"We lived our lives with the hope of a better NHS, a better old age, and better deaths. That hope has been betrayed." My latest "Talking Point" column The BMJ just out. bmj.com/content/381/bm…

The result is that highly skilled and expensively trained medical professionals are slipping down the UK’s income distribution, while the list of countries where they could earn more grows by the year.

This is potentially disastrous; we've forgotten how crippling these infections can be. I'm old enough to remember children with rubella syndrome, and wards full of children with whooping cough. #ProVaxx bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Adverse childhood experiences are associated with dying younger. We must ensure we have the capacity, skill, and funding needed to deliver care that addresses the trauma underlying many, apparently intractable chronic conditions Lives can be turned around dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p9…

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James’s 1st ever 100 @ Didcot CC age 9 & today making his 1st ever 1st class hundred for Sussex 10 years later 👏👏GM Cricket 🏏⁩ ⁦Sussex Cricket⁩ ⁦Oxfordshire Cricket⁩ ⁦Aston Rowant CC⁩ @MCSCricket⁩ ⁦Nathan Hawkes⁩ thank you all for your amazing support 🥰

How a single question asked by a cardiologist has reverberated through my life for over 20 years. A true tale of curiosity and delightful coincidences. My latest column The BMJ, just out. bmj.com/content/381/bm…

"That is SENSATIONAL!" 😍 Sussex' James Coles showed off his juggling skills to catch Jack Davies on the boundary in Sussex's four-run win over Middlesex in the T20 Blast 🏏

Latest episode of #FRCSUrocast featuring Chris Harding- an essential guide to managing recurrent UTIs in women! Sophia Cashman BSoT BAUS - hopefully also v helpful for GPs RCGP RCGP Scotland Jo Helen Miles open.spotify.com/episode/23Jahl…

A 🧵for #SouthAsianHeritageMonth on why the campaign is needed. I was told by a colleague and good friend (white middle aged man) that ‘I see racism everywhere’ and ‘by focussing on identity I am sewing division’. Also, that referring to him as a ‘white man’ is offensive (1/5)

No matter who you are and what your heritage, calling out racism and being brave enough to challenge is important. I’ll leave you with John Amaechi OBE’s excellent short video on the difference between ‘not racist’ and ‘anti-racist’. Please watch 🙏🏽 bbc.co.uk/bitesize/artic…

Great new podcast from Dr Rachel Ward podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

'Alongside the move to greater triage, comes the concept that continuity of care is a luxury needed by only a subset of complex patients, while everyone else will be fine seeing any doctor, taxi rank style, in a centralised urgent care facility' bmj.com/content/382/bm…

BBC reveals how doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby were ignored by hospital bosses and they were even asked to apologise bbc.in/44aNzW5

Unfunded work in primary care, is not a cost saving to the NHS, despite the delight it would create on an ICB spreadsheet, it's paid for by the burnout of dedicated, skilled clinicians walking away, and is a net loss to the health of the population.

Comedy holiday reading choice stuck on the tarmac at Heathrow amidst air traffic control melt-down…

🔊Congratulations to Ollie Price and James Coles who have been named in the 15 player England Lions Squad to tour India 👏🏏 oxfordshire.cricket/news/price-col…

General Practice 🐼Parody RCGP (not a Doctor/"Physician" Assistant) RCGP Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 Dr Dave Triska AISMA Accountants Andy Pow Medics Money Ben Gowland Digital and Tech GP Dr Goblin Steve Taylor Mark Steggles Department of Health and Social Care Rebuild General Practice NHS England Dr Mark Porter Ruth Rankine 💙 NAPC DAUK GP Committee 💙 Londonwide LMCs Dr Michelle Drage Adam Janjua Hugh Alderwick Becks Fisher IPPR Wes Streeting MP Preet Kaur Gill MP Karin Smyth Transforming health and care Victoria Macdonald Rachel Sylvester Denis Campbell Shaun Lintern laura donnelly Angus Neale Amol Rajan Nick Robinson Mishal Husain Martha Kearney Simple stats since 2015 England general practice SOS 💥Over 1000 practices gone 💥Over 2000 GPs gone 💥Over 6,000,000 more patients on the books 💥 Equivalent of 1:2 population seen EACH month. 💥400 million consults per annum 💥7-8% of NHS funding 💥5% of all NHS staff

Last week, The Times and The Sunday Times' Poppy Koronka visited Dr Rachel Ward to show a day in the life of a GP. From handling patient care amid rising demand to building lifelong patient relationships, it's clear GPs are under immense pressure. Read the whole story ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…