LaurenceDiamond

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[Paula McGowan OBE @PaulaMc007]

#Oliverscampaign
With respect, how pharmacist diagnose an ear infection or UTI?
What if there is something else going on?
We need to employ more GPs & stop expecting other professionals to fill gaps Pharmacist do important work but they are not doctors

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[LaurenceDiamond @larryd99]

@AlanStout19 Penny wise, pound foolish! If only people had told them!!

[Alan Stout @AlanStout19]

Little surprise that this was proposed by Northern Ireland as we are so far behind and it is so difficult to provide any sort of service.

We already have plans, and mainly because we have very little prospect of alternative

[Alan Stout @AlanStout19]

Second time I have heard this recently and this time to a UK wide audience.

It is mind blowing how far behind RoI we are in terms of patient care, access, prevention, quality and outcomes

[GPonline @GPonlinenews]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
UK GP leaders have voted in favour of moving towards hybrid NHS/private general practice, including balloting the profession in each country on introducing a means-tested, subscription-based service similar to NHS dentists. Full story: https://t.co/alB25zKjI5

[Mark Green @DrVoles]

LMC UK Conference in Northern Ireland today. #GPs vote overwhelminly in favour of pushing for a move to a hybrid #NHS / Private health care model, including a ballot of The Profession.

[Alan Stout @AlanStout19]

Have you seen what they are planning to do with your medical data?.

Genuine question, and you need to be all over it as it will become UK wide

[Tom Black @TomblackBlack]

The level of “houseman task dumping “ from secondary care to GPs has reached such epidemic proportions that I’m struggling to push it back in a timely manner. This stamp helps.

[Alan Stout @AlanStout19]

The message and intent is correct here.

It is effectively a properly resourced and staffed General Practice. It’s pretty much what we should do and want to do if only we could….

[Bill Smythe @BSmytheee]

@parthaskar @cochranereturns @DrSteveTaylor @GoggleDocs @doctor_katie @DrAmirKhanGP @AbbieSBrooks @DrSelvarajah @VictoriaTzB @DrLilyLamb @pcdosociety The whole point of community hubs is to demolish GP partnerships!

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

@AlanStout19 It’s not great when quarter of the NI population is waiting for hospitals

No wonder you GPs are so busy.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Contractors (GPs) working for a monopoly employer (or monopsony, a sole buyer of labour) experience high levels of dependency, with the employer (NHS) dictating wages & conditions, limited alternative employment options. They face risks of exploitation & coerced into free labour!

[Alan Stout @AlanStout19]

Michael is one of our most respected clinicians and has spent a career looking after our most deprived communities and desperately trying to improve services.

Please, please listen to him and learn from him

[Cool FM News @newsoncool]

⚠️🆘️GP WARNING: 'Young people have died because they refused to wait in A&E. It’s so sad, it shouldn’t be happening.'

🎥🎤Chief Reporter @jamesgould23 speaking to West Belfast GP Dr Michael McKenna.

He says a number of people from his practice have died because they didn’t want to face long waits in emergency departments.

He detailed how more and more people are staying away from A&E, even when they urgently need care.

He also made clear that the voices of GPs need to be heard.

It comes after a shocking new report highlights a “catastrophe” unfolding in Northern Ireland’s emergency departments.

It shows the number of 12-hour-plus waits and associated excess deaths, has more than doubled over five years.

The report by @RCollEM states that, in 2025, there were 1,032 excess deaths linked to waits of 12 hours or more in EDs while awaiting admission.

The body’s State of Emergency Medicine in Northern Ireland report found that, while the figure for 2025 is slightly lower than in 2024 (1,122) and 2023 (1,063), the estimated mortality rate has still more than doubled over five years.

[Alan Stout @AlanStout19]

Northern Ireland is the world leader in this.

We can’t find any other country in the world that spends a less proportion of health budget on General Practice.

Someone please prove me wrong….!

[James Steen @BMA_James_Steen]

“One of the NHS’s real advantages compared with its peers is that it is really good at keeping doctors’ pay relatively low, which means it can spend more money on drugs and treatment”

And there you have it;

Doctors are expected to subsidise the NHS through suppressed pay.

[Dr Dave Triska @dave_dlt]

📝 What you can’t measure

What happens when a GP sees something others couldn’t reach? What if the instrument wasn’t training - it was years of knowing a community?

Who measures what matters?

One room. One family. One conversation.

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[LaurenceDiamond @larryd99]

@Sir_Lord_Bull @dave_dlt Yes, staying on this bus leads to a worse future. Doing nothing is not neutral. Staying on this bus leads to further practice collapse towards the centre, going full private let's the corporates in too. The only positive future for patients and GPs is the hybrid one.

[LaurenceDiamond @larryd99]

@Sir_Lord_Bull @dave_dlt Short answer to this is no. If we go this route then we get corporate capture. Similar to community pharmacy. You end up as a puppet for a different master. The future is hybrid, similar to Republic of Ireland, but we have to actively get off the current bus and make it happen