Sarah Jacques

⚠️Palantir is a risk in the #NHS & Govt⚠️ Immediately : @NHSEngland should issue updated FDP guidance forbidding GP data uploads unless the originating practice/patient explicitly consents in writing & retains veto rights GPs to remain patient data controllers @wesstreeting

If #TeamGP don’t vote NO to the new contract. GP is over! You might have employment, but like pharmacists, you’ll be in Tesco at 10pm Apathy & negativity won’t fix it. The future is either Pharmacy working for big corporations or Dentistry / private but working for big business

@doctorcaldwell During my 33 years as a GP none of my referrals have been ‘rejected’ When I need ‘advice’ there are plenty of places to find it before referring This is a significant problem, simplification by management and Government It undermines clinical practice & skills

Government sets target for one in four GP referrals to be ‘diverted’ by 2027  The hospitals are making such a bad job of reducing the waiting lists so Dear GPs kindly sort it out for us! There is one GP for every 5.3 hospital Doctors Do the maths🤷🏻‍♂️ pulsetoday.co.uk/news/2026-27-g…

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New: Matthew Swindells, who privately urged colleagues to add more patient data into a Palantir-built platform at the same time as he was being paid to advise the US technology company, is stepping down from his role in the health service. ft.com/content/3d1d85…

850,000 more sick notes issued than 2019 But 2.5million more people on waiting lists for hospital treatments GPs recognise that they are not best placed to assess whether someone can or can’t do a specific job but do know people need more support I spoke to @TomSwarbrick1 @LBC

@Michaelwsh @DAUK_GP It’s the slippery slope. If you protocol tasks that have nuance and unseen complexity then it becomes more likely that errors will occur. I’m afraid that this is happening across healthcare systems. Each profession is being seen as more simple than it is, including Pharmacists

1/ @drmattuk here – I've been working on something since February and am genuinely proud of it. We've rebuilt the DAUK website from scratch. Here's what's changed and why 🧵 dauk.org

🌎🌍🌏 | It's #overseasnhsworkersday a day to celebrate the wonderful contributions of our international colleagues. dauk.org/overseas-nhs-w…

Today marks Overseas NHS Workers Day, and we’d like to thank all our international colleagues in the DBTH family for their dedication and hard work each and every day. We couldn’t run the services we do without the support of talented professionals from overseas. We want to recognise our international colleagues across all departments and teams that have made huge and incredible contributions in supporting our Trust - thank you for your commitment to our communities. #TeamDBTH #OverseasNHSWorkersDay #WeCare

Why can’t GP practices as independent providers provide Pharmacy FIRST? £1000 for 30 a month plus £17 per consult Or BP monitoring £10 for every check Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring £50.85 Currently GPs get…..

@mendo5an @DrSteveTaylor Wow. What do you even mean by that? As one of those supposed scrupulous landlords for 15 years - I have no idea what you are talking about.

@DrSteveTaylor I remember talking to an estates surveyor for a pharmacist and he told me that GP Practices were the absolute worst most unscrupulous landlords. Food for thought

The ‘murky’ world of GP finance This is an example of a 10,000 Patient practice The average patient will have 7 GP practice appts/year, 1 A&E attendance every 3 years, 2 hospital appts/year £169/patient/year goes GP £3079 goes to hospitals £40pa would solve GP crisis

@parthaskar @Parody_RCGP @doctor_katie @AbbieSBrooks @ShivaniM_KC @DrSelvarajah @BenAllenGP @MFAminGP @scelee1 @VictoriaTzB @drgandalf52 It is smoke & mirrors. Sadly the mainstream media fell for the narrative GPs didn’t need incentives, they just needed @NHSEngland to relax the prescribing restrictions & open more pathways to support weight loss Political spin @wesstreeting to hide a very poor GP contract

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.

New ‘imposed’ GP Contract @wesstreeting what was the point of talking to @HealthwatchE @PatientsAssoc @rcgp @NHSConfed @TheIGPM This represents very little indeed £1.50/patient/year at best after taking inflation out, the pay element is only 2.5% but wages up by 3-4%

The New ‘imposed’ GP Contract adds £1.50 per patient per year Can’t see a GP? You know who to blame 👇🏼 @UKLabour @wesstreeting @NHSEngland @DHSCgovuk

Looks like Tony Blair is very determined to confirm his status as one of the worst persons alive. His speech is pure 19th century colonialism: he frames the Gaza issue as one of "ineffective governance" on the part of the Palestinians, without as much as mentioning the 17-year blockade, the occupation, or the small matter of the deadliest assault on a civilian population this century. I'd love to understand how you build "effective institutions" when: - Your airport was destroyed by Israel in 2001 - Your seaport is blockaded - Building materials are banned as "dual use" - Your university gets bombed every few years - Your civil servants can't travel for training - Your economy is strangled by design - Your people and government officials are routinely killed in devastating attacks And he uses this, the eminently predictable outcome of this continuous strangling of a people, as evidence that they can't govern themselves and that they require outside management by the architects of their immiseration. Absolutely repugnant, no other word for it.

We're looking into reports regarding the termination of a number of clinical fellow contracts at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, including emergency department posts. If you're affected, or know of the situation, please email us in confidence at contact@dauk.org

81 GP surgeries have closed in 18 months, leaving patients struggling for care 🚨8m patients wait 4+ weeks for appointments 🚨1 in 13 appointments takes over a month 🚨GPs do 82% of NHS work on 9.5% of budget Urgent funding is needed to save services gbnews.com/health/nhs-pat…