC Breakfast today talking about how we need a deal that is good for doctors and patients.

So maybe just pay them properly instead?

Medicine can't be done on the cheap, cutting corners that risk patient safety. Invest in the future of the NHS - back your resident doctors.

Do you ever start writing a post, realise you can't sufficiently put into words the level of hurt, anger and injustice you feel, and then abandon it? That's how I feel about the government's attitude towards our Residents. 2020 anyone?? I am so done. share.google/SEsg1BoHyvz1...

I’m campaigning to stop political donors getting Government contracts. 14 million people went hungry last year, we owe it to them to ensure decisions are made in the public interest. Cosy relationships with vested interests undermine trust in politics. Time to break the link.

"Over 55% of GP members have voted and rejected the 2026/27 GP contract, to the tune of 99%. We will now take that message and exert even more pressure on the Government to do the right thing for general practice cross England." Watch the video from @drkatie.bsky.social here 👇

All power to their collective elbows. All NHS staff have been treated appallingly for over a decade - including being shamefully abandoned after 2020. Nothing will change for staff OR patients without them taking a stand. I will ALWAYS be proud to stand beside them. @bma.org.uk

Have you voted yet? Polls close at NOON TODAY in the GP Referendum. Do you want things to change for the better in your practice, with a better GP contract? You need to vote! You were sent a text by the BMA yesterday: 📱 Open the text 👉 Click vote on your *unique link* ⏰ It takes *5 seconds*

The Government's so-called "Earned Settlement" proposals are upside down. Underpaid social workers contributing to their community will get shafted. Punishing these workers doesn't support cohesion or assimilation - it does the opposite.