Eilidh 🦀 ExplosiveEnema I had a degree in Pharmacology before training as a PA. Add in my PA degree and 9 months of clinical practice and I still hadn’t scratched the surface of what we covered in pre-clinical year of GEM. Pharmacology + PA course also doesn’t make me ready to prescribe

So let me get this straight. No jobs for graduating nurses, no jobs for graduating midwives, no jobs for newly qualified doctors. Either find the money for jobs, or shut the courses. Stop selling young professionals lies of a career in the NHS. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

🚨 FAO Physician Assistants When I spoke to Prof Leng, she told me many doctors felt that PAs could have a really important role assisting doctors in the NHS. I agreed, and added my voice to what I still believe is a strong case for an assistant role, which I believe could be

Spot on. It’s one of the extraordinary own goals of my time in medicine that this has happened. With some consultation of resident and specialist doctors, the PA grade could have been made into the most gratefully-received role ever to be embraced by the medical community. “What

“It should be a matter of national shame that we now spend more on maternity litigation than the total cost of running maternity services.” theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

‼️ PATIENTS OF THE U.K. ‼️ Do not allow yourself to be diagnosed by a physician assistant Do not allow your GP surgery to assign one to you In A&E do not allow a PA to take a history , do a physical examination and diagnose you ASK FOR A MEDICALLY QUALIFIED DOCTOR INSTEAD

Please share this post if you see it . You could save someone’s life. Patients you have a voice and a choice . USE it . Wes Streeting PAs are refusing to comply with the new rules, this is the only way we can reach the public .

Valerie (Val) Humphreys Professor Olga Matthias It isn’t up to present PAs. It isn’t up to future PAs. It isn’t up to the universities. It is up to the government. It always is. If the government wants something, it will get it. And the government does want a real alternative to the medical profession. Don’t be suckered.

Physician assistant: il go and assess Mrs Smith Resident Dr : You can’t diagnose any more as per Leng/NHS guidance PA: I reject the Leng review recommendations and I will carry on doing my assessment /diagnosis of Mrs Smith What happens next Dr Melissa Ryan 🦀 Wes Streeting ?

1/ Kate Matharu, a GP of 25 years, told The Guardian that resident doctors striking “harms patients” and that people who put finances first “shouldn’t be in the profession.” We should talk about why this perspective is deeply flawed.

Who’d have thought? Smaller practices have better patient satisfaction than larger ones. Guess which ones Wes Streeting Department of Health and Social Care NHS England want to keep?🤔 Yep the large ones & make them even bigger! Good one Wes et al! 🤯 gponline.com/10-year-health…

It seems that either University Hospital Southampton 💙 don’t know the law or are trying to trick doctors out of their right to strike. Any resident doctor in England with BMA membership or no union membership can strike. You do not need to “register” with the BMA. Strike hard.

Logically this seems dangerous but apparently there’s no evidence to prove it…. So I guess it must be safe? 🌞 It’s a tricky concept to grasp, but absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence

Bought my 11yo a Nokia ‘brick’ prior to her starting 2ndry school. The children are delighted. “It’s just like a smart phone - you can play games, send messages, make calls - it’s brilliant!” 🤩 But they can’t view porn or beheadings, so I’m pleased too. 👍 Small things.

I’ve been a Doctor 36yrs & I understand why Residents have resorted to strikes 20% less pay than Drs in 2008, £100k student debt, poor working conditions/job security, higher pension contributions, longer working life as pension after 67yrs I had it good & Karol had it better

I rely on doctors to keep me alive. If my heart wobbles and they arent there, im screwed. Yet i support the strike by junior (resident) doctors. Because someone whose bust a gut for years to qualify, who saves lives, is worth 22 quid an hour. Its not complicated.

1 in 5 shifts resident doctors do is for free Any surprise that 20k doctors will most likely leave this year?

How did I get through the entirety of undergraduate and postgraduate medical training without hearing about ‘the medical model’? It’s just a word salad used to excuse poorly trained & expensive pseudo-doctors replacements doing work that should be done by doctors.

Fewer women should become doctors as they ‘have got to have babies’, ex-surgeon says report from Archie Mitchell There are not enough words or eyeroll emojis for this 😡🙄 independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

This you lad? Wes Streeting