Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀

GPST1 Doctor | BMA LNC rep at UHB | West Mids RRDC | UKRDC | Pensions Committee | GP Reg Committee | Pro FPR | 🦀 |

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

Todays picket at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham🪧

£22.67/hr is not an unreasonable ask. Doctors have subsidised the NHS for far too long.

Perhaps @wesstreeting needs reminding that the power to stop these strikes lies squarely with the government.

@BMAResidents

[Dr Ossama Elshukri 🦀 @shukuriii]

Today’s picket in Birmingham @BMAResidents

Resident doctors are fed up of being ignored by this Labour government.

Pay restoration is not an unfair ask.

Why has @wesstreeting removed the additional 1,000 specialist jobs? Is this gov not serious about reducing waiting lists?

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

Strikes are the only language the government understands.
See you on the picket lines.

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

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Check your post for a ballot booklet and vote for a team that will deliver a strong and efficient BMA for you.

Demand workplace support not internal meetings. Demand action not policy docs.

Only a union laser-focussed on your priorities can win on pay, UKGP and ending dr substitution.

Vote DoctorsVote for a doctors-first union.

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

Today’s picket in Birmingham

Grassroots doctors spoke in numbers earlier this week. @wesstreeting must move further on both pay and jobs

If the government was serious about tackling seasonal flu pressures, they’d listen to Resident Doctors. As a country we need more doctors

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

Doctors: vote NO to this weak offer.

No progress on pay.
No new jobs.
No employment guarantees.

This is an offer to solve the Government's political problems whilst doctors are still in need of pay and jobs.

Vote NO (online) to the offer
Vote YES (on paper) in the BMA ballot

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

The article below:

https://t.co/fpDdVPLjlf

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

Dr Brown spoke with the BBC at our picket.

She wants to become an A&E Consultant.

However, last year 14 doctors applied per A&E training place and she was unsuccessful.

It is a disgrace that patients are waiting hours in A&E, when doctors like Poppy are locked out of training.

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

Todays Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham picket☔️

It is absurd doctors are struggling find work, yet patients cannot see a GP and are waiting hours in A&E

It’s pretty simple @wesstreeting. Resolve the jobs crisis, commit to restoring our pay and we need not strike another day

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

@wesstreeting Breaking: Polling reveals more doctors back strike action than members of the public back Labour

[Dr Ossama Elshukri 🦀 @shukuriii]

Resident doctors in the West Midlands!

Join us outside the QE Hospital this Friday 14th between 8am and 11am for our regional picket line.

There is still time for these strikes to be called off if @wesstreeting comes forward with a credible offer on pay and jobs.

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

If the government was serious about cutting waiting lists, they would not hold any potential additional training places to ransom.

We need substantially more training places than what’s on offer and doctors who have trained here should be prioritised in this recruitment cycle.

[Department of Health and Social Care @DHSCgovuk]

A message to resident doctors from Health and Social Care Secretary @wesstreeting

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

@RachelReevesMP stated yesterday getting waiting lists down was a government priority.

A day later and it appears the government are not serious about this issue. If they were @wesstreeting would ensure there were enough jobs for doctors and would pay them fairly.

A reminder⬇️

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Resident doctors strikes, coming after a 28.9% pay increase, are self-defeating for doctors, damaging to patients and our efforts to rebuild our NHS.

My letter to resident doctors with an offer to expand jobs and improve conditions.

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

What’s ’completely absurd’ is the fact we have unemployed doctors, yet ever growing waiting lists.

If the government was serious about cutting them, they would expand the number of specialty training places, so we have more consultants to see patients and no doctors unemployed.

[Department of Health and Social Care @DHSCgovuk]

"The BMA should call off these needless strikes, come back to the table, and give negotiations a chance."

Watch Health and Social Care Secretary @WesStreeting's statement on BMA resident doctors announcing more strikes.

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

There are unemployed doctors in this country, whilst waiting lists are growing and patients cannot see a doctor. This is under the watch of @wesstreeting

This dispute can be resolved by ending the bottleneck crisis AND ensuring the 21% pay cut doctors have received is reversed

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Resident doctors strikes are completely unnecessary and irresponsible.

My team and I have been talking to the BMA in good faith and are prepared to negotiate on jobs and conditions.

They’ve had a 28.9% pay rise. We can’t go further now. But we can address jobs and conditions👇🏻

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

Wes Streeting has failed to commit to concrete proposals on pay or jobs.

We are left with no choice but to strike.

We will strike between 07:00 Friday 14th November and 06:59 Wednesday 19th November.

This will be a full walkout.

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

Elections close tomorrow (Monday) at midday. Why vote for DoctorsVote?

We reps work together. We don’t pretend to be independent and we put the movement first. Vote for more wins.

Doctors, Vote Now.

Candidate list:
https://t.co/Z3uNmWHgHL
Voting link:
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[Erin Gourley @ErinGourley1]

Please consider lending us your vote so we can continue work to drive forward the things that matter to resident doctors.

Jobs, pay, scope creep, working conditions. We have made progress but there is so much work to be done! 🦀

Vote here 👉🏻 https://t.co/6Je27nq5O6

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

I am standing for Communications Officer and visited Good Hope Hospital today, to talk to doctors. As a team, we helped overturn the locum rate cuts @uhbtrust, where I am a rep. I also met with Prof Leng 1 on 1 during her review into Physician Assistants.

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

If you’d consider lending us your vote, as well as our other fantastic DoctorsVote candidates across the region, we can then ensure doctors in the West Midlands continue to have strong representation. Voting closes at 12 noon on Monday 8th September. 🦀

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

Your @DoctorsVoteUK candidates in the West Midlands have been out across the region, spreading the message to vote in the BMA Resident Doctor Committee elections. We will fight for FPR and increased training places.

Please follow the link to vote: https://t.co/GOjfowdUU9

[Dr Ben Cowdry 🦀 @CowdryBen]

Ossama Elshukri is standing for Deputy Chair and has been a rep in the Black Country. He has campaigned throughout the strike ballots for pay restoration. As a team we will continue to ensure we have strong mandates for strike action, should we need to ballot again. @shukuriii