The 4 day week is compressed hours which is the main issue. Shifts can start as early at 3:45am. Even at £70k in London it’s not a liveable salary in zones 1-4. The bigger issue is how we’ve been conditioned to be against them when it’s proof unions WORK.
Forced to carry on with a broken back…. Whipped over the line for the win… welcome to the chav fest that is the Grand fucking National. RIP Gold Dancer
New details about the couple that got married during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show (via Variety):
• They had originally planned to make his song ‘Baile Inolvidable’ their first dance
• They wound up with 15 extra wedding announcements and sent them to local businesses with the hope of getting free wedding perks
• They sent the last invite to Bad Bunny
• His team reached out and they thought they were only getting a signed photo
• He invited them to get married during his performance
• The couple ended up getting married at the Super Bowl with ‘Baile Inolvidable’ as their first dance and Lady Gaga as their wedding singer
(https://t.co/tLAS8JHrLP)
Taking a pregnancy test as a routine check before a medical procedure costs the patient nothing, and will sometimes save women and babies from terrible harm.
If this online meme for labelling pregnancy tests “medical misogyny” discourages even one medic from following this routine, women and babies will be put at risk.
Just pee on the stick!
This year has taught me that a good year can also be a hard year. I have held joy and pain in equal measure. The joy hasn't made it less painful & the pain hasn't made it less joyful. It’s the year I learnt what it means to hold all things in a delicate balance.
The issue with @jimmycarr’s argument that simply increasing medical school places will solve NHS staffing shortages, is that it ignores what happens after medical students graduate.
This year, around 40,000 doctors applied for roughly 10,000 NHS training posts. These posts are not optional. They are the required pathway for doctors to become a GP or Consultant. Without access to training jobs, doctors cannot progress in their careers, regardless of how many years they have already spent working in the NHS.
Expanding medical school places without a matching increase in specialty training numbers and post-CCT jobs does not fix workforce shortages. It shifts the pressure further down the system. Today’s additional medical students become tomorrow’s doctors competing for the same limited number of progression posts.
This is a structural workforce planning problem, not a problem of motivation or willingness to work. The NHS already has doctors who want to stay, train, and contribute long-term; but there are not enough funded training and senior jobs for them.
A credible workforce plan must be joined up. Medical school expansion needs to be matched by expansion in specialty training posts and substantive consultant and GP roles, otherwise we risk worsening career bottlenecks and destabilising the workforce we already have.
Alongside this, it is reasonable to prioritise UK trained doctors for NHS training posts while also protecting international colleagues who are already working here and are essential to the functioning of the NHS. These aims are not in conflict.
If we want a sustainable NHS workforce, we need planning that looks beyond entry into medicine and focuses on the entire training and career pipeline; from medical school through to senior clinical roles.