Cost of compulsory national service: £2.5bn a year.

Cost of pay rise for junior doctors that ministers insist is “simply unaffordable”: £2bn a year.

.Katie Bramall-Stainer spitting truths 🔥🔥

Where is this level of determination from the RCGP??

'If you’ve been reading the popular press, you’ll have been told that long waits in A&E is partly caused by snowflake patients but is mostly the fault of lazy GPs who can’t be bothered to offer them an appointment.'

Dr Helen Salisbury debunks this idea
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Don't listen to anybody who tells you not to vote. No matter what they present as, it's likely they'll be a right-wing bot.

Voter suppression is the right's biggest hope. In USA it's what they spend most money on. Do not fall for it.

Register to vote.
Get voter ID.
And #vote

Why we should be very very angry - and vote accordingly.
'An island nation where we fear to venture into the sea, because the Tories have turned it all to shit.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Children shot in the head. Man with spinal injury in wheelchair bound and handcuffed for weeks until hip bones exposed. Patients with fractured limbs dragged along floor by their external fixators. Beaten with metal bars. Are you ready for this interview with top London surgeon

Congratulations to all the new members of the RCGP and I'm especially proud of my dad Martin McKee 🇺🇦 on his Honorary Fellowship and 'one of the most cited Public Health researchers in the world' 😊👏 it's honestly exhausting watching him work.

This week we published clear guidance on how medical associate professionals (MAPs) should be supervised.

The guidance is for doctors and employers, and sets out recommendations on working safely with PAs, AAs and SCPs.

Read it here 👇
bma.org.uk/supervisionofm…

Now the Professional Standards Authority are expressing concern over GMC regulation of MAPs

I don’t know about you -but this whole thing is coming apart at the seams

Are you around NHS England Workforce, Training and Education

Call. For. A. Pause.

This is now a full blown crisis - is it not?

professionalstandards.org.uk/publications/d…

It is easy for a private provider to put profit ahead of patient wellbeing selling tests that are unnecessary. Importantly, private tests need interpreting, procedures need explaining, & complications need treating. This work is often picked up by the NHS bmj.com/content/385/bm…

The damage done to our NHS over the last 14 years is hugely significant, resulting in hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths, and immeasurable suffering to both patients and staff. It's time for a change. #generalelection

Peter Doherty Dr Helen Salisbury Helen and I are both GPs and I don't think either of us expect other GPs to work until they drop. I shared this not as a criticism of the practice, but because I think it illustrates how broken the entire system now is.

Dr Helen Salisbury John Cosgrove FRCGP Indeed. I feel so sorry for the GPs working there. Imagine going into work every day and having to function in such an utterly broken system. The moral injury and burnout must be off the scale.

Watching with interest - wish I was there

Further expansion of illegal Israeli settlements- yet again Israel rides roughshod over 45 UN Resolutions and ignores basic justice, humanity & international law, as its dispossession of the Palestinians accelerates, and the US & the UK look the other way.

Gallant lifts order

Importantly we are not provided with lateral flow #Covid tests in #primarycare so rely on asking patients if they’ve tested -most say ‘no’ as no longer freely available plus media/government have made it seem like it doesn’t matter and this is what many patients believe

🧵The Covid in Schools Scandal

While much of the media claims the inquiry is accomplishing nothing, its slowly revealed the gov knew transmission occurs in schools and causes harm to a not insignificant number of children

'Lives found ended' = murdering babies.

Post CCT Orthopaedic - Consultant level surgeon

Salary of £37,000 - £57,000

You don't need the best brains in the country to tell you why doctors are moving out of UK after training.

jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

They. Are. Burning. Books. Now

Supported by Sunak and Starmer and most of the British media