
Alice Emily Gatenby
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Swansea 🌊🏴✨ Disabled Resident Doctor in MedEd 🩺 Epilepsy is a invisible disability 🌻 Aspiring GP/Medic/MedEd 🟣 Opinions are my own
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Why hasn't the number of training spots grown in a decade? Why are non-doctors filling roles meant for doctors? Why no hiring freeze on doctors from abroad given the looming unemployment crisis? Why aren’t UK-trained doctors prioritised for training posts? Wes Streeting

Failure of workforce planning within the NHS starts for final year medical school doctors. Sort the bottle necks, even at FY1! It’s happening now. It will only get worse if the government does not act Wes Streeting


This is some good news for a change but the full-time equivalent number is 851 But there are 900 fewer FTE Adhoc Locums uncounted in the most recent figures But more employment is good news just 7000 more to go to reach the numbers projected as needed 2015 Thanks Wes Streeting


27% of #doctors feel taking time off for #mentalwellbeing issues is not “acceptable” where they work. More needs to be done to enable and support healthcare workers to take time off when they are too unwell to work. medicalprotection.org/uk/articles/do… Dame Jane Dacre British Psychological Society




🚨thank you to Wes Streeting for acknowledging the absolutely mental scenario of UKGs having to compete with an endless, global supply of doctors for the same training spots🚨 this will go a very long way for building positive relations with the next generation of doctors.

700 placeholders & 20k doctors not getting into training - I'm glad Wes Streeting agrees this is a problem, and we need UK med school grad priority. BMA Students Resident Doctors have asked him to do this for foundation & speciality training respecitvely; now is the time for action

‘I’m a doctor but next year I won’t have a job’ In 2024, there were 12,743 training posts available, with 10,628 UK graduates and 14,868 international graduates applying Emma Morgan reports trib.al/hbbn5Sy


Will this issue be addressed alongside the release of the new long term workforce plan due to be released in June Wes Streeting?

Keir Starmer And meanwhile we have unemployed UK doctors. When will you plan to change that? x.com/drhwazir/statu…



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