Connor Danson

Doctor, Hon Sec @BMANorthernRDC, Exec Member @BMAResidents
Electoral & parliamentary fanatic.
Interests in forensic and legal medicine
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[Connor Danson @Connor_Danson]

@drcarolinej An absolutely catastrophic idea.
Look at the workforce data, look at the employment crisis.

There are no jobs for these students to go to.
There aren't enough trainers or tutors to educate them.
Our current educators are overworked and burnt out.

And you want to DOUBLE them?!

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

On the picket line yesterday with @Aadam_Aziz, @jkyleofficial looked at us and said people had “A lot of them look like they’ve come into this country to be doctors in the first place’’ judging by our skin colour.

I was born here. I’ve given 6 years of my life to the NHS as a doctor.

And still I’m made to feel like I don’t belong.

This type of racist rhetoric has no place in our society in 2026. Unfortunately for the racists, I’m not going anywhere.

[Dr Aadam Aziz @Aadam_Aziz]

Absolutely disgraceful racism from @jkyleofficial on @TalkTV. As the camera zooms in on me and @DrHWazir on the picket line, he sneers that “a lot of them have come into this country to be doctors.” He based this solely on the colour of my skin.

I was born in the UK. I studied and trained in the UK and I currently work as a doctor in the NHS. My grandfather fought for this country in WW2.

This is racist, demeaning, and utterly unacceptable.

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Either the NHS needs those doctor training jobs or it doesn’t.

You cannot say we need more specialists while removing the training places that create them.

Holding training posts hostage in negotiations doesn’t just punish doctors. It punishes patients who will wait longer to see NHS specialists.

“When I took office I was struck by the mismatch between the numbers of resident doctors & available training places. My commitment to you remains that this is too important to treat as a transactional matter.”

Perhaps Mr Streeting should take a leaf out of his own book.

[Connor Danson @Connor_Danson]

@DHSCgovuk If these 1,000 training places were never going to happen to start with... What a miraculous excuse this is!

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Strikes will GO AHEAD from 17-22 December, after resident doctors in England voted overwhelmingly to reject the latest offer from @wesstreeting.

[Sheryl Higham @_Sheryl_H]

Explaining why circumstances are untenable for resident doctors to @ChronicleLive today on the picket line at the RVI.
Gov needs to wake up + invest into doctors for the future of the NHS and patients. With a meaningful expansion on training places and not a real terms 2% pay cut

[Connor Danson @Connor_Danson]

Stunning turnout from @BMANorthernRDC resident doctors (despite the rain!) at the RVI in Newcastle! ✊🧡

Clear message from our members to government - solve the jobs crisis and stop eroding our pay.

@TheBMA @BMAResidents

[Connor Danson @Connor_Danson]

@wesstreeting I'm a qualified doctor.
I am paid less than a physician assistant.
I will likely have no job soon as there is a critical shortage of training places and a disastrous recruitment process.

Who's being held to ransom?

[Connor Danson @Connor_Danson]

@wesstreeting We will not have the public's access to doctors, nor our own careers, used as bargaining chips.

UK trained doctors continue to leave the country and even the profession!

We are in a worsening medical unemployment crisis and yet the sticking plaster proposals continue.

[Connor Danson @Connor_Danson]

@PayReviewBodies @DHSCgovuk Can only afford a 47p pay rise.
No movement on paltry 1000 additional training places.
Re-hash of the same vague promises.
Claiming doctors aren't being forced out of training.

This so-called "evidence" must be from an alternate reality.

[Connor Danson @Connor_Danson]

@wesstreeting We will not be belittled.

We are a group of professionals fighting to stay in the profession we love.

You could've funded more training posts and made changes to manage the volume of applications months ago.

Our colleagues are going unemployed on your watch, Wes.

[James Steen @BMA_James_Steen]

How has not one ‘journalist’ asked obvious follow up questions;

- If that’s true, why haven’t you tabled these new jobs in an offer to the BMA since the last strikes months ago?

- The NHS needs more doctors, there are doctors available, so why are you sitting on your hands?

[Connor Danson @Connor_Danson]

@DHSCgovuk @wesstreeting When you're stuck in A&E with a 12 hour wait, remember that Wes Streeting didn't employ more doctors to look "strong and tough".

We need rapid solutions to this workforce crisis and instead the DHSC focuses on turning access to doctors into a political game.

Shameful.

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

There have been months of talks.

We’re on the precipice of another job cycle. Tens of thousands of doctors will be turned away.

Doctors need jobs & patients need doctors. Waiting lists up, patients in corridors.

We need changes now to recruit & value doctors, not in 2 years.

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Not posted your ballot yet?

Put it in your local postbox TODAY to guarantee it reaches us in time. Or post it by special delivery by 2 October.

The ballot is open to FY1 members in England. https://t.co/kOpHF0vOz6
#PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis

[Connor Danson @Connor_Danson]

A huge result for resident doctors across the UK! Looking forwards to working with @fletchjack & the rest of the committee this year on UK RDC.

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Introducing our new chair of UK RDC, Dr Jack Fletcher

@fletchjack is taking over from @Melissa_S_Ryan and @RossNieuwoudt at a pivotal time, as we continue to negotiate with the Government on pay and jobs.

Read our statement in full:
https://t.co/Mk5fCKfeBR

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

“The fact that we have unemployed doctors is absolutely unthinkable.”

Dr Sheryl Higham shares her experience of being unable to find a specialty training place, and why the FY1 ballot in England is so important.
https://t.co/kOpHF0vgJy #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

Northern doctors:

I’m standing for re-election in the BMA with Sheryl + Connor.

Why?

Northern drs are worried about progression, as well as pay.

We’re fighting for:
1️⃣ more jobs
2️⃣ progression (no bottlenecks)
3️⃣ improved conditions
4️⃣ pay

Vote now!
https://t.co/a9UsaJbWjr

[BMA Northern Resident Doctors Committee @BMANorthernRDC]

Team Northern were back outside the RVI this morning!

Led by Bracken and Bea, who were repping the orange merch 🐾