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Patients will be expected to get an appointment with their GP within two weeks under plans to be unveiled by the new health secretary on Thursday.
Patients to get GP appointments within two weeks under plans to boost service
New plans to be outlined by Health and Social Care Secretary Therese Coffey will mean patients needing non-urgent GP appointments will receive one within two weeks
Extremist Girl Scouts and spaghetti appointments: The 11 funniest tweets of the week
The thing about tweets is they can be good. Usually they’re innocuous. They’re often annoying. Far too often they’re filled with hate and vitriol.
But they can be good. Tweets can even be hilarious. We’ve done the hard work of parsing through the morass of Twitter’s swamp to pull out the absolute best and funniest posts from this week. Like we always do. Anyway, here they are: The 11 best tweets of the week,
1. I, too, would like to hear from this person. To be honest, I’d wager they have more interesting things to say.
2. You’ve got to make sure you’re a moving target when you’re firing off a good post. You’ve got to lean into it.
3. You WILL buy the cookies. Or you will find out the consequences. And they will be severe.
4. You’ve got to go with mom to store. They need store companions. This is key.
5. Dude, hurry up, we’re going to be late for our taco appointment.
6. She earned this award.
7. Speaking from experience, you down your drink and get the hell out of dodge.
8. An obligatory dril tweet for you.
9. Sometimes what you should say is nothing at all. A lesson I’m still trying to learn.
10. The thing about Twitter is it doesn’t really like anything. And if you do like something there must be caveats.
11. And finally, this.
NHS hospital appointments ‘postponed’ on bank holiday to observe Queen’s funeral
Frustrated patients have reported having their NHS hospital appointments postponed on the day of the Queen’s funeral as some trusts plan to close GP surgeries and reschedule ‘non-urgent’ care
‘Rishi Sunak’s £10 fine for missing GP appointments will penalise disabled people’
Rachel Charlton-Dailey says Rishi Sunak’s proposal ignores that people miss GP and hospital appointments for a variety of reasons – and it will disproportionately affect disabled people
Music Venue Trust announces five new appointments
The UK’s Music Venue Trust has announced that a number of people who have recently worked with the organisation on a freelance basis have now been appointed to new permanent roles. Rebecca Walker, who has been coordinating MVT’s National Lottery sponsored Revive Live programme, having previously worked at Sheffield’s Leadmill venue, becomes Live Projects Coordinator. […]
Rishi Sunak’s £10 fine for patients who miss NHS appointments would only ‘make matters worse’
As part of his quest to succeed Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, the Tory leadership hopeful insisted the policy would stay in place until backlogs are cut to manageable levels.
NHS leaders trash Rishi Sunak’s plan to fine people £10 for missing appointments
The NHS Confederation, Royal College of GPs and British Medical Association warned charging patients who miss an appointment will penalise the poor – and cost more than it saves
Sunak pledges to fine patients who miss GP appointments £10 as Truss pitches herself as ‘education prime minister’
Rishi Sunak has pledged to introduce a temporary £10 fine for NHS patients who fail to attend a GP appointment as he tries to bridge the gap with Liz Truss in the Tory leadership race.