A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN:

"I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind."

and

"The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back."

Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Ed Davey, "With Trump in the White House, the US is no longer a reliable ally"

"We have to look at alternative coalitions"

"Customs Union with the EU"

"How did we get Trump to back down on Greenland? It wasn't the UK, it was the EU threatening retaliatory tariffs"

Please share. 💔

The image shows white text on a blue background, with a quote from the blog by Caroline Strickland, Senior Policy Advisor at the BMA: "It takes immense drive and motivation to become a doctor, and many see caring for patients as a vocation and privilege, an integral part of their identity. Asylum seeker doctors are no different. But they are forced to overcome a myriad of challenges and are often traumatised, and face uncertainty, isolation, and potential discrimination while waiting for their asylum claims to be processed."

The health and social care sector in the UK has always been reliant on the commitment and expertise of its international workforce.

We call on the Government to reinstate the right to work for asylum-seeker doctors - something we have consistently advocated for.

www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

The BMA and other trade unions stand together against anti-migrant rhetoric

The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric.

We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.

www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

EU investing €546 billion for high speed rail by 2040

E.g. Lisbon to Warsaw, from 38 hours today to 12 hours

Pricing to compete with low cost flights

Reduce emissions by 80%

Jokes on them, they don't have Brexit sovereignty 🤷‍♂️

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

5 appointments left. 31 requests (and counting) for them. So safe. So bringing back the family doctor (to sit staring at a screen desperately trying to filter out what actually needs one of the last few appointments). We used to close the forms and send someone down to see extra patients - progress?

Ofsted 'transparent' despite withholding reform feedback 'We set out really clearly the negativity that we heard,' says Oliver

Reminder: the policy of @greenparty.org.uk is to abolish Ofsted .

We need education for life, not just exams

schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-claim...

Still, at least the decision to abolish NHS England and halve the funding of the regional organisations without any budget for redundancy has been a complete triumph of health service system reform.

NHS shakeup shutting out community voices? - The Lowdown One consistent thread running through the Government’s proposed NHS reorganisation is a reduction in local accountability to the communities served by NHS bodies. The cutbacks in Integrated Care Board...

NHS shakeup shutting out community voices? - John Lister

lowdownnhs.info/analysis/acc...

Rebuilding public health: Restoring the foundations of prevention This page provides an overview of the PH report, highlighting key findings and recommendations.

It’s #PublicHealthWorkforceWeek.

Our recent report surveyed public health professionals from across the UK to understand the challenges they face, and what urgently must change.

Read the report and our recommendations here: www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/p...

Virtual wards, virtual hospitals

Real waiting, real people, real needs

The choice is whether as a society we should fund it properly

We must!

FACT FOCUS: Republicans shut down the government to give him more time to hide the #EPSTEIN_Files.

Well it has happened.
The leadership of the Conservative&Unionist Party is advocating leaving the ECHR. Not reforming it, or working with other members to alter any rules.
Leave it. Like Putin’s Russia.
I can’t help wondering what those Tories who are rightly proud of 🇬🇧’s support for 🇺🇦 are thinking.

I wonder if it has ever occurred to Tommy Robinson that if he doesn't like prison, he could try not breaking the law.

102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons

27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries

31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts

You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many

I spoke to @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning

Raising expectations without any support

GP online access is a good thing but it needs extra GPs & resources

The 8am rush may reduce but there are no more appts or Hp time to offer, in fact less as a online forms are dealt with

Safety vital

I was given masks whose ear loops fell off & aprons so flimsy they ripped apart when you tried to put them on, Michelle.

Nurses and porters in our hospital died from the Covid they caught there, Michelle.

How dare you try to bleat victimisation now, Michelle?

Michelle Mone is the polar opposite of the values that should govern public life.

She should repay what she owes immediately & get her sorry, dishonourable form as far away from the House of Lords as possible.

She, & all those other govt grifters who tried to monetise a pandemic, sicken me. Ends/

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

🗣️ | “It's raising expectations for patients, but there aren’t more GPs, there aren’t more appointments. We’re already cancelling some pre-booked face-to-face slots to cope with this extra demand.”
DAUK's @drstevetaylor.bsky.social spoke to @news.sky.com on GP online access 👇
dauk.org/new-online-g...

Image description: white text stating "GPC England is now in dispute over unsafe contract changes" sits on a blue background, with a faded stethoscope.

The new online GP consultation system poses significant challenges to patient safety and GP workloads.

The Government has broken its promise to ensure 'necessary safeguards' have been met.

GPs in England are now entering into dispute with the Government from today www.bma.org.uk/gpcontract

Nuffield Trust response to the plans for a new ‘online hospital’ Becks Fisher responds to the announcement that the NHS is setting up an ‘online hospital’.

Read our statement on today's announcement of an #NHS 'online hospital' from @becksfisher.bsky.social. 👇

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nu...

Nurse and patient

The new 10 Year Health Plan for England is ambitious, yet in many ways, familiar.

Members of the The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS discuss the evidence (or lack of) behind the plan, and what it might take for it to be successful
@marydixonwoods.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

One of those hereditary peers who gets to sit in the House of Lords because an ancestor did something in 1442.

When I was on twitter I genuinely thought he was a troll. Clearly has a chip the size of Offa's Dyke on those shoulders

Why can’t all of the Democrats be posting social media like this?? Thank you Representative Sarah McBride, the escalator shoutout was top tier 🤌

This is Trump’s Government Shutdown.