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Dorset IMT

[James Steen @BMA_James_Steen]

Today’s resident doctors probably wouldn’t strike either if like you:

🔸Pay wasn’t cut 22%
🔹They didn’t have £100k student loans
🔸They weren’t being replaced by “associates”
🔹They had free accommodation early on
🔸A house was 3x rather than 8x salary
🔹They had job security

[Amy @amyl_green]

Let’s goooo

[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.

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

I genuinely don’t understand this way of thinking?

It’s exactly what we’re trained NOT to do as doctors.

**KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS & don’t act outside your competence** is drilled into us in medical school & throughout our training & career

Why are PAs being taught the exact opposite?!

This is exactly why scope of practice for PA is so urgently needed. We ALL work within a defined scope as doctors.

[Women's Aid @womensaid]

There will be women tonight dreading their partner coming home. Football does not cause domestic abuse, but it can become more frequent or severe after big games, with reporting increasing by 38% when England lose.

Go to https://t.co/tPMboTaqy2. In an emergency, always call 999.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

[Dr Sarmy™️🩺🏏 @Dr__Sarmy]

Oh my, this is is brilliant from @RobLaurensonD4P

🚨 Strike action has cost the govt £3bn
🚨 Full pay restoration would have only cost £1.3bn
🚨 Re 35% demand - a physician’s assistant is paid 35% more than a fully qualified doctor 🤬🤬🤬

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I’m simply horrified to see @NHSEngland now literally breaking the law in how it misrepresents physician associates & other allied health professional - who are NOT doctors - to the public.

These posters are from the Bradford District & Craven Health & Care Partnership. 1/n

[Dr Robert Laurenson @RobLaurensonD4P]

Doctors are asking for approximately:

£14/hr --> £19/hr
£16/hr --> £22/hr
£19/hr --> £25/hr
£24/hr --> £32/hr
£28/hr --> £38/hr

That's £5/hr - £10/hr restoration.

That's not going to break the bank.

It's £1bn.

Lord knows the Government have spaffed up the wall much more.

[Roshana 🦴 @RoshanaMN]

🚨Patient Safety🚨

I’m not sure people really understand why doctors are up in arms about this government trying to substitute doctors

Why we think it will affect patient care?

So let me explain to you what it has taken me to train to become an NHS consultant, necessary to uphold the standards, as per our Royal Colleges:

🔴 Competitive selection to Medical school - 5 years

🔴 Competitive selection to Intercalated Degree - 1 year

🔴 Competitive selection to Academic foundation programme (first two years of training once you graduate as a doctor) - 2 years - Moved city a few times due to distances

🔴 Multiple papers published, in my own time, paid for myself

🔴 Multiple courses attended, on my own time, paid for myself

🔴 MRCS exams and study materials and courses (entrance exam for surgeons), in my own time, paid for myself

🔴 Competitive Selection to Core Surgery training (2 years, another move for most, I managed to stay in same city)

🔴 Multiple courses attended, paid for by self

🔴 Surgical portfolio kept, paid for by self

🔴 More projects, audits and published papers, in my own time

🔴 Very competitive selection to Trauma and orthopaedic speciality training - Moved city again

🔴 Rotated around 5 hospitals, majority of time have had 2 children and 4 hour commute. Childcare hours don’t fit NHS Rotas or working patterns - huge debt because of childcare

🔴 Attended countless courses, paid for by self

🔴 More papers, portfolio and audits in own time (research time we get doesn’t cover extent we have to do)

🔴 FRCS (consultancy exam) paid for by self, revised in own time

🔴 Cannot count how many times have attended extra unpaid lists just to ensure getting what is needed

19 years on. Multiples of tens of thousands of pounds later. I’m still not finished, though nearly there

This is what it takes to become a consultant in the NHS, different timings for different specialties but equally gruelling. GPs highly trained generalists with similar expectations in competency

Is it any wonder your doctors are incensed that doctor-substitutes are suddenly being paid more than them and being allowed to see patients LIKE A GP, after 2 years of training?

There are many MDT highly trained specialists like ANPs, physios and pharmacists who are upskilled to see differentiated or skills aligned patients, they are excellent, but their scope is well defined

Physician Associate however have been let loose unregulated and unscoped, to create a two tier health system. This is unsafe.

The majority of ones I’ve worked with have been enthusiastic, knowledgable of local logistics, helpful and proactive. However, this does not = medical training.

There are plenty of things doctors would welcome help with. Things to reduce the burden of the job. But doing the job of a doctor without the proper training is not it.

Stand up for the quality of your healthcare

We are

@wesstreeting @Keir_Starmer

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Today it has been reported that during our first round of action in England mortality rate was 11.1% above the 5 year average.

What they haven’t reported was that in Wales, where no strike action took place, mortality rate was 14% above the 5 year average. 1/3

[Tim Ricketts @timricketts_]

“If doctors aren’t happy with their pay, they should get a different job”

Yeah, we are.

This is the most striking graph I’ve seen so far regarding the retention of doctors. Full pay restoration or watch the graph turn blue

[Kat Parmar @KatParmar]

Here’s my payslip as a first year doctor in 2005, next to a first year doctor colleague’s in 2023. 18 years later, their take home salary is less than mine was. I lived for free in hospital accommodation and had a fraction of their student loan.
#JuniorDoctorsStrike

[Prof Ewen Harrison @ewenharrison]

Astonishing that the #JuniorDoctorsStrike seems subject to a news blackout.
@BBCNews covering Paris bin strikes though - how wild is that?!
What's going on do you think?

[Dr Chris Day @drcmday]

Introducing you to how the UK values key workers curtesy of the @FT

This is why I support the strikes

https://t.co/oJy9zhyIm2

[Russell 🏳️‍🌈 @Medic_Russell]

A refresher on the term Junior Doctor - this is anyone who’s qualified from medical school but isn’t a consultant yet. I will be a junior doctor for 9.5 years by the time I become a consultant. Junior doctors are in charge of the hospital on site overnight… #DoctorsStrikes

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Junior doctors have voted YES to strike action in England.

This is a giant step forward for junior doctors and #PayRestoration. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard for this. Keep an eye out for next steps. #BMADoctorsVoteYes https://t.co/aqmKXZXKN6

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

It’s sobering to see the no-expenses-spared approach in the executive suites @NHSBartsHealth.
Meanwhile, executives cap locum rates, let doctors’ messes fall into disrepair, and claim that taking coffee on the wards is stealing patients’ supplies. https://t.co/WNWD7VoBtq

[Catriona (she/her) @CatrionaRennis1]

Unsure why my trust thought this was a good idea to post when junior doctors are being refused lockers, have to change in the toilets, the doctors office light is broken and we don’t have a place to rest on a 12h night shift.
https://t.co/OoeSmERoyF

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

JDC today voted to enter trade dispute on behalf of junior doctors in England with the Government over pay, recognising anger felt at years of damaging pay cuts, chronic staff shortages and persistent underfunding.

A ballot for industrial action is planned for around January 9

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

🎵Bonkers - Liz Truss ft Dizzee Rascal 🔥