Shaun Lintern
@ShaunLintern
Health Editor at The Sunday Times. National Press Awards Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Chair of @mjauk. Public interest journalism matters #E17
🚨 INVESTIGATION: Private clinics delivering NHS cataract surgery face investigation over claims they have artificially inflated costs for the taxpayer, performed unnecessary operations and incentivised high-street optometrists to refer patients to them: thetimes.com/article/245ffe…
Strikes are on
At today's RDC meeting, we’ve voted to go ahead with strike action. Last week when we met @wesstreeting we were open to finding solutions to restore pay and improve working conditions. Today, we still do not have a credible offer on the table @Melissa_S_Ryan @RossNieuwoudt
#Justice #CompensationforValproate 10yrs ago along with @tpearce003 we @JanetWilliams99 met then Health Sec @Jeremy_Hunt and presented archive evidence of the misregulation and subsequent cover up of #Valproate 10 YEARS ago !!!!!
📣 Are you a UK professional working with people near the end of life? 💥 Help shape priorities for the new Impact Centre for Palliative and End-of-Life Care. We’re inviting health & care professionals & commissioners to complete our Stakeholder Survey👇 qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_3g…
Dad's plea for access to life-saving drug after SOD1 MND diagnosis. belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-… #MND
Thank you @ShaunLintern for this powerful piece on our report that launched earlier today. Full article can be read here thetimes.com/article/b8d490…
Black women are subjected to racist treatment on NHS maternity wards, @wesstreeting says as a new report by @fivexmore tomorrow details the experiences of hundreds of women. The Sunday Times has the preview: thetimes.com/article/b8d490…
Jake, 14, received a mountain bike through an MND Association grant after his dad’s diagnosis. 🚲 “It’s brought a real spark back into his life.” said his mum, Debbie. Find out more about the financial support available for children and young people affected by MND. 👇 #MND
Wes Streeting spoke out about the care of ethnic minority pregnant women before a new report, which will detail shocking examples of discrimination and poor treatment thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
🚨 NHS England boss Sir Jim Mackey ordered hospital leaders to take a tougher line with the BMA ahead of strikes next week. He said: "We all tolerated levels of harm and risk last time that I really just don’t think we should anymore." With @HarryYorke1 thetimes.com/article/5a052f…
Black women are subjected to racist treatment on NHS maternity wards, @wesstreeting says as a new report by @fivexmore tomorrow details the experiences of hundreds of women. The Sunday Times has the preview: thetimes.com/article/b8d490…
Sir Jim Mackey talks of ‘different approach’ by NHS for Friday’s five-day strike, with routine operations and ‘priority treatments’ going ahead as planned ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
In a letter to hospital chief executives on Friday, NHS England told them to maintain more services and to keep routine operations going “to the fullest extent possible”, as well as continuing with “priority treatments.” Sets up tough talks locally with BMA over derrogations...
🚨 NHS England boss Sir Jim Mackey ordered hospital leaders to take a tougher line with the BMA ahead of strikes next week. He said: "We all tolerated levels of harm and risk last time that I really just don’t think we should anymore." With @HarryYorke1 thetimes.com/article/5a052f…
New: the hundreds of parents being investigated for child abuse when they seek help or diagnosis for their sick children thetimes.com/article/720f66…
NHS put up with harm of last strikes, says boss — but not any more thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
The structural racism must end! Thanks for highlighting Shaun and @fivexmore RT @cahn_uk
Premature babies in UK to be immunised against winter virus RSV - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…