You know how the NHS has waiting lists as long as the M1 motorway? Consultants are having to work LESS because of a pension tax that means: ****If they do extra work they have to PAY to work**** An easy fix would be to exempt consultants, like they did judges Thérèse Coffey

Given #Ebola has reached Kampala- which has a major international airport- it would be good if UK followed US in screening passengers from Uganda- checks at airports and monitoring for 21 days. And helped Ugandan govt/MSF manage outbreak esp bc no vaccine yet for this strain.

Tonight in my daughters ward I met a mum who had to get her unconscious limp baby to A&E on the bus because an ambulance was going to be 6 hours. By the time they got there his oxygen sat was 69% and he now has brain damage and seizures. She had to take her limp baby on the bus.

Harrowing words from a senior emergency medicine doctor showing the despair at not being able to provide the level of care every doctor hopes to for their patients. Every doctor, nurse & HCW can empathise with this right now. Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.

In the mid-90s I set fire to myself. My sister and her husband arrived for dinner from the Isle of Wight. I turned up the gas on the stove and threw the pasta into the boiling water. 1/18

Absolutely eye watering pension excess for this year. This year I got to keep only 33% of everything I earned! Is this a deliberate policy to force senior doctors to retire, in the midst of a waiting list and NHS crisis? And if not, why hasn’t it been fixed? Dr Tony Goldstone

📣 📣 Our global case series on MPOX in people with advanced HIV infection is at #CROI2023 and in The Lancet today: 382 cases of human MPOX infection in PLWH with CD4 counts <350 cells/mm3 in 19 countries **We found MPOX is an opportunistic pathogen** /1 thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Get this, Women are less likely to receive CPR because we’re overdramatic. Stop being so dramatic when you’re in v-fib ladies…sheesh.🙄

11/ Sir Jeremy Hunt MP was quite right to call this a "national scandal" needing fixing "immediately". Lets be clear, ☝️doesnt do that (nor announced by Thérèse Coffey). RT if you need Mr. Hunt / Barclay to fix these issues on 15th March budget #FixNegativePIAs #TaxUnregistered

1/3 We have so far struggled to put into words how we feel about the loss of Marc Riley ⚽️🍺🐳 ‘s 6 Music show. People say it’s progress, change blah blah. But Marc’s show was so much more than just a radio programme to so many people…

2/3 Losing Marc Riley ⚽️🍺🐳 ‘s show has pulled the rug from underneath the DIY music scene, from bands with no connections, no playlist pluggers, no music industry infrastructure…

3/3 Marc helped us to build an audience, a scene, connect w other bands. He allowed us to operate outside the system.We still can’t express how much that man has helped our band & allowed us to operate on our own terms.We don’t know what else to say. Thank you Marc Riley ⚽️🍺🐳 ❤️📻❤️

Reinstate Marc Riley & Gideon Coe's BBC 6 Music shows - Sign the Petition! chng.it/6mHqysrH via Change.org UK

If you see this, QT with the most recent photo you took of your pet. No cheating.

The new NHS workforce plan, a 🧵 I’ve been an NHS doctor for almost twenty years, a senior lecturer at two universities, I teach and train medical/nursing/pharmacy/paramedic/PA students, and a GP trainer for almost a decade

When your workforce crisis is being written about in other countries, it should be a moment for reflection washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…

Bloody hell absolutely awful Rishi Sunak - what your lot have done to science in this country

If we were serious about widening access into the medical profession, we’d be improving state secondary education, scrapping undergraduate tuition fees, sorting out how we fund postgraduate training, increasing NTNs, and getting full pay restoration done.

Great chart below/right from Institute for Fiscal Studies about ridiculous tax cliff at £100k cuasing *obscene* marginal tax rates. But you can draw a very similar chart (left) for higher earning doctors affected by the stupid & ill-conceived #taper which is **really damaging** waiting list