"Smoking a cigarette brings you back to the level you should have been at if you’d never smoked in the first place"
Doctors in Cheshire and Merseyside believe NHS England’s drive to save money comes at the cost of patient safety.
Doctors are “overwhelmed” and staff morale is at an all-time low, with many left to cover unmanageable patient numbers with staffing cover that does not meet required safe levels.
Fight Rule By The Rich!
Inequality is driving the cost-of-living crisis. Billionaires get richer- you lose out.
It’s a threat to democracy too - extreme wealth buys political influence & rigs the system for the powerful.
Tax the rich. Raise living standards. Defend democracy.
Photos from the #endcorridorcare march on Parliament with @justtreatment.org , @keepournhspublic.bsky.social , @sosnhs.bsky.social and the ever-excellent @andrewmeyerson.uk ✊🚨🏥
I'm standing for BMA UK Council to deliver a new deal for GPs that recognises our irreplaceable contribution to the NHS. We should be:
🙏 Valued
🤝 Trusted
✊ Supported
BMA members will receive a voting pack by post. Vote by April 27th. More here:
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GP autonomy is undermined by the newly proposed contract. With it comes a massive risk to patient safety 👇
Found it.
“The trouble is the review… avoids the difficult question of how you set that scope, that limit of what PAs can do.”
Responding to the Leng Review, BMA council chair @tomdolphin.bsky.social has spoken to the BBC about doctors’ concerns over patient safety
GPs are really worried about the future.
It's a challenging time when we're not even sure of the government's commitment to general practice at its best: well resourced family doctors embedded in their local communities, serving patients who know them and trust them.
“Heat-related deaths are preventable - they expose systemic failures that require socially inclusive & institutionally embedded adaptation across governance, infrastructure & health & care services”. Spot on - and another reason to sign @CMP_voice petition👇🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
#Doctors in Unite is:
🚑 The UK’s oldest medical trade union
✊ The home for #progressive doctors
🏥 A powerful voice against privatisation and unsafe workplace conditions
Things need to change. Join a #union
doctorsinunite.com/join-us/
From winter fuel to universal credit, the suffering of those who cannot help themselves is seemingly disregarded.
Labour must again be challenged, robustly, on fundamental errors of principle that should shame any politician who see themselves as a champion of working people.
Zack is running a phenomenal campaign, telling the sort of stories a truly progressive government should be championing ❤️💚✊
More about the methodology of incentivising people to fill in an online survery with a lottery here:
findoutnow.co.uk/find-out-now...
"Thanks to the large quantity of streaming responses that originate from different parts of the UK and various demographic backgrounds, the responses collected are a sufficiently random sample."
"The collection process runs continuously as a data stream and FON can collect up to 100,000 responses a day."
"They do this by participating with site activities and one of these activities is answering survey questions if they so choose. PMP therefore collects responses passively and does not actively invite respondents."
"How are survey responses collected?
FON surveys rely on PMP members to answer questions as they visit the site. PMP members are incentivised to visit the site daily to earn bonuses and claim any giveaway winnings."
Keir Starmer is under pressure from more than 60 Labour MPs to allow thousands of young Europeans to live and work in the UK, key to unlocking a more ambitious trade reset with Brussels.
Sources tell me and @lisaocarroll.bsky.social deal is close and the EU may agree to a cap on youth visa numbers
Discrimination, harassment and violence will increase if trans people lose access to toilets and other spaces.
Many will feel driven from public life. That's what's at stake here.
There's no benefit to women. Just harm to trans people and anyone who doesn’t fit gendered stereotypes.
Major life goals have been completed today
🗣️ GPs: Your voice matters.
The NHS 10-Year Consultation is open, and we need your insights to ensure #GeneralPractice gets the support it deserves.
Find out more at rebuildgp.co.uk/campaign-ass... 🖋️
#RebuildGP #TeamGP
Compared to other OECD nations, the UK has fallen behind on ensuring that we have enough GPs to care for every patient.
We urgently need a plan from Government to retain the #GeneralPractice workforce.
#RebuildGP #TeamGP
GPs and patients are feeling the effects of the crisis in #GeneralPractice - especially in deprived areas.
Gateshead GP Dr Paul Evans took @theguardian.com inside his surgery to show the impact of the crisis.
#RebuildGP #TeamGP
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...
A private equity firm just bought £1.6 BILLION worth of the NHS.
It will make bigger profits by hiking rents for hospitals and NHS facilities. Previous govts privatized the estate.
That means less money for frontline healthcare. NHS already drained by PFI and private contractors.
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🗳️ Election News! 🗳️
Both members *and* non-members of the BMA can now vote in the Sessional GP election.
The BMA have extended the deadline for the sessional GP committee election to Tuesday 22 April.
Are you a salaried, locum, or retainer GP?
Vote now! More here👇
No thank you. I will loudly protest any US involvement in NHS data.
