MattP-

🇮🇪, Resident Doctor, public health he/him RTs are not endorsements

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

A recent dispute over the term “noctor” is an example of GMC complaints being used in efforts to silence dissenting doctors, write @DrLKVaughan @parthaskar
https://t.co/IO234ivFWl

[Christine McClements @Chris_McClem]

Meanwhile our health & social care is being decimated by brutal cuts.

Less photo ops, more leadership please.

[Alan Stout @AlanStout19]

I’m not sure patients still struggling to access their GP, nor practices massively struggling to meet demand and stay afloat will agree….

[Scott Moore @ScottMoore0]

Jon Burrows’ one ‘red line’ on health was a puberty blocker ban.

Not cutting waiting lists, getting people seen to faster, or fighting or preventing disease.

But removing healthcare from the most vulnerable.

Burrows’ top priority was inflicting cruelty and harm.

[porky queave @workmansflopera]

That tweet aged like milk

[🎾 @jumpingbhs]

very disgraceful and double faced how wearing the ukrainian flag is seen as solidarious while wearing the palestine one is immediately considered “political” and banned…. unfortunately these people don’t care about victims of genoc!de when they’re not white.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

When politicians and media say ‘difficult choices’, that’s code for working class people about to be screwed.

[Danny Donnelly MLA @DannyDonnelly1]

This is a huge good news story about the success of the HPV vaccine in preventing cervical cancer in young women. #VaccinesSaveLives #GetVaccinated

[The BMA @TheBMA]

New figures show nearly 3,000 NHS patients EVERY DAY are treated in corridors and other inappropriate spaces.

This should be a source of national shame.

We hope publishing these new stats, after joint work from the BMA and other orgs, makes it harder for the Govt not to act.

[Des Henderson @desfilmsstuff]

I see an international cabal of grifters & racists are suddenly concerned about a crime in Belfast.

15 murders in Northern Ireland last year, including Adam Krzan (71) a polish man stabbed to death by Ryan Kerr… why no performative outrage? Why do Elon & Nigel not care? 🤔

[rey 🩷 @lenaluvrs]

for the record idgaf about how good of a tennis player people think zverev is or whatever all i care about is that he is a man who has been violent towards women and is still being celebrated and platformed as if that behaviour is acceptable

[Saoirse for President @2601Reva59892]

This is a good time to bring up this article for new tennis fans. A harrowing reminder of what victims of abuse endure and the lengths institutions go to in order to protect abusive men like Alexander Zverev.

https://t.co/FIBxFhZEfJ

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

Record-breaking €65,000 fine for Vallejo 🥰

Great on Roland-Garros for setting a precedent and not letting these nauseating comments fly.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Targets Hamas”

The BBC is still justifying bombing hospitals.

[BBC News NI @BBCNewsNI]

A new scheme for quicker transfers from ambulances to emergency departments has led to more patients waiting in corridors and chairs, according to a leading consultant.

https://t.co/YmYenD65f4

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

When I first looked into the UK debate on a national prostate cancer screening programme, especially with the advent of gamechangers like mpMRI, had to ask, does any Western country actually do mass screening?
It turns out Lithuania does & it’s the ultimate cautionary tale.

It was launced in 06 with routine PSA blood tests for men aged 50–74 & if the PSA was elevated it triggered a direct referral for a TRUS biopsy.

Within a year, prostate Ca incidence rates skyrocketed to the highest in the world (peaking at over 182/100,000) with mostly indolent cancers being found that would've never caused symptoms or affected their lives. —Overdiagnosis.

With it they also recorded massive rates of unnecessary radical prostatectomies leaving healthy men with lifelong incontinence & erectile dysfunction (as high as 50% in some areas)—Overtreatment.

It is like a living example of everything the NSC is worried about could happen if the UK blindly deploys a programme and fails to follow available evidence.

They are not shutting the door on prostate cancer screening, for now, the committee has taken a cautious but responsible position, pledging to review new evidence as it becomes available & to revisit its recommendations when the science supports doing so.

[MattP- @MattP0P]

Hilarious headline there, thank you BBC

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Resident doctors to strike for 16th time over pay https://t.co/7PoDikIIoY

[Holly @SocialistHB]

VERY few trusts pay overtime.

Don’t use out profession like this on a subject you clearly have zero understanding of in practical terms.