Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee

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[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

If you have witnessed staffing gaps in Mersey, report them here: https://t.co/PpB1SN3jBr

@bbcmerseyside @LivEchonews @merseynewslive

[The BMA @TheBMA]

We have uncovered a haphazard approach to the use of Advanced Practitioner (AP) roles by NHS trusts. Our investigation has revealed almost half of hospital trusts are using non-doctors to fill doctor rota gaps.

APs can play an important and valued role in patient care. But they should not be asked to substitute for doctors to address staffing gaps.

Patients shouldn’t have to worry about whether NHS managers have asked non-doctors to deliver care that only doctors can safely deliver.

Read the full story: https://t.co/kSI340ouIc

[Dr Melissa Ryan 🦀 @Melissa_S_Ryan]

@Peterhardwick17 @ox_anna29 Not as much as doctors. We have suffered the worst pay erosion in the public sector

[Kim Johnson @KimJohnsonMP]

Standing in solidarity with Resident Doctors this morning at Royal Liverpool Hospital in their fight for jobs and fair pay

[Dr Ross Nieuwoudt @RossNieuwoudt]

This is just what some doctors have reported. The truth is likely much, much worse.

Trusts cannot continue putting patient lives at risk to pinch pennies.

Locum rates must be escalated to fill gaps!

@TheCountessNHS @WUTHnhs
Stop putting your bottom line above patient care.

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

@DrBeckyl It’s often not a choice between a locum and a consultant; it’s a choice between a consultant and an empty rota. If a locum isn't available, someone has to keep the ward safe.

Yes, elective work is cancelled, but that’s the cost of a system with no slack.

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

In just 2 months, across 2 hospitals in our region:

→ 30+ consultants stepped down to cover ED resident gaps
→ 28 other individual reports on unfilled shifts reported
→ Up to 3 gaps left open per shift

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

We are not short of doctors who want to train. We are short of positions for them.

@wesstreeting @Keir_Starmer

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

Gaps when A&E departments are the busiest they have ever been! This is happening on non-strike days.

@TheCountessNHS @WUTHnhs, management what are you doing to address this?

Last year, 4,724 doctors were turned away from emergency medicine training.

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

Huge thanks to @KimJohnsonMP. Great to see local support for our cause.

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

Standing strong at the Royal today! 🪧🩺

The message is clear: Patients need doctors, and doctors need jobs. We are out here fighting for fair pay and the future of the NHS.

[Luke Mordecai @Shr_Nottingham]

I’m not furious

I’m very supportive of tomorrow’s consultants

🤷‍♂️

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

@DrBeckyl This specific portal is designed for staff to report clinical safety concerns, but patient feedback is vital. Patients can usually report similar concerns via the PALS or directly to the Trust’s management to ensure their voice is heard in the funding debate.

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

This Good Friday at Arrowe Park, whilst doctors were NOT on strike:

We received reports of patients needing critical treatments, including blood transfusions, waiting over 24 hours due to severe staffing shortages.

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

https://t.co/inurp9GLSo

Not even a strike day

[Department of Health and Social Care @DHSCgovuk]

"NOBODY wants strikes in our NHS. Every time junior doctors walk out, it's patients who feel the impact — and other NHS staff left picking up the pieces."

@WesStreeting on how these strikes will mean delayed operations and families left waiting in pain.

More in @TheSun: https://t.co/09cRBBPqUZ

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

If you’ve been affected in the Mersey region, please share your experience here:
https://t.co/PpB1SN3jBr

[Mersey Regional Resident Doctors Committee @MerseyRRDC]

Over the coming days and weeks, we will be sharing further cases submitted to our safety portal, highlighting unsafe care across the region linked to funding cuts and management decisions.

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

Would a plane be allowed to take off without the appropriate cabin crew?

Medicine is a safety critical industry run by management disassociated from the clinical consequences of their failures.

@wesstreeting intervene now.

You can't say you didn't know.

[Becky Lavelle @DrBeckyl]

Important gaps unfilled. Is patient safety not a priority?

What are you doing to remedy this @WUTHnhs ?

#NotAStrikeDay.
@DoctorsVoteUK
@BMAResidents

[Kartik Goyal (he/him) @Kartikgoya_l]

Why is this becoming a new reality within the NHS?

@wesstreeting when will NHS funding be restored in Cheshire and Mersey to ensure we have adequate number of doctors to look after patients??