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UK media is literally just millionaire presenters calling doctors greedy for wanting to be paid more than £18/hr for saving your lives in the middle of the night.

@wesstreeting If you did everything you could, there wouldn't have been any strikes

We did everything we could possibly do to avoid these strikes taking place at Christmas. We'll now do everything we can over the coming weeks to make sure the NHS is there for you when you need it.

The UMAPs lead was just interviewed by Jon Pienaar on Times Radio about the residents' strike

@wesstreeting @wesstreeting where is the winter pressures funding that you decided to no longer provide?

Strikes will certainly disrupt operations and scans for patients. It is shameful that you and BMA leaders treat that so lightly - as if it is consequence free. That’s our family, friends and loved ones waiting longer when they’ve waited too long as it is.

@wesstreeting Be honest the government underfunding and under resourcing the key areas of the NHS is the issue, whilst selling off the easy bits to private orgs that overcharge Resource us, pay us and staff appropriately No one wants corridor care but it’s a political choice

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@gixxerkid93 @BMAResidents @wesstreeting They might get paid a living wage

@BMAResidents @wesstreeting Imagine if the private sector went on strike as often as you lot. Absolutely ridiculous

Yesterday, we met with @wesstreeting We’ve not been presented with a credible offer to restore our pay or fix the specialty training crisis in England. We’ve been left with no choice but to return to the picket lines bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/… #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis

@TruthDoctor77 @BMAResidents @wesstreeting The pay was better when they started medical school.

@BMAResidents @wesstreeting Greedy bastards. You knew what you were signing up for when it came to pay at the entry to medical school. Sick of you putting patients second. Go and work for big pharma if you wish.

@ash192098 @BMAResidents @wesstreeting Nobody should be seeing colds

@BMAResidents @wesstreeting Maybe as you were so anti PA, you’d be prepared to accept a pay cut to fund their replacement with GP’s at your suggestion. Instead, GP’s can spend their valuable time seeing coughs & colds, you guys can fund it and all in the name of “patient safety “ as you like to quote!

@IrishTimes But way better crack

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@ProfRobHoward There is one word missing..."only be as accessible and safe as funding allows"

Message from our Trust CEO today, kind of sums up where the NHS is in terms of its ambitions: “The overriding message from the centre is that the NHS must live within our means and be as accessible and safe as our funding will allow us to be”.

Police appeal to find family of Bury man who died at home ift.tt/ZklhMbE

@afneil your guest Mr Lambert just said that some ppl are saying the shooting has changed their view of the Democratic Party. Is he linking the shooting to the Democrats?? I wish you had had a chance to challenge him on that

How are Labour going to fix the NHS when they continue to squeeze it? Hospitals crumbling, perpetual winter crisis, sky high waiting lists, staff stretched = spending freeze. Austerity has never ended.

@TimesRadio we could still have the valuable firm structure in medicine but it would need double the number of doctors.

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@ThomasJohnRose @medicalmodelbri If you try, you are labelled "elitist"

@medicalmodelbri Certainly NO Patient Safety Management system in operation. Same throughout the NHS. Why don't Doctors do something about this ongoing situation? Don't they have any Professional representation?

Which Trust and which deanery signed this off ?

@timricketts_ I thought it is not allowed for an admitted patient to be discharged without seeing a consultant at least once. Like, a medical consultant

I’ve seen some shenanigans in the NHS, but this is nuts. Non doctors post taking, being the named “consultant” for a patient during their stay in hospital?? This is the slippery slope many have talked about Where is this? Why is no one talking about this? What can be done?