Neil Kerfoot

GP in Kingswood Bristol for 27 years. Have loved being a GP. Hard work but it gives back. Retiring 30.6.23. Age group triathlon is my vice.

[Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 @ERunswickBMA]

Excellent article

https://t.co/qF4E5umZ2Q

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Bank Holidays means a day off for most, but not for thousands of NHS staff keeping services running.

Resident doctors, often starting work with over £100k debt, are the lowest paid workers in hospitals today.

RT to remind @wesstreeting every NHS worker deserves fair pay.

[DaddyNeedsCoffee 🇺🇦 🚴‍♂️ 🎨 🇪🇺 @DaddyCoffee73]

I stand with @jessphillips… National treasure 👍 Share if you agree.

[The IGPM @TheIGPM]

The Institute of General Practice Management response to the 2024 Budget announcement.

[The IGPM @TheIGPM]

Letter from the IGPM to Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, @wesstreeting, regarding National Insurance and the impact on general practice.

[Neil Kerfoot @gpbloggeru]

@RobynJ85 @pulsetoday @PulsePCN Well said Robyn. We must ensure we keep correcting this ‘increase’ It is only an increase if you have underspend to absorb it. Efficient PCNs (4PCN) fully allocated now have an impossible dilemma.
Come on Uncle Wes - understand it and sort it please

[James @Jkbmedic]

Imagine if every ICB and Hospital Executive had to think to themselves “if my organisation is in financial deficit, will I still be able to afford to draw a salary to pay my mortgage?”.

Because that’s how GP Partners HAVE TO THINK everyday.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Nigel farage wants you to think that Britain has an immigration problem.

It doesn't.

Britain had a problem with millionaires hoarding wealth, egged on by politicians and the press.

Britain has a problem with racism.

Britain has a @Nigel_Farage problem.

RT if you agree.

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear @Conservatives,

14 years ago you inherited the #1 ranked healthcare system on the planet and look what you've done: We now have the longest GP, A&E, cancer, and outpatient waiting lists in NHS history. 7.6m people long. You don't deserve power. You deserve prison.

#SOSNHS

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

NHS staff are not failing, they have been failed for 14 years

Please RT if you agree

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

The NHS collapse - it has taken just 13 years - take a look at this from Channel 4 News

Then share it so that people can be reminded that things were better and can be again

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

It's puzzling that people blame "the NHS" for the state it's in. It's not a religion, simply a mechanism for paying for universal care (tax funded, free at the point of need, largely publicly provided). The main reasons it can't cope with demand, in no particular order are...

1. Alarming levels of child poverty, health inequality and unhealthy ageing.
2. Pointless, costly and harmful political redisorganisations and outsourcings.
3. Reluctance of politicians to pay for and secure safe staffing levels and infrastructure
4. Insufficient focus on prevention, primary care, social care and education
5. Inability of those in authority to tell the truth, particularly when things go wrong
6. Lack of accountability for those who cover up the truth, suppress whistleblowers and kick obvious scandals into the long grass.
7. Treating the staff so poorly that want to leave, or do leave, to seek a less stressful, better paid job.

This has got nothing to do with the NHS as a funding system, but the political and voter choices that have allowed it to be underfunded - and hence unsafe - for so long. It's rare in life you get "more for less". In healthcare, we usually get "less for less". We are currently not providing prompt universal healthcare but rationing it so severely that people are suffering and dying for want of health, dental and social care. Myriad public inquiries have recommended rebuilding the NHS around safety and quality, but until we address these issues we are just pissing in the wind...

This doesn't sound much like comedy, but I will try to add a few gags in before the Edinburgh fringe...

https://t.co/Da6NjOXZvm

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

If everyone who wants The Conversatives out on the 4th of July follows and retweets we'll reach a million by midnight and have a much bigger voice for the next six weeks.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

COST COMPARISON

Glastonbury weekend ticket £335
Full car service + MOT £225
Pet insurance £360
Football season ticket £380
5 take-away Coffees/week £3.40 - £884

Did you know that you get all your GP practice services for a year for £165

It’s too little & been cut £35
#GPCrisis

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Last year, Southern Water released raw sewage into our waters for 317,285 hours, up 116% on the year before. Now they are asking Ofwat if they can put up our bills by a whopping 91% to pay for their failure? It's an outrage. What an absolute scam. https://t.co/GBVcFUzgY4

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

When Junior Doctors are on £16 an hour and MP's are on £46 an hour.

And raising the Junior Doctors pay by £4 an hour is unaffordable, even though they just raised MP's pay by £5 an hour.

It's hard not to see the lie.

RT if Junior Doctors NEED paying.

[One Care @onecaretweets]

Sunday is International Nurses' Day and One Care wants to thank the more than 500 general practice nurses across BNSSG!

Nurses are a key part of general practice - from administering immunisations to wound management, they are vital for high quality patient care.

#NursesDay

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

In the wake of the #RCPEGM scandal, 29 Fellows of ⁦@RCPhysicians⁩ - 11 of whom are Professors of their field - have sent the following open letter to the College.

This is true medical leadership - thank you all 👇

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

Shit life syndrome is by far the biggest determinant of ill-health. We all need decent jobs, diets, a living income, green space, shelter, security, friends, clean air, purpose & kindness. If we focus on these, the economy & NHS will thrive. If we don't, chronic illness will win