Gareth Strachan

Dad of 2, Partner, GP. Constantly trying to keep them in that order.

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

@mgtmccartney Can’t help that the official NHS Scotland careers website fails to mention doctors at all 🤔

https://t.co/6ZBCmcxkbW

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

My practice is in need of new neighbours after the current GPs next door handed their contract back. Montrose is a great town in need of great doctors, if anyone knows any.
#TeamGP
https://t.co/LPwbsfGZso

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

@dave_dlt How do you collect this data? I would love to do something similar.

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

I can only speak to my own experience but GP training in Scotland feels like it’s lost its warm fuzziness over the last five years. It’s just another conveyor belt our young doctors must endure.

[David Hogg @davidrhogg]

Just been trying to find a way of articulating this but @docib you’ve done this better than I can.

I worry about morale of #juniordoctors, & medical students who are hugely affected too.

Our leaders must get our 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & 🇬🇧 NHS back on track, including aspirations to work in it.

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

@DrLindaDykes Can someone explain ARSS to those of us north of the border? Is it just funding for PAs?

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

@dave_dlt Hi Dave, how big is your practice and what do you consider a request, is it just requests for appointments?

[Felicity Lambert @fliss]

Please share widely - important free webinar aimed at GPs, midwives, health visitors, frontline healthcare professionals. Recording available if you can’t make it on the day

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

@lewisthughes Fair enough. I agree there needs to be urgent conversation within the profession to understand if there is appetite for IA.

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

@AndrewBuist17 Andrew you frequently move to reassure us that those within ScotGov get it and they aren’t like the UKGov. Where is the evidence anyone in ScotGov gets just how perilous the situation is, what actions have they taken that reassure you this is the case?

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

@lewisthughes We are such a heterogeneous group. No two practices have identical models of care. What would IA in primary care look like to you?

[Helen McArdle @HMcArdleHT]

SPECIAL REPORT: Warning of 'disaster' as NHS forced to take over up to quarter of GP surgeries https://t.co/ShEe1dG3QC

[Malcolm McKenzie @fourhourtarget]

Work out your own @DHSCgovuk annual salary calculation by simply:

Multiplying your hourly wage by 50 and a half hours a week and for 52 weeks a year.

That’s it; that’s the equivalence. No leave at all and a 50.5 hour week to put any salary at the same scale.

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

This essentially creates an 8 day bank holiday in hospitals and the government didn’t even give an offer to put to members?!

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Junior doctors in England to strike for four days from 11 April after talks break down https://t.co/W9ShV2tAHQ

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

@DrLindaDykes I don’t think we can just accept that new GPs have moved away from partnership irrevocably. I think a major issue is access to role models in partnership and the college/deaneries need to start addressing that.

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

Given the kicking that GPs and partnership are getting in the press it would be great to hear about what @RCGPScotland and @NHS_Education are doing to reassure trainees that GP partnership has a future and is a career trainees should be considering.

[Edinburgh Live @EdinburghLive_]

Concerns for missing Midlothian teenager last seen leaving house on New Year's Eve https://t.co/noXCDw3cyY

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

Between the call to arms in Aberdeen and the cry for help from Glasgow, it now feels really like NHS Scotland has lost whatever superglue was holding it together. What a disaster😞

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

Is this a Scottish thing? It doesn’t feel that unreasonable to me 🤷‍♂️

[Dr Philip Lee @drphiliplee1]

@WelshGasDoc Scotland twitter has formed a defensive square I see.

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

@carajay118 @fesshole 100% would

[Gareth Strachan @GWS92]

So much to agree with. After just a year in partnership it is clear there a massive problems coming down the line, very quickly.

[Lothian LMC @lothianlmc]

We need to bring back some joy in practice and be proud of the amazing work we do, please read https://t.co/K2bbEeFbDX @BMAScotland @SG_PrimaryCare @HumzaYousaf