After more than 6 months of negotiations, I am thrilled to announce that the framework agreement for the Exception Reporting Reforms has now been signed by all parties 1. No supervisor involvement 2. New enforcement with fines 3. Much more Read more here: shorturl.at/ZfYfE

This week's nature editorial nature.com/articles/d4158…

Just had large study of >2000 UK medical students accepted for publication >50% of respondents felt the allocation system for newly qualified (FY) doctor posts was unfair 46% noticed negative impact on physical/mental health Up to 48% are considering career outside the NHS

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A message to our resident Doctor colleagues. Fight hard for pay restoration, strike if you have to. I & many of your Consultant colleagues support you. We will cover strike action to keep the IP service safe. Lying down & accepting a mediocre settlement will only perpetuate pay

The UK trainee is captured in a system with long training and multiple points where one must be selected to get to the next level. It is a setup that practically guarantees mistreatment of the trainee given their precarious situation. What they’re doing is understandable.

If you push these efforts too far - shorten the schooling, shorten residency, get rid of the standardized tests, eliminate this and that… Eventually, there is a point at which people will come to believe your job isn’t that special, and could be done by anyone.

Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.

There is something deeply wrong with Twitter. It has always been rough here, but in the past year it has become an even worse kind of nasty. Do you think maybe it's time to try to turn things around, Elon?

A beautiful autumn day 🍂 spent between lab and clinical research at the Newcastle University & Newcastle Hospitals dermatology laboratories. Feeling very privileged to continue my dermatogenetics work in year 2 of my Academic Clinical Fellowship with NIHR Newcastle BRC