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

85 508Followers

5 416Following

130 964Posts total

42.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views986this account1 266median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.15%this account3.99%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.25%this account1.98%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	986	1 266	0.78×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.15%	3.99%	0.29×
Engagement rate	2.25%	1.98%	1.14×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

33.4K5 Sep

1.2K

6.8K

876 Sep

102

761

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.47%5 Sep

3.06%

0.88%

6.90%6 Sep

4.90%

1.45%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.98%.

What the audience does

Likes53.6%163 in total

Reposts15.1%46 in total

Replies14.5%44 in total

Quotes7.9%24 in total

Bookmarks8.9%27 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@ShaunLintern This picture below illustrates the problem. These are returned medicines to pharmacy by just one patient and we have plenty more examples across the country. Extending period of treatment to 56 days or 84 days for no clinical reason contributes to medicine wastage 761 views · 6 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 06 Sep 2026 @ShaunLintern It’s not just the NHS. Colleagues in A&Es across the developed world reporting exactly the same. Modern medicine has vastly increased what we CAN do for patients, which has run ahead of society’s conversation / expectations about what we SHOULD do for older peo 102 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 06 Sep 2026 @ShaunLintern I blame successive governments dismantling Bevan's NHS, replacing with American systems designed to deny care, so non drs & overwhelmed services with shrunken capacity choose quick fixes like excessive scans, xrays, drugs instead of investigating why someone is 87 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 06 Sep 2026 Almost 8 million over 50s are taking 5 medicines a day - the threshold for #polypharmacy - About 2.2 million take 10 drugs a day. For frail, elderly patients drugs can have cumulative, harmful effects and the NHS just isn't geared up to tackle the problem: #tomorrowspaperstoday h 6.8K views · 35 likes · 9 reposts · 13 replies 05 Sep 2026 @ShaunLintern The silver tsunami is already here (it’s not young people queuing in A&E for a hospital bed. We need a conversation about what medicine is trying to achieve for older people. Trying to treat the same as young people leads to unnecessary investigations leading to 1.2K views · 36 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 🚨 EXC: An over-prescribing epidemic is sending 1,000 elderly patients to A&E every single day - a consequence of a fragmented NHS unprepared for the ageing silver tsunami heading its way as 468k baby boomers turn 80 this year: https://t.co/owHex6QSd7 33.4K views · 79 likes · 34 reposts · 25 replies 05 Sep 2026