The next IR module starts in April with the @uniofeastanglia We have team members on the module and it would be great to see others from other IR's so we can learn together.
@LittlePersonDoc@Cray_tweets1@papodcast In this case the doctor is at home picking up the dole because they've literally used the funding to employ a PA
A few bad eggs are driving this from the top. Trainees and consultants can easily fight this but only if they get vocal
The persistent denial against expert opinion and evidence that Covid is airborne is absolutely no different to the way the PA project is being handled by the medical executive
It just what @NHSEngland do
Gaslight, promote the wrong people and take zero accountability
Sorry to keep going on about this, but a reminder that @RCPCHtweets:
🔴 Knew in 2021 that @AlderHey was using a physician associate for child protection medicals
🔴 Awarded the project a prize
🔴 Included physician associates in their child protection audit
No apology yet.
Another Covid-era scandal emerges: Excalibur Healthcare, once awarded £160m in Covid contracts, has collapsed into liquidation with £22m owed to the taxpayer. Shady dealings, unpaid bills, and failed deliveries of PPE and ventilators expose another chapter of Covid-era profiteering. Investigations by HMRC and forensic accountants are underway.
Full story online and in the latest issue: https://t.co/JMVB4DX8bN
Even the general public understand PAs are a complete ripoff to the taxpayer & a drain on precious NHS resources.
If someone could kindly explain this simple concept to @wesstreeting , @NHSEngland , @gmcuk & @NHSE_WTE , that’d be grand.
I'm furious on Dr Shams behalf
If this is how someone would treat a knowledgeable and vulnerable colleague, how the hell does an average patient stand a chance
Disgusting behaviour from the Trust
@JackieSham I am appalled you've been treated in this manner. Ironically, if you *weren't* a doctor, but an ordinary member of the public, they'd have never dared adopt tone against you.
The consultant, whom I had never met, has said the PA did introduce themself as a PA. This is in direct contrast to my lived experience and as such, they are accusing me of lying. They are taking the word of the PA against me the patient.
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“Physicians Associate’s support and treat patients from birth to end of life.”
Without any formal education, training, assessments or examinations to allow them to do so.
PA in london with 5 years experience mirroring a doctor’s rota 48h/week 1in2 weekends and 7 nights per month is paid £92,300 and a ACP £104,000.
A FY2 is paid £62,300 for the same.
One observation having investigated the Letby case for over a year is how frightened people working in the NHS still are of speaking up. Those of us who are retired can express a view, but every NHS expert I’ve spoken to has been very wary of going public in person, because of the effects it might have on their career. Their employers and institutions are telling them to shut up because they don’t want to be linked to the case in any way. It has taken me over a year to find a neonatal nurse prepared to speak to the media, and the interview will come out later this week. But they are absolutely terrified of being identified. What does that tell you about safety culture in the NHS, and how little progress we have made over the last 25 years?