Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I’ve never liked Wes Streeting more than his open backing of rejoining the EU which 16 million of us voted remain because we can do maths. BTW - he has said similar comments before but the right wing media chose to ignore them. 010
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 18/05/2026More people are surviving thanks to medical advances, more people ate living longer, that equals more work for healthcare which means we meed more healthcare workers. This “make smarter use of resources” lobby are simply not facing reality. 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I would love to see a documentary on the re-opening of Britain’s last tin mine. 010
Reposted by Tamsin SPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Today is #WorldBloodCancerDay GiveBloodNHS is sharing the crucial role donations play in helping people recover from blood cancers like leukaemia and lymphoma. You could be someone's lifeline❤️ Book an appointment today. It’s one of the most rewarding things I’ve done www.blood.co.uk 2323184
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Thats what i call dedication to your YouTube channel (on snake handling, obvs) www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.com'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 timesScientists hope to make a universal antivenom from the extraordinary blood of a man exposed to snake venom for decades. 010
Reposted by Tamsin SChartered Society of Physiotherapy @thecsp.bsky.social · 07/04/2025'We'd like to see action around secondary prevention, the importance of rehabilitation, and to stop revolving door cases of people coming back into hospital.' @robyeldham.bsky.social updates on the forthcoming 10 Year Plan and the move from a sickness to prevention healthcare based system. 053
Reposted by Tamsin SNick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 26/03/2025If it weren't for Brexit, Rachel Reeves would have another £50 billion in her purse; plenty enough to boost the NHS, welfare, and infrastructure, and allow for some tax cuts. What a happier and more optimistic Britain that would be. That's the price of the delusional idiocy of Brexit. #RejoinEU 33710239
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 27/03/2025“We need to get rid of the nice to haves”, says Foluke Ajayi, vice-chair of NHS Confed and trust CEO. I guess that includes anything without a target eh like, er, all community services? Neighbourhood Health Service going to be tough to pull off, eh? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...podcasts.apple.comWhat's the way forward with NHS cuts?Podcast Episode · Health On The Line · 26/03/2025 · 32m 020
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Cutting 10000 civil service jobs is a lame no-impact move when Cameron announced a 100,000 cut and they could not make the numbers work because they couldn’t afford the ££££ of exits too! I was one of those civil servants so thinking of my former colleagues heading for ugly workplace dynamics 110
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 25/03/2025This is what devolving responsibility for the shift from hospitals to community to ICBs looks like when there are no targets or incentives - plans to close walk in centres and out of hours GP hubs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGovernment asked to review possible Norfolk and Suffolk NHS cutsA walk-in centre and out-of-hours GP bases could be closed under plans to save money. 000
Reposted by Tamsin SGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Anecdote, meet data. 1644095
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Today they are talking about avoiding NHS trust deficits (don’t take long) so savings are not about putting “more” money anywhere, they are about delivering within current budgets. ICB cuts also prompting a culture of risk aversion & bunkering. 100
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Turning care homes into reablement centres so that people age with true quality of life and no one falls through the cracks is working - www.falkirkherald.co.uk/health/falki...falkirkherald.co.ukFalkirk Council physiotherapy facility earns praise from Care InspectorateA facility which provides physical and emotional support to people recovering from an accident, illness or hospital stay has been assessed as “very good” following a surprise inspection. 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I’ve spoken to so many internationally educated physios who were woefully overqualified but forced to take entry-level roles. One had two masters and had run a college for physios back in India then started in the UK as band 5. Promotion after that point was rapid for them though. 100
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This has to be accompanied by education of NHS managers so that reasonable adjustments are offered in every NHS workplace - and are not viewed as incongruous with the work. Sick absence and union-backed disputes are then staff’s only options to protect their health. 100
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Tacking health inequalities means surfacing patients who have not previously accessed healthcare thus increasing patient numbers and perhaps backlogs. Hard to do both at least for some years I would have thought? 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Yeah I thought last night’s press release from DHSC was carefully worded to avoid a direct causal relationship- not least because Labour improvements to CDCs not implemented yet I assume? 100
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 16/02/2025The more bizarre, insane and dictatorial the US looks the better the EU looks to UK voters. I expect this trend to continue 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Those with knowledge and expertise are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Stop typing all those questions to ChatGPT and WhatsApp them to the brilliant brains of Electoral Dysfunction instead. 181
Reposted by Tamsin SBeth Rigby @bethrigby.bsky.social · 11/02/2025🙋🏻♀️ED ALERT: Do you have a question for us!? We're recording an Electoral Dysfunction Q&A special. Please send us your messages and voice notes on Whatsapp - 07934200444 or email us electoraldysfunction@sky.uk & @HarrietHarman @RuthDavidsonPC and I will give you a straight answer! 0111
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I wish Brexit support was only alive with a small proportion but I hear it all the time when I’m out and about. Isn’t underestimating anti EU feeling why we Lost the referendum in the first place? We must do better. 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Principles are not practical… guidelines are not enough. 030
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Been chatting to neighbourhood teams up & down England & many identify “frailty” as #1 focus but tell me all patients are in last 1/2 years of life. 023
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 04/02/2025“Without a compelling vision, including one for Britain’s place in Europe, [Labour] risks being outflanked – both by history and by a movement built on anger, not solutions.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on Labour’s Brexit hesitancy: Tories collapse and Farage fills the void | EditorialEditorial: Sir Keir Starmer’s caution has yet to persuade voters, while discontent fuels a resurgent right that thrives by boosting anti-immigrant, climate-sceptic views 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I’m just helping edit an oncology and palliative care sub to the Ten Year Plan and I really hope gov funds the unsexy, non headline grabbing basics of unpicking the NHS internal market the led to proliferation of IT systems that physios have to log in & out of to piece together complete patient info 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Women at work who tell me they are rather tired of mansplainy policy pods get a quick - and now award-winning - recommendation from me to listen to this! Congrats to the team. 062
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 31/01/2025A grim prediction: Nuffield Trust on new NHS guidance & mandate "For now, the reforms which will be promised in the NHS 10 Year Plan later this year will be largely put on ice – such as moving care closer to home…There is a real risk … [of] chaotic raiding of budgets again.” tinyurl.com/muyy5skdnuffieldtrust.org.ukResponse to Mandate to NHS England and 2025/26 Operational Planning Guidance 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 31/01/2025It did seem strange timing for the gov to publish a new health mandate slap bang in the middle of winter pressures. Heading off the bad headlines! 110
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 30/01/2025HSJ yesterday - NHS England was considering changes to the funding regime, including “should we move to paying for [out of hospital care] activity in a similar way we pay for elective activity”? NHS England chief to select committee yesterday. Er, yeah. hsj.cdn.wilmingtonplc.com/2025/01/29/e...hsj.cdn.wilmingtonplc.comElective funding ring-fence to be axedThe ringfence around elective funding will be axed in 2025-26, officials have revealed. 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Is this what happens when you ask AI to write “something uplifting” for your trout packaging? 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Rachel Reeves says she is dedicated to economic growth but you’re just re arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic until we rejoin the EU. 020
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Interesting read on why birth rate decline is due to a relationship recession - with the freedom to be happily single as a woman in part driven by social media empowerment: www.ft.com/content/43e2...ft.comThe relationship recession is going globalA rise in the number of single people is becoming a key driver of falling birth rates 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Happy #caturday from Dexter who has just been surprised by a passing pigeon. How very dare they. 040
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 06/01/2025So the right call. Sometimes you just gotta clap back. 010
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 05/01/2025BMA nailed this one - “With 7.5 million people waiting for care, the app may help some patients navigate disjointed and complex pathways of care”, calling for significant system wide improvements for real progress. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...theguardian.comCash incentives for GPs under Labour’s radical plan to cut NHS waiting listsDoctors will be given £20 each time they consult with a specialist to see if there is an alternative to hospital visits 010
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 04/01/2025You can’t change everything except the workforce. Invest in more staffing to give people the mental space to innovate and adopt new ways of working. 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Not to mention roads that no longer have any EU funding for roads. Will Labour reverse that? 110
Reposted by Tamsin SPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Wow. 2025 has officially started down under, with Sydney saying hello to the new year with a stunning firework display above the Sydney Harbor Bridge as more than one million people watched below 2137763
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Looking forward to 2025 - we’ve already had removing VAT exemption for private schools, sweeping improvements to workers’ rights, nationalising rail and GB Energy and an inspiring demonstration of real democracy in the assisted dying bill. Feeling optimistic and wishing kindness and love to all. 010
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 31/12/2024I was fortunate enough to meet him once in his early days as an MP and he was gracious, open minded and fair. Well deserved. 100
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Two species have been proven by research to cry - mice when their babies were taken away and dogs when they reunited with owners after a long period apart. Think the boffins may have missed one. Facts at podcast Why We Cry - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...podcasts.apple.comWhy do we cry?Podcast Episode · Why? with Emma Kennedy · 12/12/2024 · 28m 000
Tamsin S @ravenmaven.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Caught the first few minutes of the most watched programme of Christmas Day but just don’t find men greeting a woman with a comment on the size of their breasts and the woman tittering anything other than depressing. 000
Reposted by Tamsin SNHS Confederation (now known as The NHS Alliance) @nhsconfed.org · 25/12/2024Thank you to all the health and care staff working over the festive period, who have worked tirelessly throughout the year to keep patients and communities safe and well. Season's greetings from us all 🎄 0113
