‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’: the stress caused by the 'New Normal' of drug shortages in UK

#BrexitBenefit

Patients have described the effect on their health and wellbeing of the “new normal” of drug shortages in the UK, which has led to three-month delays and 80-mile round trips to acquire #medication.

“I do have friends who have been struggling to get antidepressants and ADHD medication, and the delays I’ve experience has made me concerned for if I would experience medication #shortages for something more serious in the future.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/18/the-stress-caused-by-uk-drug-shortages

#Brexit #ToryScum #SaveOurNHS #prescriptions #NewNormal

Hospital admissions for waterborne diseases in England up 60%, report shows

The analysis follows widespread anger after record sewage spills were revealed this week. Environment Agency data showed that raw #sewage was discharged for more than 3.6m hours into rivers and seas last year – a 129% increase on the previous 12 months.

Increased raw sewage in rivers means there is a higher risk of infections, campaigners argue, as people are more likely to come into contact with the #bacteria in human waste.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/29/hospital-admissions-for-waterborne-diseases-in-england-up-60-report-shows

#PeopleNotProfits #ToryCorruption #water #ToryCronyism #ToryScum #ToryFascism

Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that

But how to fix it? Three seismic shifts have unfolded over the last decade.

First, the welfare safety net has been systematically shredded, with the government abandoning responsibilities taken for granted since 1945.

Second, charities and food banks, which have taken over from universal credit as the last line of defence, are exhausted and justifiably angry about having to pick up the pieces with insufficient resources. They even fear their desperate relief efforts could provide cover for the government walking further away.

Third, unsure how they fit into a poverty-free, pollution-free future, the corporate sector has in the last decade donated less, not more.

Yet the many business leaders who are now championing a greater sense of environmental and social responsibility know they can, and should, play a bigger role.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/27/britain-seems-stuck-in-a-doom-loop-of-poverty-i-have-a-plan-to-raise-billions-to-address-that

#UnitedKingdom #poverty #hunger #FoodBanks #ToryScum #UK #ToryCorruption #CutsKill #ToryCorruption #ToryFascism

Stop the Government from spying on all of our bank accounts

The Government is sneaking in new powers to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud and error.

It will force banks to flag people who meet secret criteria to the government.

Everyone wants fraudulent uses of public money to be dealt with, and the government already has strong powers to check the bank statements of suspects.

But this is a major expansion of government power that takes away our financial privacy like never before and does away with the presumption of innocence - the democratic principle that you shouldn't be spied on unless police suspect you of wrongdoing.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-government-from-spying-on-all-of-our-bank-accounts

#DystopianBritain #privacy #security #authoritarian #fascism #ToryDictatorship #Orwellian #ToryScum

Alarm sounded over 'prison-like' conditions in UK #immigration centres

A new report has urged UK authorities to make a raft of improvements inside immigrant detention centres, including detention conditions and staffing issues.

That's according to a new report by the European Committee for the Prevention of #Torture (CPT) released on Thursday.

During a visit to the country between March and April 2023, it flagged up several issues surrounding the uncertainty of how long migrants will be detained, "prison-like" conditions in centres and the treatment of those displaying symptoms of mental illness.

The UK government blasted the report, saying it did not "recognise much" of its content.

https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/08/alarm-sounded-over-prison-like-conditions-in-uk-immigration-centres

#ToryLies #ToryScum #ToryDictatorship #NastyParty #HumanRights #DystopianBritain #Britain #UK

Alarm sounded over 'prison-like' UK immigration centres

A new report has urged UK authorities to make a raft of improvements inside immigrant detention centres, including detention conditions and staffing issues.

Save NHS dentistry and make it fit for the 21st century

I’m Tom Thayer, a hospital consultant. I treat patients left with horrifying mouth injuries after trying to pull out their own teeth out.
Everyone who needs an NHS dentist should be able to get an appointment.

But overstretched and underfunded, there are now fewer and fewer #NHS #dentists available. A recent survey found nine out of ten practices are no longer taking on new NHS patients

Petition:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-nhs-dentistry-2

#CutsKill #ToryDictatorship #dentists #ToryScum #profiteering #PeopleNotProfits #ToriesOut

If the cap fits...Tory scum waste millions from the public purse trying
to overturn court judgements, after Rawanda we are now expected to foot
the bill for this...
#Photo
#Photography
#Photographer
#MyWork
#ToryScum
#DPPappeal
#supremeCourt
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/jan/31/dpp-supreme-court-appeal-protesters-tory-scum-iain-duncan-smith

Tories’ council fund is cynical pre-election sticking plaster

Angela Rayner has accused the Conservatives of cynically applying a “sticking plaster” to council finances to get through the next election, as local authority leaders warn that more will go bust next year.

The shadow communities secretary said Labour was “under no illusions” about the financial mess it would inherit in local councils if it gained power, after the Tories “took a sledgehammer” to budgets for more than a decade.

The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, was _forced to bail out councils in England last week with a £600m funding pot to prevent a rebellion _of Tory MPs who fear losing their seats. But figures shared by the Institute for Government show it would take more than £7bn in extra cash to get local government funding up to the same levels as 2010.

Analysis by the Guardian of 13 years of council spending data lays bare the scale of cuts to services.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/28/angela-rayner-tories-council-fund-is-cynical-pre-election-sticking-plaster

#ToxicTories #ToryScum #UK #cuts #TacticalVoting #bankruptcy #councils

UK granted asylum to Rwandan refugees while arguing country was safe

Four #Rwandans were granted refugee status in the UK over “well-founded” fears of persecution at the same time as the government was arguing in court and parliament that the east African country was a safe place to send asylum seekers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/revealed-uk-granted-asylum-to-rwandan-refugees-while-arguing-country-was-safe

#ToryLies #hypocrites #UK #asylum #fascism #racism #ToryFascism #ToryScum #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #InternationalLaw

UK records 4,950 excess winter deaths amid cost of living crisis

New official data shows that a significant amount of people lost their lives last winter - and it seems as is a lack of governmental legislation and poor insulation could be to blame.

Stark new figures estimate that some 4,950 excess winter deaths last year in the UK were down to people living in cold and damp homes.

New official data from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition says those figures were recorded during winter 2022/23.

The Warm This Winter study also found that, when the average winter temperature in the UK drops below four degrees centigrade, the level of excess winter deaths sky-rockets.

https://www.euronews.com/2024/01/19/uk-records-4950-excess-winter-deaths-amid-cost-of-living-crisis

#UK #deaths #winter #freezing #CorporateTerrorism #ToryFascists #heating #PeopleNotProfits #energy #EnergyPrices #ToryScum #UnitedKingdom

UK records 4,950 excess winter deaths amid cost of living crisis

New official data shows that a significant amount of people lost their lives last winter - and it seems as is a lack of governmental legislation and poor insulation could be to blame.

NHS medicines shortage putting lives at risk, pharmacists warn

Brexit benefits

An unprecedented medicines shortage in the NHS is endangering lives, pharmacists have said, as unpublished figures reveal that the number of products in short supply has doubled in two years.

Causes of the crisis are thought to include the plummeting purchasing value of the pound since the Brexit referendum

Breast Cancer Now, said her organisation had been contacted over the past 12 months by several patients unable to source the medicines they needed to control the spread of their disease.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/14/nhs-medicines-shortage-putting-lives-at-risk-pharmacists-warn

#ToryLies #ToryScum #Brexit #BrexitBenefits #RejoinEU #NHS #SaveOurNHS #pharmacists #medication #ToryCorruption #Privatisation #PrivatisationFail #PeopleNotProfits

Stop the UK Government from spying on all of our bank accounts

Petition

The Government is sneaking in new powers to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud and error.

It will force banks to flag people who meet secret criteria to the government.

Everyone wants fraudulent uses of public money to be dealt with, and the government already has strong powers to check the bank statements of suspects.

But this is a major expansion of government power that takes away our financial privacy like never before and does away with the presumption of innocence - the democratic principle that you shouldn't be spied on unless police suspect you of wrongdoing.

Petition:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-government-from-spying-on-all-of-our-bank-accounts

#ToryFascists #dictatorship #ToryScum #privacy #DemocracyNow #ToriesOut #banking #money #financial #DystopianBritain #UK #fascism #ToryDictatorship #Orwellian #Orwell

Scrapping furniture safety regulations will cost dozens of lives a year, warns fire union

Under the current rules – introduced as the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 – manufacturers must submit furniture to independent testing on flammability. The regulations are estimated to have saved between 50 and 70 lives per year.

But now the Westminster government has proposed scrapping these rules in favour of a voluntary regime. Consultation on the plans closed earlier this year and ministers are now considering proposals.

The union warned that the government was using the pretext of dealing with lithium batteries and other hazards to launch a dangerous programme of deregulation.

https://www.fbu.org.uk/news/2023/12/22/scrapping-furniture-safety-regulations-will-cost-dozens-lives-year-warns-fire-union

#corruption #ToryCorruption #Capitalism #CapitalismFails #FBU #furniture #safety #FireRegulations #deaths #ToryGreed #flammability #FireSafety #deregulation #DemocracyLost #Dystopia #DystopianUK #UK #UnitedKingdom #ToryScum

Scrapping furniture safety regulations will cost dozens of lives a year, warns fire union

The right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy

• For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison.
• For hanging a banner reading “Just Stop Oil” off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year prison sentence.
• Just for walking slowly down the street, scores of people have been arrested.

They are among hundreds of environmental activists arrested for peaceful demonstrations in the U.K., where tough new laws restrict the right to protest.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-right-to-protest-is-under-threat-in-britain-undermining-a-pillar-of-democracy/ar-AA1m26Jq?diaspora

#Britain #fascism #UK #Democracy #dystopian #protest #CivilRights #HumanRights #ToryFascism #authoritarian #UnitedKingdom #DemocracyNOW #ToryScum #capitalism #CapitalismFail

🏷️ It’s a Privacy Fash Sale 🏷️

And everything must go!

🟡 Rights: SLASHED.
🟡 Parliamentary scrutiny: SLASHED.

The government is offering welfare surveillance to every benefit claimant, whether you like it or not!

Say no, while you still have a chance:

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#UnitedKingdom #Orwellian .#dictatorship #DemocracyLost #ToryScum #petition #privacy #security #PoliceState #surveillance #ThoughtPolice #dystopia #DystopianBritain

Join the Campaign to Stop the Data Grab Bill

Petition/Campaign to Stop the Data Grab Bill

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will gut UK privacy laws, attacking our ability to challenge data abuse and expanding ways in which the Government can snoop on you.

The bill contains powers that would enable them to snoop on the bank accounts and financial assets of anyone who claims ANY benefit. That includes child benefit and the state pension, alongside tax credits and universal credit.

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#ToryFascists #fascism #ToryScum #Orwellian #spying #surveillance #UK #BigData #privacy #HumanRights #ToryScum #PoliceState #pensions #digital #DataGrab

Join the Campaign to Stop the Data Grab Bill

UK Survey - House of Lords

Share your thoughts on how you feel about the unelected House of Lords.

This is a quick, multi choice survey. Less they 30 seconds to complete.

https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/139578/-/1

#UnitedKingdom #UK #corruption #dystopia #Lords #HouseOfLords #democracy #DemocracyLost #ToryDictatorship #ToryScum

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Stop the Data Grab Bill

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill will gut UK privacy laws, attacking our ability to challenge data abuse.

From workers and children to NHS patients and migrants, GDPR protects us all. It has been used to stop:
- Unfair exam grading algorithms
- Robo-dismissals from employment
- Digital strip searches of sexual abuse victims

These are just a few of the vital protections on the chopping block.

Fight for your rights – tell the government to get their hands off our data!

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data

#GDPR #Fascism #ToryFascism #dictatorship #authoritarian #ToryDictatorship #privacy #data #BigData #spying #ToryFascistDictatorship #ToryScum #security

Join the Campaign to Stop the Data Grab Bill

Call an immediate general election

The Prime Minister should call an immediate general election to allow the British public to have their say on how we are governed, we should not be made to wait until January 2025
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Consistent opinion polling has shown the British public have lost confidence in the current government. The NHS is in crisis, the asylum system is broken, there are delays at the ports, and institutions are failing. The British people should be given a say on what to do next.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/641904

#petitions #GeneralElection #GeneralElectionNow #Democracy #DemocracyNow #ToryFascists #ToryDictatorship #ToryScum #ToriesOut

Petition: Call an immediate general election

The Prime Minister should call an immediate general election to allow the British public to have their say on how we are governed, we should not be made to wait until January 2025

Barclays cut my expat mother off from vital care home funds

Another Brexit Failure ...

#Barclays has form when it comes to cutting elderly widows off from their money. The reasons for the closures differ, but the underlying incompetence and insouciance are disturbingly similar.

Your mother fell victim to EU rules which, post-Brexit, require UK banks to apply for separate licences to serve customers in each EU country.

To save themselves the hassle and cost, many banks simply closed expats’ accounts. Barclays shut the last of its in December.

There is a set process for claiming the balance from a defunct account, but a succession of errors stymied your efforts. First you were told that the account was dormant, rather than closed. This meant you were directed to follow the wrong process, which got you nowhere.

Next, branch staff failed to acknowledge your LPA documents, which meant your mother was put through the stress of signing a letter of authority.

Barclays only admitted these blunders after I got in touch and it took a media prod to get it to release the funds

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jul/19/barclays-cut-my-expat-mother-off-from-vital-care-home-funds

#Brexit #BrexitFailure #BrexitIsNotWorking #CorporateTerrorism #banks #banking #BrexitLies #bullying #EconomicTerrorism #ToryLies #PeopleNotProfits #CapitalismFail #ToryScum #RejoinEU #ToriesOut