Alison Moore Yep. Increasingly it seems to me the GMC is troubled and takes the easy cases. Surgeon in Manchester accused (now proven) of both sexual misconduct and harming patients, never even got to an investigation stage. But if he had asked to borrow a laptop...?

Absolutely love to see this from my new TPD

Important service update.

Heartbreaking to read but important to understand the challenges being a doctor, especially a rotational one, brings.

In <24 hours 7000 NHS staff have signed this open letter condemning NHS England’s decision to defund vital, life-saving mental health support for doctors.

Please keep sharing & signing.

NHS Practitioner Health costs a mere 0.007% of NHSE’s budget.

Are we really worth so very little?

It is high time that the GMC was prohibited from providing its staff with private healthcare perks, unjustly funded by the public sector medical profession

They should have to experience the same healthcare that their employer is responsible for facilitating & overseeing

Specialty trainees should not have to organise their own specialty training days

Dr Mike Recent systematic review
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34622436/

Today we announce an independent review into #RCPEGM #PhysicianAssociates and acknowledge how we should have been better at listening and responding to our members and fellows. We need to reset the organisation, restore trust and refocus on delivering on members’ priorities.

It explains things like power dynamics, silencing, the emotional impact of being the target. Take it to your leadership, your PCCs, share it far and wide. We, as church, need to learn from this and do better. 2/3

Powerful statement from Tim and Pete Hughes.

So many, including them, flowed into HTB, but Nicky Gumbel was famously silent. Wonder who the London vicar was that Beth Redman recalled saying ‘that’s just Mike’

Tim Hughes and his brother Pete Hughes have made a statement on Instagram about Mike Pilavachi having abused them.

GOOD LUCK to everyone interviewing for an ST4 Acute Medicine post today

Take a deep breath, relax your shoulders, and tell them why the Acute Med training programme is the right one for you

🤞

Are you a consultant working on the medical take?

As I approach 20 years of medical take work (which I enjoy more than any other kind of shift), I notice many things we seem to do out of tradition.

The take ain’t changed in 20 years!

Could/should it?

A MedEdThread™️:

Great thread on a key issue in training of doctors at the moment.

Strong smelling urine = UTI. I hate how much this is banded around!

MI, early revascularisation, and LVEF>=50%? No need for a beta blocker.

Unless there is still some stable angina afterwards, of course...

Yeah. Nurses have every right to be angry.

At the government
At THEIR union
At the places that couldn’t generate enough votes to strikes

But not at the other professional union who stood their ground a bit more than they did

Teachers Talk Radio Emma Duncan “Education has been one of the few success stories of the past 14 years.” How in the world when you look at the retention rates and morale of school staff can you possible come to that conclusion?

I am passionate about our NHS and have always wanted to get involved with NHS England in a workforce or patients safety role.

But I wrote this article knowing that publishing it would probably stop that happening as they are unlikely to appoint someone who is so openly…