#WesStreeting

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #Labour

Hello? Democracy?

Does anybody get a say in who comes after Starmer?

yeeesh...

Almost a dozen female Labour MPs who spoke to the Guardian said they
were unnerved at how female cabinet ministers appeared to be getting the
brunt of the blame for issues in government - though there is less sympathy
for the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, because of anger over the Treasury’s
handling of spending cuts and welfare.

‘Among some of the new intake of MPs, there is a strong feeling that any
ultimate successor to Starmer should be a woman - and a resentment of what
they see as a campaign to anoint Wes Streeting.

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 28

Mar 28

@gwynnion Right Wing British Politicians; "The Americans have the best healthcare in the world, we should emulate them like the donors to my political campaign say we should"

#NHS #WesStreeting

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

#Austerity #NHS #MentalHealth

Good work!
Make the oily Streeting confront his choices.

Three NHS patients who were angry at his comments on young people with
mental illness interrupted Streeting as he spoke at the start of the event.
They shouted “your cuts will kill” and held a banner which read: “Disability
cuts will kill”, as they criticised his support for the planned cuts to personal
independence payments to disabled people.

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/25/streeting-israels-attacks-on-gaza-are-unjustifiable-and-intolerable

Crocodile tears from a hologram. Somebody told him to say this though, which is interesting.

The Guardian · Mar 25Wes Streeting: Israel’s attacks on Gaza are ‘unjustifiable’ and ‘intolerable’By Aletha Adu

#WesStreeting #FreePalestine #Gaza

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

#Austerity #WesStreeting #UKPOL

Wes Streeting with the "some of you may die and that's a risk I'm willing to take"

You see by tormenting the Poor and allowing the Rich to keep their billions he's 'helping' us, yeah?

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, told the Guardian on Tuesday: “We can’t
do everything for everyone, everywhere, all at once. There are lots of things
we would like to do now, but we’re having to bide our time so that we can fix
the economy, because having those firm economic foundations is the
essential prerequisite for everything else we need.”

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 18

Mar 18

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/18/uk-pharmacies-could-cut-hours-unless-nhs-provides-new-and-sufficient-funding

Hey Wes, are you going to fix this or just tell us we're over-prescribed and to take some cod-liver oil instead?

The Guardian · Mar 18UK pharmacies could cut hours unless NHS provides ‘new and sufficient’ fundingBy Anna Bawden

#WesStreeting #NHS #Pharmacies

**Political Cartoon Gallery** @PoliticalCartoon@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 16

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Patrick Blower @blowercartoons @Telegraph on #wesstreeting #NHSReform #Quangos – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

**Paul Morris** @XLCChelt@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 16

Paul Morris @XLCChelt@mastodonapp.uk

This Wes #Streeting guy is a real villain of a human.

For what it means to anyone (and everyone else's case is valid), when I had my mental health collapse, I didn't claim these so-called 'benefits', and still people looked at me like I was making it all up.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7ejvr3y0zo

BBC NewsMental health conditions are overdiagnosed, Streeting saysWes Streeting says too many young people are "being written off", as he defends upcoming welfare reforms.

#WesStreeting #Labour #ukpol

**Jesus Margar** @jesusmargar@mastodon.social · Mar 16

Jesus Margar @jesusmargar@mastodon.social

Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions

Imagine the level of self confidence you need to have to have a degree in history and say such a thing.

Wes Streeting should resign. He is no position to make such a statement as Health Secretary and he should be rebutted by the GMC right away.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/16/wes-streeting-there-is-overdiagnosis-of-mental-health-conditions

The Guardian · Mar 16Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditionsBy Jessica Elgot

#LabourParty #WesStreeting #Labour

**JuneSim63** @junesim63@mstdn.social · Mar 16

#WesStreeting #UKPolitics #PrivateHealthcare #Healthcare #NHS

JuneSim63 @junesim63@mstdn.social

Wes Streeting is all over the media pushing his health 'reforms' this weekend.
A reminder..

"Good Law Project research shows that more than 60% of the money invested in the new health secretary since he entered parliament in 2015 has come from companies and individuals with links to private health"

How private health has invested in Wes Streeting | Good Law Project
https://goodlawproject.org/how-private-health-has-invested-in-wes-streeting/

Good Law Project · Oct 23, 2024How private health has invested in Wes Streeting | Good Law ProjectMore than 60% of the registered donations accepted by the health secretary come from people and companies linked to private health. But are they expecting a return? By Max Colbert

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 15

Mar 15

#NHS #NHSEngland #WesStreeting

"The NHS buck stops with Wes Streeting"

Focus all your energy on that one point then.

**Political Cartoon Gallery** @PoliticalCartoon@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 14

Mar 14

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland on #WesStreeting #NHS #NHSReform @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

**Political Cartoon Gallery** @PoliticalCartoon@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 13

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Andy Bunday on #NHSEngland #KeirStarmer #WesStreeting – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 13

#KingsFund #NHSEngland #NHS

‘Today's announcement lands on the same day

that NHS stats show people continue to wait
days in A&E and many patients remain stuck in
hospital beds despite being well enough to leave.

The most important question is how will the

abolition of NHS England make it easier for

people to get a GP appointment, shorten waits

for planned care, and improve people's health?

That hasn't yet been set out - ministers
will need to explain how the prize will be
worth the price.’

Sarah Woolnough

CEO, The King's Fund 7 A

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 13

#NHSEngland #NHS #WesStreeting

Starmer and Streeting are selling out the NHS to Trump.
We had suspected it, we're now getting into how they intend to do it.

Ed Poole
@edpoole1975 bsky. social
Changes to NHSE are being rushed through before the
publication of the government's 10 year plan for the NHS.
What is the rush?
Is it 50 the Department of Health can approve access to NHS
prescribing guidelines, IT and equipment procurement and
patient medical records in a trade deal with Trump?
March 13, 2025 at £01 PM 53 Everybody can reply

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 13

#WesStreeting #NHSEngland #NHS

But of course, Wes Streeting know better than all these people. Look at his nice suits, his carefully managed hair, the way he smiles right through you like you don't exist....

13mago 15.22 GMT

The Health Foundation, another leading thinktank, has joined the King’s
Fund and the Nuffield Trust in suggesting that that the gains to be had from
abolishing NHS England may not justify the disruption it will cause. (See
3.02pm.) This is from Hugh Alderwick, director of policy at foundation.

44 There is some logic in bringing the workings of NHS England and the
government more closely together - for example, to help provide clarity to the
health service on priorities for improvement. And - in reality - it is impossible
to take politics out of the NHS.

But history tells us that rejigging NHS organisations is hugely distracting and
rarely delivers the benefits politicians expect. Scrapping NHS England
completely will cause disruption and divert time and energy of senior leaders at
a time when attention should be focused on improving care for patients. It will
also eat up the time of ministers, with new legislation likely needed.

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**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 13

#WesStreeting #NHSEngland #InstituteForGovernment

More reactions, and Wes Streeting going back on his word (shock!)

25mago 15.08 GMT

Nick Davies, programme director at the Institute for Government thinktank,
is also sceptical about the need to abolish NHS England. He has posted these
on Bluesky.

Ad There’s a decent case for scrapping NHS England but doing so is a major
change programme that will take up substantial ministerial and official time.
Hard to see how govt can do this while also making good progress on meeting
the 18 week target AND the three shifts ahead of the next election.

44 Less than six months ago, Streeting said top-down reorganisation was the
‘last thing’ he wanted to do. What’s changed since then?

All of the problems cited have been evident for years. Why has it taken 9
months in office for Labour to make such a monumental decision?

44 Streeting has just told the Commons that while much of this can be done
without legislation, a bill is needed. And that the whole process of merging
DHSC and NHSE is likely to take 2 years. Even if it’s the right long term decision
this will be hugely disruptive in the short term

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 13

#WesStreeting #NHS #Labour

I hear Labour are calling it among themselves "Operation Chainsaw" because they saw that Wolverine twat in Argentina, and that twat Elon and thought, "yeah, we want to be twats like that too, fuck the British, scum that they are!"

That's Labour for you.,

48mago 14.09GMT @ Bn
Unison says handling of NHS England abolition announcement
‘shambolic’

Unison, which describes itself as the largest healthcare union in the UK, has
described the announcement about the abolition of NHS England as
“shambolic”. Christina McAnea, its general secretary, said:

44 The health service needs thousands more staff and to be able to hold on to
experienced employees. At the moment, it’s struggling to do that. Giving staff a
decent pay rise would help no end.

But this announcement will have left NHS England staff reeling. Just days ago
they learned their numbers were to be slashed by half, now they discover their
employer will cease to exist.

The way the news of the axing has been handled is nothing short of shambolic.
It could surely have been managed in a more sympathetic way.

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · Mar 11

Mar 11