Selvaseelan Selvarajah

Just a GP in East London with various roles. #TeamGP #NHS . Views - mine only, not organisations I’m part of. #தமிழ்

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

@DrSteveTaylor @Ragey808 @DianaJohnsonMP @YvetteCooperMP @andyburnham @VictoriaTzB @DavidGWrigley @rcgp I was nearly removed and had to write to them to say I was still registered with my GP.

Short time period to confirm and letter would have been easy to miss.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Could a funded Birthday Month Review change the trajectory of UK health prevention. Bring back the family Doctor. Reverse some of the declining health outcomes.

It’s new & different, but could it work?

Using the skills & knowledge of GPs to plan, prevent & refer appropriately

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

NHS England have removed 775,000 patients from GP registered lists over the past 9 months

This is £135m of recurrent annual funding.

This week they provided £40m for additional work - winter (non recurring) funding.

This is not new £s it’s lost £s which provided patient care.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

@JohnNofuchsia @jeanniejuno @wesstreeting Sure…

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Another trip to London. This time for a meeting here in the Parliamentary estate about General Practice. The forgotten part of the NHS providing 380million appts/year but not funded adequately with 20% cut in 10 years in real terms.
Imagining the possibilities if funded properly!

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

@docsuzy Do tag me on LinkedIn and will be happy to share and will speak to my RCGP Scotland colleagues too.

[Tamil Guardian @TamilGuardian]

🕯 ‘The greatest humanitarian crisis of the war’ – Press coverage of the Jaffna exodus

Despite Sri Lanka’s wartime censorship, foreign journalists and aid workers reported on the half a million Tamils fleeing Jaffna in 1995. They wrote of refugees sleeping outdoors in monsoon rains, shortages of food and medicine, and the military blocking relief.

Sri Lanka barred international agencies from operating independently, and its foreign minister accused the UN Secretary-General of exaggerating the crisis.

[Susan Bowie 🧶🧡🎗️🌹 @docsuzy]

So Twitter please do your stuff.
I’m desperate to find a GP successor for my great wee rural practice in Shetland. I’m retiring in April. We have advertised with no success so far. Please share widely

[Tamil Guardian @TamilGuardian]

🕯 Remembering the Jaffna exodus – 500,000 displaced

On 30 October 1995, more than half a million Tamils fled Jaffna as the Sri Lankan military, under the then Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga, launched its offensive to capture the peninsula.

Carrying what they could, they crossed the Navatkuli bridge and made the dangerous boat journey to the Vanni.

“The greatest humanitarian crisis of the war is in the making,” The Times reported.

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

@Parody_RCGP

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

@higherutley @GPonlinenews Still a current mate. Not as active on this platform. 😊

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

@drsanjoykumar So sorry for your loss Sanjoy.

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

@Parody_RCGP And I am your biggest fan!

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

@Parody_RCGP Thank you Parody. Did you come and say hi?

[GPonline @GPonlinenews]

GPs must ensure that rapid advances in artificial intelligence are used to strengthen the core human relationships at the heart of the profession, the RCGP annual conference in Glasgow has heard.

Speaker - @DrSelvarajah

Full story: https://t.co/ivbnD6EeBq

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

@Xeon4f145d96s1 In that instance, you are a patient with expert knowledge of medicine. Hopefully, your doctor will take that background into account when managing you.

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

@dave_dlt Really sorry Dave. Absolutely agree.

We are all here for our patients and it’s important to listen to their concerns, especially when this isn’t their first time experiencing this.

[Selvaseelan Selvarajah @DrSelvarajah]

There are two experts in the room - the patient, an expert in themselves and the doctor, expert in medicine.

Another simple concept to also consider- ideas, concerns and expectations.

[Dr Dave Triska @dave_dlt]

“You’ll need ultrasound to get that in”

“No no, we have to have a go”

“Respectfully we’ve heard 50+ people say the same thing and then wreck the vein”

“Well we can try….”

And repeat.

It is *so* frustrating sometimes in the NHS.

LISTEN TO THE SODDING PATIENT