Is General Practice FOR SALE? Private firms ‘lobby’ Lords & MPs as Govt courts the private sector in the future of the NHS Lords Farmer & Bethell, Centene, Virgin Care, Operose, HCRG, Twenty20 Operating a model of Primary Care aimed at profitability bylinetimes.com/2021/10/25/lor…

In a statement to CNN (October 2023), Trump’s former Chief of Staff John Kelly described Trump as "a person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about…A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but

Unexpected-but? Credit where it's due The King's Fund Amend to report to Wes Streeting MP to include issues of #racism Also, an incredible indictment of the levels of failure of NHS England Workforce, Training and Education Stopping NHS Practitioner Health;No lead to tackle #Racism etc Accountability? kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

Jonathan Only consultants should be supervising PAs No delegation to junior staff/resident docs I think the BMA need to be clear about this to prevent another doc being thrown under the bus

Worth remembering that Metformin ALSO improves all cause mortality independent of diabetic control. Does the same in non-diabetics as well. But the patent expired in 2000. So who cares? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are thrilled to welcome Prof Isabelle Ferreras (Isabelle Ferreras) as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI. Find out more from our Research Associate page: oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/research-assoc… #EthicsInAI #AIResearch #PoliticalSociology

Dr Linda Dykes @[email protected] OK It would certainly seem GMC have landed themselves in a tangled mess over the whole PA project. No scope, dubious rules around prescribing, conflation of roles. I just wonder if the other regulatory bodies support their registrants prescribing in a different role

Dr Sandeep Bansal Lageraemia Operose practices employed six times as many physician associates compared to the NHS average, with only 0.6 FTE GPs for every 2000 patients compared to the NHS average of 1.2 FTE GPs, leaving some wondering, could the GPs left to adequately supervise these PAs in practice.

BMA Scotland They aren’t “Cut-price drs” though. They aren’t drs at all.

Julian Winn 💙 💜 Jen Johnston Joanne McGinn @medicalmodelwithabriochebun Dr Navina Evans Kamila Hawthorne Prof Colin R Melville GMC NHS England Workforce, Training and Education In all the controversy surrounding the PA role it’s always worth remembering that individual, grass-roots PAs did not cook up any of the damaging schemes surrounding the PA role. National leaders and institutions are the responsible parties here and not individual PAs.

The 4 tweets from David Oliver summarises the predicament all now find themselves in regards #PhysicianAssociates How the system now progresses? No one knows. A head on collision between grassroots & establishment - enabled by leadership NHS England Workforce, Training and Education GMC

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Al Richards - Expert by Experience 🇮🇳 🇨🇩 🇬🇧 NHS England GMC Royal College of Physicians even if i inspire one? That’s a win 😊