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Oli Fletcher

@Oli_Fletcher

Working to integrate the NHS & Social Care in Somerset. @dundeeuni grad. Bath in the rugby, Chelsea in the football.

Somerset, United Kingdom Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Oli Fletcher
Oli Fletcher@Oli_Fletcher·
1/4 2020 has been hard work. Most of us in public service have been working longer hours, at a faster pace, and on covid projects outside our comfort zone.
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Oli Fletcher@Oli_Fletcher·
@DrEilidhMaria You're right, I do think PAs need a different regulator. I just worry that the outcome is that the regulator stays GMC but PAs face abuse from patients for being "not a real doctor" rather than recognition as its own profession.
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Oli Fletcher
Oli Fletcher@Oli_Fletcher·
A health scientist or other healthcare professional who spends 3 years at uni, works for 10 years and then spends 2 years training as a Physician Associate has different training, not less than a doctor.
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Oli Fletcher@Oli_Fletcher·
@ISCP_Helpline My thinking is: No training is the same as medicine but that doesn't invalidate a PA from delivering good patient care. My fear is we don't achieve a different regulator for PAs (which is a good idea) we just open up colleagues to abuse from patients.
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Ciarán | BLOCK104@ISCP_Helpline·
@Oli_Fletcher What is your thinking here? It’s 3 years less ‘in the medical model’, generously assuming the 2 years PA covered packs similar content/volume as 2 years of med school (it doesn’t) DOI prior 3 years UG + prev NHSBT tissue bank scientist. Has negligible value day to day for me
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Oli Fletcher@Oli_Fletcher·
@Joellambert @DrEilidhMaria Ten years irrelevant to being a doctor, aye. But a PA isn't and shouldn't try to be a doctor. No prescribing, no specialty training. Let's not let government divide and conquer. All professions are on the same side.
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Joel Lambert
Joel Lambert@Joellambert·
@DrEilidhMaria @Oli_Fletcher 10 years irrelevant experience is equal to no experience. I’m not understanding the point he’s trying to make 🤷‍♂️
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Oli Fletcher@Oli_Fletcher·
But the real problem I have is that we are all on the same side, and it isn't pro-doctor to make Physician Associates the target of public ire.
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Harry Quilter-Pinner
Harry Quilter-Pinner@harry_qp·
Astonishing stat: 40% of council houses sold through Right to Buy are now rented by private landlords (up to 70% in some places) at double the cost of council housing. Presumably with many of those renters supported by housing benefit. Utter madness!
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Oli Fletcher
Oli Fletcher@Oli_Fletcher·
I appreciate this involves having money after Christmas, but err, it's a lot easier than learning to joust.
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Rachel Ward
Rachel Ward@RachelWardbooks·
My 90-year-old mum was v upset at an online shopping mistake (3 doormats the size of small planets) but rallied when I told her I bought a rail ticket for the wrong day & a friend ordered 50 bananas instead of 5. Any funny stories of online errors I can pass on to cheer her up?
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Ally Mackenzie 🇬🇧
Ally Mackenzie 🇬🇧@allymackenzie17·
Went to Bath, got a downpour. Still one of the nicest cities I've ever visited! 😀
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Oli Fletcher
Oli Fletcher@Oli_Fletcher·
1 more - tea on the floor while playing with children (on the occasion not knocked over or lapped up by dogs)
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The best types of tea: -The tea brought to you in bed on a Sunday morning -The tea that comforts you after bad news, gives you the energy to carry on -The leaning on the worktop after cleaning the kitchen tea (usually held in two hands) -The “struggle to take a glove off as someone hands it to you” gardening break tea -The tea you almost forget to drink when you’re in a rush but you remember it just in time -The hotel room tea -The tea with a cooked breakfast -The recovering in hospital tea -The tea on the freezing sidelines of a Sunday League football match -The back at the desk after a long meeting tea -The first tea of the day -The first tea of the new year -The tea you take to bed -The tea while slapping a new coat of paint on the walls -The tea in the shed -The tea while staring out the window on a rainy Saturday afternoon -The tea you celebrate with (and calm down with) when you’ve just received very good news -The tea you didn’t expect to be offered -The tea in a museum cafe -The free tea -The tea after an argument -The tea that gives you an excuse to open the good biscuits -The tea with a view -The tea with buttered toast -The “afternoon tea” with lots of little sandwiches and cakes -The tea in a tent while camping -The tea from a flask on an Autumn hike -The tea while reading a book in an armchair on a rare day off with not a care in the world -The tea after a hard day at work -The tea after getting in from a run / bike ride -The first tea back in your home after a holiday -The picnic tea -The ‘break up a long car journey’ tea -The tea you make for someone and they say it’s a really lovely cup of tea, one of the best teas they’ve ever had -The tea made by your Mum/Dad

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Sam Freedman
Sam Freedman@Samfr·
Devolution deals and Danelaw. Correlation or causation?
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Dan Neidle
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle·
Is inheritance tax really as unpopular as people say? Thanks to the generosity of @wethinkpolling, we've exclusive new polling evidence. Thread:
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Adam Sharp
Adam Sharp@AdamCSharp·
There’s a word in modern German slang, Knäckebrottelefonierer, which describes a person who talks into their phone while holding it in front of their mouth like a cracker. It literally means “crispbread phoner”
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Oli Fletcher
Oli Fletcher@Oli_Fletcher·
Until the UK moves away from discretionary planning at least for public infrastructure, costs of new rail projects or anything else are going to escalate just like HS2. Rules need to be predictable, processes needed to be faster. Even if environment means the answer is no.
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