Doctors should not be held to account for a PA making a mistake.

We didn't sign up to this.

Follow BMA guidance or say no to being a supervisor.

Otherwise it's YOUR license on the line.
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Try getting through security with a knife and fork in your hand luggage.

I nearly got arrested and anally probed at Dubai airport for having toenail clippers in my wash bag.

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Infection Control is the biggest misnomer in the history of the NHS.

NHS staff cannot have soap in staff showers.

Yet hospitals across the UK are filthy, super bugs everywhere, rat infestations etc

Priorities are skewed.

Everyone reacts differently in these circumstances and it is hard to know how you would react until it happens, but if you find yourself locked in a room by bad people at 3.30 am, and assuming you still have access to a phone, we would probably suggest calling the police

RCEM supports the Tobacco and Vapes Bill and the ambition to create a #smokefree generation

The negative effect smoking has on health cannot be underestimated. Its devastating consequences can be seen clearly every single day in EDs and wards across the country.

#smokefree

Peaceful protesting doctor found guilty of professional conduct and suspended.

Meanwhile the physician associate that killed Emily Chesterton is still working.

Why do we pay the GMC fees? Why?

Rishi Sunak blaming the sick and disabled for the financial woes of this country......

If you believe this, you are thicker than a plank and dimmer than Pluto.

Vote them out.

I think it's time for coordinated action.

The BMA it is time for a vote of no confidence in the GMC.

Time for us to stop giving our hard-earned money to a regulator that despises doctors.

So, GMC, your definition of freedom of speech for doctors allows them to claim that vaccines killed people they didn't kill, but doesn't allow them to hold up a 'just stop oil' sign? You make me sick.
[with apologies to the car company @gmc I tagged in error earlier]

Meanwhile, @GMCUK will not only allow other doctors to spread barefaced lies and misinformation about vaccines, but they will actively defend this position in court.

Absolutely shameful, yet we (as registered doctors) have no choice but to pay for this circus.

The GMC is out of control.

Under Charlie Massey’s leadership it has lost the confidence of the entire medical profession and become an international laughing stock.

The government, aided & abetted by GMC & NHS England, insists it's not replacing NHS doctors with cut-price physician associates (PAs).

They're lying.

Here's an ad for a PA 'working as an autonomous, accountable, associate physician'.

This is a patient safety disaster 🤷‍♀️

Patients in the emergency department need either a venous blood gas or an arterial line. One off arterial blood gases are rarely necessary.

I have looked at this job plan

And I am sorry - but the leadership NHS England Workforce, Training and Education We are Primary Care have lost control over issues around competence in the zeal to tackle GP ‘gaps’/ locums

Please stop

‘Associate Physician’
This is not a typo
It’s deception

RCGP start calling it out

Alison Moore Yep. Increasingly it seems to me the GMC is troubled and takes the easy cases. Surgeon in Manchester accused (now proven) of both sexual misconduct and harming patients, never even got to an investigation stage. But if he had asked to borrow a laptop...?

Dropping my son off for a 10 hour shift. 8 ambulances outside on a Wednesday lunchtime. He has £90,000 student debt and a job offer from Australia came this morning paying twice as much. What would you do?
Wes Streeting MP

⚠️ I’ve had patients assume “junior doctor” meant medical student level
- yet they’re doctors who just aren’t GP/consultant yet- no matter how senior

⚠️ I’ve had patients assume “physician associate” is a senior doctor because “the name sounds grander than GP”

Let’s not pretend

Wow. Watch this. James Daly MP becoming increasingly embarrassing on Sky News . He pushed the Greater Manchester Police to start an investigation into Angela Rayner's council house affairs. GMP had already said they did not need to investigate.

Now James Daly is refusing to…

Dr Asif Qasim 💙 GMC The GMC should never regulate non-doctors. If they do, it will be used by PAs who are already pretending to be doctors in their language through both omission and commission. “Look me up on the GMC register, here is my reg number.” It will create yet more confusion for patients.

About time GMC

This is the first time we’ve seen you state this without ambiguity

Now you need to act to remove PAs from where they are replacing GPs and doctors on medical rotas

We have seen no evidence of you doing this or acting to press either the employers or PAs to…