Tim Nye

ACCS Anaesthetics trainee, East of England. Likes obs 👶🏼 and intensive care 💉. Eater 🍴. Watcher of cricket 🏏. Follower of Jesus ✝️.

[Mike @Mike88881221]

Hi @gmcuk. I'm not sure this is the best use of doctors' registration fees. I hope Mr Massey enjoyed catching up with his Conservative Party friends 🙄

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

A national scandal is quietly unfolding in the NHS.

1000s of doctors are being blocked from becoming Consultants & GPs because the Government is restricting training spots.

The public aren’t being told.

Unemployed doctors while waiting lists soar is nothing short of madness.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Dismayed to see you sharing such a misleading & potentially deeply frightening video, Kim.

If someone is in 'unspeakable pain' at the end of life, they should see a palliative care doctor like me - & I can promise you there is always something I can do for your pain. (1/n)

[Tim Nye @drtimnye]

@wesstreeting please read these four sentences I wrote to The Times, thanks

[Tim Nye @drtimnye]

My letter in The Times this morning about the urgent need for specialist training places as a higher priority than medical school expansion

[Tim Nye @drtimnye]

My letter in The Times this morning about the urgent need for specialist training places as a higher priority than medical school expansion

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

Did you know?
As celebrated by @NHSEngland(& rightly too)

There is National Day for:
Nurses 12/5
Midwives 5/5
Pharmacists 12/1
AHPs 14/10

Today, albeit no comms on it (must be cos it's Easter)
Its #NationalDoctorsDay 30/3

Celebrate it
And thank a doctor who may have helped you

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: LOTS of new data this week incl new pay data 28/3/24 👇 NEW charts incl NHS satisfaction (SPOILER: Its grim #MindTheGap)

MUST fix pay/retention to fix #WaitingLists- next GE WILL be won/lost on NHS.

Please read whole [long bumper] 🐇🧵 & share widely/RT

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

@jburnmurdoch @FT @ONS @NHSDigital @NHSEngland @JCribbEcon @TheIFS @bankofengland @instituteforgov @PayReviewBodies @BMA_Consultants @TheBMA @RishiSunak @UKLabour @Conservatives @10DowningStreet 35/ Our NHS is on its knees. Staff (& voting public) know it. Its not due to striking NHS workers or (just) covid, but due to political choices @10DowningStreet

RT if you want this (or next) government to make the choices to fix this mess now #payrestoration #fixDDRB

[Tim Nye @drtimnye]

...of GP training places worse as there'd just be even more competition. It was either ignorant or disingenuous of him to suggest the BMA limited GP training places.

[Tim Nye @drtimnye]

@LBC @IainDale BMA voted in 2008 to limit medical school places, not to limit the number of GP training places (for already-qualified doctors) as the UMAP representative suggested. This is a really, really important distinction - more medical students would only make the issue...

[Rachel Fraser @drrachelfraser]

How to prepare teicoplanin in 1 minute. Time to put your shavers away!
#medtwitter #nursetwitter #teicoplanin #passiton

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

@jburnmurdoch @FT @ONS @NHSDigital @NHSEngland @TomHCalver @thetimes @BenZaranko @TheIFS @Billy_Palmer_ @NuffieldTrust @RishiSunak @UKLabour @Conservatives @10DowningStreet @Keir_Starmer 30/ Our NHS is in a DIRE state. None of this is due to striking NHS workers, or (just) covid, but due to political choices @10DowningStreet

RT if you want this (or the next) government to make the choices to fix this mess now & properly #payrestoration #fixDDRB

[Charlotte Smith @cml_smith]

Booked a family holiday for Mar 24 in Jul 23. Spent months trying to contact the rota coord at the Trust I start at in Feb to organise leave. Told I needed to find swaps but not given contact details of other drs. It’s all become so stressful that we’ve cancelled the holiday.

[Dr Done @Dr_Done_]

The reaction of the UK Health Secretary on finding out that Physician’s Assistants are paid 35% more than the Physicians, and for less hours:

@VictoriaAtkins

[Tim Ricketts @timricketts_]

Our pay is less than other professions, our OOH burden is greater and our progression is becoming more difficult.

When we try to talk about it, we’re called elitist and asked to “be kind”.

If people took the time to understand the situation, they might be kind themselves

14/14

[Dr Robert Laurenson @RobLaurensonD4P]

Extraordinary response with Secretary of State for Health:

The NHS workforce can not be safely expanded by this group of associates with only 2 years of training

“it comes to standing up to the unions”

It’s now nakedly not about patient safety- it’s about breaking unions

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Doctors have ‘saved’ the Government, Taxpayer & NHS, approx £10bn* since 2008

Doctors are asking for pay restoration, not a reimbursement of lost income

The request amounts to £35 per head of population per year, about £2bn

*If Doctors pay had increased in line with inflation

[Dr Ellie Walder @ellieealexandra]

So disheartening to see this from a consultant in the department I’m currently training in. Thankfully all our other consultants (those actively involved in acute care for our patients, unlike Dr Johnson) have been so supportive of our decision and right to strike.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: we need to talk about NHS staff retention.

At a time when Britain’s healthcare system is acutely short of workers, *1 in 7* UK-trained doctors are practising overseas. No other developed country is like this, which immediately tells you there’s a problem.

Let’s dig deeper:

[Tim Nye @drtimnye]

@LBC the plan is not realistic - no mention of how these new students, after qualifying, will get into already competitive specialist training which is oversubscribed across the board. They need to clear current bottlenecks before more students come through.