🗣️ | Dr Steve Taylor: "The problem with the 10-year plan is it focuses on neighbourhood health centres without acknowledging there are more than 6,000 of them in the community called GP practices." dauk.org/10-year-nhs-he…

🥰 1 GP partner, myself, and Nurses. Amazing reception, secretarial, and managerial staff. A teaching practice with registrars. 99% face to face. Patient lists and continuity. ~5000 patients 🥰 No PCN No ARRS No nonsense Just good old fashioned care. I love my job!!

Britain pays wind farms to turn off when it’s windy and overpays gas plants to switch on instead. It'll cost bill payers up to £8b/yr by 2030. Zonal energy pricing would slash this. We’ve started tracking this (avoidable) waste live on our site: octopus.energy

Since that article was published, another £42 million has been wasted (adding to your bills) 👇 Meanwhile, today the government announced they wouldn't do zonal pricing - a concrete plan to cut waste in the energy system. Track the cost of wasted wind: octopus.energy

FINALLY- Decision Royal College of Physicians investigation Removal from the Council of an elected member Barring standing for elections 12 months By a panel which is unknown - with zero right to reply. (To be ratified by Council on 15/7) For exposing chicanery around PAs by senior

REMINDER: Have tweeted a lot about this previously. But when PAY is DOWN, PENSION linked to that pay is also DOWN. So you *cant* fix this by robbing Peter (pension) to pay Paul (pay). You are both Peter and Paul so you cant rob your future self to fund pay rises. *Not* fair

"The NHS doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel. General practice with personal lists and built-in continuity of care as standard isn’t an impossible aspiration—it already exists." Helen Salisbury on the 10 year plan for the NHS bmj.com/content/390/bm…

Distressed father appears emotional after revealing the General Manager of Cumberland Mall in Atlanta told him his wheelchair bound son with cerebral palsy had to leave the mall. “You had the general manager of the mall tell us that my son cannot be in the mall with us this

“Misogyny in healthcare” is rife - I said this on TV 📺 over 5years ago and was asked to retract my comment - putting your head above the parapet is not easy 😔 I cannot begin to express how much I echo this letter by my friend and colleague Elspeth Sewell in The Guardian

I can explain the divide. Since Doctors trained & became Consultants or GPs in the 20th century - the “deal” has progressively got worse. • Medical students stopped getting maintenance grants. • Then they had to pay tuition fees - which have risen sharply over 20 years. •

A morning spent writing to Council Royal College of Physicians asking them to consider issues of Duty of Candour and Proportionality And an ask to review decision by blind panel of Censors- which fails basic tenets of 'natural justice' Slightly surreal to have sent email- and then recieve

Almost £84m in unclaimed additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) cash - enough to hire hundreds more GPs - was retained by NHS England in 2024/25 and lost to general practice Patients need GP appts & this could have been used to provide 5m GP appts gponline.com/84m-arrs-cash-…

*NEWS* Remember the 'Medical Workforce Race Equality Standard'- and the efforts by many to block the work to tackle #Racism in medical workforce? Well...guess what🙂 Tuesday, 9th September 2025 "Launch of the MWRES 5-Year Report: A pivotal moment to reflect on progress made

Hundreds to thousands of UK-trained doctors will be unemployed in a matter of weeks as their contracts end this August. Why are we training doctors to leave them jobless? My thanks to The Telegraph for helping me raise this issue. telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…

Neighbourhood Centres, At Scale, Polyclinics, Darzi Centres, Hubs - whatever you call them - what’s the cost-benefit? Will they cost more than funding existing services? Hub appts ave cost £48, Urgent Treatment Centres £85, Pharmacy First £48 GPs £23 ~ £165/pt/pa 7 apts on ave

This is devastating news. I sadly suspect this will become more commonplace too. Fix this Wes Streeting. From this year. This cycle.

“It should be a matter of national shame that we now spend more on maternity litigation than the total cost of running maternity services.” theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

This is important work breaking the silence on domestic abuse suffered by doctors. All doctors working in trusts and health boards in the UK should have support available to them at work when experiencing domestic abuse. Read our guidance: bma.org.uk/media/3476/bma…

NHS Pension scheme increased surplus last year by £2bn - which goes back to the treasury Still can’t afford the extra pay Wes Streeting Rachel Reeves NHS scheme takes in more £ than it pays out £6.3bn Liabilities are huge but income higher vs costs nhsbsa.nhs.uk/sites/default/…

Partha Kar, a Royal College of Physicians councillor, says that he will appeal the college’s “disproportionate” decision to suspend his registration over what he claims was “whistleblowing” bmj.com/content/390/bm…