@drsanjoykumar What drivel.have you had to put up with?? Happy to listen
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Why Me
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Firstly I’ll start with an apology for my bad language. I broke the golden rules of many a writer.
Never post anything late at night and never after a glass of wine that one has had to open out of the sheer frustration caused by the drivel one has been forced to listen to all day.
My humble apologies🙏
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3.3% pay rise & that’s immediately taken with the other hand!
@nmcnews are throwing nurses under the bus as are Labour!
Nurses on their knees trying to make ends meet! 🤬
#nmc #nursing
Shruti Sheth Trivedi@_ShrutiST
BREAKING: The registration fee for nursing and midwifery staff will increase from £120 to £143 from 1 October. The NMC's governing council has approved the fee rise despite strong opposition expressed in its consultation on the issue. More to follow on @NurseStandard
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@anaesthetic_spr Maybe you haven't come across the ones who "like to play God" apologies for those whose beliefs are elsewhere
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I have never come across a doctor introducing themselves as:
“An advanced, autonomous, expert registered, highly skilled, and knowledgeable doctor with god-tier skills and experience.”
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So just think. If there was no NHS, there would be no A&E department...
Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴☠️@Normanjam67
No private hospital has an Accident and Emergency department. There's no money to be made. EXCLUSIVE: Private hospitals 'rush patients back to the NHS when something goes wrong' mirror.co.uk/news/health/pr…
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@LongCovidHell Our loved one was put into a known area where someone had covid. We wore all the protective gear. The consultant who spoke to us wore nothing. That was Kings Mill hospital
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In the UK, medical staff won’t even mask for cancer patients, the elderly or premature babies.
Some doctors even laugh at patients who try to protect their health.
It’s not just medical negligence, it’s active medical harm, but nobody is holding the NHS accountable.
World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific@WHOWPRO
If you are in crowded places with poor ventilation, #WearAMask. Because it helps keep you and your community safe from #COVID19, flu and other respiratory illnesses. And remember these other measures to help protect yourself and others from COVID-19, flu, measles and other respiratory illnesses: -Practice hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette (cover your mouth and nose with a bent elbow or a tissue when you cough or sneeze) -Keep a distance when possible -Keep rooms well-ventilated -Stay home if you feel unwell -Get vaccinated and stay up to date with booster doses
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@amnerisuk Also, what's worrying is, have those you actually see, been verified, checked and actually ARE qualified, competent and trustworthy!
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Life is so complicated now. Increasing age and complex health issues means constant anxiety of being seen/treated by non doctors when my specialist GP has referred me for specialist opinions. Where’s the logic? I have written to PALS refusing PA/AAs but know this may delay care.
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BREAKING NEWS (with the potential to be massive):
The Guardian reveals Peter Mandelson failed advanced security vetting before becoming US ambassador.
He was initially denied developed vetting clearance in January 2025 - weeks after Keir Starmer had officially announced his appointment.
Foreign Office was ‘encouraged’ to deploy a rarely-used power to override the recommendation from security officials.
The Government promised total transparency on the Mandelson affair after MPs forced it to release of a batch of documents about the process. But nothing it has released reveals this startling fact.
Indeed, Starmer has always insisted Mandelson was subject to 'security vetting, carried out independently by the security services, which is an intensive exercise that gave him clearance for the role'.
Developing …
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@sheeza_blade The incidence of a patient passing huge amounts of blood, some interfering "triage nurse" at the ambulance service decided to cancel a 999 call. Unbelievable.
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My Mum (84) asked my Dad to call her an ambulance. When it arrived the crew told my Mum it was anxiety and told them both off for phoning.
Later in the evening, hospital lab called GP re bloods, who had her blue lighted to hospital with kidney failure.
Cat (CovidSolidarity)@CovidSolidarit1
There needs to be a #metoo style campaign about this. Enough is enough.
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Exclusive: A physician associate is under investigation after allegedly attempting seven lumbar punctures on an autistic woman and then falsifying records of the procedure.
PA is also alleged to have ignored instructions that the patient be given diazepam walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…
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@ShaunLintern Call me when we're more expensive than we were in 2008.
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Another doctors strike looms next week - I took a look at one of the central issues making doctors angry, thousands can't get training jobs.
But with each pay rise they become more expensive for the NHS to train while patients wait for treatment:
thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
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@AliJaneMoore And if the rest of the country said, what about us too, then we revert back to the 1920s, the great strike which followed the huge pandemic and war....history repeats!! We get the doldrums then and what happens next??
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So the consultants, GPs and resident doctors are all unhappy.....
Health Service Journal@HSJnews
Consultants launch strike ballot ift.tt/0Io5k4Y
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@BostonByBirth Sorry for your loss and it worries me that as his dad you do not have the support to say how you feel other than on here.
@ShaunLintern
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My son died. I know he didn't contribute anything to mankind — he was only two months old — but I like to believe he was destined to do something good for humanity. It's been a while since his death, and I hate to dwell on it so publicly, but I wanted you to know him.
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@Microbedoc2 Thats just what im raising in a call this afternoon, who IS looking after pur loved ones?
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Corporate manslaughter.
Practicing medicine without a license.
Gross negligence/involuntary manslaughter.
J@myfight2beheard
"The Trust later admitted "failings with regards to the consenting process for the ERCP" and that Mrs Birkill had been 'prematurely discharged". It also admitted "on a balance of probability" that with "appropriate care" Mrs Birkill would have "survived and made a full recovery"."
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@ShaunLintern @wesstreeting @TheBMA A war, and still Res Drs choose to strike. About time @wesstreeting that you put NHS employees under the same restrictions as the police.
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"The government’s tolerance for costly and disruptive action that undermines a critical public service is fast diminishing" says @wesstreeting as he outlines the deal @TheBMA have rejected: gov.uk/government/spe…
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@DrMohitBhagia I don't follow...what do you mean?? There are several vacancies hidden in believe
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Ranked 68 in Ophthalmology ST1. No offer.
Read that again.
One of the most competitive specialties in the UK:
2,197 applicants. 102 posts. ~22:1 competition.
This is NOT “just MSRA”.
You need:
• Top MSRA to even get shortlisted
• A strong, evidence-scored portfolio
• A high-performing interview
And still, rank 68 doesn’t get you a job.
Yet the narrative on @MedReddit is that IMGs are “gaming the system”, “fake CREST”, “substandard training”, “just mug MSRA for a few weeks”.
Absolute nonsense.
If an IMG is ranking 68 in Ophthalmology, they are outperforming the overwhelming majority of applicants in a rigorous, UK-run, standardised process.
This isn’t about IMGs vs UKGs.
This is about a system with far too few training posts for the level of talent applying.
And instead of fixing capacity, we’re now moving towards restricting access.
That is a policy choice.
If we are serious about fairness, workforce planning, and representation, that choice needs to be challenged.
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The Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act has officially become law.
This is a first step in tackling the jobs crisis for doctors, something we’ve long campaigned for. And after extensive BMA lobbying, we understand that the Government will be commencing the Act tomorrow.
We recognise the impact the Act will have on non-prioritised doctors already working in the UK. We’ll continue to push for longer term contracts and proper protection for them.
Find out more 👉 bma.org.uk/advice-and-sup…
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I hope you all now know what this means after the Epstein files disclosure ? Horrific.
TaraBull@TaraBull
BREAKING: Ukraine President Zelensky just signed a law to mandatory evacuate children from zones of active hostilities WITHOUT parental consent
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Rachel is entirely correct
@BMA_GP emergency meeting today
We are almost one year since @wesstreeting wrote to me promising negotiation of a new GP contract which we agreed in good faith
We need to meet now to avoid escalation
Dr Rachel Clarke@doctor_oxford
Yesterday you may well have seen the headlines announcing that from April onwards, GPs will be “made” to offer patients same day appointments for 'urgent' health issues. The implication, which I cannot imagine Wes Streeting is unaware of, is that he is on the side of patients, whereas recalcitrant & possibly even workshy GPs are the problem. A subtle undercurrent of GP-bashing, in other words, just as in previous governments. The headlines omit a crucial aspect of the new GP contract, which this letter in the Times brilliantly highlights. GPs will no longer be able to refer patients for specialist care as they do currently. New mandated "advice and refer" systems are being introduced for all specialist referrals from general practice, supposedly to 'streamline' care (as though GPs aren't highly trained physicians who know when a referral is needed). As anyone waiting desperately for an appointment with a neurologist, oncologist, rheumatologist or orthopaedic surgeon will already know to their cost, currently waiting times can be absolutely horrendous – and this looks horribly like yet another barrier to patients receiving the prompt care they need from a specialist. Already, for example, I am aware of patients with a new diagnosis of major, life-changing diseases such as multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease or lupus having to wait many heartbreaking months to see a specialist for the first time. That is simply not right. It is a national scandal. If Wes Streeting’s aim is to massage the waiting list figures so that it ‘looks’ as though he’s improving care for NHS patients (while actually keeping patients away from doctors via a tortuous saga of ‘pathway navigators’ and other hoops that only create more delays) this would be an excellent way to do to.
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