Brandy

Mummy, Royal Engineer Army Wife, Paediatrician and aspiring Neonatologist. RCP Chief Register 23/24. Rugby fan 🏉🐯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Dr Svilena Dimitrova @NeoDoc11]

Don’t just tell half the story, Mr Streeting.

You have also allowed a situation where qualified doctors are effectively being replaced by cheaper ACPs who cannot provide the same level of care.

You have offended residents by making sure their pay as fully trained doctors is lower than that of people “playing doctor” some of whom are unregistered and unaccountable.

You have created a doctor bottleneck with fierce competition for training posts, leaving many doctors unemployed - while at the same time some nurses are being pulled from already short-staffed nursing rotas to cover doctor roles, which only worsens the staffing crisis on both sides.

If you want to explain the reasons behind these decisions, the public deserves to hear them too. If the goal is to reduce the number of doctors in the NHS and shift to a workforce mainly made up of ACPs, then be honest about it. That would inevitably create a two-tier healthcare system. But the knowledge will at least give the opportunity for the public to start saving for private healthcare fees or accepting they will not get good care if they are poor. And young British people can make informed decisions about whether to study medicine in the UK and, if they choose to, to be clear they need to plan to emigrate early - unless they have the rainbow unicorn level of luck currently needed to secure a specialist training post.

I am not sure how many future doctors will want to become consultants in ten years’ time if we end up with no residents, no staff grades, no associate specialists, and a system full of unregulated non-doctors taking on doctor roles while consultants bear the legal responsibility. I certainly won’t be part of that - and good luck to those who choose to be. The lawyers won’t go easy on you - I promise you that.

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[Steve Cantellow @SteveCantellow]

On Friday, together with @Dr_WilkinCrowe, @NUHDREEAM and a brilliant faculty we ran the first M-CREST (Maternal Cardiac Resuscitation and Emergency Skills Training) course — improving ICU team preparedness for maternal cardiac arrest.

Faculty came from obstetrics, emergency medicine, intensive care, prehospital medicine, neonatology and human factors providing training in resuscitative hysterotomy, neonatal life support, and non-technical skills.

ENORMOUS THANKS to all for your enthusiastic participation!

[Dr Melissa Ryan 🦀 @Melissa_S_Ryan]

You misread my comment. Our pay remains 21% eroded.

Doctors are taxpayers and NHS staff. We can help reduce waiting lists.

But successive governments’ failure to address our pay and training crisis mean that we have no choice but to strike. Unless you make a credible offer.

[Brandy @bgcox8301]

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[Brandy @bgcox8301]

When you work with the best team ♥️🚑👶♥️ (just a "quick" total 8 hour journey in the back of an ambulance) @CenTreNeonatal

[Brandy @bgcox8301]

My 10 year old daughter selected this book today at school for reading time. She is over the moon to read it and has asked can we buy our own copy for home! ♥️👠💃 @RuPaul

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

ICYI did a wide ranging podcast with @medicaccountant & @MedicsMoney last week 👇covering everything from basics of how NHS pensions work, basics of pension tax (AA, LTA, taper), McCloud, admin problems with scheme & why all residents really should be in scheme!
Pls share/RT

[Brandy @bgcox8301]

Bitter sweet moment when eldest girl child says Mummy with all the fun celebrations at school & our own street party this week-today is just like the real VE Day with Daddy away with the Army and not here with us. 🇬🇧❤️#veday80thanniversary #armyfamily #armylife #royalengineers

[Brandy @bgcox8301]

I don't care who you are or how beautiful you look, having a UK passport photo taken will make anyone look and feel like a complete hot mess 😩

[Brandy @bgcox8301]

I will never ever understand with all the greatness we can do in NHS, why can no one figure out a way to turn the heating off in any hospital in warm weather/summer?!? #melting

[Brandy @bgcox8301]

Today I have purchased white strawberries (delicious) and purple broccoli and absolutely blown my toddler's mind 😆😆😆

[Brandy @bgcox8301]

When your daughter comes home with a homework assignment you cannot wait to help her with! ❤️🏉🐯 @LeicesterTigers

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

Im sorry this whole national recruitment mess is a complete disaster. Why do we keep on seeing these monumentally damaging errors? I feel so bad for those caught up in this mess with lives on hold @RCRadiologists

The whole thing needs a rethink in all specialities IMHO.

[NeoTRIPS @NeoTRIPs1]

🚨Calling all current and incoming NICU resident doctors and ANNPs 🚨 the national 22 week study is coming and looking for local leads. Get involved here https://t.co/lp5bM3ZreC

[Brandy @bgcox8301]

Feeling quite smug that all the laundry is done, ironed and put away, house tidy and food prepped for the weekend; despite knowing the carnage I will return to Sunday night after working all weekend and husband home with all 5 children 🤦‍♀️

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

In just 24 hours, farmers have pumped water, cleared snow, dragged cars from ditches and helped those in floods, all while producing food for the nation 🚜 🇬🇧 👏

📸 Midlands Farmers

[Nottingham Centre for Newborn Care @NUHNeonatal]

Today was the official opening for the newly expanded NICU at QMC.

The unit has been expanded from 17 to 38 cots and now has more family space, a dedicated bereavement suite and a dedicated teaching space and fully kitted out SIM area. 1/5

[Nottingham Centre for Newborn Care @NUHNeonatal]

The countdown is on, we move into our new NICU on Thursday, official opening tomorrow. More pictures tomorrow...

[Brandy @bgcox8301]

You know the weekend is going great when you have already eaten all the hidden stress chocolate by noon on Saturday 😐