Elan Wyn

Doctor, mwydryn, crwydryn...♥️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

FY1 doctors earn just £18.62 an hour for life saving work, often with over £100,000 in student debt.

Now they face unemployment down the line because the Government refuses to fund enough speciality training posts.

A Government that undervalues staff cannot fix the NHS.

[Dr Kevin Fong @Kevin_Fong]

High staff turnover is associated with higher patient mortality. I’ve said it before & will say it again. If you don’t care for the carers they cannot care for their patients. #NHS https://t.co/2xECShQ34A

[Alan Stout @AlanStout19]

I honestly never thought I’d see a headline so stark and shocking

[Steffan Evans @SteffHEvans]

The same story on moves to control second homes and holiday lets framed completely differently by the BBC in Welsh and English this morning.
The Welsh - leads with the aims of the policy
The English - leads with the concerns of opponents

[Dr Sandeep Bansal @iDrSunny]

Patients can’t get to see a GP for weeks or months

We have 2000 less GPs than 10 years ago

Yet 4,000 newly qualified GPs struggling to find work.

Existing GPs losing their jobs.

Can anyone still tell me this is in public/patient interest?

[Elan Wyn @ElanWynJones]

@Cobratate Takes a pretty insecure man to feal threatened by women daring to have an adventurous spirit. Bless

[Rob Galloway @DrRobgalloway]

I'm an A&E consultant and I'm tired after a weekend of nights.

But this am, I've handed over what I described as a "good department". This was said genuinely and with no hint of irony.

We provided great care and have very short waits to see an A&E doctor, but I'd forgotten how unacceptable it was to have 18 patients in the corridor, and elderly patients waiting over 2 days for a ward bed.

My lens of what is good and acceptable has been slowly warped by the slow & damaging effect of the working conditions of A&E departments up and down the country.

My biggest worry is that I'm starting to accept the unacceptable.

This is not about a lack of gp appointments, patients "abusing" the system or poor management - in fact we had excellent hospital management support, with patients boarding on each ward waiting there instead of A&E for a bed.

This is a simple case of patient demand being greater than what the overall health economy can cope with.

We have to either change the way we work, change demand via expectation management or increase resources.

If not, then the unacceptable becomes the norm and that's unacceptable.

Our patients and staff deserve better.

[Dr Done @Dr_Done_]

Doctors informed TODAY that they will have double strike deductions from July pay❗️

Amazing how organised they can be with pay when it’s to screw you over

*Not anonymised to normalise not protecting Trusts.

Meanwhile St George’s showing how easy it is ✔️

[Zain Khan, MD @zainkhan_md]

Pret coffee baristas can now earn up to £14.10 per hour based on location.

After a 5 year medical degree, a doctor is paid £14.09 per hour.

When baristas are earning more than physicians, something has to give.

It's time for doctors' pay to be brought to sensible levels.

[Hayley @hayleymagill]

The people working to care for your family and friends are sometimes paying more for childcare than they are being paid.. who can blame anyone for leaving.

[Hayley @hayleymagill]

The announcement of my resignation from surgery has had an overwhelming response. Thankyou for all the love.

To be very clear. I am not leaving because of hours/pay.

I am leaving because I am tired of being treated like a child by HCPs and any doctor ‘more senior’ than me.

[Souradip Mookerjee @souramoo]

my salary as a doctor in london working 40h weeks after 9 years of uni at cambridge and a phd #BMADoctorsVoteYes

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Four in ten junior doctors say they are ‘actively planning’ to leave the NHS as soon as they can find a new job – poor pay and conditions are cited as the main reasons.

The NHS is on its knees: we can’t afford to lose them #PayRestoration #BMABallotReady
https://t.co/QUeraGM2cx

[Ami Jones @JonesTheBosher]

@clare_eliza Slow amb response for baby in cardiac arrest is the point at which we have to admit our health service has imploded right? So much moral injury happening in front line medicine right now; working as hard as possible but knowing patients are getting nowhere near what they deserve

[JP Lomas @jplomas]

Sad day… no real desire to do this other than a need to protect my family from punitive taxation for working harder.

@trussliz this is the antithesis of what you say you stand for.

Doctors’ pension taxes need fixing NOW.

[Mared Gwyn @MaredGwyn]

Jonathan, I was condemned to the linguistic straitjacket. Today I speak 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹🇮🇹 and work in int'l affairs. What you call self-harm gave me self-belief.
You should try spending time in Caernarfon or Blaenau: they might teach you tolerance and respect.

[Dr Linda Dykes has moved to Bluesky @DrLindaDykes]

CPR is not a treatment for #ordinarydying. Every instance of futile CPR - which is what will happen if nobody has sorted out the protection of a DNACPR for someone whose life is coming to an end - is a tragedy. Please, doctors, nurses, patients, families - #havetheconversation.