ben daniels

doctor and author. Not that great at either.

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@drjamiegreen @CareQualityComm @wesstreeting @rcgp I feel your pain. We had a similar terrible experience with cqc. They’re not fit for purpose. I wrote a long complaint but it amounted to nothing. No consideration of the damage to staff morale. I nearly closed the practice things were so bad.

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@JoannaCannon I returned to the piano a few years ago Joanna. Like you I had many years away. Play every day now. Was frustrating and slow initially but fine now. I read music still, but find I most enjoy playing my favourite songs by looking up the chords online. Such a pleasure. Enjoy!

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@DrHannahLunch 25% of adults have symptoms of adhd. Myself included. How can we manage this as gps whilst maintaining access to specialists and medication for the much smaller percentage of neurodivergent people who really aren’t functioning. Current wait to be seen 5 years and growing!

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@JustJeannie3 @EmergMedDr Nothing to treat if walking in to ED the next day.

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@drjamiegreen Thanks for sharing this Jamie. We had a similar devastating experience with cqc in 2022. Brutal punitive report that was inaccurate and looking at factors that no gp would consider important. I complained but got nowhere. Looking for a way out of gp since.

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@notcoolbruh_ @RD_Catherine @Dr_Ellie I’m not convinced that the answer is testing, but I do believe in the harm of ultra processed foods and the need for patients and doctors to acknowledge the harm they are causing.

[Dr Peter Weeks @DrPeterWeeks1]

I have a radical idea,an innovative single point of access to healthcare, fronted by experienced Doctors with specialist generalist skills,offering high quality personalised care and continuity as core principles. We could call it old style General Practice, just imagine that 🙏

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@Dr_Ellie @NHSEngland @TalkTV @nkpharmacy Im a bit worried this could create more work. Lots of our local pharmacists direct patients to us for mild self limiting problems. Is there good evidence that this reduces work load for GPs?

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@pulsetoday Prioritising access over continuity is a big mistake. Offer great continuity and access improves as a result due to less demand. Plenty of evidence to show it. Also so much more job satisfaction for clinicians when they know their patients.

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@DrEmmaNash Cqc

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@AmandaWjustme @medicaccountant @johnghughes3 @DrSelvarajah @Paulwilding1W @DAUK_GP @CockertonMark @SaveCRH @999CallforNHS Shame isn’t it. Staff and patients know good safe primary care is patients having access to appointments and good continuity of care. Cqc and government think it’s lifting and handling e-learning modules and endless policies that no one reads.

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@Paulwilding1W @medicaccountant @johnghughes3 @DrSelvarajah @DAUK_GP @CockertonMark @SaveCRH @999CallforNHS What’s the story with jubilee st practice? Outstanding cqc. Terrible reviews from patients. I often see this correlation and the inverse.

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@medicaccountant @johnghughes3 @DrSelvarajah @Paulwilding1W @DAUK_GP @CockertonMark @SaveCRH @999CallforNHS Patients have been great. They wrote letters to cqc and very supportive. No real support from lmc, pcn or icb. Local practices sympathetic but too busy trying to keep their own wheels from falling off.

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@pulsetoday @NHSEngland Oh shit this is real! I last read about it on 1st April and genuinely thought it was an April Fools.

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@PWoywodt @KieranLincsGP @dralisonj The Covid era has massively increased health anxiety. There is now very little tolerance for any sort of feeling or symptom that might have previously been accepted as normal or been expected to resolve naturally with time. So rare to see someone actually physically ill,

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@DrRison @QMUL_CEG We are a bit shit at recording ethnicity. Never really understood the benefit of recording this data. How is it used? How could it benefit patients or us?

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@curiousfaa Cheers dude. It’s a bit old now so nice to know someone somewhere still reading it.

[ben daniels @drbendaniels]

@DrYvetteDocGP Sorry to hear that. Our nurse has gone off with stress following a really grim cqc visit that hit us all hard. Our practice manager has also had an incredibly increase in workload but is somehow still standing. Thank god!