Nicola Cooper

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So much of the UK’s steady decline post war can be explained by how easy it is for some people to fail upwards. Some spectacular examples with COVID and Brexit - often the same people in both. And easily identifiable by the frequency of their appearance on BBC Radio 4 Today programme

1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness

GPs up & down the country warned Wes Streeting, Department of Health and Social Care 6w ago that forcing the implementation of online forms without safeguards was a fools errand & raise false expectations

Have now decided not to talk to @BMA_GP @doctor_katie @DavidGWrigley

So here we are 🤷🏻‍♂️

If, like me, you lost a loved one in the UK’s deadly second COVID wave, this WhatsApp chat will confirm that the then government has blood on its hands.

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious.
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stinadeee 4h "The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on Earth." - Jimmy Carter "I am fortunate to have a lot of strong women in my life..." - George W. Bush "I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything..." - Barack Obama "Quiet! Quiet Piggy!" - Donald Trump

Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly—

I hope midterms are a referendum

Can you see the problem 🤷🏻‍♂️

Wes Streeting can’t 🤦🏻‍♂️

31million/month consult GP practices with similar number having haircuts

102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons
38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries

On average people spend £400pa on hair
GPs receive £169pa per patient

Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform Exclusive: thinktank report finds health secretary has failed to improve productivity, with the health service unlikely to meet its targets

Wes Streeting accused of taking “chaotic and incoherent approach” to reforming NHS which makes it unlikely Govt will hit targets, according to damning @instituteforgovernment.org.uk

Reforms are chaotic, poorly handled, risk worsening GP & social care pressures

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Warnings rise for U.S. as severe flu strain causes outbreaks in Canada, U.K. A flu strain that emerged over the summer is causing "unprecedented" outbreaks in Japan, as well as in Canada and the U.K. The CDC hasn't provided insights on flu in the U.S. in nearly two months.

Warnings rise for U.S. as a severe flu strain causes outbreaks. A flu strain that emerged over the summer is causing unprecedented outbreaks in Japan, as well as in Canada and the U.K. The CDC hasn't provided insights on flu in the U.S. in nearly 2 months.
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Finally!

On this day we remember them.

We will never forget.

#RemembranceSunday

This report was published 20 October 2022

This was the day Liz Truss announced her resignation

Also the day General Practice was ignored & lost potentially forever

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GPs - ‘Lazy, laggards’

1.3million appts take place in General Practice each day

20 x more than A&E
3.5 x more than hospital out-patients

5million more appts each month than 2019

Wes Streeting has decided he doesn’t need GPs

Let’s see if people agree

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‘Professional protectionism’ = patient protection

It’s really important people understand why knowledge is needed in patient care

Protecting a role eg Nurse/Dr is about protecting patients from harm

You don’t know what you don’t know or understand what you have never been taught

Poster: one health, a relationship between humans, animals and the environment

You might have seen me using the #OneHealth hashtag often: this is why...

A World Health Organization poster for today, November 3, One Health Day

GP Crisis is due to Top-Down management

~20% cuts in £/patient funding in 10yr
~Partnership future undermined
~NI hikes
~£ moved to Primary Care Networks
~GP roles cut from practices using ARRS

More costly services being promoted by Govt/NHSE at the cost of patient care

Dr Steve Taylor (@drstevetaylor) Physician Assistants were first muted as an idea an concept in the early 2010s as a way of alleviating the workforce shortage in General Practice, helping GPs deal with some of the more simple and mun...

Physican Assistant - Associate - Assistant

Started as a good idea but was soon a very bad idea for patients when pushed by those who had no idea about safe medicine

It’s time to make sure the Leng Review recommendations are implemented

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Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%

Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

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The ‘manager’ is blaming the players, #NHS is ‘broken’ according to Wes Streeting

But he has spent a year ‘breaking’ the teams who provide care for patients

Waiting lists⬆️, A&E waits⬆️, GPs & Resident Drs in dispute, NHS leaders leaving, NHSE reform on pause

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep

Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications

This should also be banned

Influence being bought in Govt

Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...

This is madness - how can they justify yearly flu vaccination for all staff (and seriously encourage staff to have it with various deals) but then ignore the other infection that is hitting staff on regular basis?

I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.

Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...

‘Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstretched NHS.’

🤦 Unbelievably shortsighted, based on what exactly!

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#NHS vs #TeamGP

If you're a physician working in England, share your insights to shape our submission to the government’s call for evidence on the 10 Year Workforce Plan.

Have your say: ow.ly/g23550XatiH

Submit your responses by 9am on Monday 20 October 2025.

Write to your MP: Save the future of general practice | DAUK DAUK has launched a letter-writing campaign to highlight the critical state of general practice with MPs and policy makers

Write to your MP: Save the future of general practice

We have been increasingly concerned about the messages aimed at GPs from Wes Streeting, Stephen Kinnock & Department of Health

They have said this is just a few BMA leaders

It’s not pleas write here👇🏼 and share
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Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

I do hope BBC Panorama is working on this, with a proper deep dive into the associations+funding of Reform There’s so much talk of spying. Nathan Gill, close to leaders of a party that aspires to govern the country, has *admitted* working for Russian interests. What are the links btwn Russia+Reform?

WMA has adopted a landmark Statement on Artificial and Augmented Intelligence in Medical Care, outlining global ethical principles to guide the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Press Release: www.wma.net/news-post/wo...

#MedicalEthics

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

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England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

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