It is NOT the NHS that's letting cancer sufferers down. It's the government, which has failed to invest in staff & equipment.
This is incredibly distressing for doctors & nurses, who are struggling to do their best for patients in impossible conditions.
#Newsnight
📢 Important message to the #radiotherapy workforce - when the media reports that the #NHS has "let patients down", let's be clear, frontline staff are doing EVERYTHING to keep cancer services going and prioritise patients. Govmt are the let down.
#CatchUpWithCancer#Newsnight
All the same academics moaning now about excess cancer deaths,are the same people that argued to keep this country in lockdown, earlier and longer. Now they moan there’s an operations backlog 🤷 #Newsnight#Boris was anti lockdown but you vilified him.
"This is an absolute disaster"
Imperial College London's @prof_price tells #Newsnight delays in care is the worst cancer crisis she's seen in her lifetime.
📺 Full report tonight on BBC 2 at 22.30
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Lord Blunt Philby Burgess Maclean Johnson Cummings retweeted
So BBC #Newsnight is pushing NHS privatisation with this story about Cancer then?
But here’s the rub...
1. should the NHS be run for profit
2, if there’s spare private healthcare capacity then NATIONALISE it into the NHS
Nathalie @wheelsforsoil has crossed over to #Slovenia 🇸🇮 in from #Italy 🇮🇹.
She is cycling from 🇨🇵🚲🇮🇳 crossing several nations on the way & meeting ecological orgs & farms. These are like arms of #Sadhguru extending the 🌱#SaveSoil 🤎 movement. Let's cheer her up. #Newsnight
If you make daily living frighteningly unaffordable, few ppl have the capacity to think about the NHS, social care, education, transport, utilities, courts, police, democracy, or climate change.
And that suits the tories just fine.
#Newsnight
“If they call it, we’ll support it”
Mick Lynch @RMTunion tells #Newsnight what would happen if the TUC calls for a general strike and that housing costs, interest rates and food poverty need to be tackled
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“You have to keep the lights on today but invest in decarbonising tomorrow”
Former Government Director for Energy Strategy, Dan Monzani, tells Newsnight support for an “energy transition” can’t be sustained “if the system isn’t secure.”
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