Jack Fletcher

Doctor | interested in critical illness | co-chair @BMANorthernRDC | dep chair @BMAResidents | in my rioja era |🌹| he/him

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

insanely proud of our new #doctorsmess - it was the outcome of a fabulous group of people coming together and having a laugh painting until 3am one weekend

it’s not often that you see, let alone make, genuine and sincere change in the NHS but we did it!

the NHS needs more of it

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Doctors in London, your cost of living allowance hasn’t risen in over 20 years.

Other NHS staff on the ward can rightly receive up to £8,746 per year to cover the cost of living. You receive just £2,162.

Want your London weighing to increase? Vote now: https://t.co/PHypWt8xyk

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

There's one thing London doctors get less of than anyone else on the ward: help
with the London cost of living.

Other NHS staff can get up to £8,746 a year. Doctors get £2,162, frozen since 2005. They deserve theirs. So do we.

Vote online by 30th Nov:
https://t.co/PHypWt95nS

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

£2,162 a year. That was doctors' London allowance in 2005. It still is today. Rent is up 128%. Childcare is up 133%. The allowance? 0%. London needs doctors who can afford to live here.

BMA Indicative ballot closes 30th November.

Vote here: https://t.co/PHypWt8xyk

[BMA London @BMALondon]

All doctors working in London, regardless of grade or employer, as well as doctors working outside London receiving the London Weighting Fringe payment, can take part in our indicative ballot.

It’s open now, vote here 🗳️👇🏼

https://t.co/a2COtZXtpi

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

That shouldn’t be happening, and is outside of what was agreed.

If you find out what the state of play is and why they’re making you reapply for your own job, or if they aren’t following the guidance in another way, let us know who it is as well as the details and we’ll take a look with a view to challenging it.

Plenty of LEDs have already been given permanent contracts right across England.

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

We’re not there yet, but this is a good start and a result of our efforts.

More jobs and better career progression for doctors should never have taken strike action to achieve.

But finally starting to turn that tanker is the result of us standing together.

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Your collective action has secured additional posts across 48 training programmes, plus 32 new academic clinical fellow posts.

On top of that last year’s Round 1 competition ratios are down significantly.

This is progress, and we’ll keep fighting for even more training posts.

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Busy London Weighting event at St Thomas’ today. Great to see so many doctors engaged, with justified frustration at a cost of living allowance frozen for 20 years while costs keep rising.

Want change? Vote YES in the indicative ballot:
https://t.co/ySoPggf6ST

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

London weighting for doctors hasn't changed since 2005. Time to fix that.

Our campaign events start today at St Thomas' Hospital, led by your London reps and BMA staff. Come and say hello.

Check your emails and vote yes in the indicative ballot by November 30th!

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Working overnight this Sunday, 25 October?

At 2am, the clocks go back to 1am meaning you will work an extra hour

If your shift or on-call period means you work that extra hour, exception report the additional time worked and likewise for breaks not taken on time.

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

In 2005…

📺 YouTube launched

🎮 Xbox 360 launched

🏆 The Goblet of Fire was in cinemas

😐 It was the last time the London weighting went up for doctors.

If you’re a BMA member in London - vote to change that 👇

https://t.co/D65OCUfzAZ

[BMA London @BMALondon]

Doctors’ London Weighting has been frozen since 2005. Enough is enough.

Today, BMA London has written to NHS London’s Regional Director calling for employers across the capital to come to the negotiating table.

If you work in London, vote in our indicative ballot below 👇🏼

[BMA London @BMALondon]

Doctors’ London Weighting has been frozen since 2005. Enough is enough.

Today, BMA London has written to NHS London’s Regional Director calling for employers across the capital to come to the negotiating table.

If you work in London, vote in our indicative ballot below 👇🏼

[Dr Aadam Aziz @Aadam_Aziz]

We're asking for parity with other NHS staff, not special treatment.

The cost of working in London has risen. London Weighting hasn't.

London doctors, please vote in the indicative ballot and help us secure fair London Weighting for doctors.

https://t.co/1Qc4pYplTV

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Your collective action has secured additional posts across 48 training programmes, plus 32 new academic clinical fellow posts.

On top of that last year’s Round 1 competition ratios are down significantly.

This is progress, and we’ll keep fighting for even more training posts.

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Patients need doctors, but if doctors are going to stay working in the NHS, then they need to feel valued. A 2.4% uplift, yet another sub-inflationary pay rise, is not the way to tell a workforce you value them.

[Callum Parr @callumjparr]

Resident doctors have made it clear that we will not accept real-terms pay cuts. If the DDRB recommends a sub-inflationary uplift that reverses the progress we’ve made towards restoring our pay, we need only look back at the last few years to see what would come next.

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Doctors in London have had their cost of living allowance frozen for over 20 years, despite soaring living costs.

It's time to act.

The indicative ballot opens today. Doctors, vote YES and talk to your colleagues about the campaign.

Let's win this together.

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

"You have an entire workforce working in a gig economy."

Outgoing BMA Resident Doctors' Committee Chair, Jack Fletcher @BMAResidents reflects on a year of strikes, pay erosion, and making deals with Government.

Read now or listen: https://t.co/bKU3Co2nOu

[Resident Doctors @BMAResidents]

Today the BMA resident doctors committee elected Dr Callum Parr as chair, taking over from Dr Jack Fletcher. He said: "I am going to lead a committee that listens to its members, builds on our current strength and organises so that we are never taken for granted." 1/2

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Recognition and representation are vital for SAS doctors, and there's still much more to do.

That's why we're taking part in #SASWeek26, to celebrate and support SAS doctors.