Women more likely to experience spontaneous vaginal birth and positive experiences during pregnancy, labour, and postpartum. There were cost savings to health system. Future research on impact on women with social risk factors, medical complications and low/mid income countries

Good news is rare enough, but a dramatic drop in paid lobbying is interesting... what's next on the influencers' playbook? tortoisemedia.com/2024/04/10/uk-…

During his interview the Prime Minister repeatedly (& completely unchallenged) called the ECHR “a foreign court” - it’s not - it’s an international court which we signed up to & Sunak knows it. Its an appalling & deliberately inflammatory & divisive choice of language from the PM

Born #OnThisDay in 1921 was Mary Jackson, NASA's first black female engineer. She developed expertise working with wind tunnels and analysing data on aircraft flight experiments, and eventually became an equal opportunity specialist to help women & minorities. #WomenInSTEM

Absolutely Prof Jonathan Portes 👍🏼

Sure Start helped so many

Naturally the Tories needed to destroy it. It's what they do.

The Conservatives mission - to widen the gap of inequality.

My original tweet yesterday

+ The Guardian reported Lord Bamford & brother are under HMRC investigation into potential £500 million tax bill focusing on offshore trusts.
Peers must be registered In UK for tax

Has anyone seen Daily Mail reporting on this? Asking for a friend 🙄

“The wilful destruction of Sure Start and the reductions of children’s benefits after 2010 has set back opportunities for millions of children’s futures. That’s why our country desperately needs a new Sure Start.”
theguardian.com/education/2024…

The Tory/lib govt deliberately shut these centres down despite evidence of benefits because they were universal. The cost was minute compared to funds they have wasted and the damage plain to see bbc.co.uk/news/education…

It's always the same because what institutions (including the law) do to people with money, or the middle class who can play the game, and what they do to those without are very different.

If you are poor you experience the system as rigged - and your experience is often right.

A poor boy from Illford…

Who became Citibank’s most profitable trader in the world

A millionaire at 25

By betting on the growth of economic inequality

He jacked it all in

& now campaigns to show how rigged the system is

We met him

It was never going to be boring, was it?

Farrukh In 2005, when the NHS ranked No.1 in the world, waiting times at an all time low, staff/patient satisfaction an all time high, Jeremy Hunt wrote this ⬇️

How can this be right? NHSE Board is full of bankers and people with a secondary care background. No patient rep, no primary care rep, no social scientist, no anthropologist etc etc. Leadership body for most expensive public service deserves much much more balance.

In a week of “unfit for purpose” anti NHS spin, never forget the impact of 12 years of Tory govt.

Ciaran Jenkins compared NHS performance in 2023 to 2011:

▪️x10 worse 4-hour A&E waits
▪️x14 worse cancer waits
▪️x16 worse 4-hour trolley waits
▪️x3,000 worse 12-hour trolley waits

With all this talk of Thames Water going bust it's worth pointing out that publicly owned Scottish Water didn't spend billions on shareholder dividends. The results are clear to see.

Oh dear.

Oh deary, deary me.

Our very own Mr. Rishi Long-Stockings, Prime Minister and master of the high-wire act of political hypocrisy, has truly outdone himself this Good Friday with a sermon that would make a Pharisee blush. “Compassion, charity, and selflessness,” he so…

This attitude - along with the fact it will be all but impossible to prevent people being coerced into agreeing to assisted dying through coercively controlling family relationships - is the reason why I find assisted dying proposals so difficult to support.

The inconsistency in this - NHS London refers to men as men in prostate cancer ads but to women as 'people with ovaries' - perfectly highlights the societal misogyny at the root of the erosion of clear, life-saving language in women's healthcare. Everyday sexism in the NHS.

You own a water company….

You enjoy a monopoly market

You sell something people require for survival

You don’t spend profits building or repairing your infrastructure

You give billions to shareholders

You pollute our waters

…you then expect the bill-payer to bail you out.

TFW someone posts your first author manuscript and all you can think is what’s missing from this picture?