Lizzie Hester

Brand New GP | Knitter @hive_knits | Doctoring funds my yarn habit 🧶 | advocate of the ginger emoji 👩🏻‍🦰 | Host of Hive Knits & Natters YT | MCR 🐝

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

@DrEilidhMaria Looks like it’s been removed now. I thought it was more a reflection on them and called it out amongst others. Hope you enjoy GP placement ☺️

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

10/10 experience @ManchesterREH eye hospital today. Used eye ED, seen in <1hr & 2x advanced practitioners I saw v knowledgable & levelled w/me as fellow HCP.

Also shout out to @EyecareServices GM CUES - spoke to them at 2100 last night and they WhatsApped me to check in this AM

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

@rosieICM Thoughts for Clive:
- FTE in GP is 9 sessions not 10
- I wonder if Clive knows hrs of standard day in GP if so would he still call it “part-time”
- if a GP treating Clive made an error due to working excess hours, would Clive say “it’s ok at least you were in work, I won’t sue”

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Conservatives are promising 100 GP surgeries

In 2010, there were 8,458 GP surgeries
In 2024, there are 6,311 GP surgeries

So 2,147 GP surgeries have closed since the Conservatives took office in 2010, and they are trying to entice you with 100?

Have some self respect and vote for Labour, LibDem, Green, SNP, Plaid Cymru, whichever candidate will remove your Conservative MP

[Dr Sandeep Bansal @iDrSunny]

I repeat…

Patients can’t get all appointments with their GPs.

2000 fewer GPs than 10 years ago

Yet newly qualified GPs can’t find work in the NHS

This is a political choice and agenda driven by DoH and NHS E.

If you feel you and your loved ones deserve better - make some noise

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

This is my cohort.
I’m one of the fortunate ones.

@VictoriaAtkins @wesstreeting @NHSEngland….

….FIX IT

@jamie_wallis @BMA_GP @doctor_katie @Parody_RCGP

[Jamie Wallis @jamie_wallis]

My new work colleague in Bolton is finishing her GP training soon, she is coming off the local VTS scheme. She told me only she and one other colleague have found jobs, the rest are jobless and are really worried about the future. That must be about 20 unemployed GPs from one scheme?

Why is this allowed to happen @VictoriaAtkins ?! Disgraceful.

@wesstreeting

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

@DrEilidhMaria My husband is a solicitor. All exam fees and course fees paid for by firm. Meanwhile I’m here having just paid >£1000 for my GP exit exam…and paying for the privilege of CCT-ing

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

For the last 14 years as an NHS doctor, I have watched this party, these governments, savage the NHS into a crumbling shell of a once great institution. Deliberate, calculated, shameless destruction.

Only one thing to say. Please, if you still want an NHS, do not vote Tory.

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

@jamie_wallis Perhaps would make more sense to address the parent/caregiver in this type of very young patient?

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

We frequently see this with 1ary care as piggy in the middle

- trying to refer in acutely
- trying to get a patient seen in OP

Thanks for continually interesting & thought provoking podcast 🙌🏻

@DrBenLovell @AmieBurbridge

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

Listening to #homeofmedicinepodcast ep about urinary retention in pregnancy

Reflecting on discussion re: bandwidth taken up w/back&forth between specialities “this patient isn’t for us”

…it’s bad in 2ary care. Now imagine being the GP trying to manage this daily in 10min

[Clement Lee, MD, MSc @ClementLeeMD]

me: any medical problems?

patient: no

me: ok any meds?

patient: lisinopril, Ativan, levothyroxine, sertraline, oxycodone

[Usama Syed, MD @usamasyed]

@nickgraynews As a doctor, let me say: the patient mindset in the waiting room (“Why is this taking so long?? Why can’t they stick to time?”) and the patient mindset IN the room (“Of course I can ask 20 questions, this is my health, don’t rush me!!”) are a huge issue here.

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

Well that escalated quickly

#teamgp
#cct

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

New hyper-focus: Home of Medicine Podcast by @DrBenLovell & @AmieBurbridge ✨
I’m not an acute medic; but the lessons I have learned as a (soon to be) GP from the generalist chit chat, diagnostic dilemmas & honest human factors deep-dive 🙌🏻

https://t.co/ceKYL5e3N8

[Seb @SebPillon]

Welcome to my day off processing work that secondary care can't be arsed to do for no apparent reason.

Enjoy my thread...

[Lizzie Hester @e11h11]

@jamie_wallis (Soon to be) welcome!