Dr Alexander Deighton

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Dr Alexander Deighton

Dr Alexander Deighton

@AlexJDeighton

NHS Doctor | BSc, MBBS @QMULBartsTheLon | Leadership/Management in Digital Health

London, England Katılım Nisan 2014
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Dr Alexander Deighton
Dr Alexander Deighton@AlexJDeighton·
@iDrSunny @drnic1 This guy literally owns a private vascular clinic and constantly mocks doctors for wanting better pay whilst simultaneously saying smart people shouldnt study medicine. Ladder pulling + vested interests
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Dr Sandeep Bansal
Dr Sandeep Bansal@iDrSunny·
This is a narrative people with vested interests in decimating a social healthcare system that is excellent want you to believe Now ask these very same people how much it costs the country each year for those who are on the NHS wait list and are not able to be productive or are less productive due to ill health
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Catherine Blaiklock
Catherine Blaiklock@blaiklockBP·
Tried many times to tell people that student doctors are living 4 to an ex council house, in conditions worse than the unemployed in places with expensive housing like Winchester . Av house price £700,000 Most people will never try to do the maths and underatand . Young doctors were the cream before Bought nice houses. Now they earn the same after tax and student loans as many of unemployed.
Callum@AkkadSecretary

Boomer born in 1950, goes to University for free, got paid £7,500 in 1975 as a student doctor, today £101,483, £6,224 a month take home pay. Mad at new doctors on with student loans, on £39,000, (£2,885 in 1975) Which is ~£2,562 a month take home pay.

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LisaS
LisaS@ls39767284·
@Janeajnet @AliceTemple12 @hol40900 @MiloKostusiak Also, I see he has factored in med school and assumed that their time in education is much shorter. Not really so, some PAs have done a first degree and then do a second to become a PA. Sorry, this is full of propaganda.
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Candice Holmes
Candice Holmes@hol40900·
1,000 training posts cancelled. 48-hour ultimatum. 0 walkouts stopped. The PM didn't save a single shift — just sacrificed a thousand resident doctors' futures to win a headline. That's not leadership. That's choosing politics over the NHS workforce. #r4today
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James Steen
James Steen@BMA_James_Steen·
I’ve seen someone else on here suggest that the retired doctor who wrote this was a “junior” doctor in 1974 when he was “happy with £7,500” Just so we’re all clear on the maths: £7,500 in 1974 in today’s money is: 🔹 £114,756 by RPI inflation. 🔸 £72,046 by CPI inflation.
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Dr Huw
Dr Huw@DrHuw·
We are only just uncovering the tip of the iceberg in terms of what harm non-medically trained healthcare workers have been inflicting on UK patients This is a ‘clinical endoscopist’ acting way outside any acceptable scope of practice 8mg midazolam & 175mcg of fentanyl FFS
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Dr Done
Dr Done@Dr_Done_·
Insanity. Why have we let ourselves be completely castrated?
The Med Reg@MedRegoncall1

@anaesthetic_spr Did you know that student ACPs (physios, podiatrists, paramedics, etc.) are getting paid more than a fully qualified doctor in ED?

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Neena Jha
Neena Jha@DrNeenaJha·
The GMC was set up in 1858 to protect the public by creating a medical register to distinguish qualified doctors from unqualified ppl Ironically, THEY now are the ones abolishing this by registering non-medically trained ppl as “qualified”?! Then ⬇️ Now ⬇️
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Dr Alexander Deighton@AlexJDeighton·
@tombarkas @JanThou95 @ItsnotrightUK @DrNeenaJha Not chickenfeed no but it doesnt mean it's commensurate with the time taken, the high entry requirements, debt and the level of responsibility. The NHS is happy to employ 21 yr old management consultants on triple that salary just to tell them to improve productivity
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The NHS Whistleblower
The NHS Whistleblower@ItsnotrightUK·
This is what doctors a paid. They have over £100k in student debt.
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Tannor Manson
Tannor Manson@Futurenvesting·
Hear me out... $SOFI raised $1.6b at the end of 2025 at a share price of $27.50. The stock has dropped 42.3% since the last raise! Is it time to issue a stock buyback with the capital you raised? $SOFI issued ~58m shares. $SOFI has the opportunity to buy back ~100.5m shares using the $1.6b they just raised. SoFi would end up with the same amount of cash as before the raise, but with ~42.5 million fewer shares outstanding. This effectively undoes the dilution and provides an additional bonus reduction in share count, making each remaining share represent a larger percentage of the company. Anthony Noto would only do this if they believe they couldn't use the capital more effectively. That said, dilution has been a drag on the sentiment of this company, and this might be a creative way to get excitement back into the stock and raise EPS.
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Dr Alexander Deighton@AlexJDeighton·
From Grok: 'No, in most countries a UK-trained doctor (i.e., a graduate of a UK medical school) with higher interview/exam scores would not get priority over a lower-ranked domestic graduate for medical jobs or specialty training positions abroad'. x.com/i/grok/share/7…
tolulope@doctolu

Just to clarify, Luke,prioritization does not mean a 2,367th-ranked UK graduate should be selected over a 4th-ranked IMG. This is not something to be proud of, let alone defend publicly. The policy is likely to be tweaked soon. Because it favors you doesn’t make it right.

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Dr Alexander Deighton@AlexJDeighton·
Out of curiosity if the UK grad in question ranked 4th in an overseas medical exam/interview would they get in over a lower-ranked doctor who had been trained there? Genuinely curious, I was under the impression they would not?
tolulope@doctolu

Just to clarify, Luke,prioritization does not mean a 2,367th-ranked UK graduate should be selected over a 4th-ranked IMG. This is not something to be proud of, let alone defend publicly. The policy is likely to be tweaked soon. Because it favors you doesn’t make it right.

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TheUndefinedMystic
TheUndefinedMystic@pennycheck·
send it $ASPI
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Special Situations 🌐 Research Newsletter (Jay)@SpecialSitsNews

HELIUM CRISIS AND IMPACT ON AI (PRICES HAVE DOUBLED IN 14 DAYS) Iran's attacks on Qatar's Ras Laffan facility since early March halted helium output, which supplies 30% of the global total and is essential for cooling semiconductor wafers in AI chips and superconducting MRI magnets. $NVDA South Korea faces the biggest risk with heavy reliance on Qatar, while $TSM TSMC monitors closely; spot prices have doubled, and shortages could hit in weeks as shipping containers sit stuck. The war, sparked on February 28, 2026 by the United States and Israel, also cut Qatar's LNG exports by 17%, compounding energy strains for Europe and Asia, with full repairs potentially taking years. Even if Qatar had "bottled" helium ready, the Strait of Hormuz is closed to Western shipping. Overland routes through Saudi Arabia are capacity-limited and cannot replace the massive maritime ISO-container volume. Liquid helium evaporates even in vacuum-insulated containers. Roughly one-third of the world's ISO containers are currently stranded in the Gulf; if they aren't moved within ~45 days, the product is lost. Spot prices for ultra-pure (6N) helium have doubled in 14 days, with contract surcharges now exceeding 30%. South Korea is the "Ground Zero" for this disruption because it sources 65% of its helium from Qatar. Helium is non-substitutable for wafer cooling in lithography and for leak detection. Without ultra-pure helium, fabs cannot maintain the thermal stability required for sub-5nm processes. As of this week, Samsung and SK Hynix have activated "Conservation Protocols." They are prioritizing high-margin AI-DRAM (HBM3e/HBM4) and slowing down production of legacy DDR4/DRAM. 8-Week Lag: While consumers don't see a shortage today, the reduction in "wafer starts" this week means a massive supply gap in Q3 2026. Over $200 billion in market cap has been wiped off Korean chip names this month as investors price in a 15–20% hit to 2026 production volumes. While TSMC says operations are "normal for now," their stock is down ~7% this month. The market is concerned that if the U.S. has to divert its own helium to save European hospitals (MRI machines), TSMC’s U.S. supply line could be "deprioritized" by the State Department.

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Dr Alexander Deighton
Dr Alexander Deighton@AlexJDeighton·
Its ridiculous to have a system that caps medical school places, still farms in 1000s of doctors from abroad anyway leaving many of those UK trained doctors without a job, and then on top of that getting told there are gaps so they are giving doctors shifts to non-doctors
Jim Crawfurd 💙 🇺🇦@jim_crawfurd

@medicalmodelbri @nhsswipecard If it’s a choice between an ACP or a gap, which is what this FOI describes, I’d rather have an ACP. I think most people would.

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@medicalmodelwithabriochebun
@medicalmodelwithabriochebun@medicalmodelbri·
Can we open up these posts to EM trainees instead @wesstreeting ? Why are nurses , physios . Paramedics working on Drs rotas after 3 yrs or being qualified - in fact , why are they on Drs rotas at all? What’s the competition ratio in EM again? jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…
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Dr Alexander Deighton@AlexJDeighton·
@ExMomentum_NHS Can't even work out what the commercial interests are. PAs/ACPs are often on higher salaries and higher locum rates than many doctors, whilst working less hours. Higher cost and worse outcomes. What's the business case?
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