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Former NHS psychiatrist whistleblower. Viets are agrarian peacenik foodies until oppressed. Ho Chi Minh was a saucier.

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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
2 years
2/ Today - Tory MP Phillip Davies' lobbying for racing & gambling industry revealed by FOI disclosures He enjoyed free race day tickets & hospitality worth thousands #TorySleaze
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
5 years
@C4Dispatches @drphilhammond Admissions to English NHS Trusts with a primary or secondary diagnosis of malnutrition since 2008 UK is on course to be another US rust belt state if The Charlatan wins, but without the benefits of US citizenship #LiarJohnson #ToryBritain #FoodBanks
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
7 years
@Jeremy_Hunt @DanteNDigitalis @curetheNHS Devil's in the detail Minister. We all know about your creative accounting skills.
@MirrorPolitics
Mirror Politics
7 years
Jeremy Hunt said there were 30,000 more mental health workers in the NHS than under Labour. He was out by 29,308.
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
1 year
An NHS trust manager Associate Medical Director Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust #NHSStrikes
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Minh Alexander
4 years
Times letters 26 Dec 2020 Lord Balfe: Johnson has shown nothing but contempt for parliament The Lords should block his latest peerages Hope they do Pity it's too late to block the appalling Claire Fox #LiarJohnson #ToryBritain
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
4 years
Whilst all eyes on the NHS, there is a storm brewing in social care Many vulnerable potential #coronavirus victims, stuck in settings which may facilitate transmission if there is staffing crisis or insufficient supplies, incl PPE #CoronaUK #Covid19
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
9 months
@nandwics After Emily Chesterton's death aged 30 due to grotesque misdiagnosis by a physician associate, her GP practice decided to drop physician associates A little restraint and reflection would be good instead of this propaganda which is misleading by omission #r4today #OurNHSPeople
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
5 years
Extraordinary that we now have daily headlines about our PM lying, including from local newspapers in tranquil rural counties No doubt if he cements power through further illegality & repeated prorogation, the headlines will slowly die off #StopTheCoup
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
2 years
President of Society of Acute Medicine says UK Gov should declare a national major incident because the whole NHS is under such severe strain Chaos just like first #COVID19 wave @SteveBarclay #R4Today #BBCQT #PMQs #NewsNight #NHSCrisis #OurNHSPeople
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
1 year
The replies to this tweet speak for themself. Some folk may see this as putting patients first. The massive exodus of UK medical staff abroad shows how intolerable things have become for doctors & unsafe for patients. NHS is under attack. That's why docs are striking
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
4 years
Alarm bells continue to loudly ring on the state of our democracy Outrage continues about Johson's appointments to the Lords of the corrupt and the extreme, defying House Lords Appointments Commission Salvos from Lord Lexden: #LiarJohnson #ToryBritain
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
5 years
@RobBurl You know exactly what he repeatedly promulgates. The BBC should be extremely ashamed of its recent, irresponsible normalisation of such characters. You used to be so much better than this.
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
4 years
Westminster petition to replace UK whistleblowing law & protect whistleblowers and the public Please sign and share! Thank you #FTSU #LordsQs #HouseOfCommons
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Minh Alexander
6 years
@NHS_HealthEdEng Has HEE no sense of decorum? This is extraordinary behaviour by a public body @hee_ian
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
4 years
#Coronavirus crisis throwing into sharp relief how so many of senior most NHS managers, heading national bodies, climbed high through obedience, self interest & lack of dedication to the public interest But obeying orders is no defence #OurNHSPeople #FTSU #LearningFromDeaths
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
2 years
The overpaid and repeatedly biased, lightweight & unprofessional Fiona Bruce is doing such a good job for the Tories that CCHQ have tweeted #bbcqt as part of their PR material What an embarrassment she is Sack her for goodness sake @bbcpress , along with the Audience Producer
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Minh Alexander
11 months
Really says it all about total failure of senior NHS management, starting from the top & how disasters like the Letby affair are made worse Amanda Pritchard, who gave shelter to Mark Cubbon, under whose watch Dr Jasna Macanovic whistleblower was unfairly dismissed #Newsnight
@HSJnews
Health Service Journal
11 months
Check whistleblowing policies following Letby judgement, Pritchard tells trusts
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Minh Alexander
4 years
@Johnrashton47 You're doing a great public service John. History will judge those who sided with UK Gov You've probably seen this already, but in case not, this is what the GMC is supposed to do in whistleblowing doctors' cases: Also see:
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Minh Alexander
11 months
The incompetent colleague about whom the senior nurse whistleblew was promoted The whistleblowing nurse was attacked with malicious allegations The Freedom To Speak Up Guardian did nothing Not hard to see how NHS Safeguarding fails #Letby
@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
11 months
Guardian letters 21 August 2023 NHS Freedom To Speak Up Guardian "offered empathy but nothing else" Nurse of 40 yrs who resigned after reprisal for whistleblowing More examples: #HouseOfCommons #HouseOfLords #OurNHSPeople #Safeguarding #r4today
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
8 years
Slippery Cat Quality Commission undermines Freedom to Squeak Up, hoards & hides important information, say squeakers
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
7 years
@CompassnInCare @sarasiobhan @CareQualityComm @ashkarmstrong @C4Dispatches Breach of confidentiality by CQC & complicity in referring a whistleblower to Disclosure & Barring service #FTSU
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
2 years
There is an NHS house style of "personal" tweets by most senior managers. Gushing and false, virtual signalling of all flavours. "Proud", "fabulous" & utterly saccharine. It's especially intolerable when wielded by a corrupt practitioner who has helped suppress terrible harm.
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
4 years
@ProfDonnaHall @WHO @DHSCgovuk UK Gov continues to behave in a most unseemly way, using the @DHSCgovuk twitter account to attack individual critics / those who post critical material We're so far through the looking glass It's toe curlingly embarrassing #Covid19 #Covid19UK
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
5 years
Private Eye Issue 1491, 8 March 2019, Why hasn’t there been a public inquiry? Why was the killing allowed to happen for so long? #VictimsOfGosport @ann_poppy ⁩ ⁦ @bee_devine #LearningFromDeaths #TalkHealthAndCare #PatientSafetyLearning #QI #LordsQs #HouseOfCommons
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Minh Alexander
11 months
1/ Robert Francis' & Gov's Freedom To Speak Up project looking even more ludicrous Alison Kelly Director of Nursing & Ian Harvey were Freedom To Speak Up Guardians at the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where they failed to act re Letby
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Minh Alexander
10 months
1/ ETs generally don't like claims against named individuals. It's noteworthy that the BMA are supporting Martyn Pitman's whistleblowing ET claim which names his former medical director Lara Alloway as a respondent #OurNHSPeople #MedTwitter #r4today
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
4 years
Scenes inside No 10 Q: Alexa, when would be the worst possible time to encourage mass movement between households all over the UK? A: During a deadly pandemic as we move into the dead of winter, when winter pressure on the NHS peaks Alrighty, let's #GetStuffDone !! #COVID19Uk
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
4 years
Those flying a kite for drip drip UK Gov false narrative of hard choices between economy & selling our vulnerable down the river conveniently omit the option of redistributing wealth that's been obscenely concentrated in a few hands & retrieving corporation tax etc #Covid19UK
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
6 years
@gmcuk 1) GMC sought Dr #BawaGarba 's erasure after errors that MPTS considered were not recklessly made. And yet FOI shows in the last 5 years GMC has NOT sought erasure of 23 doctors convicted of Sex Offences @sarahwollaston #LordsQs
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Minh Alexander
2 years
Daily Fail is resorting to doxing rational, responsible grown ups who've chosen to wear masks in face of increasing transmission & collapse of emergency care But then, the toffs who own & run our Right wing press have private healthcare & don't need to rely on public transport
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
6 years
UK whistleblowing law enables cover ups because it ignores whistleblowers' concerns & doesn't make anyone investigate them Please write to your MPs if you'd like this to change & if you'd like to help protect whistleblowers! Template letter here: #FTSU
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
2 years
I see @Jeremy_Hunt arch gaslighter is dining out again with his old team on the 'How I reformed the NHS' ticket when he in fact shunned countless NHS whistleblowers & protected abusive managers. Now complains about the latter being recycled. Best comedy duo around.
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Minh Alexander
4 years
Whistleblower code of the road: If you received a lot of help through your dark times, pay it forward and do what you can to help others who follow, even if you'll never know their names or stories and they'll never know who you are or what you did for them #Karma
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Minh Alexander
1 year
Whistleblowers/ Would-be Whistlers Do not use your work email account for sending any sensitive correspondence about your whistleblowing Employers often starting trawling through your emails surprisingly early on in whistleblowing cases, covertly, as part of managing you out
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Minh Alexander
2 years
1/ Heavy coverage by #Newsnight on cultural dysfunction at University Hospitals Birmingham. Named & unnamed staff reporting reprisal for raising patient safety concerns, including punitive referrals of staff to professional regulators Eg Mr Tristan Reuser surgeon & WB #FTSU
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Minh Alexander
5 years
What a wonderful "F*** You" headline to the self important, xenophobic, profit-mongering UK gutter press Good luck, well done and congratulations to Harry & Meghan for telling the racists where to go
@chicagotribune
Chicago Tribune
5 years
Northwestern graduate moving closer to home after spending time abroad
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Minh Alexander
2 years
Shocking testimony from Susan Edgar at the #PostOfficeInquiry on 4 March 2022, now posted, about how she witnessed Fujitsu staff remotely access & alter accounts of a local post office circa 2016 #PostOfficeScandal #PaulaVennells #ImperialPeople
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Minh Alexander
6 years
In this week's Private Eye, Issue 1467, a succinct infographic about the NHS Whistleblower Employment Support Scheme #FTSU #LordsQs #PSafety4All
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Minh Alexander
1 year
1/ What is known about NHS whistleblowers is only a small part of the real picture. There are many more untold stories. Many more silenced, who will never be able to say what they saw & heard. For all the claims of the gov & NHS National Guardian about #FreedomToSpeakUp #r4today
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Minh Alexander
11 months
The short explanation of why the government's NHS Freedom To Speak Up Guardian system sucks Gonna repost this regularly until people are familiar with the evidence & understand what the problem is 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
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Minh Alexander
4 years
Interesting to see a six figure salary very senior manager appearing in frontline uniform at photo ops such as Boris Johnson's champagne soiree Dec 2019 and today's #coronavirus press conference #Covid19 #Covid19UK #Coronavirus
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Minh Alexander
7 years
@sarasiobhan @CareQualityComm @ashkarmstrong @C4Dispatches 1) The CQC has template responses when exposed for failing the public, and strategies for undermining critics
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Minh Alexander
10 months
. @dr_merritt Do you accept, as East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Chief Medical Officer, that (1) NHS national whistleblowing policy recognises anonymously raised concerns (2) trainee surveys do not require identification? #OurNHSPeople #MedTwitter #FTSU
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Minh Alexander
11 months
I fully support this move by BMA. It is well overdue that non clinical NHS managers should be regulated, just as doctors, nurses & other healthcare professionals are regulated. Regulation is imperfect but at present there's impunity for most NHS managers who harm patients & staff
@TheBMA
The BMA
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“Senior doctors’ concerns about patient safety are being ignored every day.” BMA council chair ⁦ @DrPhilBanfield ⁩ calls for regulation of NHS managers in appearance on ⁦⁦ @BBCBreakfast ⁩ this morning
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Minh Alexander
11 months
1/ Very long article about how Dr Dewi Evans, called in the police as an expert, experienced the surreal Letby affair, by BBC Wales, kindly sent to me Translated here to English He rightly attacks the political management of the NHS #OurNHSPeople
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Minh Alexander
7 years
@cllrbartington @Jeremy_Hunt #PtFt17 #PatientFirst2017 Did you know that @Jeremy_Hunt refused to help NHS whistleblower Dr Kevin Beatt, who went on to win at the Court of Appeal?
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Minh Alexander
11 months
However pro-management publications spin it, there was catastrophic organisational failure at Countess of Chester & indefensible delay, including further delay AFTER decision was made to call police. That failure lives, breathes & is palpable. No amount of excuses will ablate it.
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Minh Alexander
6 years
You'd be astonished by folk who've walked past the worst scandals. The great & good who now count themselves patient safety champions & grandees beyond reproach. #Gosport just happens to be an example of people getting caught. Fear drives cover ups & requires legislation #FTSU
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Minh Alexander
10 months
1/Martyn Pitman consultant obstetrician & Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust maternity safety whistleblower's Employment Tribunal hearing begins Monday "The trust has admitted he was exemplary at his job" ET case number 1404274/2021 #OurNHSPeople
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Minh Alexander
7 years
The honours system is an embarrassing celebration of imperial oppression In the current NHS, it's just a dye injection test of who's in the In Group & willing to look other way and or get hands dirty
@drcmday
Dr Chris Day
7 years
Depressing to think that several people heading organisations that have harmed not helped junior doctor whistleblowing protection have or will receive honours. A reward for doing what your are told in amongst people that truly deserve recognition.
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Minh Alexander
1 year
Following an enquiry, please note I do not charge for any "services". There is no donate button on my website. I work only to support genuine whistleblowers, current and future, who seek to protect the public interest. I hope those whom I've supported will in turn support others.
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Minh Alexander
6 years
Private Eye Issue 1484, 30 November 2018 Private probation services cut staff by 11% in 2017 despite criticisms of service quality According to Eye's calculations: - Sodexo has cut 45% staff since 2015 - Interserve has cut 33% staff since 2015 @wavemich43
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Minh Alexander
7 years
NHS bodies: 5 years of ICO decisions on FOI requests. DH & NHS England disgrace themselves. @Meg_HillierMP #FTSU
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Minh Alexander
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The very, very long running scandal at Norfolk and Suffolk is a terrible, terrible illustration of discrimination against mental health patients & callous government neglect. Babies - no shortage of inquiries & reaction. Psychosis & suicide? Tumbleweed
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
8 years
14) Here's what @SardariClare a seriously harmed, vindicated but jobless NHS whistleblower has to say to Hooray Henrietta: #StateOfCare
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
5 years
@JeanRowe2 @drphilhammond @C4Dispatches Kleptocracy and a particularly voracious, parasitic iteration of capitalism "UK 'has particularly extreme form of capitalism'" #ToryBritain #LiarJohnson
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
4 years
5 workers on London buses dead of #Coronavirus The arguments for keeping public transport going is to allow movement of NHS workers & other key workers In China, healthcare workers treating #Covid19 patients were sequestered away from gen pop #Covid19UK
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
7 years
@Jeremy_Hunt @bushbytiger No, it's the @Jeremy_Hunt who allows his lead regulator to repeatedly tread on health and social care whistleblowers
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
5 years
V moving item by @insideoutsouth on terrible suffering wreaked by Post Office Ltd on its subpostmasters, seen through cases of @JoHamil73963257 & @SeemaMisra7 UK can't call itself civilised if it does not right this wrong & lets those responsible go free to abuse again
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Minh Alexander
7 years
@drphilhammond @Jeremy_Hunt @TheBMA Coroner's warning Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) report of 20 April 2017 relating to rota gaps, copied to CQC:
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Minh Alexander
11 months
Families of Lucy Letby’s victims demand full public inquiry into serial killer nurse Duty of Candour arrangements also slated & instead, a mandatory reporting regime is sought #Safeguarding
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
4 years
Word to the wise. Stay true. Don't sell out. Don't sell cheap. Don't doff your cap pathetically to power or the first passing scoundrel who wants to exploit your struggle as a whistleblower for their own ends And don't help legitimise any APPG that has its sights on £££
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Minh Alexander
1 year
I have today asked Ian Trenholm to publish a list of all CQC's "executive reviewers", who inspect organisations on the Well Led domain. They are often NHS execs rating their own peers. Transparency is needed.
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
4 years
Nursing staff who died: Areema Nasreen nurse Aimee O’Rourke nurse Thomas Harvey HCA & one other HCA HCA Tracy Brennan resigned from Hillingdon as not allowed to wear mask she bought herself @CNOEngland #Covid19 #Covid19UK #OurNHSPeople #NHSLeaders
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Minh Alexander
6 years
Private Eye Issue 1466, 23 March 2018
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Minh Alexander
7 years
@Jarmann @JamesTitcombe Mr Hunt's famous for economies with the truth, but projects furiously by accusing respected doctors of "falsehoods"
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Minh Alexander
11 months
Once, at a whistleblowing conference, a prominent New Labourite professor suggested to me that there shouldn't be too much exposure about NHS failings because that would be letting the side down I'm not one for hypocrisy and dinosaur politics Transparency is all or nothing
@HSJEditor
Alastair McLellan
11 months
Always surprises me that people who claim to support the NHS are happy to share pieces that give succour to its critics. 'Soviet union' my arse!
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Minh Alexander
4 years
Even worse when difference population density is considered Taiwan 652 people per Sq Km UK 275 people per Sq Km . . #COVID19
@keepnhspublic
Keep Our NHS Public
4 years
Taiwan (an island) Population = 25 million Covid deaths = 7 UK (an island) Population = 68 million Covid deaths 96,000 Does anyone else understand why we have one of the highest death rates in the world? #JohnsonMustGo
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Minh Alexander
7 years
What an honour. Private Eye Issue 1461 on the 2018 New Year Honours. #CQCBoard
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Minh Alexander
4 years
UK won't be bound by the EU Whistleblowing directive after Brexit, which means we won't benefit from EU legal requirement to investigate whistleblowers concerns Petition for at least equivalent UK whistleblowing law: #FTSU #NoDealBrexit #brexitready
@BylineTimes
Byline Times
4 years
Alone and Exposed: Don’t Let Brexit Stop Whistleblowing – Byline Times
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Minh Alexander
4 years
Daily lies but UK Gov's ambitions are obvious UK Gov used private companies to model "Targeted Herd Immunity" AFTER ministers claimed they had discounted #HerdImmunity strategy #Covid19 #OurNHSPeople #Covid19UK #CoronaUK #LearningFromDeaths #LeDeR
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Minh Alexander
1 year
Good news for whistleblowers. Bad news for Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust. Lots of visits today by people wanting to read about how trust execs grossly mistreated a blameless NHS whistleblower, consultant nephrologist Dr Jasna Macanovic #FTSU
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@alexander_minh
Minh Alexander
9 months
NSFT solicited donations from its staff for a leaving collection for CEO Stuart Richardson on 315K, after blocking staff overtime pay rates Nearly unbelievable NHS senior management is so dysfunctional & out of control #OurNHSPeople #r4today
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Minh Alexander
6 years
Whatever's one view of the issues, today's demonstration outside the dusty, crusty @gmcuk 's HQ is a seismic event in UK medical politics. A reflection of the significance of the case. #BawaGarba
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Minh Alexander
5 years
Brexit catastrophe inflicted by charlatans continues to unfold 'Farmers are being forced to leave millions of apples & many other fruits & vegetables, rotting in orchards & fields because of a shortage of [EU] workers' More reasons to #GrowFoodNotLawns
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