Albert Koomson Jr

London GP Trainee | MBBS | Medical Microbiology BSc | Sports Medicine, Exercise & Health MSc student at UCL | ATMMiF

[Albert Koomson Jr @AlbertKoomsonJ1]

So pleased with how this article with @TheDrMagazine @TheBMA has turned out. Click below to encounter the unique experiences of those FiY1 Doctors who joined the workforce prematurely to do their bit during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic https://t.co/SKYJ7PiNht

[Dr Luke Craddock @DrLukeCraddock]

If you have a plan 2 student loan, pay income tax, and national insurance these are your marginal tax rates.

After £28k -> 41%,
After £50k -> 51%,
After £100k -> 71%,

That is not including the loss of child related benefits.

What incentive is there to work more?

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

The NHS collapse - it has taken just 13 years - let’s retake a look at this from Channel 4
To blame Government Ministers, MPs & complicit NHS England leaders who have too much to lose (£) from speaking up
They have nodded this disaster along with smiles

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

NHS - Virtual promises vs Reality

40 more hospitals = 5
5000 extra hospital beds = 2700 fewer
6000 more GPs = 2200 fewer
800 more ambulances = 51
Extra investment = below inflation = less
Pay rises = below inflation = less

‘Use the private sector more’

[Norwich City FC @NorwichCityFC]

𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.

Check in on those around you.

#WorldMentalHealthDay | #YouAreNotAlone | @samaritans

[Animesh Singh @DrAnimeshSingh]

Consultant 1 - leaves in Aug for pharma
Consultant 2 - leaves in Oct for pharma
Consultant 3 - leaves in Aug for Ireland
Consultant 4 - left in March for Dubai
Consultant 5 - left in Jan for ME
Consultant 6 - left in June for Canada

Just in rheumatology in 2023

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Rishi Sunak said today at #PMQs that rising NHS waiting lists is down to industrial action.

Well how about the last 13 years of rising waiting lists?

[Mehul Parekh @mevparekh]

I think younger people looking at medical careers will probably look at this and think - that working hard, studying hard, training hard and sacrificing fundamentally means nothing in this country.

[Channel 5 News @5_News]

NHS bosses are warning of significant disruption to services across England with a 3-day junior doctor strike now underway.

Thousands of appointments and operations are expected to be cancelled at a time of extraordinary hot weather.

We spoke to Arjan Singh.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

One in every five GP practices in England and Wales has closed since 2013, according to Sky News analysis of NHS data.

Our data and forensics correspondent @Chesh analyses the pressures GPs are up against 👇

[Albert Koomson Jr @AlbertKoomsonJ1]

@ThemisCharalam1 what a star ⭐️ ❤️

[Department for Science, Innovation and Technology @SciTechgovuk]

Secretary of State @NorwichChloe visited @nanopore to discover how their technology is already improving patient care.

Today’s life science's announcements demonstrate our dedication to enhance people's lives and the economy by funding this important sector.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Auntie Shola said we're not moving on until you pronounce my name right.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Nurses work 12hr shifts; sell their days off; use food banks; pay £1300 a year to park. And 40,000 have left their jobs in a year.

Tory MPs sit for 150 days; get subsidised food; claim travel & energy on expenses; get free parking & £2,200 pay rises.

Back the nurses please.

[Daniel Mercer @danny_mercer]

There’s something seriously wrong when the second year medical student I’m teaching bedside to has to leave early to do an HCA shift, where her hourly rate is double mine.

Her job to fund the qualification to practice medicine pays more than … the doctor she’s studying to be.

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Today junior doctors in England will begin round 2 of our strike action for #PayRestoration

Over the last 15 years, we’ve seen a real terms pay cut of over 26% - we’re fighting for that to be reversed👇

Stick together, fight together, win together.

[Emma Coombe @dr_emmacoombe]

NHS staff shortages in England could exceed 570,000 by 2036, leaked document warns https://t.co/HWXOnJXCtL

[Ollie Burton @ollieburtonmed]

Re Junior Doctor strikes, the 'if you don't like it, get another job / go elsewhere' crowd need to rapidly learn that doctors are doing exactly that. It's (partly) why you struggle to see a GP, or it takes months to see a specialist. We simply do not have enough of them.

[Albert Koomson Jr @AlbertKoomsonJ1]

@ERunswickBMA @BMA_JuniorDocs Top man

[Russell 🏳️‍🌈 @Medic_Russell]

oh this is excellent! 🫶🪧🩺✊#JuniorDoctorsStrikes

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Junior doctors in England will be taking strike action next week

Whilst UK media stands by silently the Government is engaged in a shameless campaign to demonize them

I will not stand by and watch that happen - here are some actual FACTS