Why are Anaesthetists United taking legal action against the GMC? Listen to my conversation with James Catton, who runs the Physician Associate podcast, to see how much we agree with one another. podfollow.com/the-physician-…

The comments say it all The BBC is a national disgrace & should be defunded

Royal College of Anaesthetists (Not a doc) I must say that this document is very reassuring. It’s clear and straightforward and seems imo to reflect excellent practice. One Q tho: how financially viable is this level of supervision? Why would an AA be worth employing? Why would a doctor agree to supervise?

Makes you wonder where the value of having AAs lies An economically-unviable (essentially) supernumerary role in the current healthcare environment will not fly

Read this excellent thread from Escoffier’s love child 🦀 (🗑️ 🔥) - so much resonates

Have people seen this? gov.uk/government/con…

Doctors need people to put in venflons or to take blood. They don't need helpers to misdiagnose a P.E.

Royal College of Anaesthetists Why do we need AAs when there's such a huge bottleneck currently and anaesthetic SHOs without a job? The most you probably need is just a cannulation team. We need HCAs. Nothing more

The failure to jail a prominent TV personality who has solicited and stored sexual images of kids as young as 7 disembowels the UK Government’s claim to be creating the safest country online for kids and negates the entire premise of the Online Safety Act. We might as well

“Probably of more importance though is patient safety, and doctors feel that lesser skilled, shorter trained and inexperienced staff working in a traditional medical role trivialises the practice of medicine.” …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

“No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you’re screwed because it’s all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain’t in it” George Carlin

A reminder that the GMC IT teams have perfected the art of “technical issues” x.com/gmcuk/status/1…

Disingenuous post from Wes Streeting MP, implying that Resident Doctor industrial action was the principle cause of rising NHS waiting lists Conveniently silent about the despicable & erroneous COVID lockdowns?

“For what it is worth I think being backed by people from gvt would actually be quite double-edged and as likely to work against you…” Never a truer word spoken

There’s always a tweet Pat McFadden

This has been going on since at least 2023 and only on specific webpages regarding the regulation of associates. I tried archiving a GMC webpage in October 23 and couldn't. I saved it instead, and have gone back to look at the coding that Mike highlighted. Lo and behold:

🧵/ This is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of UK medicine. 28 eminent UK doctors have written publicly to Layla Moran 🔶🕊️, the new chair of Health and Social Care Committee, to report something nothing less than scandalous. Read their letter here (1/n) 👇 bmj.com/content/386/bm…

#FreeGearKier

IPC spend most of their time telling Doctors they can’t wear a wristwatch, whilst allowing alpacas to visit wards Yet, the moment they’re required to adopt EBM & logic……..