We have written to GMC to raise our serious concerns about the recent suspension of Dr Sarah Benn.

There must be an urgent review of the basis on which Dr Benn found herself in front of a medical tribunal.

It concluded that patients live longer when they had access to fully qualified GPs, continuity of care and there is higher funding of general practices. buff.ly/49T7qMr

Rattled Doc I'm sorry but in what other industry would you say 'don't you have a moral obligation to stay (and let your own physical, mental and emotional health suffer)?
Medicine is a job. When people aren't happy in their job, they move elsewhere where they will be better taken care of 🤷

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

Never let the truth get in the way of a poorly-worded headline…

Working for the NHS is incompatible with being a Tory.

Doctors’ Association UK 💙 Steve Taylor BBC Question Time For a UK leader to imply...in public...that UK doctors give out sicknotes to people who are not sick ...is pretty grave
But..
...then to go on...unashamedly illogically
...suggesting a solution, involving someone with lesser training to make this decision
Makes-my-head-spin

Arsonist now wishes to join the fire brigade because they’re the only ones doing something about dangerous fires!!!

'I found it increasingly difficult to look my NHS colleagues, patients, and constituents in the eye with good conscience.'

.@RCGP

For shame.

I oppose same-day hubs.

This is utterly brilliant from Victor Adebowale Victor Adebowale

The GP crisis in a nutshell:

⬆️ Clinical demand
⬆️ Chronic disease rates
⬆️ Non-clinical workload
⬆️ Referral rejections
⬆️ Workload transfer
⬆️ Hospital waiting lists
⬆️ Staff burnout

⬇️ GPs
⬇️ Nurses
⬇️ HCAs
⬇️ Non-clinical staff
⬇️ Practices
⬇️ Resources
⬇️ Real term funding

When Junior Doctors are on £16 an hour and MP's are on £46 an hour.

And raising the Junior Doctors pay by £4 an hour is unaffordable, even though they just raised MP's pay by £5 an hour.

It's hard not to see the lie.

RT if Junior Doctors NEED paying.

Thought you were a charity?

What's the cost when a consultant obstetrician with 19 years’ experience resigns early?

Staff shortages mean a new doctor must be trained, taking time. Locum cover will be needed, and time for the new recruit to find their feet, meaning lost productivity. bma.org.uk/attrition-costs

When I first registered in 1984 the GMC was highly respected. I was very proud to be on the medical register.
They were an autonomous body that regulated our profession.
This continued to be the case until the middle of the last decade.
The situation now is very different.…

Had a Teams meeting with someone I once knew. Our last encounter was in a classroom. We had a racist teacher. 10+ years later she reaches out because she heard about me & wondered if we could collab., neither of us seemed to remember that we once knew each other, until...🧵

Hartley-Brewer: You'd leave asylum seekers to drown in the channel?

Ben Habib: Absolutely.

JHB: That is not a policy that a civilised country should endorse.

BH: Why is that uncivilised?

Imagine being so despicable, even Hartley-Brewer can't abide you.

Hot off the press from the The BMA

Between September 2022 and September 2023, between 15,000 and 23,000 doctors left the NHS prematurely in England alone.

We estimate that the minimum cost to NHS employers and the public purse of replacing those doctors lies between £1.6 and…