Jocelyn Lavin ✨🪐🐝🌈

The new GMC Order is undergoing consultation. The GMC is seeking to remove the speciality register and decide by themselves who should be issued a CCT. This right is currently protected in law. This is the last hurdle before the GMC will be able to issue CCTs to PAs.

Resident doctors have been left with no choice but to strike. Weeks of negotiations with the Government have failed to deliver enough progress on pay, with the goalposts being moved at the last minute. We have called six days of industrial action to make the Government listen, stop the game playing, and come back with an offer that delivers fairly on both jobs and pay.

🤬 Wow! A Kent Uni student sensibly wearing KN95 mask when receiving his antibiotics and, later, his MenB vaccination was told to REMOVE his KN95 mask and don a surgical mask. This bizarre aversion to masks which offer a HIGHER degree of protection has got to STOP. FULL STOP 🛑

I’ve just been taking a deeper look at the infection control guidance for this current outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease: ▪️surgical masks for routine care ▪️FFP masks for AGPs Now let’s take a look at what the Covid Inquiry report says about this type of guidance…