Toxic bin. Consultant SHO. Doing masters to be Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner. Anon profile as GMC is a bully organisation. Not a doctor. Lecturer.
I am certain Doctors are purely used in the guise of a “training programme” that involves rotating in hard to fill places/rotas/depts- to do the work no one else can, will or has liability to do. The carrot of training and future good pay used to be enough to quell some. Not now.
The British Medical Association has urged the new health secretary to intervene over the “unsafe and dangerous substitution of doctors” by advanced practitioners. https://t.co/OLY4ZUMo3m
In December 2025 a young woman called Joanne Sellars had a tel consultation with a PA, was then seen by a PA apprentice ( supervised by the same PA ) , then seen by a different PA .
She died due to their misdiagnosis
The PAs are still working
@wesstreeting this is on you
I hope this is an error on the job advert.
PAs are dependent practitioners. They should not be seeing patients independently. They should not be first assist in surgery or performing LPs.
Patients deserve safe quality care. @IMO_IRL please look into this
>5000 doctors raised concerns about how advanced practitioners are employed in the NHS.
Read the full report here: https://t.co/plrfdgXUA0
Raise any concerns you have through the reporting portal.
The taskification of medicine must stop. Some things require a medical degree.
"I think it is scandalous that the NHS is allowing the substitution of doctors by individuals without sufficient medical knowledge instead of the obvious response to doctor shortages: hiring more doctors." Dr Mel Ryan, BMA lead on preventing doctor substitution.
Advanced practitioners are being used to cover doctor rota gaps across the NHS. Read more: https://t.co/bwksW1sIqB
New paper on PAs has dropped.
Arguably better conducted research than similar in past.
Points to what a complete dog's dinner the PA project has been. No planning. No regulation. No governance.
Much to pick over.
https://t.co/3sTTvGJ8iH
‼️GPs refer for a reason.
🚨Letting non-doctors reject those referrals risks delays, missed diagnoses, and unsafe care.
This looks less like efficiency and more like shrinking waiting lists on paper.
Patients need timely access to the right expertise.
https://t.co/qXGP7JvJ5R
"very generous" I'll tell you what Tom, do a night shift with a doctor and then tell me being paid a few quid more per hour is very generous.
Also it's not "overtime". It's mandatory work as part of rotas that can be up to 72 hours a week.
Owen Dickinson, a self confident incompetent nurse ‘ consultant ‘ was involved in the death or harm of 68 patients at @RotherhamNHS_FT performing procedures that ONLY experienced Drs or surgeons should do .
https://t.co/6B4NYlEWkg
🚨Serious concerns raised by ACPs in Doncaster 🚨
tACPs left to work as GPs without senior support
ACPs bullied after raising concerns
@wesstreeting what is going ON ?!
@AliJaneMoore@ShaunLintern@BBCHughPym@HSJEditor
We need Drs!
https://t.co/OeA53gfOE1
Physios and nurses (ACCPs) can now run the intensive care unit with NO ICU consultant on site, relying only on REMOTE supervision.
The public should advocate for their critically unwell relatives in such an unsafe environment.
The question that @wesstreeting needs to answer
Why is he still wasting MILLIONS OF POUNDS training PAs at uni plus giving them all a £5000 bursary - £5,000,000 per year group.
Employing them at £47, 800 each (55k in London)
When their work must be repeated by a Dr?
Ok this is just ridiculous.
The NHS is deeply unserious. There should be no world where a Neurosurgeon who has completed all their exams is paid less than an art therapist.
2 job descriptions
One for a GP the other for an ACP
The GP has trained for 10+ yrs to do this job
The ACP is a podiatrist with an add on part time degree
Both doing the same ‘ job’ .
How is this safe @wesstreeting ? Every ARRS ACP should be a GP job
#streetingstrikes
Now we know why @wesstreeting refuses to negotiate with NHS staff.
He wants the strikes to go ahead, so he can blame doctors and nurses for his failure.