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Stephen Katona

@stephenkatona

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw

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Dr Steve Taylor (@drstevetaylor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

UK population ⬆️7% - 2012-23 GPs ⬇️ 7% District nurses ⬇️42% Health Visitors ⬇️30% Learning Disability Nurses⬇️23% School Nurses⬇️25% Nursing home beds ⬇️ 12% Residential Care home beds ⬇️16% Social Care ⬇️ 7.7m⬆️ waiting for hospital 1.6m ⬆️waiting for diagnostic investigations

Stephen Katona (@stephenkatona) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A recent petition to allow the public the right to see a GP within a few days received over half a million votes. Well, now we need people to sign a petition so there will still be GPs to see them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6529… #ARRSpetition

AMA President (@amapresident) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"This isn’t an office job. They’re not photocopying the wrong document - they’re killing people." Utterly staggering goings-on in the UK. 🤯 I struggle to understand why patients aren't up in arms about this. What are they being told? The BMA #NHSCrisis lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/…

Stephen Katona (@stephenkatona) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Please complete this survey aiming to find ways to improve the public's perception of GPs. Feel free to share it. smartsurvey.co.uk/s/IFMQ4X/

Mary Whitby 🇵🇸 (@19mw98) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Merseyside Pensioners Association members held Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership to account over replacing doctors w cheaper, unqualified staff & the lack of accountability of this board which holds power over what rationed postcode lottery of services are on offer. Services cut to make profit

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When people see this petition they wonder what it has to do with them... In time they'll understand their health may depend on it. nasgp.org.uk/gp-locum-work/… #ARRSpetition

Dr Alexander Deighton (@alexjdeighton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Prioritised for GP jobs, added to SHO and 'middle grade' rotas. Paid more for less hours, registered by GMC, allowed to be members of Royal colleges, now on doctors foundation programmes. Might as well scrap medical schools at this rate. All the risk, none of the reward

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Please read my comment on this article. It asks the BMA to explain to the public the petition to add GPs to the list of ARRS funded roles. pulsetoday.co.uk/analysis/contr… #ARRSpetition

Clare Gerada (@claregerada) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Cleverclogs ExplosiveEnema Royal College of General Practitioners I wish we could have non GP Doctors working in PC. barriers are located in regulatory, professional, contractually , funding and other areas. But I agree. We have multiple ARRS roles but not other doctors unless we ‘refer’ to them, that is can’t take patients directly from list

@DrKatie.BSky.Social (@doctor_katie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I and Mark Steggles (Chairs of GPC England and the Sessional GPs Committee, General Practice) were concerned & disappointed to read this where @ShilpaPatelGPP asserts that enabling practices to use ARRS funding to employ additional GPs would be ‘ridiculous’. 1/n