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#RCPEGM Dear Fellows/Members and Councillors Please don't resign YET. You are needed in the tent. For now. RTs appreciated.

Management of the creation of the Physician Associate role in 🇬🇧 has been a car crash. Many key actors have been grossly negligent (or worse). Carol Brayne & I ask some questions The BMJ that should have been answered long ago bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Just in anyone has forgotten the level of competence of the GMC CEO. youtu.be/LnH-Pc6MicM?fe…

Prof Colin R Melville GMC No doubt a quiet word, or worse, will be inbound. But what kind of doctor am I, if too scared to take stand against this proposed assault on the current standards of rigour & excellence of UK medicine. A feeble one, frankly. And my patients mean more than that. ends/

Amid doctor shortage, NPs & PAs seemed like a fix Data’s in: Nope - American Medical Association That finding “prompted us to really analyze the whole population” “We moved to a model of a Doctor being the primary care provider” Who knew🤷🏻‍♂️ ama-assn.org/practice-manag…

Healthcare has rightly learned from the human factors safety culture in aviation. I asked my husband, a pilot, about this GMC plan to dumb down med school (because smartphones). His reaction? Incredulity. “If the plane is going down I can only use what’s in my head.” Quite.

We’re thrilled Kirill Karabits (Кирило Карабиць) has been recognised with an Honorary OBE from His Majesty The King for Services to Music and the promotion of symphonic works from Ukraine and eastern Europe in the UK. Congratulations, Kirill! bit.ly/4amobQW Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Arts Council England, South West Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Today we as Fellows sent a further Statement of Concern to Royal College of Physicians in relation to patient safety and other serious concerns about conduct, governance and performance. There is an urgent need for an Independent Review of the Senior Officers following #RCPEGM Dr Matt Kneale

In the wake of the #RCPEGM scandal, 29 Fellows of ⁦Royal College of Physicians⁩ - 11 of whom are Professors of their field - have sent the following open letter to the College. This is true medical leadership - thank you all 👇

Public satisfaction with #NHS is at an all-time low, a deliberate political policy to push people into the arms of private healthcare. In fact, NHS activity & productivity is pretty good, given the resources it has. But it simply doesn’t have the resources to keep up with demand.

Thank you to Baroness Wheeler, Co-Chair of the APPG on Stroke, for championing support for working-age stroke survivors in the #HouseofLords today. 1 in 4 strokes happen to working-age people, and 1 in 3 in this group will have to give up their job.

Time is brain, but UK 🚑 crews spend longer on scene before taking stroke patients to hospital than in other countries. Why? And what can we do to improve this? Graham McClelland is Speedy special guest for: West Midlands Ambulance Service #HelpUsHelpYou North West Ambulance Service South Western Ambulance Service (NEW) South Central Ambulance Service Tinyurl.com/speedyapril24

Hearty congratulations to Gareth Malone OBE Roderick Williams Julia Doyle BBC Singers and BBC NOW for a truly wonderful Easter Passion on BBC Two. A special mention for the Scouse Evangelist Nicholas Mulroy, immaculate and powerful singing. More of this kind of thing please, BBC.

Today over 80 Fellows of Royal College of Physicians (with >20 Professors of Medicine, 3 elected RCP council members) have signed an expression of concern outlined below around the actions of the leadership of Royal College of Physicians that continue to place patients at risk from harm. In the March EGM,

Awesome explanation from the British Medical Association, as to why it's difficult to see a GP. The Tory government engineered this. Don't blame your GP. Blame the Tories for destroying the excellent family doctor relationships we used to all love.

Keir Starmer Congratulations on your much deserved victory. Now, the important business of my meal times: I like breakfast at 10, lunch at 11, dinner at 3. And 5. And 7. Plenty of snacks in between. Get that right and the rest of your job is a doddle.

This is a really important if distressing read by felicity lawrence in The Guardian. The way expert witnesses are used - or not used - in criminal trials with complex and uncertain science is simply not fit for purpose, and risks miscarriages of justice. It should be mandatory for the

Excellent visit yesterday University Hospital Southampton 💙 very impressive stroke service to discuss work to improve access to mechanical thrombectomy. 5th highest volumes UK 🙏 Richard Marigold for leading 🙏 Professor Stephen Powis David Hargroves 💙 Juliet Bouverie OBE Stephen Harden John Stephens💙 for your support & suggestions

We’ve reached a milestone University Hospital Southampton 💙 Wessex Neurological Centre 1000 mechanical thrombectomies over the last decade, including 167 this year. Huge credit to all our teams in achieving this, and all the work going in to making this extraordinary treatment accessible for more stroke patients.