The GMC is now consulting on how its regulation of PAs and AAs will work.

The consultation is open to members of the public, and we've produced a short guide to be used by clinicians and patients who are keen to provide views.

Read it here: bma.org.uk/media/wjnmmbsu… (1/2)

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📅 Deadline: 9th May

Submit your work for a chance to present at the BSIR Annual Meeting. Open to various topics from Arterial to Venous interventions. Trainees encouraged! Ensure one author is registered for BSIR 2024.

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Join Us for an Empowering International Women's Day LIVE Panel 

19th March, 8pm
Location: BSIR Facebook Page (Live)  

In celebration of International Women's Day 2024, we are thrilled to host a live panel, don't miss this opportunity to be part of an important conversation.

“It is time for [Victoria Atkins] to launch an independent investigation to uncover the full extent of what is essentially a patient safety scandal.” Philip Banfield 💙 responds to Telegraph reporting on instances of PAs replacing doctors on medical rotas: bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

⚠️Shared with me - petition for Vote of No Confidence in RCP leadership

The shambles will hopefully end on 25/03 when there will be an uncontested presidential election

Until then, let’s show how much we trust them:

(RCP gets email each time signed 👀)

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Wow. Dr Oxford pulling out from the Royal College of Physicians annual conference keynote speech.

This is what integrity and leadership truly looks like

🎤

Keep going :)

How has a single college (RCP) managed to foist PAs across all specialities affecting the training of Doctors in those specialities without discussion?
Collusion? College apathy? Bribery?
If RCP want PAs - let them but all other specialities (inc GP) should be saying no thanks.

What the tribunal is essentially saying is that the expectation is that all clinical assessment needs to be repeated - so the MPTS has demonstrated in black and white - that PAs should not be seeing undifferentiated patients & if they do, the assessment/hx/evaluation must be

I love this

Doctors are wasting NO TIME in implementing the BMA’s traffic light system

Remember, this protects YOU, and you are completely free to use it whether or not the PA approves of the BMA - irrelevant.

Wins 💪

⚠️ For those working with PAs

MPTS case published 2017 where a ST3 Junior Doctor was suspended for failure to adequately supervise a physician assistant’.

The PA was known as ‘Dr G’.

There may have been other issues too - irrelevant. Read the following:
gmc-uk.org/api/gmc/lrmpdo…

#BSIR2023 lecturers are now all in the @CIRSE Library! If you weren't able to make it to BSIR last November, or want to revisit a lecture, you now have access to all 62 sessions!

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Outstanding work from the British Medical Association.

The BMA

Great work by The BMA and in particular by Melissa 🦀 #PayRestoration in setting out this document

They have done, in months, what the GMC Royal College of Physicians RCGP NHS England NHS England Workforce, Training and Education Care Quality Commission have not managed to do in 20 years

Instead they let Faculty of PAs @ RCP and Department of Health and Social Care risk…

Great to see clarity on PA safety issues from The BMA with this motion passed at the consultants’ conference today

Tom Stocks 🦀 #JoinVoteWin Dr Robert Laurenson Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 Dr Matt Kneale Cllr Dr David Nicholl Mamas A. Mamas Iona Collins.DOCTOR.

Robert Bardsley Research Bursary! 
Up to £1,500 for non-vascular IR research, focusing on GI-stenting & intervention. Trainees, submit your project proposal covering purpose, methods, timeline & budget.
🎯 Aim for an ASM oral presentation within 3 years!
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General practice is absolutely the worst possible place to employ people who are not medically qualified to see patients and manage their medical care. Years of training cannot be replaced!

There are many that say that the reason doctors are raising patient concerns is that they feel threatened by PAs

As a professor of cardiology - I will never be in competition against PAs. They will never be a threat to my career.

Also, by virtue of who I am, If ever admitted to…

I quite agree. See this months editorial in clinical radiology: clinicalradiologyonline.net/current

Not concerned about the Wild West that is current UK medical workforce planning?

Don’t know what the problem is… 8 whole weeks of in-person training and assessment. A medical degree is so boring and long after all.