🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

🚨 UHB locum rate cuts U TURN 🚨 University Hospitals Birmingham have reversed all cuts to doctors extra contractual work rates. The BMA have suspended the dispute. We have shown trusts up and down the country the power of our collective action as doctors. What a WIN for our members ‼️

Doctors are not psychics. We cannot magically detect if a patient has been coerced or pressured into a decision. There are no safeguards in the Assited Dying Bill. Just platitudes and bureaucracy.

Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 Royal College of Physicians Dr Sandeep Bansal (same username on B Sky) Dr Asif Qasim MA PhD FRCP Mamas A. Mamas Dr Shrilla Banerjee MD FRCP 💙 Dr Nick Hopkinson Prof Liz Lightstone PhD FRCP FISN 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇦🇵🇸 Shivani Misra Louella Vaughan Rowan Harwood Dr Rachel Clarke Today GMC has stated that they will ignore scope set by Colleges for #physicianassociates. Surely, the only safe option is A). Drawing any comparison To F1s is dangerous. If B) there will be pressure for pas to 'progress' like F1s with time in post

Seems like a significant signal from Streeting's office.

Resident Doctors of the West Midlands, 📢 Big update! Yesterday, your Regional Resident Doctors’ Committee officers took action. We wrote to every trust in the region, setting out exactly what we expect from employers to fulfill their obligations on backpay for the pay deal.

Liz Peecock James Haddock Balazs (🦋cannulaservice.bsky.social) Dr Matt Kneale (🦋drmk.link) Ben Chadwick GMC Anaesthetists United The BMA No one knows what they actually can do safely. Their courses aren’t standardised or regulated. They don’t have the same entry requirements. They don’t have the same exams. They don’t cover the same material. It’s all based on “vibes”. It’s insane. And often the confidence or

Thank you Arthur Li for drawing attention to this rational guidance. People are wilfully mistinterpreting scope of practice to mean any HCP has carte blanche. They do not. A medical degree is a pre-requisite to practise medicine.

@medicalmodelwithabriochebun Ben Chadwick Hilary Williams Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 The coroner’s criticism that the PA was only competent in the technique of placing ascitic drains is similar to my concerns of chest drains. I witnessed a PA cause a life-threatening tension pneumothorax, which they were unable to recognise or manage. The patient almost died.

Did you think women were gonna organise it for you?

Fake doctors have flooded our NHS - it’s time to get rid of physician associates, writes Johnny Jenkins for LBC Views buff.ly/3V19P35

Just been sent this. Think he won that one.

American democracy not dead yet.

As a senior clinician I 💯 approve of Wes Streeting announcement of a review into associates But I am concerned it will be written around a predetermined outcome like so much of this debate has been Below is material is hope Prof Leng sees and takes into account 🧵 RoySocMed

Perhaps the worse document to be unearthed so far is the risk stratification done by HEE in 2017 which detailed a high risk of harm to patients Were I a betting man I could suggest why this was only looked into once!!

What they fear is not having a blank cheque from the tax payer to outspend AU and bereaved parents. Truly repugnant.

It's quite something when morals and ethics in medicine are behind the times for ... 1518

...

Case in point. Pulmonary oedema is a clinical syndrome rather than a complete diagnosis. If you have it, you want to be assessed by someone who knows the difference, and can diagnose and treat the underlying cause which can be manifold i.e. someone with a medical degree.

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵