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Nothing to see here, just the Head of Workforce for @NHSEngland using an inaccurate, one-sided & context-free Times piece to double down on the insinuation that the only issue with PAs in the NHS is ‘online toxicity’ from a small number of rogue doctors. You must know, Navina, how disingenuous & inflammatory the framing in your tweet is. Of course bullying in all its forms is wrong. But thousands of doctors, myself included, have politely & professionally expressed grave concerns about the way PAs are deployed. Multiple large scale surveys of doctors back us up. We spoken out without bullying, toxicity or inappropriateness. We are ignored by you & by @gmcuk over & over again. You may believe you can smear, belittle & silence every one of us by these carefully coordinated NHS establishment/media attacks on doctors, but all you are doing is exposing more explicitly your agenda. Our motivation is patient safety. You cannot safely substitute doctors with non-doctors lacking a national scope of practice in on-call doctors rotas, as GPs, in operating theatres, anywhere. You cannot permit patients to be misled into thinking they’ve seen a doctor when they haven’t. You cannot & will not gaslight our profession by dressing up a wilful refusal to listen to our concerns as a form of “kindness”. And if the Leng Report is a whitewash? We will persist and persist and persist. I’m astonished you choose not listen, even now, to doctors speaking out in their thousands on this issue.

Not only must we ensure adequate funding of palliative care specialists, GPs & DNs so that suffering can be pre-empted or assuaged, we must help everyone to see that palliative care is their right, & not the privilege of certain people, diagnoses or life expectancies.

1. I don’t often tweet about my personal life, but on 1st November, my mum Jane was hit by a large vehicle as a pedestrian in St. Louis, USA. She suffered a severe brain injury & remains in a coma in hospital. Here's Jane & me in happier times.

@drinksmaven So sorry for your loss Jess.

My lovely aunt Fi died over the weekend. From her diagnosis to her death it was just 7 months. She was only 56 years old. So, I'm just going to say it now: If you're in any doubt about your health, get a scan. Don't be shy about pushing to get checked. #FuckCancer

Here’s a video produced by “Led by Donkeys” out of the U.K. that puts down the timeline of how Musk used X to get Donald Trump elected. I would save it because I don’t think it will be up for long.

Steve the emotional support blackbird & his most beautiful tweets to ease fight or flight. Birdsong’s been shown to dial down anxiety in the human brain-to reassure & lend a little mental strength even when danger is evident & real. All we can do is keep going. Sound up🎵:

Thinking differently about traditional stereotypes surrounding neurodevelopmental conditions & relevance to psychiatry & beyond Now open for booking - please share widely @IrishPsychiatry @StPatricks @SJOGMHealth @PSIAutismSIG @AsIAmIreland @NeurodIreland rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confere…

Great response from @DivideClass. As a parent of a secondary school age child in the east of the city, I find the narrative of ‘failing schools’ at best ignorant, & at worst, highly damaging. If you think Brighton can do better for its children, please make your voice heard.

LONG-ish 🧵THREAD; When Wes Streeting attempts framing like this it reminds me of a marketing campaign for an implement I needed to get when I had a garden flat in West Hampstead many years ago… 1/21

Happy to be celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth across the country with Humpty looking through the round window at many of my #Playschool Babies 💕

Very few people realise that the vast majority of hospice and palliative care is provided by charity - not by the NHS. I think this is a national scandal. Please RT if you do too 🙏

I need to tell you where the trap is in relation to the NHS Both Streeting & Starmer have committed to keeping the NHS “free at the point of use”… But that can look like many different things 🧵 1/x

Just spent a lovely afternoon at @UnBarredBrewery celebrating women in beer & the launch of Convivial - a wonderful Earl Grey Cold IPA. Great to see @MelissaCole & to also finally meet @PintsandPanels & grab a pin for me & a print for the Swiftie in the family. #BeerIsForAll

💥 HEALTHCARE STAFF 💥 Please consider signing this open letter expressing your dismay at the leniency of the MPTS’s sanction on NHS surgeon James Gilbert who, for over a decade, sexually harassed female trainees. The letter is from the 4 brave women who testified. (1/4)

There's never a bad time to share a video of that time Akala humiliated Yaxley-Lennon on TV, but now seems as good a time as any.

The misdiagnosis of autistic distress in the mental health system. A thread. 🧵 When I am asked why I wrote Girl Unmasked, I say that I was angry. Which is true...

Getting our banners ready for tomorrow. Proud to stand as allies beside our trans communities. LGB with the T. Always. #TransAllies #LGBwiththeT #ProtectTransKids @TPrideBrighton

hi @wesstreeting, @UKLabour i’m a post menopausal woman. I rub in daily HRT to alleviate extreme night sweats, but I’m worried, ‘cos JKRowling might not agree, and I hear from @Transgendertrd that she’s the go to expert on all things hormonal these days. Can you check for me?

@BBCSussex Oh noooo!

A park in Brighton will be partially closed for up to a month to allow hundreds of trees suffering from ash dieback to be felled. Tap below to read more: bbc.in/3zKHaY6