Selfie in front of Queen’s Medical Centre main entrance, with the facade lit up by green and purple floodlights and with Christmas illuminations along the front canopy. PTS ambulances are jostling for space along the front of the building behind me.
Heading Londonwards from visiting QMC in Nottingham to talk to obstetric doctors there (and management) about strikes and derogations. Clearly a department facing huge challenges, with doctors run ragged to make up for deep-rooted problems. Thank you for the frank discussions. @mbdoc.bsky.social
05.12.2025 22:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Water plant that caused Tunbridge Wells supply failure was given risk notice in 2024
Watchdog investigating South East Water contamination issue had previously warned of potential health danger
Failures at South East Water owned water treatment centre led to tens of thousands of people in Tunbridge Wells being cut off from the supply.
In 2024, regulator warned SEW over bacteria and pesticide contamination risks ... nothing happened.
Does any regulator serve the people?
04.12.2025 14:21 — 👍 176 🔁 80 💬 9 📌 6
A photo shows resident doctors in orange jackets and hats waving flags from a picket line. The caption says: "Strike fund applications now open."
The BMA strike fund supports doctors who need financial help to join industrial action.
Applications are now open for the upcoming resident doctor strikes in England.
Apply now, and share the details with your colleagues:
www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign...
04.12.2025 11:15 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Confirmed. Resident Doctors’ strike in England, 7:00am on 17 December to 06:59am on 22 December.
After the last round of strike action, resident doctors in England gave Wes Streeting a window to deliver sufficient progress towards a viable deal on jobs and pay.
That hasn’t happened.
Residents have been given no choice but to return to the picket lines.
#EndTrainingCrisis #PayRestoration
01.12.2025 16:47 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 2
The image is of a letter from Dr Jack Fletcher, Chair of the UK Resident Doctor Committee to Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
The image is of a letter from Dr Jack Fletcher, Chair of the UK Resident Doctor Committee to Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
Doctors should not have to strike to be heard.
It's not too late for Wes Streeting to return to the negotiating table and avoid this industrial action.
We remain committed to negotiating a solution on jobs and pay for resident doctors in England.
#EndTrainingCrisis #PayRestoration
02.12.2025 10:57 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
A black doctor in scrubs is wearing a red ribbon for World AIDS Day. They are called Dr Ronx and their quote reads "There's a pill called PrEP that stops you getting HIV. Donate now to help us improve its availability so we can stop new cases by 2030."
worldaidsday.org
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01.12.2025 08:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Standing together against sexism and sexual violence in medical schools: a White Ribbon Day reflection from the co-chairs of WAM
Standing together against sexism and sexual violence in medical schools: a White Ribbon Day reflection from the co-chairs of WAM
"It’s time for all of us – educators, institutions, and students – to challenge this culture, speak out against abuse, and actively work toward creating safe learning environments"
Caroline Jolley & Sarah Mills reflect on the stark realities facing medical students www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
25.11.2025 12:21 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
An image of an envelope being placed into a ballot box, with an orange background. Text says: “All resident doctors in England. Re-ballot coming 8 December to 2 February.”
Let’s send the Government a clear message: doctors need jobs and pay.
Our re-ballot for ALL resident doctors in England will open on 8 December.
Update your details today and let’s get ballot ready myaccount.bma.org.uk
#EndTrainingCrisis #PayRestoration
28.11.2025 10:12 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Red poster with bold text advocating for employment rights titled 'Finish The Job. Demand an Employment Rights Bill #2.' Text states 'ALL WORKERS to be entitled to ALL EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS from day one.' Logos of Strike Map and Campaign for Trade Union Freedom at the bottom.
We need ALL workers to be entitled to all employment rights from day 1.
This isn’t over.
✊Back the campaign for an #EmploymentRightsBill2 here: bit.ly/DemandERB2
#StrikeMap #EmploymentRightsBill #WorkersRights #Workers #TradeUnions #UnionPower
27.11.2025 18:05 — 👍 39 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1
A quick selfie with Ben Ben/Elizabeth Tower in the background to make clear that I am, in fact, outside Parliament
Back here for the second time in a week to talk to an MP about the residents’ dispute and doctor substitution by non-doctors on rotas. Bumped into the Consultants Ctte co-chair in Parliament’s reception on her way in to meet another MP - literally a revolving door of @bma.org.uk -MP meetings today!
24.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Graph from the 2025 GMC workforce report, showing 10 year trends in professional groups. The number of locally-employed doctors, on non-standard, non-national and usually non-permanent contracts has increased fourfold in a decade. LEDs now outnumber SAS doctors, on nationally-negotiated contracts, roughly 3.5:1.
1/ The medical workforce and the #SASsix, a Saturday morning thread...
The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted two related publications relating to workforce this week. Taken together, they paint a stark picture of the current medical workforce.
22.11.2025 08:22 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 3
Government response to Covid was ‘too little too late’, inquiry finds
Report says 23,000 deaths could have been avoided with earlier lockdown
23,000 deaths in England could have been prevented in the first wave of Covid if lockdown had started a week earlier, a new report by the Covid Inquiry has found.
Read more in The Doctor Magazine👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/hea...
20.11.2025 20:32 — 👍 146 🔁 65 💬 8 📌 3
Today's BMJ investigation exposes the widespread exploitation of locally employed doctors, who face dire terms and conditions and lack clear development opportunities.
We're clear the Government must urgently address this situation by mandating fair, standardised contracts.
20.11.2025 13:43 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Reading the report really took me back to those days all doctors and NHS workers will remember; knowing it was coming, knowing it was going to be bad.
The parts about the opportunities squandered - not just early on but repeatedly - to reduce the impact are really hard to read.
20.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Wanna hear the one about the low-paid dad who took paternity leave?
MPs will tell ‘dad jokes’ in parliament to highlight ‘real joke’ of UK paternity leave, which is a class issue
Good to see recognition in the @dadshiftuk.bsky.social campaign that Paternity Leave and Pay is a class issue, as well as a gender equality issue.
Dads and non-birth parents deserve time with their babies and partners, and babies and partners deserve them.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
20.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The BMA and other trade unions stand together against anti-migrant rhetoric
The announcement of new asylum measures by the Home Secretary risks fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric.
We reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues, many of whom are being subjected to increasingly hostile treatment as a direct result.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
18.11.2025 17:03 — 👍 66 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 2
Relevant safeguards could include…
Engaging with IT software providers to find IT solutions that work for patients and practitioners.
Flexibilities in allowing practices to suspend online triage when they become overwhelmed on a working day and safe care is threatened.
Increasing practice resources and staffing capacity to manage online requests and queries beyond the end of the currently contracted core hours of 8am–6.30pm.
We surveyed GPs across England to find out how these changes are impacting practices.
More than 1 in 5 practices in England responded, with 55% reporting adverse impacts on patient care from changes to online access.
These risks could be mitigated if the Government implemented relevant safeguards.
20.11.2025 11:45 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Survey of GP practices in England reveals
negative impact on patient care due to online access changes
The BMA's GP committee has repeatedly called on the Government to deliver safeguards prior to the online consultation changes on 1 October.
Yet, our concerns have been continually dismissed.
The results of this survey make it clear that we need to be heard. www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
20.11.2025 11:45 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Today, Jack Fletcher, Chair of UK RDC has written to Wes Streeting MP, following the end of strike action in England
Today, Jack Fletcher, Chair of UK RDC has written to Wes Streeting MP, following the end of strike action in England
“Patients need doctors and doctors need jobs”
Today, the Resident Doctors Committee has written to Wes Streeting MP to ask the Government to resume talks and work with us to agree a viable deal.
Without movement on pay and jobs, we’ll be left with no choice but to return to the picket lines.
19.11.2025 17:16 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Resident doctors in England are not ‘morally reprehensible,' to be on strike today, as Wes Streeting puts it. This is about fair pay, pay that's down more than a fifth since 2008.
Read more in #TheDrMagazine 👇
thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/pay...
14.11.2025 14:58 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2
YouTube video by BMAtv
Resident doctors on the picket line tell us why they're striking
Resident doctors across England are striking over pay and jobs today.
Here's why 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kghw...
14.11.2025 15:44 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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