High staff turnover is associated with higher patient mortality. I’ve said it before & will say it again. If you don’t care for the carers they cannot care for their patients. #NHS bmj.com/content/387/bm…

Today’s column was about how my mother’s long illness shaped my view on assisted dying, but perhaps not in the direction you’d assume. thetimes.com/article/5050a7…

1/ very important and NEW: NHS Pensions have overnight issues guidance on 23/24 tax year where they have failed to send you a pensions savings statement on time (which was their legal duty) nhsbsa.nhs.uk/public-service…

We’re looking for a senior clinical fellow. Would you like to become an advanced heart failure cardiologist? Please think about joining our team in Cambridge! beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: call for evidence here's mine margaretmccartney.substack.com/p/terminally-i…

The cost of reconstruction of Ukraines healthcare infrastructure damaged in the conflict is still £4 billion less than the backlog maintenance bill in the NHS in England.

This is not sustainable Wes Streeting. It’s also a gross waste of taxpayers money to be training people in the UK for them to have no job. So much for doubling medical student numbers - our brightest 16-18 year olds know to look at a graph like 👇and look elsewhere

It’s really worth watching this 1 minute clip and considering what it means. It means that every time a terminally ill person sees their GP or cardiologist or psychiatrist, or goes to the ED, they could (should??) be reminded that they are eligible for an assisted death.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Listening to BBC Radio 4 Today talking about banking regulation being too tight. Everyone in the public sector are still paying for the last financial crisis Sean Farrington & the resultant industrial action has affected many of us. Check the finance line though on the graphs!

Just heard BBC Today Henry Zeffman saying NHS Pay Review Body likely to recommend about 3%. RPI is currently 3.2%. All eyes on the DDRB. We need roughly 14% to recover vs RPI over three years and 8% against even CPI as a staging post.

We are not all in this together. Private sector increases running at 6% and our comparator professions got to CPI recovery years ago, comparator nations paying double. In a timely way the BMA consultants committee negs team have a training session tomorrow. I Hope it’s not needed

Morning! The Government response on the DDRB will be out very soon. Private sector pay is rising at roughly 6%. Inflation (RPI) is 3.2%. Here’s a table of how long pay restoration would take depending on pay increase given. 1/2

And here are the pay graphs in general. Remember, government decides what services it wants & whether it pays for them by borrowing or taxation, at the moment the borrowing is coming from the workforce, your pocket, not all 68 million tax payers who use the service. 2/2

Government uplift on DDRB imminent. Here is a cut out and keep table for how long it will take for your pay to catch up with the inflation adjusted 2008 level based on pay award (your pay has been behind already for 17 years, average worker caught up last year). 1/2

In one graph from ⁦The Guardian⁩ is the relative drop in earnings of public sector workers. Not surprising that ⁦The BMA⁩ members say the DDRB ‘award’ is inadequate. Claps don’t pay the bills, childcare for 24/7 on-calls, housing & massive student loan costs - cash does.

Drs are still paying the price 17 years later. ‘Taxpayers sell NatWest at £10B loss’. We’re still funding Austerity 1.0 while being asked to pay for Austerity 2.0 theguardian.com/business/2025/…

I sat on BMA council with Clare Gerada, I can't remember Clare saying a single thing I agreed with then and I still don't agree with her now. The government should fund the NHS via taxation, not Drs and nurses with pay erosion. I believe in the NHS but not stealth pay theft.

There will be a lot of Politicians & media saying strikes will destroy the #NHS recovery Strikes affected less than 1% of appts 2023/24 Hospitals cancelled 10 times as many appts ‘routinely’ Drs have lost 20% real terms income despite the pay ‘increase’ Wes Streeting

Consultants, if people are telling 'you we've all suffered, now is not the time', read this post by Matt at least twice! If old style CEA's existed in the 2008 form UK consultant top pay point pay would be roughly same level as pay in Ireland/Australia for state work.