Peter Smart

Emergency Medicine Consultant, interest in #trauma and #resuscitation. Forlorn BBQ enthusiast. Tweets reflect personal opinions.

[Peter Smart @PSmart01]

Couple this with pay erosion, a recruitment crisis and reduction in bed stock/community social care.

Any wonder doctors are saying #NHS is broken? Is it any wonder there are #strikes?

Failures by successive governments? Or ‘juvenile delinquent’ doctors?

@TheBMA @wesstreeting

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Let’s go back to 2010!

We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months

Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been

THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Let’s go back to 2010!

We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months

Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been

THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they’re unnecessary. Not because there’s no demand. But because the government refuses to fund the NHS roles we desperately need.

In this video, I explain how government austerity, fiscal dogma, and a fundamental misunderstanding of money are forcing young doctors out of medicine — and even out of the country — while people are left waiting for treatment.

If we have the doctors, we can fund the doctors. So why won’t they?https://t.co/14Yg8MfhyW

[Andrew Dobbin @dobbin1977]

Opportunity to join the growing team of SAS in emergency medicine @setrust

https://t.co/WUA3DQrUZM

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

Sick of being called ‘greedy’,
Brown line is consultants, way below the zero line, the blue line is average workers, back above zero. Average pay has climbed at about equal rates over last 3 years but consultant pay still nearly 20% down graph (CPI). There’s full tax restoration, where’s the pay restoration journey, show us Wes.

[Dr Luke Craddock @DrLukeCraddock]

I’ll drop this here again without comment.

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

The results are in: we have a clear mandate to strike.

More than 90% of you who voted in our ballot, voted YES.

You’ve made it clear: enough is enough.

Our fight for full #PayRestoration for resident doctors in England continues.

[Peter Smart @PSmart01]

@wearfigs Great to see your 20% discount for NHS staff, however you seem to have excluded us NHS workers in Northern Ireland.

Your system doesn’t recognise our ‘https://t.co/0OlTR4LHQS’ work email; none of us here have ‘https://t.co/Kv2Az38GCE’ emails.

Hopefully temporary 🤞

[South Eastern Trust @setrust]

‼️Our NEW Urgent Care Centre at the Ulster Hospital opens 8am Thursday 19 June ‼️

🏥Open 8am–6pm, 7 days a week
🚶Walk-in & Phone First
📍Access via Critical Care Building, opposite multi-storey car park - follow the signs ➡️

The Minor Injury Unit will close 6pm on 18 June.

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

If true?

It will be a huge step forward for #PatientSafety in the #NHS

The false equivalence needs to stop

The public deserves better.

And much kudos to all concerned for keeping working on it.

https://t.co/hDAmYdgoJ5

[Rachel Edwards @rachelgemma90]

Myself & @ThomasBurton12 are carrying out research into the short & long term psychological impact on police officers of witnessing prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy.

Please re-tweet, share & send to anyone you think it might be relevant to.

[Peter Smart @PSmart01]

@PolestarCars @SpiritMotorGrp Great day down at Polestar Dublin test driving the #Polestar3. Stephen excellent and extremely helpful. Well worth the drive down from Belfast!

[Peter Smart @PSmart01]

@Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting @RachelReevesMP @TheBMA

Understanding that doctors aren’t worth 25-30% less than in 2008 would be central to this; doing substantially more for less pay.

Latest Technology and an expanded app won’t achieve much without staff.

#fullpayrestoration

[Royal College of Emergency Medicine @RCollEM]

📢 See our Safety Flash on this very issue here ⬇️⬇️

[Peter Smart @PSmart01]

@rachelgemma90 No role for EM in this, unless in hypertensive crisis.

[Dr Jatinder Hayre @JatinderHayre_]

Most of the “literature” to facilitate the role out of PAs and AAs is more fiction than fact. @trishgreenhalgh reveals the substandard quality, gaps in the literature, and measurement/outcome bias.

The literature does not stand up to scrutiny!

https://t.co/NGwJKTKzUZ

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Such an important & timely piece of research from evidence-based medicine supremo, @trishgreenhalgh.

#LengReview

https://t.co/mOrpcq72mp

[Peter Smart @PSmart01]

So NI unions (@BMA_NI @RCN_NI @NASUWT @unisontheunion) having to fight tooth and nail to get between 5-6% uplifts for 24/25, with public sector pay awards being consistently delayed/diluted but MLAs award themselves 38%. Farcical

[Gerry Carroll @GerryCarrollPBP]

I voted against today's motion, while many MLAs bent over backwards to justify this extortionate pay increase for themselves.

In no other job would a 38% increase be considered reasonable. Why should MLAs be treated differently than any other worker?

[Peter Smart @PSmart01]

@BMA_NI @David_Farren Any update regarding payment of the backdated DDRB 6% for 24/25?

[Peter Smart @PSmart01]

@LittlePersonDoc @ExplosiveEnema2 None. Ever. In no circumstances.