Dr Lucy Pocock (follow me on Blue Sky) (@drpoco) 's Twitter Profile
Dr Lucy Pocock (follow me on Blue Sky)

@drpoco

Academic GP with interest in care of older people and EOL care. Wife, mum of ND child, rock chick, socialist. Co-lead of @peolcsw. She/her.

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Clive Peedell (@cpeedell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wes #Streeting thinks patient choice via a revamped #NHS app is going to bring down waiting lists. However, choice requires excess capacity in the system, which is precisely what the NHS doesn’t have! Stop listening to the Tufton street clowns thesun.co.uk/health/3261250…

Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Devastating from Liam Thorp on the hellish conditions for patients & staff alike inside our A&Es. This is why the crisis in social care needs fixing now. Not in 2028 - now. Because when hospitals run out of beds, the results are catastrophic 😔 liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…

CarolineJMolloy now posts/engages only on BlueSky (@carolinejmolloy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The private sector don’t do better care. They do better carpets, they do free parking, they do easy, picking-off care, they do staff poaching, they do union-undercutting, they do leaving the NHS to train the staff, mop up the emergencies, and crumble under the impact. For shame.

Shaun Lintern (@shaunlintern) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So more work for private hospitals to cut waiting lists...the sector has many potential safety risks as the government and NHS well know. Recommendations from the Ian Paterson inquiry have still not been implemented, leaving patients at risk. Read my thread below:

Dr Luke Craddock (@drlukecraddock) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Honestly don’t know where to start with this one. Sarah could just see an actual GP, receive a diagnosis of rhinitis and a referral to an audiologist. Without being irradiated for no reason, and wasting the time of an ENT registrar. england.nhs.uk/long-read/refo…

Honestly don’t know where to start with this one. 

Sarah could just see an actual GP, receive a diagnosis of rhinitis and a referral to an audiologist. Without being irradiated for no reason, and wasting the time of an ENT registrar. 

england.nhs.uk/long-read/refo…
neil orpen (@neilorpen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I looked at this and confirmed this is the main problem with the NHS plan By removing the skilled clinicians at the beginning of the pathway it has massively raised the cost and time of the whole journey A GP would have managed this without all this time wasted and imaging -

Shaun Lintern (@shaunlintern) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 And now Derriford Hospital in Plymouth declares critical incident after more than 300 people attended its A&E yday with 200 of those needing to be admitted for care: plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/latest-news/cr…

Doctors’ Association UK (@theda_uk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🩺| "Why won’t the Department for Health just fund the employment of 3,500 under and unemployed GPs, who can offer the expert care patients need and are extremely good value for money?" DAUK GP Committee committee on Government plans to cut waiting lists dauk.org/work-with-gps-…

Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

8 major hospitals have declared critical incidents in the last 24hrs alone. Some of the 100s patients are stranded on trolleys, in corridors & in the back of ambulances will likely die there. This isn’t normal, inevitable or attributable to viruses alone. It’s a catastrophe.

8 major hospitals have declared critical incidents in the last 24hrs alone.

Some of the 100s patients are stranded on trolleys, in corridors & in the back of ambulances will likely die there.

This isn’t normal, inevitable or attributable to viruses alone. It’s a catastrophe.
Neena Jha (@drneenajha) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dear Wes Streeting, My timeline is filled with experienced GPs desperate & unable to find work Want to solve the crisis of patient access to a GP? I suggest you start by employing existing GPs instead of diverting funds to find their lesser skilled replacements. An NHS GP

The BMA (@thebma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"We are clear that treating patients in corridors, on chairs and other inappropriate spaces is in no way acceptable and must end." We've joined The RCN calls for an end to treating patients in unsafe spaces. Read our letter to Wes Streeting here 👇 rcn.org.uk/About-us/Our-I…

"We are clear that treating patients in corridors, on chairs and other inappropriate spaces is in no way acceptable and must end."

We've joined <a href="/theRCN/">The RCN</a> calls for an end to treating patients in unsafe spaces. Read our letter to <a href="/wesstreeting/">Wes Streeting</a> here 👇 rcn.org.uk/About-us/Our-I…
Vera Baird DBE KC (@verabaird) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Researchers at Warwick now think more women are driven to suicide by their domestic abuse perpetrator than are murdered by him. Often the police don't make the link bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Professor Azeem Majeed (@azeem_majeed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

GPs spend considerable time supporting families, gathering information, and making carefully written CAMHS referrals, only to have them rejected. This is frustrating for clinicians and, more importantly, for the children & young people and their families. pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinical-…

Lucy Selman (@lucy_selman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join us Good Grief Festival for this session with Robert Neimeyer and Caroline Ng, facilitated by the brilliant Freya. Part of our course When Grief is Complicated - now open for registration for just £25. goodgrieffest.com/events/what-is…

Professor Azeem Majeed (@azeem_majeed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The NHS is lowering the bowel cancer screening age in England from 60 years to 50 years with the aim of detecting cancer at an earlier stage. The change involves sending home-testing kits which can identify signs of bowel cancer before symptoms appear to people aged 50 to 52.

Dr Steve Taylor (@drstevetaylor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There is overwhelming evidence that the policies & funding of NHS England & GMC are set on replacing Drs with PAs When stating PAs have been integral to the NHS for 20yrs they are lying 2015 there were just 15 PAs in General Practice & 109 in hospitals

Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nothing to see here, just the Head of Workforce for NHS England using an inaccurate, one-sided & context-free Times piece to double down on the insinuation that the only issue with PAs in the NHS is ‘online toxicity’ from a small number of rogue doctors. You must know, Navina,

Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And another one… this is beginning to look awfully coordinated… Nothing to see here, just the National Medical Director of NHS England using an inaccurate, one-sided & context-free Times piece to double down on the insinuation that the only issue with PAs in the NHS is

Lucy Selman (@lucy_selman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great to see this initiative, Martin. Perhaps next time it can include wider 'what matters most to you' conversations and the role of advance care planning. Kathryn Mannix Speak For Me LPA MyWishes 👏👏👏