Ash R

medical student, midwife, intersectional feminist, pronouns he/him. Views are my own.

[Ash R @Ash_Ridd]

Do you want to find out how to better support trans men & non-binary people using your perinatal services?

Here’s a summary of @BSUH_maternity‘s Perinatal Care for Trans & Non-binary People guideline, available open access:
https://t.co/ss0U5Ya33Y

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[Ash R @Ash_Ridd]

@11brickbat @rbarbosa91 Or “If it’s puckered, you’re fuckered” - what I was taught as a midwifery student. Very memorable.

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

The junior doctors operating on your appendix are paid just £66.55 between them. For a potentially life-saving procedure, which lasts about an hour.

Is this a fair price to put on high quality healthcare?

#PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorsStrike

[Sally @so_says_sally]

I have rarely felt the fury that I feel at todays @DHSCgovuk “announcement” on social care. A massive retreat from what was already bare minimum first steps in long term reform. So on top of previously announced delays to the cap and a better means test, here’s what we now have..

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

Imagine there are two jobs under the same employer.
Imagine that they are tasked with virtually identical day-to-day roles - assessment, investigations, formulating management plans. Only Job 1 has the right to prescribe, and only job 1 has to do nights/weekends by default.

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Tories

If you're white Ukrainians we'll bring you into our homes & stop buying oil from your persecutors.

If you're from Africa/Middle-East we'll send you to concentration camps in Rwanda while selling bombs to the people who blew up your home.

But we're definitely not racist.

[Enough is Enough @eiecampaign]

Absolutely incredible turnout at today’s protest in London!

Teachers, doctors, civil servants, university workers and more striking together.

We demand fair pay for ALL 👊

#EnoughIsEnough

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Whatever gasp you take when you hear doctors are asking for a 26% pay rise, keep that same gasp when you realise that’s what this govt have taken away from them since they came to power!

One quarter less pay.

Now ask, why is there a staffing crisis?

[Russell 🏳️‍🌈 @Medic_Russell]

oh this is excellent! 🫶🪧🩺✊#JuniorDoctorsStrikes

[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

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

The Government has left us with no option but to strike.

Today thousands of us went to Whitehall and made it clear: We are not backing down. #JuniorDoctorsStrike

[Ben lankester @Benlank]

I’ve just completed a 12 hour shift covering orthopaedic FY2 on call. Juggling jobs, making complex decisions, difficult discussions with patients and relatives. This is not a job that should have pay parity with someone making coffee. #PayRestoration for junior doctors.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Treat junior doctors better or they will go somewhere that does. It’s that simple.

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

We strike today for our patients, our colleagues, and our NHS. Please visit a picket line near you to show support!

#SOSNHS #JuniorDoctorsStrike #DoctorsStrike #NHSstrikes

[Ash R @Ash_Ridd]

Overwhelming public support for the #JuniorDoctorsStrike this morning. Doctors need full pay restoration after real terms pay cut of 26% since 2008. They are worth more than £14.09/hr. @TheBMA

[Simon McCormick @DrSimonMc]

Nothing in the five headline stories that led on the BBC News at Ten about the Junior Doctor strike tomorrow.

About 50% of the NHS medical workforce and… silence.

Odd.