Dave S

@RespectIsVital @DHSCgovuk PAs are not striking repeatedly, or trying to price themselves out of a job. Perhaps try Australia? Bye!

Physician Associates (PAs) shouldn't exist. Train and pay doctors more, instead of endangering patient safety @DHSCgovuk using what are effectively glorified phlebotomists with too much power.

@Anisocyte @wesstreeting PAs do actually turn up for work, as not repeatedly striking; and appear as lot more enthusiastic about doing so.

NHS literally pays more to someone who isn’t medically qualified to do the job of a doctor. @wesstreeting, while you’re telling the public that Doctors don’t deserve better pay or training, do you want to explain why you’re wasting taxpayer money like this?

@medicalmodelbri Medical schools oversubscribed Training rotations oversubscribed If you don't want your job then someone else does Feel free to p*ss off Bye!

You can afford to spend 5 million pounds on ACPs to replace Drs in ONE TRUST though ? The magic money tree always exists for noctors x.com/medicalmodelbr…

@unojen_wood Overpaid, undertrained to clueless and entitled.

If you were ill would you rather be treated by someone who has 2 years 'sort of' training so has to use 'google dr' or a resident doctor with years & years of study and training? I'll take the resident doctor all day long, so to Mr Streeting - PAY THEM A DECENT WAGE.

@BMA_James_Steen Prison officers will not get anywhere near the £4-5 million doctors can earn over their working life if they bother to work full time and not retire at 50. Prison Officer a ghastly job; whereas Medicine turns away applications by the thousands.

Such shortsightedness. Do you not remember banning prison officers from striking? As a result they have a perpetual workforce crisis: 🔸Mass exodus of experienced staff. 🔹Rock bottom morale. 🔸Sky high turnover. Attacking workers is never the answer to the actual issues.

@Woo100 However the PAs turn up for work, and appear to actually be interested in getting better at the job, rather than getting more money.

We don’t want these quacks - get them out of the NHS - or confined to filing. Pay doctors instead.

@snowleopardess Still here? Not gone to Australia yet? Please, don't let us keep you. Bye!

We have a Labour Health Secretary actively campaigning against medical professionals. What a disgrace Wes Streeting is.

@RegenerationEX Governments printing money has been tried, and perhaps did not work well? Anyone interested can read up about it. Perhaps start with Weimar Germany 1923, or Venezuela 2017.

For a currency issuing Government, such as the UK's, the NHS is always 'financially sustainable'. To say declare that the NHS is not financially sustainable is either not understanding how UK Government finance works, or a lie by someone who want to destroy the NHS.

@sophia_edw28123 Refusing to see patients, then complain about the consequences. Hysterical 🤡

Reducing reliance on resident doctors by redeploying nurses and assistants to fill the void is dangerous! These roles are not medically qualified to take on doctors' responsibilities Patient care will suffer without the expertise only doctors can provide thetimes.com/comment/the-ti…

@JustTreatment Let's make life worse for patients because we hate Capitalism. Ideology first, second, third; patients last.

New York just kicked Palantir out of its hospitals. We can do the same for the #NHS. Parliament debates Palantir's contract this Wednesday - email your MP and ask them to attend ⬇️ foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/pala…

@AllForProgress_ Juniors are trainees, not independent Practitioners. Juniors can expect career earnings to be £4-5 million+, and a pension worth £1m+, if they can be bothered to work full time and not retire at 50.

Junior doctors in this country are paid less per hour than the people who deliver their shopping. This is not a metaphor and it's not hyperbole; it's the actual hourly rate after a five-year degree, mounting debt, and the kind of training the rest of the world still sends its students here to receive. They are striking this week and the government's response has been to threaten to cut a thousand training places if they don't fold inside forty-eight hours. Think about what kind of person becomes a doctor in Britain in 2026. They know the pay. They know the hours. They know the system is short-staffed in ways that will haunt their entire careers. They do it anyway, because they are (like people going in teaching in 2026) the most precious and sainted kinds of lunatics, and because something in them still believes the work matters. That instinct is one of the most precious minearls this country owns. Naturally, government's instinct, as is its instinct whenever it encounters value, is to systematically beat and starve it to death. When the last of those people give up and go to Sydney or Toronto or just leave medicine altogether, the loss will not be visible for years. It will become evident later, in waiting lists nobody can clear, in cancers caught too late, in the slow disappearance of the assumption that if something terrible happens to your child there will be someone competent and present to help. You cannot rely on that saving grace any longer. We are eating the seed corn of British medicine, and the bill will be paid by people who don't even know yet that they are going to need it.

@Burnt2020 @Xeon4f145d96s1 @danfurmedge @RCPhysicians Junior doctors kill patients too. Striking will kill more.

@Xeon4f145d96s1 @danfurmedge @RCPhysicians In Rotherham 7 people died, 58 were harmed after somebody without medical qualifications was used to replace a doctor. Senior leaders of the RCP like @danfurmedge cannot support this. I hope he will retract that statement and condemn medical role substitution.

Let’s give a warm welcome to @danfurmedge in his new role as VP of Education and Training @RCPhysicians.

@AndrewMeyerson @UKLabour @wesstreeting Dr Meyerson telling Porkies, part 2 Nurses per 100,000 population France 9.4 Italy 6.8 Spain 6.4 UK 9.5

Dear 🇬🇧, We have the fewest doctors and nurses pp among peer countries, & with the longest waiting list in NHS history, @UKLabour thinks it wise to punish patients further by taking away 1,000 future doctors. I’m sick of these games. @WesStreeting should resign. #DoctorsStrike

@AndrewMeyerson @UKLabour @wesstreeting Dr Meyerson telling Porkies Doctors per 1,000 population France 3.3, Japan 2.6, USA 3.7, UK 3.3

@AndrewMeyerson @UKLabour @wesstreeting "The BMA’s most recent pay offer of 2.75 per cent to its own staff is lower than the 4.9 per cent offer that it rejected for resident doctors before striking." The BMA are demanding more than twice the pay rise that they are offering their own staff.

@JatinderHayre_ @MetroOpinion Amusingly, the BMA have offered their own staff 2.5% whilst refusing 5% for themselves as inadequate.

The NHS is cannibalising its own doctors; pay erosion, moral injury, and political contempt: the Government are scapegoating doctors as the public enemy. Whilst allowing PAs and ACPs to reign havoc on unsuspecting patients. ✍️ via @MetroOpinion: metro.co.uk/2026/04/07/str…

@dirtybird12345 Amusingly, the BMA have offered their own staff 2.5% whilst refusing 5% for themselves as inadequate.

Yet Streeting's paying their assistants more, who've not studied medicine, are unregulated and underqualified. A member of the public, I support our Drs and all NHS staff, not his deskilling of it.

@EstherP07654101 @jim_crawfurd And he doesn't agree to do a job, and then refuse to turn up until given extra money.

@DaveS525907 @jim_crawfurd They deserve more money , end of. And I have no doctors in my family in case you think I am prejudiced. The money they earn is not commensurate with the years of training they do. No other skilled craftsman or woman earns as little.

With c. 70k resident doctors across the whole of the UK, that works out at over £4K per doctor. Which a) sounds crazy for cost of covering a 6 day strike and b) means he could have made a better offer, averted the strikes, and still saved money. FFS 🤦‍♂️

@EstherP07654101 @jim_crawfurd Our plumber is v. experienced and does complicated stuff unsupervised. Not a trainee who is ignorant as to how ignorant they are - Dunning Kruger. He also provides all his own kit, as self employed no paid holiday leave, sick leave, maternity or pension.

@DaveS525907 @jim_crawfurd Think about if you have to call in a p,umber or electrician for example, how much do they charge an hour. Put it into perspective.

@DrRobTucker Overpaid undertrained clueless and entitled.

We're back on strike for 6 days, It's simple: the NHS is struggling and it's clear doctors need jobs & they need to be properly supported in then. Not constant real term pay cuts... We do this with solidarity to all NHS workers!