Rebecca Thomas

@Rebeccasmt

Health Correspondent for @Independent health journo for British Journalism Awards 2022 & 24, Press awards 2025 - Got a story? [email protected]

Joined December 2013

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Nov 13

It warms my heart to be able to publish this. After a decade of being locked away in hospitals and care homes, Nicholas Thornton, a young man with Autism is finally free It comes a year after @Independent and @Channel4News told his story independent.co.uk/tv/news/autism…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. Due to a lack of support for his autism, Nicholas Thornton has spent over 10 years confined to dementia care homes, psychiatric units and A&E wards. Now, following The Independent’s report on his...

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 24

Fewer women should become doctors as they ‘have got to have babies’, ex-surgeon says report from @ArchieMitch_ There are not enough words or eyeroll emojis for this 😡🙄 independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. Dr Meirion Thomas said it is a ‘fact of life’ that women have to leave the workforce to have children

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 24

Starving Palestinians trade gold for flour and risk death for aid @Beltrew independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. More than 110 Palestinians have died of hunger including 80 children, Gaza health officials say

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 24

Top medics ask union to row back hard stance on doctors’ strikes over safety concerns independent.co.uk/news/health/do…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. Medical Colleges have warned the British Medical Association that it is risking patient safety by advising doctors to withhold strike plans from employers

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 23

Children are starving to death in Gaza and medics fainting from hunger @Beltrew independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. As more than 100 human rights groups and charities demand more aid for Gaza, Bel Trew and Nedal Hamdouna report on the besieged strip’s food crisis

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 23

Surgeon who had his legs amputated and told insurers he had sepsis charged with fraud independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. Neil Hopper is also charged with encouraging someone else to remove body parts of others

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 23

As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, more than 100 NGOs make an urgent plea to allow in life-saving aid savethechildren.net/news/mass-star…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted,...

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 23

‘My sister has to feed her kids grass in Gaza, while my son spits out his peas’ independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. Imagine being in the UK and knowing your siblings are digging through the rubble of their former home for a few cans of beans. That is the reality for Ahmed Najar who, in this deeply personal piece,...

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 22

Resident doctor strikes to go ahead, @TheBMA says after crunch day talks fail How will this play out for patients? Trusts told to maintain electives but will this hie emergency care? Am told trusts struggling to find cover with consultants asking for BMA rates?

Rebeccasmt's tweet image. Resident doctor strikes to go ahead, @TheBMA says after crunch day talks fail

How will this play out for patients? Trusts told to maintain electives but will this hie emergency care?
Am told trusts struggling to find cover with consultants asking for BMA rates?

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East Cheshire NHS Trust@EastCheshireNHS · Jul 22

Upcoming industrial action is highly likely to cause significant service disruption across all East Cheshire sites including Macclesfield, Knutsford and Congleton hospitals. Read more ➡️ ow.ly/5gWo50Wtcqi

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 22

The deadlock between the @TheBMA and @NHSEngland over derogations will hit patients the most. Will attempts to run non-urgent services impact urgent and emergency care?

TThe BMA@TheBMA · Jul 21

We've written to NHS England with concerns about inadequate planning ahead of possible strike action later this week. Attempts to run non-urgent services with fewer doctors risk patient safety. It's imperative that Trusts postpone work to protect urgent and emergency care.

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🏥 Alder Hey 💙@AlderHey · Jul 16

⚠️ Please note | There has been an update to visitor arrangements when there are positive measles cases in Alder Hey. For more information, please go to: alderhey.nhs.uk/visitor-guidan…

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 15

Awesome work @Holly_JoyB - MoD data leak that put up to 100,000 lives at risk revealed as superinjunction lifted independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. More than 16,000 Afghans were secretly brought to the UK in the largest covert peacetime evacuation after the MoD put them in danger of being targeted by the Taliban. Social affairs correspondent...

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Holly Bancroft@Holly_JoyB · Jul 15

Breaking: A data breach by the Ministry of Defence put up to 100,000 lives at risk and was kept secret for almost two years by an unprecedented superinjunction gagging the British press, it can be revealed today. The leak happened in February 2022 after a member of the armed…

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 14

Mental health care being rationed over failure to cut waiting list, top doctor warns independent.co.uk/news/health/me…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. Some 1.7 million patients are waiting for community mental health care – with more than 48,000 waiting more than two years to be seen

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 14

ICYM over the weekend: NHS nurse jailed for rape saved thousands of women’s details from dating apps - now police appeal for more victims He worked as an NHS mental health nurse for more than a decade independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. Nationwide appeal as police find details of thousands of women saved from dating apps on John Chukwunonso Iwuh’s phone

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 11

NEW: NHS nurse jailed for rape saved thousands of women’s details from dating apps - now police appeal for more victims independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

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Rebecca Thomas@Rebeccasmt · Jul 10

As NHS doctors prepare to strike - how much do they earn in the UK? analysis by @HagopianAlicja independent.co.uk/news/health/nh…

Rebeccasmt's tweet card. Doctors will strike against pay rises which they believe are below inflation; but how do salaries compare to other countries, and public services? Alicja Hagopian reports.

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🏥 Alder Hey 💙@AlderHey · Jul 10

Parents in Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, or St Helens can help prevent further spreading of #measles in the region by taking advantage of summer ‘catch up’ immunisation clinics for children and young people. Find out more: merseycare.nhs.uk/our-services/l…

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