We won’t stand by while the government fails to feed a generation of kids. Sign now to demand more free school breakfasts

No doubt we are at a tipping point for the future of healthcare in the U.K. You will hear a lot of misinformation, disinformation, and barefaced lies over the next 18 months - a £200bn/yr industry is on the table. So here are the facts… Has the NHS been value for money?

Good slide on health spending global comparisons here from Siva Anandaciva especially point about GDP share moving significantly up during Covid - for many years prior it was lower. This left NHS weaker with less capacity. Keep in mind when people misuse GDP spend to bash NHS:

Some of the ⁦Surrey Downs Health and Care⁩ team for the #NHS75 park run this morning. Thanks Markku for delegating so effectively to ⁦@KeishaAntonopo1⁩ to organise as she did it so brilliantly! All part of our #PullingTogether programme ⁦Lis Paice⁩ ⁦Surrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership⁩

This is a fascinating piece because Andrew’s incisive analysis, backed up with data, blows the idea that FoM - and therefore the single market - was ever unpopular out of the water. ⬇️

Doctors: we’d like pay restoration please, we did our bit during austerity and put our lives on the line everyday during covid, losing hundreds of our colleagues on the way, it’s only reasonable. Govt: Can’t afford it, and we won’t borrow or raise taxes to do it. Also Govt: …

We need transformational green policies immediately 💚 RT if you agree 👍

"We have done a simulation of leaving the EU. The first thing that comes out is an 8% drop in the cost of living on day one... That is really worth having." Professor Patrick Minford, Foreign Affairs Committee, November 3rd 2015 Did anyone get their 8% drop? #RejoinEU

An excellent article. To quote Dr Linda Dykes has moved to Bluesky - “CPR is not a cure for ordinary dying” and patients do still have ordinary deaths in hospital.

Historical romance writer @kj_charles has signed a one-book deal with Storm Publishing for a new historical mystery, Come to Dust. thebookseller.com/rights/former-…

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

“I’m gonna pause you right there. None of those three things are true.” I gently implore some of my colleagues in the American media to look across the Atlantic and check out how some of their British counterparts conduct live political interviews 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Tomas Pueyo in mid March 2020 - telling the UK exactly what was just about to happen…

“There are hundreds of thousands of fewer children in poverty today thanks to this Government” says Rishi Sunak UNICEF has just published a report on child poverty in 39 countries in the EU & OECD between 2014 & 2021 and one it’s most shocking findings is that under the

My message to Londoners: Whatever walk of life you come from, if you live in London, you're a Londoner. #LondonForEveryone

JUST ANNOUNCED: City Hall's groundbreaking free school meals programme is to be extended for another year. No child should go hungry in our city. The Government have refused to act, so I’ve stepped up.

“Create & maintain a defensible position”; a default reaction. All energy goes into this. Imagine if we just said “we’re sorry - we got this wrong & will compensate, repair & learn right now”. - Post Office - Hilsborough - Contaminated blood - Jimmy Saville etc. Mark Adam Smith

#PostOffceScandal #PostOfficeInquiry #MrBatesvthePostOffice computer Weekly made Sunday Times and Guardian this weekend. The fight is just beginning after many years

NHS England Guidance on MMR Vaccination for Primary Care Teams Key points - Measles cases are on the rise across England. Vaccination is our best defence. - Measles is more than just a rash – it is a serious condition that spreads very easily and can lead to severe illness and

Brilliantly clear explanation of why ALL local councils are under enormous strain after 14 years of Tory govt cuts. From the leader of Plymouth Labour Council, who knows a thing or two about this. LGA Labour LGANews