Andrea James Care Quality Commission Unfortunately, this is the case across the NHS! Care Quality Commission needs a total root and branch review.

I think we have to question how this can be an acceptable state of affairs within the body responsible for regulation of health and social care services. In particular, how can CQC credibly assess whether the entities it regulates are Well-Led (or Effective, or Caring) when this

CQC's Care Quality Commission latest Board meeting took place last Wednesday & included the publication of some shocking staff survey results e.g.
*73% of staff do NOT believe the values & behaviours of the CEO & Executive Team are consistent with the organisation's values
*77% of

Significant. Gov. NHS England quango
doctor admitting that GP services saturated amidst below inflation investment. Thoughts? Steve Taylor Dr John G Hughes DAUK GP Committee 💙 Mark Cockerton Don’t Visit Rwanda Andy Pow

TOTAL U-turn by “royal” body “representing” doctors ⁦DAUK GP Committee 💙⁩ ⁦GP Survival⁩ ⁦Dr John G Hughes⁩ ⁦Steve Taylor⁩. Start debate re. unitary medical prof representation “RCGP changes stance on PAs as council votes against GMC regulation.” pulsetoday.co.uk/news/breaking-…

At yesterday’s #RCPEGM , a senior officer presented the results of a survey of MRCPs on their views about Physician Associates (PAs). They unwittingly supplied some good teaching material about how NOT to go about doing a questionnaire survey and how NOT to report the results.

Katie Bramall-Stainer Lord Bethell General Practice You know what, what I was growing up I was taught the less poetic (more Yorkshire) version, “if you don't know what youre on about, shut thi gob”. Everyone outside of primary care things they know, but they don't, I didn't before I became a GP, but I thought I did, I was wrong.

Lord Bethell General Practice To quote Wittgenstein, whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Or better still Lincoln’s better to remain silent & be thought a fool than speak & remove all doubt.

Please retract and apologise for the offence caused to 1000s of professionals within Team GP.

Lord Bethell But we’re human & thrive on relationship-based care that delivers amazing outcomes, because trust & continuity matter

Since 2015:

⚠️1000 GP Practices lost
❤️‍🩹2000 GPs lost
👪6,000,000 more patients
⏰1,390,000 appts/day
Practice £ static

NHS GP has been broken
General Practice
👇

Lord Bethell Plural of anecdote does not = data

“Certainly my own experience in the last 20 yrs of going to my GP is that it really hasn't required 10 years of training to deal with my small problems.'

I’m delighted you’re so well.
You prob could/should have been seen by another clinician

Lord Bethell Escalated to whom, Lord Bethell?

We’re consultants in family medicine, expert generalists in complex multimorbidity

Adept at spotting pathological needles in haystacks of politically-stoked expectations of self-limiting conditions

I would welcome the chance to discuss 1/n

Why is it assumed that we all want Primary Care at Scale? That it is a common and inevitable goal.

Can someone spell out what this even is, cause it sounds like the end of General Practice to me? And everyone seems to be sprouting this.

Car crash by unaccountable ⁦⁦⁦GMC⁩ . Resignations? Accountability? Great work by ⁦Good Law Project ⁦DAUK GP Committee 💙⁩. “GMC to reconsider investigating doctor accused of vaccine misinformation” ⁦Steve Taylor⁩ ⁦Dr John G Hughes⁩ pulsetoday.co.uk/news/regulatio…

Let’s get another record-breaking mandate for strike action to:
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👉 restore our value
👉 restore our profession

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This demonstrates what a disastrous decision it is to use the doctor’s regulator, the GMC, to also regulate PAs and AAs.

We are again calling on members of the house of lords to put a stop to this when they have a chance next week (2/2) bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

The GMC continuing to blur the lines between doctors and PAs is no longer tenable. PAs are not doctors and are not medically trained.

The lived reality is that this is causing significant confusion for patients. (1/2)

The Lancs & Cumbria LMCs Financial Report on the precariousness of GP Practice finances featured on BBC Northwest today. Hopefully this will spread some awareness of the strain practices are under - not just in Lancashire and Cumbria but all over the country. #NHSCrisis #TeamGP

We fundamentally disagree with the decision by the UK Health bodies to move the Specialised Foundation Programme into the PIA system from 2025 and will fight for students by resisting this change in any way that we can.

Read the full statement 👇bma.org.uk/news-and-opini…

Paul W Dr John G Hughes Digital compliments GP services but doesn’t replace them . That’s always been the case … and there is some really good tech. But this poltical whim is no longer in vogue as it’s not been proven to work ! It’s fundamentally still a people business. But we knew that

This is so close to the protected title of General Medical Practitioner and is likely to mislead both applicants and the public. UCAS GMC The BMA RCGP Care to comment?