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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
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    Jun 27
    🚨 Donna Ockenden says midwives should train first as nurses as she warns of concerns across England. Next week Baroness Amos WILL call for a review of education & a National Maternity Comissioner to oversee a redesign of maternity services READ:thetimes.com/article/5cf0b3…
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    Mar 3, 2022
    Goodness the scenes from Germany with people holding signs at train stations for how many #ukraine refugees they can host in their own home. That has got me. What good, decent people.
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    Jan 4, 2022
    Boris Johnson just essentially admitted the NHS is going to be battered in the coming weeks but his view is we "just need to get through it". But not everyone will make it, some will die either from Covid or other mistakes and NHS staff will be broken, some permanently so.
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    Oct 20, 2021
    If I hear one more person talk about "if" there is unsustainable pressure on the NHS I am going to lose it. The NHS has been in the grip of a crisis, cancelling cancer ops and leaving 999 callers waiting on hold for up to 10 minutes for literally months now.
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    Oct 20, 2021
    "We don't believe the pressures on the NHS are unsustainable" says @sajidjavid... Mate, you've literally had to call in the military to help the NHS to cope.
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    Jun 12, 2020
    Exclusive: Chief nurse @CNOEngland was dropped from No.10 coronavirus briefings after refusing to back Dominic Cummings
    Chief nurse was dropped from coronavirus briefings ‘after refusing to back Dominic Cummings’
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    Nov 30, 2021
    More than a decade ago I was rejected for the job of health correspondent on the local paper I was working for. It crushed me at the time. Tonight I've changed my twitter profile to Health Editor @thesundaytimes. To all young journos out there, keep going.
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    Apr 26, 2020
    BBC news this morning saying NHS intensive care units have coped. That is not true. NHS has coped because tens of thousands of operations have been cancelled and those areas turned into makeshift ICUs with stretched staffing ratios amd machines. We need to be honest about this
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    Apr 19, 2023
    🚨 It's crazy that the NHS has told 350 doctors training in anaesthesia that the NHS has no job for them after 3 years training. At the same time we have massive shortages of, you guessed it, anaesthetists. These self-defeating bottlenecks defy logic. Statement from @RCoANews
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    Jan 3, 2023
    For a @10DowningStreet spokesman to deny the NHS is in crisis today is objectively bullshit of the worst kind. You can argue about funding and policy but let's not start dismissing people's actual avoidable deaths and horrible experiences waiting for care.
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    Dec 30, 2021
    Just so I have this clear in my own mind...the Govt has relentlessly pushed the narrative of no need for more restrictions and yet the NHS is building makeshift field hospitals in its car parks 🤷‍♂️
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    Dec 30, 2021
    Leeds Hospital to host one of the first 'Nightingale hubs' based in a car park at St James's Hospital. NHS wants space for up to 4k extra beds nationally...but who will staff these beds?
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    Jan 10, 2022
    I'm seeing an emerging narrative that the NHS has coped. It definitely hasn't for too many patients and we shouldn't gloss over that. The NHS doesn't implode, it just fails many more individuals and their experience is missed at the system view level.
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    Aug 3, 2024
    I'm white, English and grew up in Stoke. To everyone who doesn't look like me, whatever your religion, born here or not. I love that we share our country with each other. And I think most people believe the same. That's it really.
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    Oct 14, 2021
    Health secretary @sajidjavid has pulled out of speaking to GPs at their annual conference this morning, on the day the Govt and NHS publish its GP 'rescue plan' #RCGPAC