Your daily reminder that NHSE expects some first year doctors to hear where they are placed as late as 4 July (or even tba) and be ready to start work in this unknown destination w/c 22 July. Still no explanation from NHSE of how this has been allowed to happen. 1.n

When you come back from a period of annual leave…..

What % of your bulging NHS work inbox goes straight into the trash, unread?

When you come back from a period of annual leave…..

What % of your bulging NHS work inbox goes straight into the trash, unread?

Breaking: Dublin Airport blessing of the planes to go ahead for 77th time as Fr Doyle gets security clearance independent.ie/regionals/dubl…

‘I heard one of them saying ‘Jesus Christ the doors are locked’’

43 years is such a long time to wait for a just conclusion - 12 month long inquest concluded today

Excellent simulation session with our fantastic groups of international medical graduates.

We learnt so much from each other and showed how fostering relationships with each other helps improve patient care

⁦UHCW Simulation⁩ ⁦UHCW NHS Trust⁩

An awful but an important read.
We need to work harder to improve working conditions in the NHS, & we need to ensure there are appropriate support services available for staff.

Not all the costs of providing healthcare are financial. Many staff pay for it with their wellbeing.

I share everyone's indignation at this
Reminder that the The BMA runs DocHealth if you're a practicing doctor looking for support bma.org.uk/advice-and-sup…

“What was meant by NHS capacity being elastic was the capacity of people
in the NHS to work themselves into the ground to keep people alive…the conversations were all about the buildings & the beds and not the people that would be need[ed] to staff them.”

And so it continues

I have started to rewatch a bit of ‘Fat Friends’ from (2000-2005) because it’s on Netflix - and it is the bleakest of bleak … early noughties diet culture was such a horrific binfire

I may be overreaching with four but the holiday reading pile is set 👌🏼

‘Are you sure you want us to paint over this wall, it’s got a really great piece of of art on?’

It’s not difficult is it?! 🙄

Onwards we go….. ⁦BMA Consultants⁩ action is at an end.
Here’s hoping the DDRB reform does what it says on the tin

Holiday book recommendations?
Fiction or non fiction… (but only the chatty, readable sort of nonfiction, not the tiny writing encyclopaedia type)
These are the Jan-March reads I’ve finished…

As the covid enquiry rumbles on ….If you have time to read one clear, considered and above all, factual account of what happened to ICU capacity and its people during the pandemic.
Read this 👇🏻