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[Nwachinemelu @Tsarina_muna]

The motion to make significant experience 5years passed btw. We lost by 4 votes and 19 reps abstained from voting (lol)

But incase someone tries to say they don't know the implication of asking imgs to get 5 years.

[Opeyemi Makanjuola 🇳🇬 🌍 💙 @makanjuolaoa]

This is the outcome of the bill that you welcomed, and today at #BMAARM26 your reps will be pushing to get ‘significant experience’ for IMGs to be defined as 5 years.

Shame!

@TheBMA @BMAResidents

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

Just let me see if I got this remigration thing right...

so we want only British People living here??

but its fine for British people to go live in other countries? or are we saying Brits shouldnt live in spain,america,china,thailand etc

I am confused

[iamTesleem @el_tesleem]

@Tsarina_muna @InvisibleOpey The ball game is to get everybody out. Come to think of it, these brown guys are at the forefront of everything. People that are just lucky because their ancestors bought a one-way boat ticket in the 50s.

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

"Whichever way you look at it, the NHS has indeed exploited IMGs to keep the system running.

They have been turned into expendable pawns, played by politics and poor workforce planning"

Via @bmj_latest

https://t.co/18exSyKZZ2

[Babatunde Ogundipe @lobatan_tunde]

While some people are bragging about how much they have sidelined and sabotaged IMGs including literally making them lose their jobs.
Some are saying they had no input and its all the Govt.
Playing ping pong with lives.
Such disrespect of our collective intelligence.

[Dr Mohit Bhagia @DrMohitBhagia]

If the committee is aware of overqualification criteria and how it effectively excludes IMGs from many specialties because of 5 years, then yes, it very much does factor into what the union advocates for as "significant experience" w.r.t UKGP

You can't close your eyes and blame it as being a Royal College issue. This is throwing IMGs under the bus, plain and simple.

Would you tell a UK grad interested in Surgery to go work in a random Medicine job for 5 years, effectively de-skilling them and unable to build a portfolio?

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

A reminder that there were no actual 'NEW' training posts

But LED posts -mostly held by IMGs

It's admission from @NHSEngland that LED posts don't have any training element to it

It's also IMGs being a negotiating pawn between @DHSCgovuk @TheBMA

Be more honest-everyone

Ta

[The Enlightenment @TheEnlight55824]

IMGs, it’s time to stand up against every injustice that has happened with you. For every life disrupted, for every career jeopardised, for every disrespect you faced from your UK colleagues.

The strike starts in the next 48 hours. Go to work, fail the strikes.

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

"We must review workforce numbers and consider whether PLAB exams should be paused.

IMGs need to be informed about the job situation in the NHS before they apply.

We also need a fundamental review of how IMGs are being used in the NHS"

Written in January 2025.

And here we are in April 2026.

You face what you don't plan for.
@NHSEngland @NHSE_WTE @DHSCgovuk

'The new storm propagated by poor medical workforce planning is now upon us'

Via @bmj_latest

https://t.co/9ozQaM3dna

[Dr Mohit Bhagia @DrMohitBhagia]

Significant experience is yet to be defined for IMGs, the Government will consult relevant stakeholders. The BMA (which does not do a good job of representing it's IMG members) has overturned it's ARM mandate of grandfathering to be able to push for 5 years, which would render many IMGs ineligible for specialties which have overqualification criteria in place for ST1 entry. The rules for 2026 will not apply to 2027 - so ILR and British citizen IMGs are not protected for now for the next round of applications.

[Indapamide 💊💉 @dr_longman]

You chair a team that wants to play a game with a politician, now you are crying because you are being played by the politician.

You are talking about shifting goalpost like you are not the one that called an emergency meeting to defer the mandate you got in the last ARM.

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

At 2pm, the NHS confirmed 1000 jobs would go ahead.

At 4pm, the Govt threatened to cut them?

3 weeks ago, goalposts of a pay deal suddenly shifted.

Huge amounts of government game-playing.

Let’s cut the government games and get a deal done to sort jobs & pay for doctors.

[Vinkay Baba @victorolatunji7]

The leaders of the BMA were playing politics with a politician . It’s what they do for a living and he took them to the gutters .

[IMG Voice @UKIMGVoice]

This is your reminder to kindly vote, if you haven’t done so.

This is extremely important and possibly the last chance to have your voice heard in the council and across the table.

Vote for IMG Voice endorsed candidates. United we win, divided we lose.

[Old K  @Adejibo]

Wes Streeting played the game of the year

Gave prioritisation, refused to give a good deal on pay, additional posts seem to be off the table

Prioritisation is now dividing the BMA, making strikes difficult to organise/as impactful

And Wes hasn't even had to spend money

[Conrad Fischer @SeeFisch]

Hippocrates was an IMG

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

'Speak up against #Racism and it will stop you getting higher roles'
'Speak up against #PAs and it will stop you from...'
Now it's 'Speak up for #IMGs and it will stop you..'

Someday, some of you will realise that when I want to speak up for an issue- which I believe must be spoken about?

I will.

And yes, they have consequences.

Yet- it's never bothered me- and never will.

Below is what I had predicted.

And I rarely get my predictions wrong.

There is also nothing that I am hoping to attain that will stop me from speaking up.

And no- it doesn't matter who doesn't.

If needed? I will do it alone.
Even if there is the chance of a snowball in hell's chance of success.

So please- stop telling what it will cost me.

I am an IMG- who has fought through much to be where I am.

And the least I can do is give a voice to those who don't.

YOU may not like that- but don't try to silence me.

[Sadiq Naveed @SadiqNaveed]

Who is an IMG here. Let's celebrate all of You.

Thank you for contributing to patient care.

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

@Frank9478968518 @TheBMA its what it is. Being an IMG and being treated differetly or being seen as 'lesser' is what I have dealt with for 27 years.

And am still here. This isn't new- neither will it go away.

I always shrug at any jibes- and let me work do the talking.