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Shaun Lintern@shaunlintern.bsky.social |
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Health Editor at The Sunday Times. National Press Awards Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety shaun.lintern@sundaytimes.co.uk
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Shaun Lintern
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Starmer says the NHS is broken but he has a plan to fix it. My read for The Sunday Times on just how big a challenge it will be for @wesstreeting and the NHS: www.thetimes.com/article/ba30...
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"From today, the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken" - wow. Statement from health secretary @wesstreeting.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/s...
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Will A General Election Transform Health And Social Care? Great read from Nick Timmins www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
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Paedophile doctor who sexually assaulted a young female patient and took intimate photos of other patients has been jailed for eight years:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Potatoes from my own garden!
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I care about what I do.
As @thetimes has dropped its paywall for the weekend. Here are some of my stories you can read for FREE.
First, did you know about the ongoing scandal affecting deaf children across the NHS? 🧵 1/5 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/26df...
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Shaun Lintern
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Actually we reach far more people on a weekend...we outsell The Times many times over and digitally reach 1.5m+ readers each Sunday. Doing this at weekend means we can showcase both papers.
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And finally, the private sector is being used more and more by both the NHS and the paying public. But is it safe? Read for FREE 5/5 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8d70...
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My investigation into Britain's broken mental health system from last month is FREE to read until the end of today... www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e0ff...
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Ben Barclay
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I understand and to some extent share the anger about the D-day event, but maybe some of that anger should be redirected towards the govt’s failures on health (new scandal a week, this time deaf children), housing, energy, poverty, Brexit, prisons, universities, etc
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And finally, the private sector is being used more and more by both the NHS and the paying public. But is it safe? Read for FREE 5/5 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8d70...
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I've written multiple stories about #maternity, this was my pg 1 scoop and long read on Shrewsbury just days before the final Ockenden report confirmed it all: 4/5 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/95c4...
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The Sunday Times is continuing to campaign for the victims of sodium valproate. Here is the investigation that started it all...FREE to read: 3/5 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5fcd...
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In 2015, I started on the case of a surgeon at Salford Royal who was harming many of his patients. It was only at The Sunday Times in 2022 that I finally got to reveal the truth...FREE to read 2/5 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/796d...
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I care about what I do.
As @thetimes has dropped its paywall for the weekend. Here are some of my stories you can read for FREE.
First, did you know about the ongoing scandal affecting deaf children across the NHS? 🧵 1/5 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/26df...
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Why is Britain still lagging behind on cancer care? From October 2022 but still very relevant. FREE to read: t.co/3Uo91v88BB
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With no @thetimesoflondon.bsky.social paywall - here is a story on the Muckamore Public Inquiry - a massively overlooked scandal into industrial abuse of learning disabled patients that has implications for whole of UK: t.co/P8XK6t9N7j
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Ok so sometimes as health editor of The Sunday Times I write a lot of negative, hard to read stories. It is sadly a hazard of the patch.
But every now and again you get a really lovely story. Reader I give you dogs that can smell epilepsy. FREE to read: t.co/YHqbJa6Udr
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⚠️ LATEST: In an update to staff this afternoon @GSTTnhs described this as a "ransomware" attack. Lab tests are being requested, done and reported manually - roughly 10% of normal level of tests being done. Likely to be a long term issue & take a number of weeks to resolve
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🚨 A critical incident has been declared. The cyber attack affects services run by IT firm Synnovis covering whole of Royal Brompton, Harefield, Guy's, St Thomas' & King's College Hospitals A very serious situation developing across London as other hospitals take extra patients
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🚨 BREAKING: Operations across 2 major London hospitals @GSTTnhs & @KingsCollegeNHS have been cancelled due to a cyber attack, with all transplant surgery at @RBandH axed. Problem is affecting pathology labs incl blood transfusions. Trauma cases at Kings being sent to other sites:
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ICYMI:
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🚨 INTERVIEW: Every night at 6pm, Jane Harrison waits for the call from the man who killed her husband.
Her son, Dan, was catastrophically failed by mental health services in Wales who ignored the family's pleas to get him help. He killed his dad.
READ: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2ed3...
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Less than a week since my investigation of #mentalhealth services (see above), another coroner's warning about a lack of mental health beds. So many victims of a broken system:
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🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's mental health system is broken. Patients & innocent members of the public are paying the price.
Today we reveal how dangerous mentally ill people are being routinely left in the community. Some will kill themselves or others: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e0ff...
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I was conscious of this but the scale of deaths, warnings by coroners, experiences of mental health nurses we spoke to all deserve reporting. Otherwise we risk ignoring a very real part of a broader problem. We state clearly patients more likely to harm themselves but when violent they need care.
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My 1st job in the NHS in 1993 was in a long stay psychiatric unit. The nurses careers went back to the 60s. They were adamant the buildings were inappropriate but the concept of asylum was not. They unanimously predicted trouble if bed numbers collapsed. Neglect in the Community they called it.
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Since 2010, the number of NHS mental health beds has fallen by 5,600.
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One mental health nurse told me: “The Mental Health Act is supposed to be a safety net but the public don’t realise it isn’t there any more. We are not keeping these people safe and we are not keeping the community safe.”
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🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's mental health system is broken. Patients & innocent members of the public are paying the price.
Today we reveal how dangerous mentally ill people are being routinely left in the community. Some will kill themselves or others: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e0ff...
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Can you trust private healthcare? My podcast for The Sunday Times from September last year:
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Nurse serial killer Lucy Letby has lost a Court of Appeal bid to challenge her murder and attempted murder convictions. Due to reporting restrictions ahead of a pending retrial next month this is all that can be said.
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Will the Leashold reform bill be included in Parliament's wash-up? Will the smoking and vapes Bill? How about the legislation on infected blood compensation? Parliament will be dissolved on Thurs 30 May.
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Healthcare is a top priority for voters. After 14 years of Tory rule, their track record will face tough scrutiny. But what can Labour offer on health? The Sunday Times will do what it does best in the next few weeks as you make your decision #generalelection
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That sound you can hear is the anguished cry of every journalist who had a story set to run in the coming days that ISN'T about an election....
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It will be a tool, but we live in an obesityogenic society and the answer cannot just be medication. Activity, safer roads and good public transport encouraging mobility along with better regulation of the food industry has to be part of the answer. Public health not just tertiary care is essential
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Wegovy is old news. The next generation of weight loss drugs are already being developed, including a once daily pill that could be available to millions. But how is the NHS getting ready?
Read: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3b93...
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No it is only an initial document as part of the inquiry's wider work. It is simply scoring the situation as we are now. The inquiry will be looking at why etc as part of its work. Which of course we can now have no confidence in will lead to any change.
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Why don't things get better on #patientsafety?
One reason is that the NHS & government do sweet FA to act on inquiry recommendations
The Thirlwall Inquiry has published a comprehensive assessment of the last 30 years of inquiries. It is not a good read: thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk/2024/05/17/r...
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Children are being constantly exposed to junk food advertising while using video game live streaming platforms - on avg exposure was 52 mins in every hour: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chil...
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"I had to drive for hours to find the cystic fibrosis pills I need to live" - another serious medicine shortage hits the UK with at least 8k people reliant on the drug. 💊🆘 #MedicineShortage #Healthcare #PatientSafety #NHSEngland
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Lots of noise about the NHS Constitution. Just for clarity the NHS routinely, in fact daily, fails to meet existing principles in the constitution. It is a document so distant from the reality of busy medical wards that it's value is minimal:
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Coming soon to the NHS App - the ability to book vaccinations, join in disease screening and have a 40+ health check.
I interviewed @JoeHMK on his ambitions for the app which now has 34m users. The biggest group being over-65s: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9e1a...
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Girl, 8, benefits from world-first brain surgery
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UK inflation falls to 3.2% in March
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Have had some feedback that there seems to be rising numbers of patients requiring 1:1 care while in hospital for treatment. Not all necessarily staying longer but level of patient risk/ dependency requires higher level of patient supervision and staffing?
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Why is the NHS in this situation? I'm told it's a combination of flat increases in spending coupled with consequences linked to collapsing social care & community services meaning patients are sicker and staing longer in hospitals. What's happening in your area? END 7/7
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"There are no easy answers here" says @sallygainsbury from @NuffieldTrust who warns this could all impact on the care for patients: 6/7
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At Oxford University Hospitals a message to staff from the CEO makes clear some of the cuts needed there to control a £53m deficit 5/7
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But @GSTTnhs are not alone. Across the NHS trusts are cutting the amounts they will pay staff working extra shifts or agency and trusts face substantial deficits this year: 4/7
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