Labour pain is notorious for being one of the worst pains in the world. Does anyone seriously think we'd be offering sterile water as analgesia if men gave birth? Women deserve better than this.

BREAKING Rishi Sunak's tax return has just been published. In tax year 2022/23 he made c£2.3m. He paid £520,000 in tax. All legal. An effective tax rate of c 23% as a lot of it was capital gain (eg profit on share sales) not income. We don't know which company shares he earned

When I was a GP 10 years ago, these were the wait times for a medical specialty referral: Urgent: 6 weeks Routine: 3 months The wait time now for the SAME specialty is: Urgent: 18 MONTHS 🚩 Routine: 2 YEARS 🚩 Tory gov - the public deserve an EXPLANATION NOW!

We need to keep telling this story: “My 18-year-old daughter was at Starbucks, alone, the other night. A man came up to her and started talking to her. A barista handed her “an extra hot chocolate someone forgot to pick up.” How grateful I am for people who look out

King Charles met with Rishi Sunak in a room with a HEPA filter to provide clean air, circled It would cost £140 million to provide HEPA filters in every school in England, keeping children and teachers, safe So why is the Conservative government able to spend £9.9 billion on

🔴 NEW: IT blunder allowed PAs at Calderdale and Huddersfield to "illegally" prescribe drugs inc opiates and sedatives PAs prescribed oxycodone, codeine, lorazepam, diazepam and midazolam, despite being "instructed they are not legally able to prescribe” telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/2…

Also in the Alabama ruling on frozen embryos is this: “Doctors must create just one embryo at a time. Each embryo, no matter how poor its quality, must be transferred. Only one embryo may be transferred at a time. If the cycle fails, the whole process must start all over again.

A eBay seller (trader not individual) just tried to fob me off an say I should go to the manufacturer, after I contacted it when the tech item I bought went faulty. This may be practical but isn't correct. I thought their response and my reply may be useful to others... [I have

Newly qualified junior doctors earn less than a THIRD of this, Sir Jeremy Hunt MP. Why do you think 98% of them just voted - again - to keep on striking? When you won’t even raise their starting salary from a pitiful £15 an hour?

My Easter reading: "..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me to make a meal for 30p, I was thirsty and you filled my water with shit, I was a stranger and you sent me to Rwanda, I was sick and you said I should get private health insurance..."

At the end of February, I ended up in A&E with what I thought was a heart attack. Since then, I've had three rounds of blood tests, each producing more questions. I went on to suffer extreme fatigue, nerve pain, joint pain, loss of appetite (lost 3kg) as well as insomnia, anxiety

How many times do NHS doctors need to speak out about the ways in which we’re quietly being replaced by non-doctors, with neither the knowledge nor consent of the UK public? It’s a patient safety scandal - happening now, driven by Department of Health and Social Care, aided & abetted by GMC.

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Post CCT Orthopaedic - Consultant level surgeon Salary of £37,000 - £57,000 You don't need the best brains in the country to tell you why doctors are moving out of UK after training. jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

Cancer waits are 14 times worse than when the Conservatives came to power. FOURTEEN times. Please RT so everyone can be aware of what this Government has done to our NHS.

When I thought the workforce issues could not get worse in the NHS, I have been shared some information about how IMG doctors are being accelerated into the NHS - no PLAB - no MRCP/RC exams - expedited tier 2 visa They are being placed as Reg or Consultants, often on

Thanks to your generous donations, we've rapidly reached our initial target of £15,000. We can now get started on the legal case. A stretch target of £100,000 will allow us to fight this in court. Please keep donating. Time to #telltheGMC

This person is not a Physician, she is a Physician Associate She has completed a 2 year PA course with a near 100% pass rate. Your GP has at least ten years of rigorous medical training. The NHS is replacing your doctors with PAs, and lying to you about it. #AskForADoctor

Great to know that I couldn't get a job in radiology with a BSc, MBCHB with honours and MSRA score of 573! Wish someone had told me that all I had to do was become a PA... 🤬