Alice Summers

GPST2 in Oxford
BMA TV LTFT Rep
#DoctorsVote 🦀🦀🦀

"Strive for progress not perfection"
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[Dr Melissa Ryan 🦀 @Melissa_S_Ryan]

We need each and every resident doctor member to return their ballot.

I’ve been chasing up at my hospital. There’s some who forgot.

Talk to your colleagues today.
Check they’ve voted.
Show them the postbox in your hospital.

We can’t be complacent.
Vote yes today.

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

Our pay has been cut by 23% in real terms since 2008. The Government paid us with claps during COVID.

Now is the time to send a loud message:
👏🏻 Claps don’t pay the bills. 👏🏻

✅ Vote YES.
💌 Post it back.
💪 Stand together.

📨 Missing your ballot?
https://t.co/6PuPL8pAR7

[Dr Ross Nieuwoudt @RossNieuwoudt]

"You knew what you signed up for"
"You knew the pay when you applied"

These statements are categorically false.
The social contract has been broken.

When we applied, pay had not been fully eroded.
When we applied, job security was intact.

We are balloting because all the assurances and promises in the world mean nothing while the world watches our pay and conditions being chipped away year after year.
Our pay used to subsidise a crumbling, inefficient system.
Our working conditions are stripped from us and handed to others - without reciprocity, without recognition.

Our movement did not come from nowhere, it's been quietly brewing in the background, seasoned with the burnout, breakdowns, and unrewarded sacrifices of thousands of doctors.
For more than a decade we have tried and failed to solve these problems with discussion and negotiation, and were met with sneers and infantilisation.

"You're just junior doctors"
"You'll be rich consultants one day so suck it up"

The light at the end of the tunnel isn’t hope. It’s a fire.

The truth is that consultants have also seen a drastic erosion of their pay and conditions. Assuming we are even able to get a consultant post in the future.

Our ballot is for FPR is two-fold:
Full Pay Restoration.
Full Professional Restoration.

There is no respect without pay.
There is no profession without respect.
There is no solution without strikes.

I am a normal doctor, spurred into action by the suffering of my peers. I would much rather be spending my time improving my craft, enjoying time with family, with friends. Instead, I find myself battling day in, day out, against forces that would rather see doctors paid a pittance for the life-saving and life-changing work they do.

No more.

Voting yes in this ballot is not just a stance on pay.
It is drawing a line in the sand when Government promises are not kept. A yes vote is a reminder to all that the days of doctors being guilt tripped into sacrificing decades of their lives and precious time with loved ones in return for nothing are over.

Doctors, stand with me.
Stand with the BMA.
Stand up for medicine.

If you have not received your ballot yet, re-order it today:
https://t.co/nDSNYXX11o

If you have received your ballot - stop delaying and vote YES today.

I'll see you on the picket lines.

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Doctors are being pushed to breaking point.

£17/hr.
That’s what the NHS pays fully qualified doctors - after a 6 years degree, £100,000 in student debt, and gruelling 48-hour weeks.

They’re asking for £22/hr, a fair rate for life-saving work.
Not luxury. Just dignity.

Since 2008, their pay has been cut by 22% in real terms.
They now earn less than they did before the pandemic.

@wesstreeting’s pay award?
Just 0.9% above inflation, nowhere near reversing years of real terms cuts.

This is how the NHS loses its doctors.

The strike ballot opens tomorrow.
Doctors are standing up, for fair pay, for basic respect, and for a future where skilled professionals aren’t driven out.

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

Spotlight: Thames Valley

Lobbied the postgraduate dean to reduce rotational training, increase run through training and to protect doctors’ training opportunities from PAs.

Secured additional support for incoming placeholder FY1s who were late to receive their rotations.

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[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

BMA Regional RDC elections are open.

It's time to vote and it takes less than 2 minutes.

Here's how to do it.

Your endorsed candidates: https://t.co/E3zc0feDsK
Vote at https://t.co/jS3bLbPZPB

Don’t let RDC go back to the paralysis of the past.

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

Spotlight: Mersey

Brought the unfair treatment of doctors in Aintree to the public eye and resolved the dispute, resulting in a sign-off for a new Doctors' Mess.

Led a nationwide FOI request across every trust in England to gather information about how MAPs are (mis)used.

1/3

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

BMA Regional RDC elections are now open.

Keep the team that delivered 3 strike mandates, 11 rounds of strike action and transformed RDC.

Your endorsed candidates: https://t.co/E3zc0feDsK

Vote at https://t.co/jS3bLbPZPB

Don’t let RDC go back to the paralysis of the past.

[Dr Sandeep Bansal @iDrSunny]

We have an answer from the GMC

According to them, PAs study medicine, just not the same as a doctor who studies it for 5 years.

Whats different? The time and the content.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@RobLaurensonD4P: "A doctor starts on £15/hr, and we're asking for doctors to be paid £21/hr. That is affordable. The govt has spent £3bn on strikes and pay restoration costs £1.3bn"

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

What an incredible #BMAPayRally in London yesterday! You showed up in full force and we thank every one of you who attended.

Together, we stand strong and determined to fight for #PayRestoration. Let's keep pushing for what we deserve.

[The BMA @TheBMA]

We've not asked for pay restoration in one go and it's misleading to say the cost of pay restoration would be £3bn – that assumes Junior Doctors pay no tax. In reality the cost to Government would be £1.3bn, less than half of the cost to the NHS of the strikes to date.

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

BMA junior doctor members in England have voted by over 97% in favour of extending our mandate for industrial action, and to provide us with a mandate for action short of strike (ASOS).

A huge thank you to all of those who voted.

Read the full results 👇
https://t.co/IQb1unyESf

[Matt Bilton @DrMattBilton]

Another day, another ward walk! Today - visiting the fine doctors of Wexham Park @FrimleyHealth alongside @TVRJDC Hon Sec Tamir. Hearing loads of ballots sent back voting YES for strike action ✅ and YES for ASOS ✅ 🦀🦀🦀

#PayRestoration #DoctorsStrike #TellThemAgain

[Dr Jinnie Shin 🦀 @jinnieshinnie]

Another great day of ward walking! Many thanks to the doctors of at Lister and L&D hospitals for tracking the time to speak with me! Remember to vote yes and yes and send your ballots in!! 🦀🦀🦀 #TellThemAgain @BMA_JuniorDocs @Doctors_Vote @EastEnglandRJDC

[Alice Summers @Mirror0fErised]

Great ward walk today at the John Radcliffe hospital, encouraging doctors to vote YES for strike and action short of strike! #TellThemAgain @BMA_JuniorDocs
@Doctors_Vote

[Vivek Trivedi @_VivekTrivedi]

Hi @BimAfolami

Happy to chat about how your government have shut us out of negotiations

And even now, with no strikes, they still won’t negotiate with us

And how previous to striking we were basically told we’d be ignored until we had a strike ballot

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[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

3 GPs made redundant because ARRS roles have replaced them in this practice in Conservative Surrey

I wonder if this was the plan @DominicRaab 12 months ago
@VictoriaAtkins @andrealeadsom
Concerning @DAUK_GP @doctor_katie @DrSelvarajah @BMA_GP @wesstreeting @rcgp @Parody_RCGP

[The BMA @TheBMA]

The Government’s plan to regulate physician associates under the GMC must be stopped. To patients, PAs and doctors can appear the same, but they should know who’s treating them.

Write to your MP so they can force the Government to abandon its plans.
https://t.co/W93P0dyp4y

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

This morning @Keir_Starmer made his thoughts very clear on @LBC that ministers should now be coming back to the negotiating table.