Lindsey Wright

We peaked too soon 😂😂

[Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern]

Celebrities, rich people and ex-prime ministers should not make health policy. Prostate cancer screening is just not as simple as some are making out. There are real harms caused when people are treated unnecessarily.

[TIVA Tim @TheSnoozeDoctor]

Imagine the public reaction if they realised that the senior person overseeing an entire Emergency Department was not even a medically trained doctor. I was under the impression this practice had largely stopped, but clearly some trusts and DGHs operate very differently!

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

A fully qualified FY1 doctor earns £19.27/hr after 5-6 years of medical school and over £100,000 of student debt.

We are asking to reach £23.41/hr over time.

That is fair, reasonable and long overdue for highly qualified professionals.

Doctors deserve to be valued properly.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

GP practices are patient data protectors

The new Health Bill will remove the GP & move the data controller (protector) role to the Secretary of State for Health

Your sharing data ‘opt-out’ may not be protected in the same way

I have ‘opted out’ but doesn’t stop sharing data

[Sophia Edwards 💙 @sophia_edw28123]

A record drop in waiting lists is being sold as success, but much of it comes from patients being removed, not treated.

A&E is still in crisis with corridor care and long delays, while persistent staffing shortages continue to strain the system.

That is not fixing the NHS.

[DoctorsVote @DoctorsVoteUK]

4/5 doctors concerned that advanced practitioners usage in the NHS is putting patients safety at risk

Incredibly concerning alongside the open admission by trusts that they are being used to substitute doctors

Patients deserve better

#AskforaDoctor

https://t.co/yUK65NuHdX

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Steve is right here and the NHS is under-managed compared to peer nations

But it is also under-doctored and average for nurses

But a bid reliance on other staff which means the NHS has a high number of people working in it

[Parody RCGP @Parody_RCGP]

Extra sauce costs £1.
The funding for unlimited GP care is 32 pence.

And they then tell you that GPs are greedy. And you all lap it up.

[@DrKatie.BSky.Social @doctor_katie]

#UKBiobank

GPC England has consistently expressed concerns for years regarding @uk_biobank’s lax approach to the security of its dataset

We’ve been repeatedly reassured by Govt, but nevertheless we insisted that NHS England retain liability…

1/4

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

MPs have urged the UK government to scrap a “dreadful” and “shameful” £330m NHS contract with the controversial US tech giant Palantir during a Westminster debate
https://t.co/JBZa6hszVV

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Today @CHPIthinktank published a singularly depressing analysis of 760 private firms now providing NHS services in England such as CT scans, hip and knee replacements & mental health support.

Companies like Spire & Circle are creaming off billions from these lucrative NHS contracts.

£2bn of £12bn worth of contracts went to firms with owners based outside the UK.

£533m of this £2bn went to companies owned by people living in tax havens such as Jersey and the Cayman Islands.

I find it grotesque that while NHS patients are stranded on trolleys in corridors or waiting months or even years for care, taxpayers’ money is being siphoned off into offshore tax havens & lining the pockets of private equity companies.

The government *could* be investing in growing NHS capacity – instead, it has elected to grow private companies’ grip on the NHS, a short-term folly that is already costing patients dear.

Madness.

[Andy Pow @medicaccountant]

Yet the number of people being seen has grown … and you wonder why ther service is stretched !?!

[Dr Shan Hussain @DrShanHussain]

That’s one way to get waiting lists down… stop GPs from adding patients to them.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Government sets target for one in four GP referrals to be ‘diverted’ by 2027 

The hospitals are making such a bad job of reducing the waiting lists so

Dear GPs kindly sort it out for us!

There is one GP for every 5.3 hospital Doctors

Do the maths🤷🏻‍♂️
https://t.co/PqsdKe0hCI

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

The student loan scandal - interest on loans is more than the repayments for many on Plan 2 so debt grows trapping them with extra 9% income tax for up to 30 years https://t.co/1kw8ZC6Efi £15.2 billion interest added to student loans last year, only £5 billion repaid.

[Dr Richard Webb @DrRJWebb]

I’m becoming increasingly irate with how this is being framed as reducing disruption to parents. Chicken pox has nasty complications for children, including death, stroke, PICU admission. Let’s start with that. With child health, the child is first, always.

[Dr Dave Triska @dave_dlt]

If only this could had been predicted….

Once again, we told you so. Forced online access has had real consequences

@doctor_katie @DrSteveTaylor @Parody_RCGP