Dr Ellen Welch

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[Dr Ellen Welch @wanderingwelch]

Baby food with more sugar than Coca-Cola? ❌ Panorama just EXPOSED food giants for targeting parents - and fuelling the dental crisis. Dentists are calling on @wesstreeting to act. Join them:
https://t.co/IqBvuOYDIY via @38degrees

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

‘Not the NHS Again!’

A new podcast every Friday

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@TheDA_UK @keepnhspublic working in collaboration to share stories & insights

Corridor Care, GP unemployment, Vanishing NHS, one to one interviews

Friday 3rd ‘Corridor Care’

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

The UK is under doctored yet @wesstreeting @DHSCgovuk @NHSEmployers continue to undervalue Doctors

Using training places as a bargaining chip is playing with the future health of the nation

This is not the way!

[William Hayes-Wood @WilliamHayesWo1]

@debzly @wesstreeting It is interesting that the GMC pays for all its own staff/employees to have private health insurance so they are not reliant on the NHS themselves.

I personally think this of great significance in understanding how the GMC views the NHS.

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

The GMC was set up in 1858 to protect the public by creating a medical register to distinguish qualified doctors from unqualified ppl

Ironically, THEY now are the ones abolishing this by registering non-medically trained ppl as “qualified”?!

Then ⬇️ Now ⬇️

[Dr Matt Kneale (🦋drmk.link) @drmattuk]

Great to see the strong turnout and response. Doctors, the wider NHS and patients recognise the risks these changes pose. While there’s pressure for an immediate response, the complexity – and the need not to prejudice options – means careful consideration is essential. We’ll update as soon as we can.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

The GMC, until recently, exclusively regulated doctors – those with full medical qualifications. The Starmer-Streeting axis has already – with the collusion of the GMC – started to erode that distinction https://t.co/H3KrI2zj55

[William Hayes-Wood @WilliamHayesWo1]

@mattster I was on the medical register then licensed for 49 years between 1976-2025.

By the end of that time I had come to utterly despise the GMC.

The GMC had been hijacked by government as a tool to undermine the medical profession at every turn.

I wrote a book about it. Amazon £7-99

[Dr Ellen Welch @wanderingwelch]

Read this thread on the GMC plans to remove the need for medical training to be classed as qualified:
@DAUK_GP @TheDA_UK

[Dr Matt Kneale (🦋drmk.link) @drmattuk]

The draft GMC Order 2026 consultation just dropped. Buried in it is a fundamental change to who can be awarded a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).

This matters enormously. Let me explain why.

[Dr Matt Kneale (🦋drmk.link) @drmattuk]

The draft GMC Order 2026 consultation just dropped. Buried in it is a fundamental change to who can be awarded a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).

This matters enormously. Let me explain why.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Out now, my conversation with Tara Humphries

Find out why I’m passionate about General Practice

I’m biased but worth a listen

 https://t.co/tCEpeCW0Ga

[Dr David Nicholl @djnicholl]

Turns out we were lied to 8 years ago https://t.co/lcnGJ0fyMm

[Doctors’ Association UK @TheDA_UK]

🗣️ | "The Government and @wesstreeting need to hear the overwhelming feedback from GPs that the new imposed contract is unacceptable.
"It creates needless barriers for patient care, and massive increase in workloads for GPs and their teams."
🔗 https://t.co/0NHUO3SbhZ

[Dr Dave Triska @dave_dlt]

Extraordinary comments from secondary care. I truly believe that they won’t get it until they are gone.

>1.4m consultation *a day* in general practice. A day. And hospitals think their meagre admin burden (comparatively ) deserves to be heaped on GPs.

[Dr David Nicholl @djnicholl]

Ignoring the results of the very inquiry the UK government ordered….8 y ago

[Doctors’ Association UK @TheDA_UK]

https://t.co/BE19aHVaZi

[Doctors’ Association UK @TheDA_UK]

Thank you to all the MPs from across Parliament who attended yesterday's Palantir briefing. And thank you to everyone who asked their MP to attend.
https://t.co/7EFstsOBVa

[Doctors’ Association UK @TheDA_UK]

The National Training Survey is now open, and we're encouraging trainees and trainers to take part.
https://t.co/GOtk6QO2K6

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

I’ve been an NHS doctor for over 15 years

I can sit here and confidently tell you that the NHS is worse today than it has ever been

Streeting’s NHS funding cuts, doctor replacement, referral refusals have led to astronomical hospital wait lists & GPs on the brink of collapse

[Dr Matt Kneale (🦋drmk.link) @drmattuk]

The government promised to remove the GMC’s power to appeal its own tribunal’s decisions. Today’s consultation retains that power and expands it. Doctors will be dismayed.

Our response: https://t.co/BGCvLahBRf

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

The Government, @wesstreeting @NHSEngland @SKinnock @DHSCgovuk don’t have an answer

Advice & Guidance will prevent Jess’s Rule, remove patient choice & GP clinical decisions/right to refer to a Consultant Dr

It will create more work for GPs & move waiting lists to the community