Kate
Mental health nurse; occasional troublemaker.
- So who still uses Bluesky? Are we all still on our best behaviour over here?
- 🚨 TOMORROW! 🚨 Come and join the “hard left eco mob trying to derail NHS pay deal” in London 👇
- Finally on my way to Liverpool for @rcn.org.uk Congress #RCN25. Looking forward to seeing some of the @nhsworkerssayno.bsky.social squad and joining the mental health forum as a voting member. ✊
- ❗️This is at the 1 in 12 Club in Bradford today. 🇵🇸
- Reposted by KateTo be absolutely clear, I will not vote for Labour if they continue to support Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. I won’t be voting tactically I don’t care who that lets into power I’m not voting for a Party that can permit the wilful starvation of innocent people.
- Reposted by KateHappy May Day!
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Proud to join colleagues from West Yorkshire Health Workers 4 Palestine for a march remembering Palestinian health workers in Leeds this weekend. #NotATarget #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya
- Many of the best people I meet are trans. Some of the biggest advocates for justice. No trans woman has ever threatened my rights. Today’s ruling is a win for hypothetical scenarios that barely exist in reality, and causes real life pain and anxiety for people already enduring so much.
- Outside the BBC building in Leeds this lunchtime: “BBC, pick a side: justice or genocide!” #FreePalestine
- Just watched ‘Striking with Pride: United at the Coalface’ as part of Leeds Queer Film Festival and 100% recommend to anyone who gets a chance to watch it. An important display of solidarity I think a few on the left could do with being reminded of right now.
- This ⬇️ It’s a sign that there’s something v wrong with society if one job isn’t enough to survive on And these people no doubt would be the first to complain about standards slipping. How can you expect good service when an employee is exhausted? Would you want a doctor straight off another shift?
- I’m never going to stop laughing at this
- Reposted by KateObviously most ‘centrist’ media outlets don’t respond to those on the left-wing saying they’re focusing on the wrong things, so let me say this: your reporting is really super boring now, because it’s very clear that you’re using mental gymnastics not to call out Starmer properly.
- Who needs nurses anyway?
- Reposted by KateNursing staff are being forced to deliver care in inappropriate settings every day. Patient safety is being compromised. The true extent of the corridor care crisis has been revealed in our new report, using the testimonies of over 5,000 NHS nursing staff. Read it here: bit.ly/3WiS8wB
- Reposted by Kate'Talk of an upcoming ceasefire deal in Gaza must be treated with caution, especially as the implementation of the terms will be fraught with difficulties', says Al Jazeera Senior Analyst Marwan Bishara. 🟥 Read analysis: aje.io/upmvx5
- Free Palestine 🇵🇸🙏❤️
- Reposted by Kate🚨 Tell your MP - Protect healthworkers Israel is escalating its genocide on Gaza and its attack on Palestinian healthworkers. Write to your MP to demand they push the govt to #StopArmingIsrael, and protect healthcare workers (1/5) Write here: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/healthcarewo...
- Horrendous to think that nurse went to work in A&E - in already dire circumstances - and ended up a patient there herself. I hope our unions are really going to stand up for us. @rcn.org.uk
- Our queen:
- Reposted by KateWake up Streeting! Address the healthcare professional's recruitment & retention crisis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Kate“We’re forgotten about here... nobody cares.” A Coca-Cola plant pumps millions of litres of water in Mexico's San Cristóbal de las Casas. But locals say their faucets run dry. So who is to blame for the water shortages? ⤵️
- Reposted by KateCan anyone point to *any credible* sources for the claims I’ve seen vaguely waved around, that private health has a whole load of meaningful & useful spare capacity just waiting around for NHS patients? I saw 20% mentioned but that seems to have come from industry lobbyists - about something else!
- Reposted by KateWe’re supporting the #SafeSickPay campaign. Raising Statutory Sick Pay would mean millions of workers in would finally be able to afford to take time off sick when needed. Write to your MP to back the campaign: bit.ly/sickpayaction #GFTU
- Reposted by KateWhen we tell you that privatising NHS delivery a bad idea, it’s not “ideology”. It’s cos we know that health services redesigned by corporate stooges end up *undertreating* the poor, sick & complex - but also expensively *overtreating*/overtesting ppl where there’s money to be made. Case in point 👇
- Reposted by KateAn inconvenient truth for Labour: NHS privatisation is entirely un-evidence-based and the public has never agreed to it. All evidence is that privatisation is: 1) more expensive for taxpayers, and 2) has worse outcomes for patients
- I’m afraid that as a politician you sometimes have to ask the question: is the toboggan really worth it?
- I’ve always said that what our social care system is lacking is yet another long and boring report
- Revolting. Thinking of hospital patients and staff in Gaza; healthcare facilities are #NotATarget.
- At least 15 bodies were recovered by Gaza's civil defence, killed in an overnight Israeli strike on the Sheikh Radwan area. The strike hit a home that housed about 40 displaced Palestinians. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/7zkxmc
- Merry Christmas! Thinking of my amazing colleagues working in the NHS this Christmas, but also those trying to save lives in unimaginable circumstances elsewhere. Wishing for peace in 2025. 🙏
- Reposted by KateA series of Israeli attacks on displacement camps and designated “safe zones” in Gaza has killed several Palestinians, including children.
- I take it back… I’m requesting a refund
- Hoggle: the gift that keeps giving 🎁🎅🎄
- (Before anyone calls the RSPCA, it was actually his Christmas present - a big bag of Dreamies - that had been wrapped up, not him)
- Reposted by Kate‘Dead bodies, blood and body parts all over’. At least eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Musa bin Nusair School in Gaza City, where forcibly displaced Palestinians were sheltering. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
- Hereby launching a new campaign to outlaw men
- My god. Charlie A, 22yrs old who raped Gisèle Pelicot wanted sedatives from Dominique so that they could both rape Charlie's mum. Charlie's mum had her hair tested and this showed evidence of those sedatives. These men are sick and the sentences are too short. #giselepelicot
- Reposted by KateNever forget that this situation was completely avoidable. When you inflict 14 years of austerity on an essential service, this is the result. KONP has been fighting for the NHS for 20 years, and we're not about to stop now. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
- Who won’t this government throw under the bus to save the precious billionaires? This lot won’t have *any* votes at the next election at this rate.
- RIP Khaled Nabhan “She was the soul of my soul”
- Reposted by KatePrivate Equity Is Devouring Everything And Is Coming for Your Pets. It is taking over animal clinics. Profiteering, wage cuts, asset stripping, tax dodges are standard practice. UK govt has handed care homes and parts of the NHS to it. Disasterous. jacobin.com/2024/12/vete...
- Reposted by KateA shocking revelation today in the #PhysicianAssociates scandal It turns out the Health Secretary is using tax payers money to pay the GMC’s costs in defending the legal action brought by @anaesunited.bsky.social to protect patient safety - an outrageous use of public money youtu.be/T-BDHQop1zk?...
- Reposted by Kate🚨Private healthcare companies are lobbying the Health Secretary to sign up to a new PFI deal. ⏰We’re running out of time to stop this deal. 📋Add your name to the petition now and show Wes Streeting YOU stand against new #PFI in our #NHS. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
- I’m so glad Streeting’s glittering career in the NUS and Westminster has equipped him with so much insight into the National Health Service that none one of those clowns who’ve spent years and years training and saving lives day in day out there could possibly comprehend
- Oh come ON. 2.8%! The government of the workers various unions and the TUC have been falling over themselves to lavish praise on. Might as well ballot us for strike now. If you need me I’ll be dusting off my megaphone…
- Today the UK government recommended a pay increase of 2.8% for nursing staff in 2025/26, as little as £2 extra a day. This is deeply offensive, detrimental to patients & contradictory to hopes of rebuilding the NHS. We are calling for direct negotiations on pay - our full response: bit.ly/49Dn28s
- Reposted by KateBBC News just said that Netanyahu being at the corruption trial, distracts from the war in Gaza. There is no war in Gaza. It's an occupation, an illegal land grab and a genocide of the Palestinians. BBC News, it is shameful of you to describe it this way. @bbcnews
- Absolutely gutted to read this. 😢 Outsourcing is always a big mistake - thinking of all our colleagues in Colchester. www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2478213...
- Reposted by KateIf you’re applying for PIP, the charity Turn2Us has launched The PIP Tool: a free guide to navigate the benefits process. Their goal “is to make sure you know your rights and can afford what you need to enjoy life fully.” Share widely! pip.turn2us.org.uk
- Reposted by Kate“Women pushed into private sector because NHS inadequately resourced to provide timely care and treatment” There, fixed this title for you, the BBC. 🚨 www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
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- Reposted by KateWhy is Labour driving more privatisation of the NHS, PFIs, and so on, all of which have been shown to be more expensive for the public purse and worse for patients, and all of which no voters have agreed to? The only logical conclusion is Labour wants to undermine & kill the NHS.
- 🚨Private healthcare companies are lobbying the Health Secretary to sign up to a new PFI deal. ⏰We’re running out of time to stop this deal. 📋Add your name to the petition now and show Wes Streeting YOU stand against new #PFI in our #NHS. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
- Reposted by KateOur co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said: "This is the true cost of Tony Blair’s ill-conceived PFI deals: hospitals crippled by debt, wards in disrepair, and trusts paying back many times their original investment — decades after the fact.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hosp...
- Reposted by KatePalestinian orthopedic surgeons tortured and murdered under Israeli detention. Hundreds more healthcare workers in Israeli detention. 4 doctors now killed by Israel in detention like this. Genocide by Israel on our watch. #Gaza #Genocide #Israel www.bmj.com/content/387/...
- Where could all the money be going…?! 🤔
- Reposted by KateSolidarity with Colchester’s health workers who are standing firm against privatisation. More details and sign the petition here 👉 action.unison.org.uk/page/147561/...
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- End the genocide. Free Palestine. ✌️
- Reposted by KateWhat a disgraceful state of affairs. Please don't ever bring this to the UK.
- Reposted by Kate“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)
- Reposted by KateIsraeli forces have surrounded a school-turned-shelter in the besieged northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya and are firing towards the building, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/zsq70j
- My health promotion idea is that people would be fitter and happier if there were more accessible and fun dance opportunities available. Remove the embarrassment/Britishness and everyone (to whatever degree is physically possible) enjoys dancing, and I won’t hear otherwise. Down with treadmills! 💃🕺👏
