Single biggest thing government could do to reduce number of economically inactive people who are long-term sick is sort out our mental health services. Two million people in England are on NHS mental health waiting lists. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
@PippaCrerar Wait until those who defend GPs find out the reasons for why the list keeps growing. GPs can't follow a straightforward action plan, and a lot of those are repeat referrals. Ask any CPN how much work GPs create them by not following a simple action plan.
The Tories suck up to the super-rich, especially their super-rich paymasters, and kick down on the poor, the weak, and the vulnerable. For a certain kind of authoritarian, there is nothing more satisfying than kicking people who can't fight back while licking the boots of the rich and powerful.
@PippaCrerar Fourteen years of Conservative government has damaged the mental health of two million people, surely some mistake?
Also drug shortages are a “new normal” in the UK and are being exacerbated by Brexit, a report by the Nuffield Trust health thinktank has warned. A dramatic recent spike in the number of drugs that are unavailable has created serious problems for doctors, pharmacists, the NHS and patients, it found
@PippaCrerar Extremely Online Junglist Keyboard Warrior Combat Medic mode ACTIVATES! A 🧵 for mental health. I am a clusterfuck omnishambles but I used to be Ohio Chernobyl so I've improved a lot thanks to various things I've found I've dumped here. x.com/horseshoe_part…
@PippaCrerar Extremely Online Junglist Keyboard Warrior Combat Medic mode ACTIVATES! A 🧵 for mental health. I am a clusterfuck omnishambles but I used to be Ohio Chernobyl so I've improved a lot thanks to various things I've found I've dumped here. x.com/horseshoe_part…
@PippaCrerar @MarinaPurkiss Marina, a British person would need to earn 38k to marry Juan/Juanita from Barcelona and bring him home. Tories telling us who we can love. #ScrapMIR #priceonlove 💔🇬🇧💔 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6526…
@PippaCrerar PM who as Chancellor pushed Eat Out to Help Out now also has consequences of Long Covid to address but as usual nothing is happening to help hundreds of thousands (may be millions) of working people affected. Hollowing out NHS is making this worse for us all
@PippaCrerar It's absolutely ridiculous! The pain and anguish if those people, who heed help and access to services. Plus, the overall benefits to society if they got that help and access to support, just beggars belief that the government aren't doing more. They don't care about us!
@PippaCrerar That doesn’t scratch the surface. Kids waiting to be seen too, unable to go to school which requires a parent to care for them..