Dr Taylor clearly hasn’t spent a lot of time with psychotic patients.

I’ve noticed a theme with some psychologists on here, why is that?

If you don't feel upset and angry that many doctors are going to be unemployed, whilst cheaper, less trained staff are brought in to replace them, I question why? Maybe the powers that be have already won, or maybe you never cared in the first place? Either way it is very sad.

Scope creep is bad in the U.S. However, the UK is really f***ed up on a whole other level. UK PAs are not licensed, regulated nor do they have accredited PA programs, yet they are promoted by health organizations/trusts as having similar training to physicians. Absurd.

PAs being given direct access to the Foundation Programme

While Foundation Drs across the country are sat on placement lists, unsure where they are going to live

Dr Navina Evans, why are these posts not going to Drs?

Why are Drs being replaced?

Credit: Dr Done Alison Moore

I asked why core trainees were getting paid less than people with less than a third of the training.

Very different times

Please can we stop with the “move to AUS/NZ/US” response to NHS resident doctors who raises issue with our current pay and conditions?

We should not have to leave the UK for decent remuneration and treatment, and many of us can’t or don’t wish to do so anyway

My main take home from the BMA Junior Doctor conference?

Some of the most impressive voices here are foundation doctors. The idea that these brilliant, motivated and skilled professionals are called “baby Drs”, infantilised and treated with derision will always enrage me

Does America not have geriatricians?

This would never happen in the U.K.

Wes Streeting MP Thanks for asking

As some one who has worked in the NHS for 35 yrs and examined its working throughout that time my list of what needs changing would start with

Stop breaking the system by defunding it in the name of efficiency. It is way beyond the point at which trying to cut…

Nigel, we already pay >£9000 a year to study.

The £400,000 figure is plucked from thin air, like the majority of your statistics (see Brexit money for NHS)

My solution? No loan repayments whilst you work for the NHS. Then after ~10 years cancel the debt. If you leave you pay

You know, you’d have thought having been a doctor for three years, I’d be earning enough to live alone in a place that wasn’t a complete dive, but maybe I’m asking for too much

Wild that UK law means final year medical students who legally need to undertake FY1 before they are granted full registration are on an equal footing with those who are simply wanting to move to the UK to improve their lives.

One is a bit more important than the other.

The financial cost to the NHS of doctors leaving the workforce is staggering.
 
At least £1.6 billion, according to our new research.
 
Let’s take a look at some examples 🧵👇
bma.org.uk/attrition-costs

What capacity do 31,000 ARRS staff bring?
They have provided an additional 40million appts to GP Practices a year
For context 27,000 GPs (The total workforce) bring 166million counted consultations (30% aren’t counted)

Imagine funding GPs for GP practices 🤷🏻‍♂️

If you want to see how much trusts take resident doctors for granted, go to your trusts Instagram or other social media page, and see how far you have to go back to find a post about an RD.

I had to go back a year…

Flex Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospitals 💙 People on here get very reactionary when ACPs are talked about in the same breath as PAs, but this is why.

Both are being used to actively replace Doctors, with (false) equivalency being touted as an explanation.

ACPs of twitter- do you get it now?

This echoes my own thoughts.

NHS sceptics cry about record levels of funding yet falling outcomes.

This is down to a triplet of factors:

1) Expanding population
2) Aging population
3 More expensive therapies

The U.K needs to decide what to do. Does it pay more, or get less?

An example of how UK healthcare is viewed from abroad.

Our primary care system is seen as an example of how not to run a service.

A sad state of affairs.

smh.com.au/politics/feder…