What a disgraceful and patronising way to treat healthcare staff working hours on end to look after us all.
These training posts are vital for the future of our NHS. To use them as bargaining chips is appalling.
Time to end privatisation and fund the NHS properly instead.
The fundamental tension in UK medicine is that we now expect students to take on american level debt for UK salaries.
When it comes to pay: it's all about how much the public can afford (not a lot apparently).
When it comes to debt: "You knew the terms, it's on you"
A resident doctor who moved to Australia told me that their hospital offered him rota match with his wife who is also a doctor.
Their duty hours, weekends & holidays can be matched without the stress of asking for swaps or if you have childcare responsibilities, they can have automatic adjustments accordingly.
Just a small thing for improving wellbeing
In UK, resident doctor may have to deal with additional stress of trying to adjust rota with partner & for childcare.
Three years ago, I posed a question to #MedTwitter asking what are the red flags for organisational toxicity in healthcare. We got nearly 500 replies: a heartbreaking thread oozing with anger and mental anguish.
Well, we made it into a paper.
https://t.co/1j3UbaYQAf
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"So-called ‘corridor care’ can only be stopped in the corridors of power"
That's the message we hope MPs will take from the festive greetings cards RCEM has sent every single sitting member in the country.
Read more here:
https://t.co/aCuHPbRAj6
Fantastic opportunity to be site principal investigator as a resident doctor for this TERN led study. Quantifying the extent of overcrowding in our ED’s is an important step in working to fix the issue. https://t.co/mM8CtWERDZ
We’ve teamed up with @SaveALifeCymru to create our new Support after cardiac arrest discharge resource - a downloadable PDF designed to help people recovering from a cardiac arrest, as well as their family and friends.
❤️ Download the PDF version here: https://t.co/085uZ7Z8XN
🛒 Order a free printed copy on our shop (just pay packing and postage): https://t.co/yFAcwiB8P7
Imagine someone nicks £40 from your £100.
They give you £20 back, then call you greedy for asking for the rest.
That’s what doctors are facing.
They are being paid 20% less in real terms than they were in 2008.
Full pay restoration is not an unreasonable demand.
The UK @ternfellow EDcorridor study is out!
Key points
1. 1in5 are treated in ED escalation areas (eg corridors)
2. 10-25% of EDs have no available resus cubicle
3. The problem/solution is flow. More patients waiting for beds in ED than in corridors.
https://t.co/r5wna1PDMP
Live from the #RCUK25 - we’ve announced ROC-UK (Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium UK), a new national initiative driving research collaboration, innovation, and better survival and recovery for people who experience a cardiac arrest.
Course aimed at Emergency Medicine, ICU, PHEM and anaesthetics. RSI/DSI, intra arrest airway, soiled airways and more. High fidelity simulation, experienced faculty and small groups teaching. RCEM SL06. https://t.co/HNziCNtg5x
REBOA = higher mortality (47% vs 36%), more transfusions, longer time to OR. No survival benefit. Check the new study by Hatchimonji et al. https://t.co/RnQGoCdJXI and Jansen's commentary https://t.co/s3qqRcWi6C.
@jhatchmd @dianehaddadmd@pdowzicky@markseamonmd
@DHSCgovuk@wesstreeting@wesstreeting My wife no longer uses X, but as a resident doctor would like to respond to your offer. She’s sent an email to your parliamentary address, but just in case social media is a more reliable way for you to read responses, she’s asked me to post it here as well.
The 2025 Resuscitation Guidelines emphasise the importance of correct defibrillator pad placement - a simple step that gives someone in cardiac arrest the best chance of survival.
🎥 Watch the video to learn more
🔗 Read the full Guidelines at https://t.co/zdjiktVBqp
📢UK emergency care clinicians!
@geshNHS is running a survey on ED services for vulnerable migrants. Help shape better care!
✅For ED clinical leads, managers, and frontline clinicians
🕒10–30 mins | 📅Deadline: 14/12/2025
📩Email [email protected] for the link
Our national study found that for every one hour with patients, UK resident doctors spend four hours on admin.
In @bmj_latest today, we break down why this isn’t just an inconvenience, it’s a safety risk.
1) Fragmented EHRs → endless copy-paste + re-entering data
2) Trainees turned into scribes
3) Less training, less confidence, less preparedness
We suggest:
• Reassign admin to allied staff
• Joined-up IT that fits clinical workflows
• Minimum patient-facing time requirement in training
• Clinicians co-designing digital tools
If you work in healthcare: what’s one admin task you’d automate or reassign tomorrow?
👇 Your answers might shape the fix-list.
Thank you to my co-authors @KaranChhatwal_@HamaadAKhan and Professor Stuart D. Rosen, and BMJ editors @Juliet_hd and @jolie__neill.
You can find the link to the full BMJ piece in the comments.
With thanks to @imperialcollege and @bmj_latest
As the government rewrites a new NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP), I've written my first academic publication - which looks at the previous plan's headline commitment: a pledge to double the number of medical students.
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📢 Healthcare professionals in prehospital and emergency settings—your expertise is needed! 🚑
We’re conducting a Delphi study on Paediatric Out-of-Hospital Clinical Deterioration and invite you to participate.
📌 For details, see the attached poster.
📝 To register your interest, scan the QR code or use this link: https://t.co/dp3BxOyxwr