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!

#supportourNHS
#SupportTheStrikes

Lorna Miller (Guardian) on the #radiographers' ability to see through the pious words spouted by #RishiSunak...

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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.

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#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

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

How can #SteveBarclay accuse the #RCN of being 'disrespectful' to other #NHS unions by continuing their strike action.... he, from a Govt. that has shown the NHS a distinct lack of respect for years - the gall of it!

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#SupportOurNurses
#GTTO

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

Pat Cullen of the RCN on today's high court victory by #SteveBarclay in declaring the next #Nurses stoppage illegal on the basis that second day was beyond the period of the last strike ballot:

They may 'have won their legal battle . . . they have lost nursing & they’ve lost the public'!

Absolutely right!
But actually they never had me!

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#SupportOurNurses
#supportourNHS
#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.

#supportourNHS
#SupportourTeachers

#Uppaworkers
#SupportourNHS
#Supportthenurses
#Supportthejrdrs

https://bird.makeup/users/lbc/statuses/1647027880822550533

From Guardian letters:

'Perhaps the striking doctors would settle for the 32% increase MPs have received since 2010'!

Dr John Doherty
Stratford-upon-Avon

#supportourNHS
#SupportTheStrikes

A #JuniorDoctor speaks:

'We need the government to recognise the crisis that’s happening in our healthcare system; recognise that junior doctors are instrumental to fixing that crisis; and pay us what we’re worth'!

#supportourNHS #SupportTheStrikes

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/11/junior-doctors-strike-pay-nhs-corridors

THE ONLY GOOD TORY IS A SUPPOSITORY! #SupportStrikingNHSWorkers #SupportTheNurses #SupportTheAmbulanceWorker#SupportTheStrikes #SupportOurNHS #SaveOurNHSFromTheTories #StopTheTories #ToryScum #Solidarity
Image nicked from Novara Media

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Most of us still hear ourselves applauding their bravery, their dedication and their sacrifice.

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#SupportOurNHS

https://t.co/VuhERpsjUA

@sam please let it be known I support your Wife and her Colleagues 100%, the narrative presented by the media is one of financial grievances they are striking for so much more, for all of our benefits and are being presented as villains after being put in a position where it is impossible for them to function effectively.
#NHSStrike
#SupportOurNHS
#SaveOurNHS

No Mr Barclay, Tory underfunding & Brexit are putting the NHS under extreme pressure.
#SupportOurNHS
#BrexitBrokeIt
#GTTO

BBC News: Covid and flu putting massive pressure on NHS - health secretary BBC News - Covid and flu putting massive pressure on NHS - health secretary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64151557

Just saw this quote from GP and broadcaster Dr Phil Hammond:

" #Healthcare chiefs are warning that they can’t guarantee #patient safety during the #strikes. But they can’t guarantee patient safety outside the strikes either. Demand for health & #socialcare outstrips capacity so much that people are harmed and die every day for want of decent #care."

Which is why I #supportOurNHS and back the #nursesstrike.

We have to look after one another!
#EnoughIsEnough
#SupportOurNHS
#SupportOurGPs
#SupportOneAnother through thick and thin.
The Tories are thick and our patience is wearing thin.

More nurses and paramedics could go on strike as unions prepare to ramp up industrial action

#EnoughIsEnough
#SupportOurNHS💙
#SupportTheStrikers

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