Dr Susannah Mclean

Scottish General Practitioner aiming for sustainable general practice. Also role as clinical informatician. All views my own.

[UK Health Security Agency @UKHSA]

The HPV vaccine is well known for preventing cervical cancer in women, but the vaccine has protective benefits for men too. 🛡️ #MensHealthWeek

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

3000 GPs just completed their training

There are only 250 job GP roles available across 6277 GP practices

Patients have said GP access as the most important concern in #NHS provision @wesstreeting but still minimal investment in access, just empty words

https://t.co/X6qO8jBgVn

[UK Health Security Agency @UKHSA]

Clocking in for your first shift? Don’t let #Meningitis be part of your rota. 🛍☕
A single vaccine can protect you from this life-changing illness, while knowing the signs and symptoms will also help keep you and your colleagues on track. ✅
🔗 https://t.co/D7ooqiSMbm

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

A simple way to help reduce obesity and stroke?
Stop the shifts in our clocks twice a year https://t.co/GrmzUygQWR

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Holy shit!! Trump just slipped on live TV that he lost the 2020 presidential election.

Trump would HATE it if this goes viral:

[Scott Queen🦀 @scottqueen101]

PA's performing Caesarean Sections ...an operation with a potential for 200% mortality and morbidity....does anyone think this is OK....did the Consultants think this was OK....shocking.

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

Royal colleges and the UK Health Security Agency have urged pregnant women to take up pertussis vaccination and for parents to ensure that their children have been vaccinated, after a surge in whooping cough cases and eight infant deaths
https://t.co/7ZDxaRzBqg

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

The Government are only funding Additional Roles (ARRS) & telephones

Whilst cutting GP funding by 20% £/patient in real terms since 2016

The result is fewer GPs, GP leaving or unemployed

Remember the Govt promised 6000 more GPs in 2019 manifesto - instead we have 2000 fewer

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Tories, NHS England, Department of Health are all at it, sharing the success of 50 million more GP appts

But there’s a problem, the extra appts are not with actual GPs, 10m are, but 40m are with the 30,000 extra staff brought in under additional roles

Fewer GPs as not funded 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Boris Johnson today calls Starmer “Sir Keir Schnorrer” (see attached). “Schnorrer” is the Yiddish word for beggar and scrounger. It is pretty offensive. It was part of the lingua franca of my grandparents and of my childhood. I find it unsettling to see Johnson appropriating it to describe someone whose wife is Jewish - and especially when he says “if Schnorrer gets in, he will immediately begin the process of robbing this country of
its new-found independence
and make the UK the punk of the EU”. What do you think? Am I being over sensitive?

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

NHS England leadership don’t want you to see a GP

They have cut GP Practice Funding by 20% £/patient in real terms since 2016, have moved funding to ARRS (Additional Roles) at the expense of recruitment & retention of GPs & Practice Nurses

None understand the needs of patients

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

A group of anaesthetists is raising funds for a legal challenge to the GMC’s plans for regulating physician associates and anaesthesia associates, claiming the GMC’s role will blur lines between doctors and those who aren't medically qualified @AnaesUnited
https://t.co/oqDXC4ERbC

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

We have appalling health inequalities in the UK. The poorest generally get to 50 in ok health followed by 25 years of poor health & die at 75. The richest usually make it to 75 years in decent health & have 15 years of poorer health. Dental inequalities are even worse, with 190 children undergoing dental extractions EVERY SINGLE WORKING DAY, with average waiting times in some areas over 80 weeks. Until we address health & dental inequalities, we have no chance of fixing the NHS, social care or NHS dentistry.

[Dr Susannah Mclean @DrSusMclean]

Physician Associates should need indemnity. @BMAScotland ,@RCGPScotland @TheBMA ,@RoyalCollegeOf3 , @rcgp

[Dr Susannah Mclean @DrSusMclean]

What do @BMAScotland @TheBMA say?

[Dr Susannah Mclean @DrSusMclean]

@RCGPScotland ,@rcgp ,@RCPEdin @RCPCHtweets
Would introducing a risk-assessed physician associate (PA) indemnity insurance scheme more accurately reflect the true costs of using more PAs in the NHS?

[Dr Susannah Mclean @DrSusMclean]

@RCGPScotland ,@rcgp ,@RCPEdin @RCPCHtweets
Would introducing a risk-assessed physician associate (PA) indemnity insurance scheme more accurately reflect the true costs of using more PAs in the NHS?

[Dr Susannah Mclean @DrSusMclean]

@trishgreenhalgh Would introducing a risk assessed physician associate (PA) indemnity insurance scheme more accurately reflect the true cost of using more PAs in the NHS?

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

The failure to foresee a problem when trying to make a planned change is only a complete failure if you continue with that change, despite overwhelming evidence it’s the wrong plan

Titanic, Post Office…. NHS England/Royal Colleges/GMC

Accountability for failure or change now?