Schools should bond communities: faith schools divide them. Why are ministers making that worse? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Today, we have a clear choice.

A fresh start or four more years of broken Conservative promises.

Bring your ID and vote for Labour's Richard Parker for West Mids Mayor 🌹 for West Midlands Mayor today.

Had a very interesting chat with a colleague recently about NHS inefficiencies and their theory (which I was very much sold on) is that many inefficiencies can be explained by lack of a clear answer to one of the following questions:
- What is the work?
- Who’s work is it?
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👁️ Do you know where to go if you start seeing flashes/new floaters across your eyes, have a sudden change in vision, or have painful eyes or eyelids?

If you're registered with a Black Country GP practice, contact the Community Urgent Eyecare Service: orlo.uk/txKhO

Dr Goblin And if you like diagrams...

The Conservatives, Department of Health and Social Care & NHS England have decided, rather than being the ‘stepping stone’ year to signal safety, stability, and hope - 2024 will instead signal reduced patient access to GP services as well as likely closures of GP practices across the country.

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Our new Chairman, Shilen Patel, has given his first official interview to 𝗪𝗕𝗔 𝗧𝗩. 📺

Watch and read it in full here! 👇

Shilen Patel | #WBA

No No No No.
Doctors often struggle to understand when they need to see a GP/attend ED etc. Let's drop this whole patient blaming agenda. It does nothing to change anything and avoids us from discussing the real issue: lack of resource, support and understanding from the system.

£935 *per day* for someone to ring you up to check in with a virtual ward.

£160 ****PER YEAR**** for all your GP care.

And apparently we are useless

Beautiful sunset @ LPCC SWB NHS Trust YHP

Wes Streeting is becoming a liability for labour

The NHS is the priority for the public and he is failing to grasp the mantle, seeking sound bites for the right who will never vote labour and losing the trust of the very people he is hoping to work for him

Keir Starmer 🤷🏻‍♂️

If you are interested in the way politicians try and influence the decisions that NICE takes about what drugs to approve, and what general practice does, and how evidence is regarded. please do read this. (I cannot tell you how many hours this took. What we found was shocking.)

God save our gracious King

Excited & proud to be part of the fab SWB NHS Trust Comms Team - we’ve been nominated for Comms Team of the Year in the @comms2point0 Unawards.

Now we just need your vote to clinch us the title. Pls vote here - form.jotform.com/233122270416343

Sharing a snapshot of some of the work we do ⬇️

.West Bromwich Albion no commentary on the live feed I’ve just paid for, what’s happening? Very clear crowd noises so I suppose I just have to imagine? 🤷‍♂️

Banning tents will not solve homelessness.

The Tory government’s attitude to vulnerable people sleeping on our streets lacks compassion and is deeply depressing. 1/

So dissatisfaction with GP appointment waits is misleadingly headlined as 'complaints about GPs', but waits for hospital appointments/operations are not headlined as 'complaints about hospital staff.' GPs aren't cause of lack of resources, workforce shortages & impact on access

Professor Lucy Easthope GP numbers have flatlined and fallen at a time when there has been a major expansion in secondary and tertiary care doctors and yet the GPs get slagged off all the time in a way that acute care doctors rarely do

🤩 Palliative Care for Sandwell Primary Care clinicians #CPD James Gwilt
Dr Aaliya 💙 Dr Nadia Wahid westmidspallcare.co.uk/listing/pallia…

All of this 👇