‘There is plenty of work for everyone’ 700 anaesthetic specialists without a job in 2021 alone because funding for their training had been cut. At the same time rapid funding increases to expand non-doctor Anaesthetist Associates to replace actual doctors. 🤔 Royal College of Anaesthetists

In August the Auschwitz Memorial account lost 7,246 followers. We can educate people thanks to the support you all give to our mission. Every RT matters. Amplify our voice & help us reach more. We remember together.

Today, on the Global Day of Literacy, it has been 1,088 days since the Taliban criminally deprived millions of Afghan girls of their education. For over a thousand days, girls have been barred from schools, while the world stands by, busy normalizing this oppressive regime.

Dear British public, do you know that in addition to #PAScandal there are also Anaesthesia Associates (AAs) with *2yrs* training replacing specialist anaesthesia Drs trained for 14yrs minimum 😳😲? These Drs keep us alive during an operation!! Read thread below & share widely ⬇️

No national standards for supervision of Physician Associates, their scope of practice, or patient consent. No wonder it has been called the PA Scandal. In this short video, Helen Salisbury and Richard Marks explain why.

Such an eye-opener, I don’t think library closures had been mapped against index of multiple deprivation before.Surely equality impact assessment should have picked this up. Need to fix council underfunding. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The number of patients a GP sees in a day 10 - Belgium 10 - Portugal 25 - Denmark 25 - Italy 25 - Switzerland 45 - UK The problem the UK has is an overworked GP workforce, a shortage of GPs, a GP contract that restricts hiring GPs, and a roll out of PAs (under qualified

‘Government will not close biological sex ‘loophole’ in Equality Act. ‘Critics say the decision dilutes women’s safety by exposing them to ‘potential abusers’ in single-sex spaces’ Confirmation from Annaliese Dodds telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

"Now we finally have it, in black and white. Every single death at Grenfell Tower could, and should, have been avoided, and a long list of organisations, individuals and authorities failed us catastrophically" - Natasha Elcock theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Temporary installation by US textile artist Carol Hummel #womensart

In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like, sharing #AfghanistanCulture and #AfghanWomen tags. #WomensArt

Warning: Miss one month’s council tax payment & it could ask you to pay the whole year bill within weeks. Council tax debt collection is far worse than finance firms. It’s destructive especially for those with mental health issues. My speech at @MMHPI campaign launch

Maggi Hambling, Portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, 1985, British chemist who deciphered the structure of insulin among many other major achievements, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 #WomensArt

Donald Trump's 'Eating The Dogs' transcribed for trombone.

Today marks 87 months since 72 loved ones were taken from us at Grenfell, 18 of them children. Last weeks report states that every death was avoidable. It shows everyone who played a part in those deaths. No more delays, no more excuses, nowhere left to hide. #demandcharges

Buried in this excellent article is a startling statistic - PAs have been disproportionately deployed in socioeconomically deprived areas We talk about tackling health inequalities but the very fabric of the healthcare system is driving inequalities if a less skilled workforce

There is NO shortage of GPs ⬇️ Many have been replaced by PAs leaving a significant number of *trained Drs* unemployed 😳. This is a public safety scandal 👀!! I didn't sign up for this. Did you? #EndthePAExperiment #WeWantDOCTORSnotPAs #PatientSafetyMatters

🧵/ This is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of UK medicine. 28 eminent UK doctors have written publicly to Layla Moran 🔶🕊️, the new chair of Health and Social Care Committee, to report something nothing less than scandalous. Read their letter here (1/n) 👇 bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Dear public, this is a *MUST READ* thread to understand how we have been fobbed off with substandard, underqualified PAs & AAs being used to replace our fully trained doctors. Shocking 😳! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #EndthePAAAExperiment #AskforADoctor #PatientSafetyMatters

It's worth trying to get this article not least because of what I say. We are not just tolerating pollution, we are paying the polluters. And the total subsidies over 20 years run to well over £1 billion. Yes, billion. #epanow m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environme…