Shaun Lintern

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Health Editor at The Sunday Times. National Press Awards Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety [email protected]

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Six yrs ago I chaired my first ever #HSJpatientsafety Congress. I'm looking forward to returning to Manchester this September - and I hope you will join us @HSJptsafety If you haven't seen the agenda yet, take a look: patientsafetycongress.co.uk/2024-programme

2024 Programme | HSJ Patient Safety Congresspatientsafetycongress.co.uk

Starmer says the NHS is broken but he has a plan to fix it. My read for The Sunday Times on just how big a challenge it will be for @wesstreeting and the NHS: www.thetimes.com/article/ba30...

Labour says the NHS is broken. So what are the party’s plans to fix it?www.thetimes.com The new government’s battle to cut waiting lists begins on Monday. Can Sir Keir Starmer and his health secretary, Wes Streeting, provide a cure for the health service?

"From today, the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken" - wow. Statement from health secretary @wesstreeting.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/s...

Statement from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Carewww.gov.uk Secretary of State for Health and Social Care delivers a statement setting out his mission for saving the NHS

Will A General Election Transform Health And Social Care? Great read from Nick Timmins www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Will A General Election Transform Health And Social Care?www.kingsfund.org.uk Nicholas Timmins looks back at the last three big political transitions to ask – how fast might things change for health and social care?

Paedophile doctor who sexually assaulted a young female patient and took intimate photos of other patients has been jailed for eight years: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Edward Finn: Anaesthetist jailed after sexually assaulting childwww.bbc.co.uk A court hears Edward Finn, who was jailed for eight years, also took pictures of hospital patients.

Potatoes from my own garden!

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I care about what I do. As @thetimes has dropped its paywall for the weekend. Here are some of my stories you can read for FREE. First, did you know about the ongoing scandal affecting deaf children across the NHS? 🧵 1/5 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/26df...

NHS may have missed thousands of deaf children in ‘huge national failure’www.thetimes.co.uk NHS trusts across England are scrambling to trace thousands of children for urgent hearing tests amid fears that cases of infant deafness may have been missed

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And finally, the private sector is being used more and more by both the NHS and the paying public. But is it safe? Read for FREE 5/5 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8d70...

You can pay for private healthcare — but can you trust it?www.thetimes.co.uk More than a quarter of million people dipped into their savings or took a loan to pay for a private hospital operation or appointment last year — a record hig

My investigation into Britain's broken mental health system from last month is FREE to read until the end of today... www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e0ff...

233 killings: innocent victims of the collapse in mental health carewww.thetimes.co.uk Paranoid and violent patients are able to stay in the community because of a shortage of psychiatric hospital beds, leading to hundreds of tragedies

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I understand and to some extent share the anger about the D-day event, but maybe some of that anger should be redirected towards the govt’s failures on health (new scandal a week, this time deaf children), housing, energy, poverty, Brexit, prisons, universities, etc

Why is Britain still lagging behind on cancer care? From October 2022 but still very relevant. FREE to read: t.co/3Uo91v88BB

Why is Britain still lagging behind on cancer care?t.co Cancer patients in this country should have the best survival chances in the world. With its universal healthcare system and world-leading researchers, the UK should be able to offer every patient the...

With no @thetimesoflondon.bsky.social paywall - here is a story on the Muckamore Public Inquiry - a massively overlooked scandal into industrial abuse of learning disabled patients that has implications for whole of UK: t.co/P8XK6t9N7j

Change is needed, says Muckamore inquiry chairmant.co A public inquiry into the systemic abuse of disabled patients at a Northern Ireland hospital must result in changes to the way that vulnerable adults are cared

Ok so sometimes as health editor of The Sunday Times I write a lot of negative, hard to read stories. It is sadly a hazard of the patch. But every now and again you get a really lovely story. Reader I give you dogs that can smell epilepsy. FREE to read: t.co/YHqbJa6Udr

‘He’s never wrong’: the good dogs trained to sniff out a seizuret.co Cobble warns his epileptic owner exactly 37 minutes before an attack. Other dogs help with diabetes, MS and autism. Between them they’re saving the NHS millions

⚠️ LATEST: In an update to staff this afternoon @GSTTnhs described this as a "ransomware" attack. Lab tests are being requested, done and reported manually - roughly 10% of normal level of tests being done. Likely to be a long term issue & take a number of weeks to resolve

🚨 BREAKING: Operations across 2 major London hospitals @GSTTnhs & @KingsCollegeNHS have been cancelled due to a cyber attack, with all transplant surgery at @RBandH axed. Problem is affecting pathology labs incl blood transfusions. Trauma cases at Kings being sent to other sites:

🚨 A critical incident has been declared. The cyber attack affects services run by IT firm Synnovis covering whole of Royal Brompton, Harefield, Guy's, St Thomas' & King's College Hospitals A very serious situation developing across London as other hospitals take extra patients

🚨 INTERVIEW: Every night at 6pm, Jane Harrison waits for the call from the man who killed her husband. Her son, Dan, was catastrophically failed by mental health services in Wales who ignored the family's pleas to get him help. He killed his dad. READ: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2ed3...

My schizophrenic son killed his father. We speak every daywww.thetimes.co.uk Dan Harrison escaped being sectioned through an open door and headed straight for the family home. His mother explains the litany of NHS failures that led to tragedy

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🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's mental health system is broken. Patients & innocent members of the public are paying the price. Today we reveal how dangerous mentally ill people are being routinely left in the community. Some will kill themselves or others: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e0ff...

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My 1st job in the NHS in 1993 was in a long stay psychiatric unit. The nurses careers went back to the 60s. They were adamant the buildings were inappropriate but the concept of asylum was not. They unanimously predicted trouble if bed numbers collapsed. Neglect in the Community they called it.

Since 2010, the number of NHS mental health beds has fallen by 5,600.

One mental health nurse told me: “The Mental Health Act is supposed to be a safety net but the public don’t realise it isn’t there any more. We are not keeping these people safe and we are not keeping the community safe.”

Can you trust private healthcare? My podcast for The Sunday Times from September last year: open.spotify.com/episode/0lud...

Investigation: Can you trust private hospitals?open.spotify.com Listen to this episode from The Story on Spotify. A new investigation for The Sunday Times finds that unnecessary operations happen every year in private hospitals. And when that happens and patients ...

Nurse serial killer Lucy Letby has lost a Court of Appeal bid to challenge her murder and attempted murder convictions. Due to reporting restrictions ahead of a pending retrial next month this is all that can be said.

Will the Leashold reform bill be included in Parliament's wash-up? Will the smoking and vapes Bill? How about the legislation on infected blood compensation? Parliament will be dissolved on Thurs 30 May.

Healthcare is a top priority for voters. After 14 years of Tory rule, their track record will face tough scrutiny. But what can Labour offer on health? The Sunday Times will do what it does best in the next few weeks as you make your decision #generalelection

That sound you can hear is the anguished cry of every journalist who had a story set to run in the coming days that ISN'T about an election....

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It will be a tool, but we live in an obesityogenic society and the answer cannot just be medication. Activity, safer roads and good public transport encouraging mobility along with better regulation of the food industry has to be part of the answer. Public health not just tertiary care is essential

Wegovy is old news. The next generation of weight loss drugs are already being developed, including a once daily pill that could be available to millions. But how is the NHS getting ready? Read: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3b93...

Weight-loss pill on NHS could burst Wegovy’s bubblewww.thetimes.co.uk Eli Lilly’s daily drug could be available on the health service within two years — and scientists hope it will stop obesity before it even happens