Pippa Physio

Received my first thank you card from a patient last week. Makes it allllll worth it 🥰 even if I still get imposter syndrome at least 3 days of the week 😂 #msk #outpatients #physiolife

I rely on doctors to keep me alive. If my heart wobbles and they arent there, im screwed. Yet i support the strike by junior (resident) doctors. Because someone whose bust a gut for years to qualify, who saves lives, is worth 22 quid an hour. Its not complicated.

I’m supporting @TheBMA Because trying to fix the NHS without improving pay & conditions for health/social care workers is like trying to refill a bath without the plug Recruitment, retention, burnout - this is the crisis Resident doctors deserve better. So does every patient

@xxsnzz Thank you!

Don’t come here often now; it can be depressing state of affairs regarding the NHS. However… bio has been updated. I’m now a band 7, less than 3 years after qualifying! Thrilled to be recognised for my skills and have opportunity to bring positive impacts to more patients 🙌

@DaveDaffin Thank you Dave! That’s very kind of you to say. Hope you are doing well ☺️

@pippaphysio Well done! Good to get recognition where it is deserved!

I’ve been in post a few months now and it’s still mind boggling most days! But last week two of my team told me they’re really grateful and appreciative of the support I’ve given them during some high pressure and high stress weeks. Happy team = better patient care! ☺️

@seanbamforth @DrEilidhMaria I’ll be honest - she IS superior. My plumber isn’t bringing me back from the brink of death. I don’t suggest they are any less skilled in comparison to their own trade, and they can charge whatever they like, but we are talking about people literally saving human lives here.

ARCP Outcome 6 and now facing the scary reality of unemployment in 3wks CST ✅ MRCS ✅ ATLS ✅ National Awards ✅ Presentations + Audits ✅ Leadership ✅ Currently seeking new job opportunities. CV available on request– happy to connect! #SurgicalTwitter #MedTwitter #JobSearch

Unless you're a doctor, in which case it's 23% down. That's why we're striking. We don't want a pay rise, we want pay restoration.

The average pay packet in the UK today, once adjusted for inflation, is the same size as it was in 2008. —Office for National Statistics

There is a mental health crisis in the UK, with people waiting for more than a year to access services. 8000 doctors have applied for ~500 posts that train them to become psychiatrists. We have enough doctors wanting to train, the UK just refuses to train them.

Arrived for my night shift tonight and one of my theatre shoes was in the spare shoe bin, the other one and the tote bag they live in (no locker) nowhere to be found. Little things like this would be so easy to fix, but are the thousand tiny cuts that demoralise NHS staff. 😔

In fact, we sometimes use "late" as a synonym for advanced, an acknowledgment that the passage of time ➡️ progression But I have to wonder how much down-staging we could accomplish by taking young patients' complaints more seriously & more quickly at the time of presentation?

How in the UK can we have a shortage of doctors with per capita well below rest of developed world, yet all I see is anxiety from resident doctors all worried that they will be unemployed in near future. These artificial bottlenecks in training need to be scrapped and no of

A nearby trust was recently under high pressures. An IMT there told me that their weekly teaching was cancelled, departmental teaching cancelled and some were pulled from their sim session to man the wards. Guess whose fault it’ll be when they don’t have enough teaching at ARCP

Another highly trained Consultant leaves the NHS One of EIGHT to leave the dept in 3 years This doctor knows what’s important in life and has chosen that 👏 The hospital mentioned will surprise no one…

My friend's mother was a District Nurse. Part of a team that quietly and efficiently kept patients in their homes and out of hospital for as long as possible (as wanted by patients and their families).