Becca Gilmore

for Tom | she/her | Lego enthusiast | CT1 Psychiatry Doctor✨| 🏳️‍🌈 | Vegan🐣|

[Becca Gilmore @BeccaMedic]

Officially Dr Gilmore! Whilst I’m happy, nothing can replace the gapping hole left in me since my dear Tom left. Some relief is brought by knowing I’m one step closer to becoming a child psychiatrist & giving the help my dear little brother wasn’t afforded. Always for you, Tom🤍

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Plumbers have a £90 an hour callout charge, corporate lawyers are billed at £1000 an hour. Resident doctors deserve £22.

[Neurodiversity Training UK @NeurodiversityT]

Thank you Professor Tamsin Ford- Chair of Psychiatry @Cambridge_Uni who, with a team of 32 experts state that there is no evidence ADHD is being over diagnosed. Calling out ‘Alarmist rhetoric’ by politicians. https://t.co/zhvuV65eRo @DHSCgovuk @ION_Diversity @ADHDUKcharity

[Dr Julia @juliaisobela]

It’s world mental health day

I’m slightly tired of the ‘raising awareness’ rhetoric while people struggle to access appropriate MH treatment

& I’m tired of the fact that most ‘awareness’ centres around common, often milder presentations of mental illness

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

You’ve waited months for your operation.
You’ve waited hours in A&E.
And yet; thousands of doctors who want to become surgeons and emergency medics are being turned away.

In 2025, Emergency Medicine had 5,081 applicants for only 357 posts; around 14 applicants for one post. 5,399 doctors applied for just 630 Core Surgical Training posts; a ratio of 8.57 to 1.

These are doctors who’ve completed years of study and clinical training, passed rigorous exams, and are ready to serve patients. But the Government refuses to fund enough speciality training places for them.

So while patients lie on trolleys in corridors and operations are cancelled, fully trained doctors are left without a pathway to specialise.

This is a catastrophic failure of workforce planning. A deliberate Government imposed cap on doctor speciality training numbers that wastes talent, demoralises staff, and prolongs NHS waiting times.

If the Government is serious about tackling long waiting lists and rebuilding the NHS, it must expand funded training posts and use the workforce we already have.

[Becca Gilmore @BeccaMedic]

Proud to share I will be a baton bearer in this year’s Baton of Hope tour. In honour of my dearly missed brother, Tom, who would have been 26 this month but is forever 22. I hope this event brings us a step closer to stopping the stigma surrounding suicide 🤍

[NSFT mental health @NSFTtweets]

Becca, who is a Trainee Psychiatrist, has been chosen as a baton bearer for the Baton of Hope - the UK's largest suicide prevention initiative.

Becca hopes the Baton of Hope will help to break the silence around suicide.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/zgWXhRCGMs

[Dr Sandeep Bansal @iDrSunny]

Doctors: Can you fix 15 years of pay erosion so we can keep treating patients?

Wes: No. But I’ll improve your “working conditions.”

You mean the hospitals where:
– There are no desks or rest spaces
– Staff rooms are storage closets
– No training jobs after years of exams
– PAs replace doctors on rotas
– You’re treated like you’re disposable

While patients can’t even see a doctor.

These aren’t perks.
They’re the bare minimum in a developed nation.

But interesting Wes thinks these basics should be negotiated on

Wes you are a key part of the problem

Imagine if a private employer did this shit

[Dr Sumi Manirajan @sumitriptan]

I graduated as a doctor 4 years ago with ~£100k of debt, and despite working up to 72 hours a week, my debt has only increased.

Doctors are being paid £17/hour and have to make loan repayments and pay thousands for exams and fees.

We are only asking for £23/hour.
@wesstreeting

[Dr Shivam Sharma @DocShivSharma]

My bills rising this week:
Water: 31%
Internet: 9%
Energy: 6.4%
Council tax: 5%

Gov recommended pay uplift: 2.8%

[Raja Adnan Ahmed @drraja_]

7845 doctors applied for Psychiatry Core Training in this round.

There are only around 450 jobs.

Bring back the portfolio & interview stations to identify good candidates.

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Resident Doctors (who often graduate with £100k+ worth of student loans) are the lowest paid workers in the hospital on Christmas Day.

Please retweet this to support doctors, and to ask @10DowningStreet to pay all NHS staff fairly.

#FullPayRestoration

[Alina V @AlinaV_Psy]

You’d be surprised how competitive it is

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Only 25% of F2 doctors successfully entered speciality training in 2022, likely due to a lack of training spots.

Hundreds of doctors that are unable to train to be your GP, your surgeon, your psychiatrist. All while the waiting lists are rising.

When will @wesstreeting act?

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

My direct, heartfelt appeal in today’s @guardian to @wesstreeting & @Keir_Starmer in the light of yesterday's vote on AD.

If you sincerely care about dying people, surely you will now publicly & urgently commit to proper funding for our threadbare palliative care?

[Jamie Gillies @jmgillies]

Moving words from Gordon Brown.

[Robbie @robbiejleigh]

760,000 people waiting for gynae appointments.

Yet there are 7 doctors applying for every 1 gynaecology training post.

1860 doctors this year applied to become gynaecologists and did NOT get a job.

This issue is not unique to gynaecology.

@wesstreeting

[Becca Gilmore @BeccaMedic]

@KatPaton13 Same for Norwich!

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Yeah climate change looks bad, but have you considered throwing soup on a glass covered painting is far worse?

https://t.co/PgMZKUFK1m

[Harry Waterman @waterman_harry]

Competition ratios for 2024 are out and they show the severe bottlenecks preventing fully qualified doctors accessing specialty training

These bottlenecks are manufactured and with ever growing waiting lists it’s clear training needs to be expanded

https://t.co/zSv2jV0GnA