𝗗𝗿 𝗔𝗷𝗮𝘆 𝗠 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮 BSG Trainees I’m not a gastroenterologist….but when Dr Matt Kneale showed me the data from Doctors’ Association UK 💙 survey last autumn…it was BLINDINGLY obvious people were NOT listening to trainees.

We MUST do now following #RCPEGM bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/news/hagley-do…

Let’s be clear, no PAs would be holding doctor oncall bleeps, running GP clinics, doing endoscopies, GAs etc

Unless they were actively enabled by specific senior doctors

Having spoken to a senior training ITU consultant myself, I can tell you it’s for purely selfish reasons…

This is a Physician Associate.

They have VASTLY less training than medical students.

…Sneering and laughing at the mere suggestion that they shouldn’t see you before your doctor deems it appropriate.

For crying out loud, please #AskForADoctor

I’ve been assured by members of council Royal College of Physicians that a consultation is in progress on this - although as yet no one I know has been consulted or seen the consultation framework?!

Listening to members should start with MRCPs getting to vote for council

𝗗𝗿 𝗔𝗷𝗮𝘆 𝗠 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮…

This is sheer madness. It is time the paediatricians call the officers to account. RCPCH RCPCH President RCPCH_and_Us Cllr Dr David Nicholl BBC Health News Kat Lay Rebecca Thomas Junior Doctors Philip Banfield 💙 Neena Modi Mamas A. Mamas Prof Parag Singhal Amit Sinha

We know that taskification in medicine increases overall risk and leads to poor quality care

Senior doctors trying to take this argument back to first principles isn't clever, it just shows a lack of understanding.

Dr Matt Kneale Cllr Dr David Nicholl Trisha Greenhalgh Dr Done…

We’ve all read some wildly out of touch opinion pieces from consultants recently and asked “why are you saying these things?”

The answer will almost certainly be because said consultant fits one of the following profiles:

A quick 🧵 about enablers

Friday night before Saturday on call for primary PCI at King's College NHS - heart attack care: one of many brilliant NHS services that doctors devised and led nationally

We cannot rely on politicians or administrators for safe, effective care for patients or to protect the NHS -…

This is the result I was expecting even though I personally (and possibly unrealistically) voted 'no'.

This is not a criticism of those who worked so hard on our side to get the deal they did out of the government! Thank you all.

Let's see what happens now Mike Henley 🤨 !

I *love* days like today! Just got to telephone a healthcare client to tell them we have won their registration appeal four years after they first applied for registration, hurrah! I love passing on good news, it is the very best part of the job 🙌
All credit to College of Paramedics for…

This has just been brought to my attention. RCGP NHS England what is going on ?!

In this role you will work independently, making professional, autonomous decisions. You will be responsible for making any necessary referrals and requests for investigations.

Q For doctors in surgical specialities - esp opthalmology

and esp core/speciality trainees

@william26685701 doing a story re impact on outsourcing planned surgical care

On training opportunities - if so many elective lists are off NHS site

Anyone have experiences to share?

Bone & Joint 360 Ben Ollivere I worked with the PAs on his ward in Nottingham.

They refused to do discharge summaries. They routinely refused to do procedures like cannulas and bloods. F1s were left on their ward to do rounds solo with minimal support while PAs disappeared.

GMC Until relatively recently the doctors sitting on GMC council were elected, not government appointees. Perhaps your archivist could add that, to highlight the change in culture which that signifies.

Charity Commission has agreed to reopen enquiry into whether or not the GMC has breached its charitable objectives by taking on the regulation of anaesthesia and physician associates

anaesthetistsunited.com/charity-commis…

I wonder who it was that diagnosed a life threatening cardiac arrhythmia on an ECG. . . on a medical night shift. . . alone coving 7 wards. . .

According to this table, it couldn’t have been little FY1 me. . . . .

DAUK are very proud of our Matthew Lee 💙🌍 for his new appointment with the Royal College of Physicians

rcplondon.ac.uk/news/rcp-appoi…

Very excited to be taking up this new role with Royal College of Physicians! Tackling climate change must be at the top of every agenda if we are to secure a liveable future and I'm optimistic that momentum is building.
DOI: I will also continue as Sustainability Lead for Doctors’ Association UK 💙

Sepsis tea trolley, sepsis lift, sepsis ambulance… all this sepsis yet most DGHs don’t have 7-day (let alone 24 hour) MRI for cauda equina… patient presenting on Friday afternoon might have to wait till Monday for their MRI… potentially debilitating… deeply unserious country

The Royal College of Surgeons of England How did he die?