🌟Pride & Joy in working in Primary Care is found in a caring team working at the their full potential, not in meeting demand🌟 An analogy ⬇️ Recently I was in a long queue for a restaurant. Waiters had our reservation. They looked v busy We wondered 'Have they forgotten us?' 1/5

The role of Physician and Anaesthetic Associates has hit the headlines recently – if you haven’t heard of these roles before, they are what were previously called Physician Assistants. Physician Assistants have been around since 2004 but the name was changed in 2014 to 1/n

The Southport Riots prove the far right don't care about those girls or their parents. Whether it's Farage, Richard Tice, Katie Hopkins, Tommy Robinson... All they do is weaponised bigotry for power and money. They don't care who gets hurt.

GP Contractor Non-Statutory BALLOT RESULT ~8,500 GP partners voted in the ballot Turnout 67.7%. *98.3%* voted YES *1.7%* voted NO General Practice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 an overwhelming mandate NHS England have failed GPs & patients ARRS was not the answer - core funding was but ignored Katie Bramall-Stainer

98.3% Yes 1.7% No Turnout 67.7% 🏃‍♀️Marathon, not a sprint 🕯️Slow burn, no big bang ❌No strike 🕰️More time with patients 🧮Quality not quantity Focus on your practice Focus on the patient in front of you Whilst practices still close 2,000 since 2010! We must act to save GP

Anyone whose response to riots and thuggery is to talk about "understandable anger of ordinary people" should be asked if burning down a Citizens Advice office, which is there to help ordinary people, is understandable.

Funny how Suella Braverman called the almost 100% peaceful protest events for the people of #Gaza ‘hate marches’ but she seems to have absolutely nothing to say about violent English Nazi terrorism, some of which she legitimised. A complete disgrace to politics and her country.

In February I took this selfie, which shows a 5cm chest wound inflicted by an immigrant, causing me internal bleeding & heavy bruising. He was a cardiac electrophysiologist at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, London, & the pacemaker-defibrillator he expertly fitted saved my life.❤️

This reply is even more badass if you hear it in your head in Arnold’s accent

Newspaper that regularly trashes doctors surprised that nobody wants to be a doctor:

When asking GPS not to work to rule what are you asking is for people to work for free for the good of the NHS. Enforced voluntary work. Gps are tired of this as the asks get increasingly wild and ridiculous. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

No Department of Health and Social Care Wes Streeting MP Stephen Kinnock it won’t cover GP Partners 7.4% of 65% of Practice income (Global Sum) only gives 4.8% uplift out of which 6% pay rises for other staff reduces this for Partners to 2-3% Needs to be 6% on all income or 9.2% on Global Sum Thanks for trying

I have yet to hear a single coherent argument as to why the costs of essentials like food and water are rising while the profits made off those essentials soar. I’ll wait.

The number of patients a GP sees in a day 10 - Belgium 10 - Portugal 25 - Denmark 25 - Italy 25 - Switzerland 45 - UK The problem the UK has is an overworked GP workforce, a shortage of GPs, a GP contract that restricts hiring GPs, and a roll out of PAs (under qualified