Linda (she/her)

I submitted an FOI request to the GMC asking them about the tax they pay. Turns out, the GMC do not pay tax. They class doctors' fees as charity. They take £500/yr from doctors, pay zero tax on it, and use it to give their staff £250k salaries and private healthcare.

This image breaks me. At 2.7 degrees of warming, which is our present policy trajectory, two billion people will be exposed to extreme heat. 99.7% of those people live in the global South. People who have done nothing to cause this crisis. The injustice is staggering.

I am a NHS consultant. I am financially comfortable, in a job I love, so why am I striking tomorrow? Answer: Because the next generation will not be able to live off what I do today. The juniors that will become these consultants know this and are leaving already. Why? 🧵 👇

The Consultants of Dorset hospital have written a letter to @SteveBarclay They strike tomorrow This letter is incredible I challenge anyone to refute a single point in it Worth a read for you too @wesstreeting

@RishiSunak @Conservatives 29% paycut is fair, says out of touch billionaire

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi’s life is in danger. He may be sentenced to death for supporting the Iranian people, and for his anti-government corruption rap lyrics. Please share and be his voice. FREE TOOMAJ.

@abibadrick Try TEDS and downing 1-2 glasses/cups water before! I got presyncopal once and was so annoyed, it’s a reflex thing but I felt so embarrassed. Didn’t happen again after I made sure to eat, drink and I did try TEDS a couple of times 😊

@DrIronJunkie Congrats!!

The hardest medical exam I’ve done so far. Not because it was particularly complicated. But because of the sheer ambiguity of the questions. One step closer to CCT 💪🏽 LET’S GO BABY!

A little reminder for those with amnesia who blame nurses instead of the Tories for putting patients at risk

Time is literally ticking down. All 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Junior Doctor Ballots need to be returned by 1st of May to make sure you're counted!! Email doctorspay@bma.org.uk or call 0300 123 123 3 urgently if you've not had your ballot yet!! Encourage everyone you know!

This is an anon account with 3 followers so writing a 🧵 will surely be a waste of time! I’m a consultant with an interest in health policy but anyone trying to claim they know what’s going on with NHS work force planning is lying. So read on if you want one person’s opinion…

If I hear ONE MORE politician promise "more medschool places" without FIXING these bottlenecks I am going to scream. I have already written a letter to @wesstreeting with very little in return. @SteveBarclay clearly holds docs in contempt. Aus/NZ are doing very well out of this!

@rab4__ You could check out Bee illustrates, I love their style!

@charlesmcgr_ You too!!

Hope everyone has had a good changeover day 👀

Good to know!

“If doctors aren’t happy with their pay, they should get a different job” Yeah, we are. This is the most striking graph I’ve seen so far regarding the retention of doctors. Full pay restoration or watch the graph turn blue

Three years tonight since the first of the claps for the NHS We appreciated the claps! If you meant it then, please support doctors, nurses and other NHS staff now, as they campaign to make their pay worth as much it was before years of austerity and inflation stripped it away.

Incredible donation on the @BMA_JuniorDocs strike fund Read it @SteveBarclay An Australian Doctor feeling guilty that so many of us leave to go there because of poor pay and conditions in the UK You can’t hide from this

Should you stop taking the pill to reduce your risk of #breastcancer?