Midwives Learn About Decolonisation And Birthing People

Midwives are being taught about ‘decolonisation’ and ‘birthing people’ as part of their training to deliver newborns.

The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) wants universities to ‘challenge the implicit and explicit legacies of colonial perspectives’ while training students how to practically deal with medical emergencies during pregnancy and delivery.

The professional body says trainee midwives should also learn about ‘white privilege’ and the ‘effects of colonisation and decolonisation’ as part of their three-year course.

Qualified midwifery staff should also use a Decolonising Midwifery tool kit to ‘reconstruct education from a global perspective, removing the colonial lens through which most education is perceived’, it suggests.

This, it says, is vital to ‘improve maternity care outcomes for women, birthing people and their families’.

Critics blamed the trade union for diverting attention from the real problems enveloping inadequate NHS maternity care, at a time when two-thirds of facilities are considered to be failing in safety.

Dr Caroline Johnson, shadow minister for health and an NHS consultant paediatrician who has attended thousands of births, said focusing on ideology over medical practicalities was ‘madness’.

‘The top priority for midwife training should be ensuring the safety of mothers and babies during delivery,’ she said.

‘So this ideological nonsense is nothing but a distraction and should have no place in the midwives’ education. If the Government is serious about putting patients first, they should intervene and stop this madness from taking hold.’

The tool kit is also ‘an important first step in ensuring that future midwives can practise with cultural competence’, says the RCM.

It has also issued a Decolonising Practice in Midwifery position statement, encouraging members – many of whom work for the NHS – to take ‘proactive measures… to address implicit and explicit colonial perspectives which persist within maternity services’.

NHS maternity care is under increased scrutiny following several high-profile investigations.

They include more than 200 baby deaths at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.

In a recent review of services, the Care Quality Commission (CQC)found maternity failings are becoming ‘normalised’. The CQC highlighted poor management, unsafe assessments at triage and failures to learn from mistakes.

Staffing and retention problems have left the NHS short of approximately 2,500 full-time midwives, contributing to safety failings.

Gill Walton, chief executive of the RCM, said the recommendations aim to address widespread inequality among maternity services.

‘To reduce these avoidable deaths and reduce inequality, we have to look at how midwifery is both taught and practised,’ she said.

I’m really angry about all this nonsense. Finding the person or people engaged in this decision is what we need to do. They should be named, shamed, and fired since they are unfit to be in this type of role.

People in the UK are working 60 plus hours a week to pay tax for boaties to stay in posh hotels free from hardship. We are also giving aid to China, India and South African farmers while our own countrymen and women are getting shafted. Privileged – are you having a laugh?

The tool kit is also ‘an important first step in ensuring that future midwives can practice with cultural competence.’ Let’s just focus on medical competence, shall we?

This training course is not necessary, and the funds might be used for more crucial NHS projects at a time when the UK needs to be frugal with taxpayer money and only spend it on necessary services.

This is not training, it’s political indoctrination in a false and dangerous ideology. Nazism is back, but now in a more subtle way!

Trump And Melania Return Triumphantly To DC

At one of the numerous celebrations taking place in Washington, D.C., area in advance of the inauguration, Donald Trump and his wife Melania were beaming as they watched a fireworks display.

Trump marked his return to power with a celebration at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, approximately 30 miles outside Washington.

Many of the key figures in the Trump orbit were present in addition to the First Couple, including Ivanka, the daughter and former top advisor, who was accompanied by her husband, Jared Kushner.

All of Trump’s adult children and their partners were in attendance. Don Jr. was joined by his controversial new beau Bettina Anderson, while Tiffany was there with her husband Michael Boulos, as well as Eric and his wife Lara. 

All eyes were on Donald and Melania, though, as they watched the performance and exchanged infrequent smiles.

In a brief speech, the president-elect highlighted several prominent figures, such as Jeff Bezos, the creator of Amazon, and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin.

Trump singled out his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, who he called ‘a great negotiator’ after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal was agreed to. 

Numerous favourites from Trump’s playlist washed over those in attendance, including ‘YMCA’ – which The Village People will play for those gathered live this weekend – and ‘A Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World.’ 

Just after 10 pm, the party left and about three dozen Trump fans cheered ‘Trump, Trump, Trump’ from a nearby grocery store parking lot as the motorcade passed.

At The Vice President’s Dinner in Washington, Vice President-elect JD Vance and his wife Usha were also seen arriving in lavish attire.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cheryl Hines, and Marco Rubio were among those present at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Before the new vice president’s speech, JD and Usha were seen kissing.

Rappers, tech billionaires, country music stars, and others are expected to make President-elect Trump’s second inauguration more spectacular than ever this weekend.

The newly sworn-in president and first lady Melania will attend three official balls – while there will be a flurry of other parties and events throughout inauguration weekend. 

More musical stars, such as Carrie Underwood, Gavin DeGraw, Rascal Flatts, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Jason Aldean, are willing to perform at Trump’s inaugural activities, which is a significant difference from eight years ago.

On Friday night, Snoop Dogg was the main act at the first Crypto Ball, while Rick Ross, a rapper, also performed.

Many people voted for Kamala Harris, but Trump got in – let’s see what’s in store for the next four years. Numerous people are happy and ready to support the new president. Hopefully, he will do a fantastic job.

But before this, he was being treated like a pariah and dragged through numerous judicial hearings.

However, he kept talking about how the combo of a corrupted judicial system and mass media were attempting to stop him from reattaining office – an office in which a confused old man was installed as a puppet for a shadow government.

Even among those who dislike Trump as a person, there is some hope. He should be able to pull America out of the abyss it’s in, which was mainly caused by the inept people in charge of the system.

Trump is not the system, which is why he was and remains a threat to the establishment.

If not for his policy reviews, you have to respect the man for his perseverance and fortitude. His wife will fulfil her duties as First Lady with decorum, but she doesn’t need or want the limelight.

Overtaxed Millionaires Flee UK

Since Keir Starmer took office, a record number of millionaires have left because of Labour’s tax intentions.

As fears of new tax policies hurting the economy and foreign investors have grown, thousands of millionaires have left Britain.

An increasing number of British business owners are reportedly ready to depart the nation following the autumn budget, which puts pressure on the Treasury to rethink its crackdown on non-domiciled residents.

It is estimated that Britain lost a net 10,800 millionaires to migration last year, which is a 157 percent increase from 2023, the Times reported.

According to data from New World Health, Britain has lost more affluent citizens than any other nation in the world, with the exception of China, and the number has increased since the general election.

The UK’s most affluent residents mostly fled to other European nations like Italy and Switzerland, as well as to the United Arab Emirates.

This comes after  it was revealed that one of Britain’s oldest surviving family businesses claimed it could face ruin after Labour’s budget ‘torpedoed’ its operating model.

Jim Rankin, a sixth-generation owner of Rankin Brothers & Sons, a cork manufacturer established in 1774, was blindsided by Rachel Reeves proposals, which he slams for ‘running completely contrary to the government’s ambitions for growth’.

Rankin, who is also the chairman of the Cork Industry Federation, detailed to MailOnline how the latest changes to employer National Insurance (NI) contributions and adjustments to inheritance tax will now affect their cash flow, the affordability of human resources, and succession planning.

He’s blunt in his criticism: ‘The policies the government is putting forward run completely contrary to their own aims. How can they claim to be fostering growth when they’re slapping taxes on businesses that are already struggling?’

Business Property Relief (BPR) has up to this point permitted individuals to transfer trading businesses to the next generation free of tax, allowing family-owned businesses to carry on from generation to generation, but from 2026 all companies valued over £1 million will be saddled with a 20 percent inheritance tax when passed on to the next generation.

‘This change could seriously damage the future of family businesses like ours,’ Rankin explains.

‘We’ve been around for over 250 years, and part of that longevity is thanks to our careful succession planning. But these new policies mean that we’re going to have to reimagine everything. It’s going to force us to make decisions we never thought we’d have to make.’

The wealthy are naturally fleeing because Labour has made it clear that they want to soak the rich, but those who are unable to do so must pay the large portion of taxes that the wealthy are no longer able to pay.

But then why should anyone hang around in the UK when this corrupt government is determined to take everything we have?

It has been demonstrated that Rachel Reeves is a chronic liar and has dubious integrity. Millionaires leave the UK because of her, and when they do, they cease to pay taxes. Reeves thinks this is a recipe for growth, but nobody else did, even though they were the ones paying the highest taxes!

Every day now, it’s just more about how Reeves can rob all your money, including the pension you saved into and for what?

It seems that our government need a good flogging every so often, that way they might wake up and smell the coffee!

History is simply repeating itself because Labour never learn. They do the same thing over and over again, but expect different results, which is sheer foolishness.

Wes Streeting Can’t Figure Out How To Fund Labour’s NHS Hospital Replacement Plan

Plans to replace deteriorating NHS hospitals that could put people at risk from collapsing structures are being shelved by Labour.

Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged 40 new hospitals by the end of the decade, but now the plan looks to be in ruins.

Labour is set to announce that many of the crumbling NHS hospitals in England that were due to be replaced by 2030 will not be completed according to the original timeframe.

According to The Guardian, many trusts will undoubtedly be concerned that patients will continue to get care in hazardous settings and in facilities that are not suitable for their intended use after the announcement, which is scheduled for next week.

Local Members of Parliament are likely to criticise the decision upon the publication of a government review of the program.

Health secretary Wes Streeting is set to blame the Conservatives for leaving Labour a massive undertaking that was budgeted only until this March with costs of about £30 billion. 

In September, Streeting said that 12 of the 40 projects, could go ahead, including seven facing the threat of imminent collapse because they contain Raac concrete.

But he also ordered a review into the cost, viability and timescale of proceeding with 25 others which involve ageing and dilapidated hospitals, parts of which are falling apart and increasingly disrupting care for patients.

The delays follow scrutiny by the Treasury, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England, which has included scrutiny of the funds involved. 

Now, the expense will be dispersed over a longer time frame.

It is anticipated that Streeting will state that redevelopments will eventually take place and provide updated program prices.

However, a large number of these projects are already well advanced and are located in hospitals that are in dire need of renovation.

Streeting cautioned that the project would probably be delayed for several years in a letter he issued to all of England’s Members of Parliament in September.

Streeting said: ‘Because we inherited a programme that was unfunded beyond March 2025 and a wider fiscal inheritance that was hugely challenging, we may have to consider rephasing schemes so that they can be taken forward as fiscal conditions allow.

‘A structured and agreed rolling investment approach will mean proceeding with these schemes will be subject to investment decisions at future spending reviews.’

The risks from crumbling hospitals is now so great that some are ‘outright dangerous’, Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, has said.

However, how is this possible? Where has all of the money gone since the NHS’s funding was announced? Did Starmer spend it on his jollies?

Our government have no clue how to handle the economy – they couldn’t even run a bath and it’s all a game to them.

Rachel Reeves increased National Insurance – so where is it going? Because there has been no improvement in services and no cuts in waiting lists. It’s all smoke and mirrors – lies and deception.

For years, they have claimed to be able to improve the NHS. Those of us who had previously endured a Labour government were aware that it was all falsehoods, but they are typically not discovered this rapidly.

We can find funds for people crossing the channel and for war that has nothing to do with us. Our people must come first. Our healthcare system and our military members are the two things that our government does not safeguard.

NHS Nurses Share Their Harrowing Experiences Of Third World Conditions

In horrifying testimony to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) study, one nurse in the South East of England said a patient had lain dead in a corridor ‘for hours’.

Another nurse, in Yorkshire and the Humber, said departments were becoming ‘overwhelmed’ on a daily basis, adding: ‘At its worst, (we are) asking someone to go round and make sure people are still alive.’

Patients dying in chairs and trolleys in corridors was now a familiar occurrence, according to one nurse in the South East.

The nurse added: ‘All the fundamentals of care have broken down – we are no better than a developing world casualty.’

A nurse in London said: ‘It’s awful – it feels like we’re living in a Third World country or worse. I dread going into work and wish I’d picked an alternative career.’

Another nurse in the South said: ‘I really felt bad for the patients – most of whom were elderly and unable to express their feelings about being cared for in very inhumane and Third World conditions.’

A nurse in Scotland said: ‘I worked throughout Covid-19 and… this lack of care in the broken system is worse. People are dying as a result of ambulances being held at hospitals and calls are eventually being responded to almost two days after 999 has been called. This has to end, now!’

A cancer patient whose immunity was extremely low because of her treatment was left in a busy area close to a staff room and toilet in a hospital in the South West.

A nurse said: ‘She should have been in a side room. She was very upset and crying. We put screens around her but it was constantly busy. That poor lady eventually passed away.’

A nurse in London said: ‘The department is over-capacity on a daily basis, leaving patients being cared for in corridors, on chairs when they should be in beds, on ambulance trolleys, in relatives’ rooms, in viewing rooms, anywhere there is a space.’

A nurse in the East of England said: ‘Patients miscarrying and returning for treatment are being bedded in the busy waiting room which is used for emergency attenders and an outpatient department.’

A nurse in Scotland said the hospital had started placing beds ‘in the middle of bays in the wards in addition to corridor beds for more space’. 

They added: ‘It is degrading, undignified, and at times unsafe for patients who are already angry due to the long waits, sometimes waiting in the emergency department for over 35 hours… just to be put in the corridor. The system is broken.’

For patients who are fortunate enough to find a cubicle, corridor care also presents challenges.

One nurse told of the chaos of patients having cardiac arrests in the corridor, adding: ‘Having to roll a trolley through a corridor and the whole department to re-sus straddling a patient doing CPR while everyone watches on. It just feels so undignified.’

In the South East, patients experienced cardiac arrests in the hallway or had their cubicles obstructed by people on trolleys in front of them, which caused life-saving CPR to be delayed.

A nurse at a hospital in the area said: ‘Despite these events, we still are obliged to deliver care in the corridor.’

What more can we anticipate when there is no infrastructure being constructed and a positive net migration of almost one million people each year? We will eventually level off until we all live like the third-world nations from which migrants have migrated.

Britain’s population has grown due to migration during the past 20 years and more, with many newcomers having severe health problems.

Due to a dearth of candidates, the NHS has been forced to close hospital beds and has unfilled professional medical positions. This is supported by a government cap on the number of physicians who can receive training each year and the number of physicians who can transition from general practice to speciality.

Too much demand, too little supply, and an inept government to do anything sensible about the situation. The NHS is failing and subsequent UK governments are watching it happen.

No doubt Starmer will be creaming his pants as he condemns the Tories, and in some instances he is right, but not all!

And when our money is desperately needed here, why do we continue to send it overseas? We cannot afford it, thus our government should immediately halt all aid to other countries.

Labour will not stop migrants from coming to the UK because they know that by giving them a vote, they will swing the next General Election and we Brits don’t matter to them anymore.

Despite Labour Sneaking Through ‘Boiler Tax’, Miliband Admits Heat Pumps May Never Be Cheaper Than Gas Boilers

Heat pumps may never be cheaper than gas boilers, Ed Miliband has said, despite Labour creeping a ‘boiler tax’ through Parliament.

Despite worries about potential consumer costs, the Energy Secretary reaffirmed that the government has no plans to impose a future ban on gas boilers.

Boiler manufacturers will be penalised under the plan, which will go into effect in April if they don’t sell enough heat pumps.

Companies in the sector have previously warned it would add £120 to the cost of a new boiler – leading it to be dubbed the ‘boiler tax’.

Speaking at the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee on Wednesday, Mr Miliband said he was ‘wary’ of stopping people from having gas boilers by a specific date if the government cannot guarantee greener alternatives will be cheaper.

With a substantial amount of the UK’s carbon footprint coming from gas heating of homes, the previous Conservative government had outlined plans to ban the sale of new gas boilers by 2035.

This meant that by that date, homes wishing to replace their boilers would have to choose a more environmentally friendly heating solution, like a heat pump.

Ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak was criticised by scientists, campaigners and MPs in 2023 when he backtracked on several net zero policies, including weakening the mooted boiler ban to an 80 percent phase-out by 2035.

Last week, it was reported that the new government had ditched plans for a 2035 ban on gas boilers in its new housebuilding standards.

When questioned by Members of Parliament over this decision, Mr Miliband informed the committee that Labour had no intention of enacting such a ban.

He said: ‘I’m very cautious on these questions because we can say to people: ‘You need to get a heat pump, not a gas boiler, potentially at some point in the future’.

‘But I’m very wary that we’re going to stop people having gas boilers at a point when we can’t guarantee that heat pumps are going to be cheaper for people.’

The Energy Secretary argued that in opposition, Labour never said it would reverse Mr Sunak’s row-back on his Government’s boiler ban plans.

‘We did that deliberately because my bottom line is that we proceed in a way that means we can say to people: ‘You’re going to be better off in making this transition’,’ Mr Miliband said.

‘I do not want to be in a position where I say to people: ‘You must go down this road’ and then people say to me rightly: ‘Look, you’re going to make me worse off’.

‘So that’s our position on that.’

The cost of a heat pump can vary from £6,500 to £18,000, depending on the kind of heat pump, the size of the property, and the labour needed. The cost of a combi boiler in the UK can range from £1,500 to £4,500, including installation, but the price depends on several factors – what kind of boiler, the size of the property and the number of bedrooms, and the brand that you prefer, but still way more affordable than a heat pump.

And out of interest, I wonder how many of our overpaid, underworked pretentious, not-so-smart MPs have heat pumps, and if they have, how long have they had them for?

Most of us know anything that has a tax incentive is probably going to be extremely subpar and don’t forget, tax incentives cost the taxpayer money because there is no such thing as government money!

The MP Of A Putin Hardliner Warns Of Russia Striking Britain ‘And Wiping It Off The Earth’

A hardline Russian MP has warned that it is ‘inevitable’ that Russia will attack Britain directly with missiles to wipe it off the Earth.

Reservist general and pro-Putin MP Andrey Gurulev said that the Kremlin will exact revenge on Ukraine for using British Storm Shadow missiles against his nation.

He told Kremlin-controlled state television: ‘There’s still going to come a point where we’re going to strike. It is inevitable.

‘The question is simply a matter of time and decision-making. And there is no other way.

‘If today Britain is hitting our territory with its missiles from Ukraine, everyone realises that they will not fly anywhere without NATO control systems and satellite navigation.’

The Russian defence ministry claims six Storm Shadows were fired at the Bryansk region on Tuesday alone as part of Ukraine’s most extensive aerial bombardment of the war on Vladimir Putin’s territory. Moscow declared the £2 million missiles were shot down.

It was claimed that two more Storm Shadows were shot down over the Black Sea.

The Russian assault on Ukraine today is perceived as retaliation for the assaults on fuel and chemical factories that occurred the day before.

Gurulev, however, predicted that Putin would eventually target Britain directly.

‘I believe that this is a direct reason for Britain to simply not be on Earth,’ he said.

‘And I’m not the only one who thinks that we’re not the only ones who think that.

‘I think 80 per cent of the world will clap for us. That’s 100 per cent.’

TV propagandists have previously suggested using Putin’s new Satan-2 missile – known to the Russians as Sarmat – to destroy Britain.

This is a 208-ton intercontinental silo-launched 15,880mph hypersonic nuclear missile, the size of a 14-storey tower block.

It is purportedly used in conjunction with Russian nuclear weapons.

The Russians claim that six US-supplied ATACMS missiles also struck the Bryansk area.

Gurulev said earlier this week that Donald Trump and Putin should split up Greenland, with each receiving half of the region.

Additionally, he predicted that Russia would take control of Spitsbergen, a Norwegian island in the Arctic where military activities are prohibited, and use it as a base for defence.

Ukraine had to implement preemptive power outages after Russia conducted a huge aerial bombardment on the nation on Wednesday, according to the Ukrainian energy minister.

‘The enemy continues to terrorize Ukrainians,’ Herman Halushchenko wrote on Facebook, urging residents to stay in shelters during the ongoing threat and follow official updates.

The state energy company Ukrenergo reported emergency power outages in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kirovohrad regions.

According to Andrii Sadovyi, the mayor of the city, Russian forces attacked energy infrastructure in the western Lviv area early on Wednesday with missile attacks.

The point is that if Putin strikes there will be retaliation and Russia will get wiped out as well, so what would they have accomplished? It’s like committing suicide and then believing that once you have done it, you have won – nobody wins in war!

It’s also extremely strange that we have heard nothing from Keir Starmer on this, or reassuring the public over these threats – why not?

The UK government don’t have an inkling what they are dealing with, and Putin is likely to do the most excessive things just out of sheer maliciousness.

Roosevelt said the art of diplomacy was to ‘talk softly and carry a big stick.’ Putin is carrying a small stick, and talking extremely loudly.

Grooming Scandal Blamed On ‘Peasant Immigrants’

Kemi Badenoch has blamed ‘peasant’ immigrants from impoverished parts of foreign countries for the grooming gangs problem.

The Tory leader suggested problems came from ‘sub-communities’ within nations that were ‘very rural’.

In an interview with GB News, she said examining the cultural issues was one of the main reasons she backed a national inquiry.

‘One is on the perpetrators’ side: where do these abusers come from? There’s a lot of misinformation, there’s a lot of generalisation and many innocent people will end up being grouped in with them,’ she said.

‘But there is a systematic pattern of behaviour, not even just from one country, but from sub-communities within those countries.

‘People with a particular background, work background. People with a very poor background, a sort of peasant background, very, very rural, almost cut off from even the home origin countries that they might have been in.’

The comments were branded ‘shocking’ by the Greens, while Labour MP Diane Abbott said Ms Badenoch was showing ‘gross opportunism’. 

No 10 said PM Keir Starmer would not use the same language.

Sir Keir and Ms Badenoch have often disagreed over demands for a national investigation.

The Government has so far knocked back calls for a national review in favour of locally-led inquiries.

The PM has claimed that the emphasis should be on enforcing recommendations from Professor Alexis Jay’s 2022 report.

The problem reappeared at the beginning of the year after US entrepreneur Elon Musk issued a series of criticisms directed at the PM.

Mrs Badenoch said a national inquiry would shine a light on the truth and hold people to account.

‘This is about those victims who deserve justice,’ she said.

‘The survivors who deserve justice by making sure that every single perpetrator we can find is caught and brought to justice, and those who failed in their duty to protect their children are held to account and exposed.’

Ms Badenoch’s remarks followed the Rotherham Labour MP’s support for a nationwide investigation into gang grooming.

Sarah Champion called for a nationwide inquiry that would be led locally and probe the failings of authorities over grooming gangs.

She proposed a national ‘Telford-style’ inquiry rolled out by the Home Office to places that trigger the threshold for greater scrutiny.

After that, the results would be sent back to the Home Office for a nationwide reaction.

‘Child sexual abuse is endemic in the UK and needs to be recognised as a national priority,’ she said.

‘It is clear that the public distrusts governments and authorities when it comes to preventing and prosecuting child abuse, especially child sexual exploitation.’

This should have been resolved years ago, but it wasn’t because our leadership felt—and still feels—the need to appease some segments of our society.

They should have been packed up and shipped out.

And it wasn’t dealt with because certain people, and they know who they are were well-known groomers targeting vulnerable children.

Rape is one of the many things they did to these children. They also tortured and mutilated them. Some will never be able to have children of their own and some have killed themselves. Numerous more horror stories have not been revealed, yet Labour will not sanction a National Inquiry with powers of arrest. And we need to ask ourselves why.

Tony Blair should take part of the blame, but the truth is that the previous Conservative administration often discussed implementing a points-based system, but it never happened.

We did once in the UK have a flock of pristine sheep, but now we have wolves that roam among us.

The British public is being told that their views are racist if they make any remarks about someone else’s beliefs or culture, this is why some behaviours have gone unchallenged, and misogynistic cultures have been permitted to thrive.

My Wife Died In My Arms After Her GP Ignored Her Terminal Cancer In An Over-The-Phone Appointment

A mother-of-three was misdiagnosed in an over-the-phone GP appointment, four months before dying of cancer. 

Her grieving husband, who saw his wife die in his arms, is now demanding that phone consultations with a general practitioner be discontinued.

Laura Barlow, 33, was recently wed to her husband Michael when she started to feel unwell, experiencing abdominal pain and blood in her poo.

The couple have three children together Bella-Mia, Summer-Akye and Bonnie-Rae.

In October 2023, she was diagnosed with endometriosis on a telephone call with a GP at Stickney Surgery in Lincolnshire.

Her GP scheduled a gynaecological consultation at Pilgrim Hospital and prescribed medicines.

While at work two months later, she started to feel intense pain in her stomach. Michael tried to take her to the GP but was advised to instead visit the Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) at the hospital where she was given morphine to help manage the pain. 

After more than two hours stuck in a waiting room, Michael claims they were dismissed by doctors because Laura was already being treated for endometriosis.

Michael said: ‘We went to Urgent Care and she was assessed and they gave her morphine for the pain.

‘After two hours of waiting we saw a doctor who told us that because she was already seeing a doctor for endometriosis, there was no point him dealing with it as well.’

A week later on New Year’s Eve, Mrs Barlow was taken to hospital with pain in her abdomen and was told to come back on January 2 for an ultrasound scan.

The scan showed lesions on her liver and she was put on a two-week cancer pathway.

A few weeks later in mid-January, she was admitted to Pilgrim Hospital’s A&E department where she was finally diagnosed with cancer.

Micheal said: ‘It was a shock when we heard she had cancer, we thought if it was the liver, they could cut a bit out and you can live without it. We thought she would be ok.’

On February 2, Michael and Laura were supposed to be on holiday at CenterParcs with their children. While their children went ahead with Laura’s sister, the couple heard the devastating news about Laura’s cancer.

They were told that Laura had 95 per cent cancer in her liver and her bowel and that she was now terminal.

‘They told her to go home and spend time with our kids.’

Michael and Laura hooked up with their kids at CenterParcs where they enjoyed a final family holiday together.

Laura was wheelchair-bound and taking morphine for her pain during the short trip.

Laura’s health continued to worsen a few days following the holiday.

Sadly, she died on February 6.

Michael said: ‘I had phoned her dad to meet me at the house to help. The doctors had given her some stuff to make her relaxed.

‘We fell asleep together, she was in my arms. I woke up to the others telling me “Mike, she’s gone.’

Michael believes that blood tests should have been taken earlier.

‘It makes me angry because it is all about what if,’ he said, ‘could they have caught it earlier, could we have had longer?

‘I’m not saying she wouldn’t have died, but could we have got another six months together?’

Almost a year on, Michael is being supported by his family as he raises his three children as a single parent.

He said: ‘I have three kids aged two, three and ten. I have a fantastic family who support me every day as much as they can.

‘It is hard though. I have my three-year-old asking if mummy is coming home. I have to tell her she is with nanny now and they are both watching over us.’ 

After Laura passed away, Michael launched a petition urging the government to require in-person consultations for every doctor’s appointment.

The petition has already acquired more than 130,000 signatures.

He said: ‘A lot of people have told me it has pushed them to see a doctor instead of talking on the phone.

‘If a person says they would like to see a doctor, they should have that right. If someone had seen her things may have been different. My wife never got that right.’

A representative for United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Pilgrim Hospital, and Stickney Surgery, said: ”The NHS in Lincolnshire would like to again extend our deepest condolences to Laura’s family.

‘Patient confidentiality means we are unable to comment on individual cases, but we will continue to speak to Laura’s family about their concerns as appropriate.’

I feel very sad for this family and I do wonder how many people are now dying undiagnosed. I would guess the figures would astound most of us.

The NHS has long been unfit for purpose, with the most severe decline occurring in the last five years. Because the third world is flooding into our nation, we are now at the mercy of a third-world service, and I worry whether there is any hope for the future.

It’s time that monthly publishing of avoidable deaths was mandated for the NHS because this lady may have been saved by blood tests done on a first visit to the doctor’s surgery to rule out anything suspicious.

The NHS is now a lottery for life and death.

It is shameful how after 5 years on from the COVID pandemic GPs are still not seeing patients face to face. Every other occupation has gone back to work, but doctors still haven’t, yet they are still getting paid for it – extremely favourably paid for that matter!

England And Wales Arrest Foreign Nationals For Child Sexual Abuse

At least 1,860 foreign nationals were arrested last year over sexual crimes against children in England and Wales, the Mail on Sunday can reveal.

And campaigner Dame Jasvinder Sanghera – who has received death threats for speaking out – said she had ‘no doubt’ grooming gangs were continuing brazenly to target youngsters. She demanded a new public inquiry.

The Centre of Migration Control think tank last week published data showing foreign nationals were 3.5 times as likely to be arrested for sex crimes as British suspects.

Police made more than 9,000 arrests of foreign nationals for sexual crimes in the first ten months of last year in 41 of the 43 forces in England and Wales, more than 26 percent of the total estimated 35,000 sexual offences arrests, despite foreigners making up just nine percent of the population.

Now the Mail on Sunday can reveal that the think tank’s freedom of information requests – answered by 22 forces – allows the figures to be broken down for child sex offences by region.

Arrests for child sex crimes by foreign nationals were at 660 in London for the first ten months of last year, 309 in the West Midland, 187 in Greater Manchester, 162 in Kent and 105 in Essex.

At least 312 foreign nationals were arrested for sexual crimes on children under the age of 13, with 98 in London, 61 in the West Midlands, and 40 in Greater Manchester.

There were more than 265 foreign citizens arrested for creating, possessing or distributing indecent photos of children, with 95 taking place in the capital.

And at least 67 foreigners were arrested for prostitution-related crimes.

Those figures will understate the full scope of the scandal, as they are for just half of the forces, and are for just ten months of the year.

The disclosures come as the debate over grooming gangs of Pakistani origin targeting white girls offers little sign of abating with Sir Keir Starmer still attempting to end calls for a public inquiry.

Dame Jasvinder, who was shunned by her family at age 16 after refusing an arranged marriage to an older man, founded Karma Nirvana, a charity supporting victims of honour-based abuse in the UK, in 1993.

She told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I’ve lost count of the number of times victims have come to me saying they are not being taken seriously because people are worried about community tensions.

‘People are worried about being called a racist. People are worried about treading on cultural ties and then on the back of that, people have not acted in response to these victims.

‘I’ve spent nearly 30 years trying to get agencies to recognize that this issue has to be dealt with as a safeguarding issue and not an issue you can just tiptoe around because it’s from a different culture.

‘Cultural acceptance does not mean accepting the unacceptable.

‘I’ve sat opposite victims who were harmed by grooming gangs and they have said to me, ‘Jasvinder, these perpetrators will say to us go to the police, but they’re not going to believe you, because we will just say they’ve been racist.’

People fearing being branded racist gives perpetrators power, she added.

‘If perpetrators believe somehow they are untouchable because professionals may not take them as seriously, because they are fearing being called a racist or fearing treading on cultural ties, you’re giving the perpetrators more power.’

In the first ten months of last year, at least 131,000 foreign nationals were arrested in England and Wales, accounting for 16.1 percent of arrests. They also accounted for 26.1 percent of sexual crimes.

This is the first person from the Asian Community that I’ve heard publicly stand up and condemn what happens within their community. She is a brave woman to stand up for what she believes in.

Why are the leaders of these communities where these gangs are operating, why are they not condemning what these men are doing?

They should all be booted out – no legal aid for these people, which I might add is being paid by the taxpayer. Our government have no justifications for keeping them here in the UK, they need to go!

Although Dame Jasvinder Sanghera is a courageous woman, this just serves to highlight the system’s cowardice and complicity.

Any foreign national found guilty should be expelled back to their country of birth after serving their jail time, and never again permitted to enter the UK again.

People who come to this country should be on a probationary period and if they cannot fit in or understand the laws of the UK then they should be shipped home again. Violate the rules of the UK and indeed cannot acclimate to our way of life, removal without appeal.

Naturally, based on human rights, all of these offenders will be allowed to stay in the UK. As a result, we ought to enact legislation that declares that foreign nationals who commit any crimes in the UK forfeit their right to stay.

It has now been proved time and time again that Sir Keir is a liar. Labour needs to go!

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