This is my 6th year at C4 News FactCheck and every winter England’s NHS has been in crisis. So when I started looking at the latest stats I was expecting to do a story about history repeating itself. But it’s not repeating. 2022 was *so* much worse. I can prove it in one graph.🧵

Here’s my payslip as a first year doctor in 2005, next to a first year doctor colleague’s in 2023. 18 years later, their take home salary is less than mine was. I lived for free in hospital accommodation and had a fraction of their student loan. #JuniorDoctorsStrike

As a cardiologist, every day I see 2-3 patients who need clearance for surgery 🔪 ALL of them are on blood thinners🩸 Every surgeon wants to stop these medicines💊 The patients ask: Is it safe? Should I stop? Let's see how to deal with blood thinners before surgery 🧵👇

Keep tweeting this chart. This is why we strike. This is why 5% (below inflation offer) was never going to cut it. This is why 14% was rejected by JDs in Scotland. #JuniorDoctorsStrike

Dame Jane Dacre We did spend quite a lot of time back in 2016 explaining why in great detail. Yet JDs still infantilised, exploited as rota fodder, bullied, denied training opportunities, & still face year-on-year erosion of real terms pay. Many have the clout to change this - but do they care?

Reading reviews of Ben Nevis is my hobby.

So Steve Barclay asks The Times and The Sunday Times- You have 6 fig salaries why are cons. striking? - Per article, median salary £126k - Had they looked was £119,200 in '09👇 - That's worth £180,804 in May 2023 (CPI) - Destruction of pay 2009-23 is *MUCH* worse in the NHS RT for #PayRestoration

I am a NHS consultant. I am financially comfortable, in a job I love, so why am I striking tomorrow? Answer: Because the next generation will not be able to live off what I do today. The juniors that will become these consultants know this and are leaving already. Why? 🧵 👇

No party is offering a solution to the significantly high rates of mental illness in HCPs. They can have all the grand plans they like about tackling waiting lists, but they're meaningless without first supporting those expected to carry them out.

“We spend below average on our health service compared to our peers, so it’s not surprising that we have fewer hospital beds, Drs, nurses, MRI/CT scanners. To a certain extent, you get what you pay for.” Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst The King's Fund

Support for your doctors now is support for the survival of the entire NHS. The future of your health service is on a knife edge, high time to pick a side, and I know which one I'm on. #juniordoctorsstrike

Tell me Philip, Why has it taken this level of grassroots doctor outrage to get anyone to listen? You are vocal re sympathy for PAs feelings What about the concern of thousands of doctors and the patients who are on the receiving end? Where’s your voice for them?

Sorry you’ve waited so long to see me . Sorry I don’t know when your scan will be done or reported. Sorry So I don’t know when to contact /arrange another consultation and discuss next steps . Sorry I don’t know when your operation will be done . Sorry 😢 1/n

Prof Banfield announces The BMA taking legal action against GMC in respect of PA’s and AA’s sharing good medical practice and terminology of ‘medical professionals’ being applied to both. Working in conjunction with Anaesthetists United.

MP Sir Jeremy Hunt MP talked about the work that Labour could do to reform the NHS. He was health secretary between 2012-18 and chancellor 22-24. So out of 14 years of Tory NHS decimation, he had direct control for 8 years Lets see how well he did 🧵