Shaun Lintern

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Shaun Lintern
@ShaunLintern
Health Editor at The Sunday Times. National Press Awards Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Chair of
@mjauk
. Public interest journalism matters #E17
shaun.lintern@sundaytimes.co.uthetimes.co.uk/profile/shaun-…Joined July 2010
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Goodness the scenes from Germany with people holding signs at train stations for how many #ukraine refugees they can host in their own home. That has got me. What good, decent people.
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Boris Johnson just essentially admitted the NHS is going to be battered in the coming weeks but his view is we "just need to get through it". But not everyone will make it, some will die either from Covid or other mistakes and NHS staff will be broken, some permanently so.
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If I hear one more person talk about "if" there is unsustainable pressure on the NHS I am going to lose it. The NHS has been in the grip of a crisis, cancelling cancer ops and leaving 999 callers waiting on hold for up to 10 minutes for literally months now.
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More than a decade ago I was rejected for the job of health correspondent on the local paper I was working for. It crushed me at the time. Tonight I've changed my twitter profile to Health Editor @thesundaytimes. To all young journos out there, keep going.
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BBC news this morning saying NHS intensive care units have coped. That is not true. NHS has coped because tens of thousands of operations have been cancelled and those areas turned into makeshift ICUs with stretched staffing ratios amd machines. We need to be honest about this
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🚨 It's crazy that the NHS has told 350 doctors training in anaesthesia that the NHS has no job for them after 3 years training. At the same time we have massive shortages of, you guessed it, anaesthetists. These self-defeating bottlenecks defy logic. Statement from
@RCoANews
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For a
@10DowningStreet
spokesman to deny the NHS is in crisis today is objectively bullshit of the worst kind. You can argue about funding and policy but let's not start dismissing people's actual avoidable deaths and horrible experiences waiting for care.
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Just so I have this clear in my own mind...the Govt has relentlessly pushed the narrative of no need for more restrictions and yet the NHS is building makeshift field hospitals in its car parks 🤷‍♂️
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Leeds Hospital to host one of the first 'Nightingale hubs' based in a car park at St James's Hospital. NHS wants space for up to 4k extra beds nationally...but who will staff these beds?
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I'm seeing an emerging narrative that the NHS has coped. It definitely hasn't for too many patients and we shouldn't gloss over that. The NHS doesn't implode, it just fails many more individuals and their experience is missed at the system view level.
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I'm white, English and grew up in Stoke. To everyone who doesn't look like me, whatever your religion, born here or not. I love that we share our country with each other. And I think most people believe the same. That's it really.
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The King has been diagnosed with an incidental cancer following what on the NHS would have been an elective op. Waits are now so big in England, approx 27k people will have an incidental cancer like him but won't know yet as they've not been seen. Scary.
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Wes Streeting calls you and asks for *tangible* ideas he can implement to help NHS improve performance. But there's no extra money for big spending. What's your one idea? #FantasyNHS I'll start - staff passports across regions to free up pointless mandatory training time.
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36 ambulances were stacked outside
@NNUH
last night with crews forced to swap oxygen cylinders with each other as they ran out because some patients were stuck many hours in the back of ambulances:
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Tonight @TheSundayTimes will reveal a concerning public interest story after an investigation by myself. For the first time, most of my tweets this weekend have been checked by our lawyers…so at least there will be fewer typos!!
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We are about to experience a winter in the NHS where a lot of chickens will come home to roost. Nursing shortages. Bed shortages. Collapse of community nursing services. Care home crisis. GP shortages. Strap in.
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Sunak tells MPs Govt accepted recommendations of pay review bodies "in full". Erm, not on junior doctors it didn't. Pay review body recommended a higher level of pay than planned in a multi-year deal. Instead Govt stuck with 2% pay rise. Ballot of junior drs underway now. #PMQs
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BREAKING: A very serious situation at hospitals across Lincolnshire tonight as
@ULHT_News
declares a 'critical incident' over "extreme and unprecedented" staff shortages. It says it is "unable to maintain safe staffing levels" leading to "compromised care" across its sites:
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From next week, soldiers will be deployed to several of England's ambulance services after a military aid request to
@DefenceHQ
by
@DHSCgovuk
- I say again for the NHS to be here in August is hugely worrying.
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NHS summer crisis: Hospital suspends inpatient surgery for 3 weeks due to crowded A&E independent.co.uk/news/health/nh
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It's the demeaning of Number 10 that gets me. The seat of Govt. Working there should be a privilege and come with a weight you feel everytime you walk through the black door. But under Johnson - who sets the tone like any leader - it's all just a laugh. A frat house. No respect.
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The NHS will pay the King’s duchy £11m over 15 years to rent a warehouse for ambulances...it is being charged 67% more than the previous tenants paid. Great reporting from Sunday Times Insight team
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🔺EXCLUSIVE: King Charles and his eldest son make millions from feudal levies on schools, hospitals, homeowners and the very charities they represent, a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and @C4Dispatches reveals today thetimes.com/uk/royal-famil
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All of England's ambulance services now at REAP level 4 - equivalent to 'black alert' - amid heatwave pressures and massive delays outside hospitals. Data I've seen suggests some trusts have only a handful of crews to respond to hundreds of waiting incidents. #nhsummercrisis2
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I mean...if only he had been health secretary when Tom Kark KC published his report into regulation of NHS managers...oh wait
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Professor Lucy Easthope
@LucyGoBag
Just no words….
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Please don't wait to be vaccinated. Covid has finally touched my extended family and a light in our lives has gone out. RIP Kaye.x Over the past 18 months I've said many times how awful Coronavirus is. But I'm feeling some special level hatred for it today. #GetVaccinated
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"The PMs attempts to reassure the public that the NHS is not being overwhelmed does not chime with the experience of staff up and down the country who are facing fast rising hospital admissions" says @FRSAMatthew
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BREAKING: All hospitals in England told to take "immediate steps" to find extra space for patients so that no ambulance waits longer than 30mins. This must be done despite the extra burden on hospital staff, say NHS chiefs.
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