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Anthony Stevens 🇪🇺 🇯🇲 💙

🚨* A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo.

This is exactly the road map that & the believe the needs to follow to fix our . Shareholder profits before patient care.

I'll fight until my last breath to protect our broken NHS from even more harm, by politicians who don't even use it!

@AnthonyFStevens@mastodon.online

I've got to ask, given we chatted briefly prior to the GE, how do you feel about Labour and in particular Streeting's direction on the NHS.

This isn't me being a dick. It's a genuine question.

@Theriac

It's early days. It's impossible for to reverse 14 years of deline & social decay within 6 months, & some tough decisions need to be made.

EG: Do we prioritise stopping the creeping privatisation of the , or lowering waiting lists? As things stand, we can't do both as the NHS doesn't have the capacity.

As someone who's on the NHS waiting list, I'd prefer my operation to be done by them. The reality is I need it doing ASAP, so if it's by a private provider, so be it

@AnthonyFStevens
Wes Streeting is hopefully quaking in his boots, because he wants to sell the NHS as well.

@stuartb

Streeting is faced with the unenviable task of reducing waiting lists in a service which is in disarray & has zero additional capacity.

If his only option is to utilise the private sector until the NHS is back on its feet, why would you have an issue with citizens receiving the urgent care they need? Wasn't reducing NHS waiting lists one of 's core election aims & objectives? 🤔