Max

[James Steen @BMA_James_Steen]

Not many others will have over the last 3yrs, no.

But everyone else has bounced back to break even, and is now above where they were on average.

And the bankers, who caused this whole thing are streets ahead.

Doctors just want the pay restoration everyone else got already!

[DoctorsUnited @DoctorsUnited]

Why are doctors in England striking?

A short thread 🧵

#NHS #DoctorsStrike

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

A bit of background info on Wes Streeting that you won’t have been given in his TV interviews today - particularly in regard to discussions about junior doctors and the @NHSuk There will have been no mention of the amount of money Wes has received from wealthy private healthcare providers in donations.

The @ElectoralCommUK website shows that Wes has received £587,259.00 in donations. These include:

£237,900.00 from the multimillionaire, private healthcare provider and Labour donor Peter Hearn.

£80,000 from the billionaire banker and hedge fund manager John Armitage.

£11,500 from Labour donor Sir Trevor Chinn.

£34,500 from the entrepreneur, banker and Labour donor Anthony Watson.

£37,000 from the consortium Labour For The Long Term @Labourlongterm

£3,143 from @unisontheunion

£15,000 from Labour donor Ruth Driscoll of @mariecurieuk

£5,000 from the once prominent Tory Lord Phillip Harris.

£2,000 from the @CommunityUnion

£5,000 from the software company @CalyxSoftware

£5,000 from Labour donor Richard Parker.

£14,600 from Lord Alli.

£16,000 from Labour donor Linda Riley.

£20,000 from Labour donor Francesca Sainsbury Perrin.

With his £159,038 salary, expenses (£33,653.91 claimed in the past year), generous donations, allowances and perks, Wes is prospering very nicely at Westminster.

On 9th July 2025 Wes voted for the Universal Credit/PIP cuts that will result in further hardship for people who are disabled and vulnerable. Wes also voted to scrap the #WinterFuelPayment to vulnerable pensioners 🥶 and voted to retain the two child benefit cap which ‘significantly contributes to child poverty’ in the UK.

@UKLabour @wesstreeting @IlfordNorthCLP @JuniorDocStrike

[Dave Bibby BA (Hons) @DaveBibby]

My wife watching me watching Charlotte Church digging
#CelebrityTraitors

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week.

I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me.

His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding.

This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need.

In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric.

@CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's.

Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are).

These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government.

So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices.

I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye.

So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting.

We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch?

Thank you @channel4news for covering this story.

#palliativecare
#hospicecare
#NHS

[Ryder Cup Europe @RyderCupEurope]

So have we, Shane.

#TeamEurope | #OurTimeOurPlace

[Kevin Chapman @lollujo]

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[TIVA Tim @TheSnoozeDoctor]

Members of the public, if you’re thinking about having needles stuck in your face, you might want to hear this advice first. Flight attendants and plumbers are having a go too! 😳

[Tim Ricketts @timricketts_]

Some of these ratios are astonishing, just incomprehensible.

When I started medical school some of these specialties had a £20k golden handshake, and now competition ratios are more then 10:1…

Here comes the surge in nonsense research and pointless QIPs 👀

[Dr Luke Craddock @DrLukeCraddock]

Quickly updated my graphs for applicants/posts with the 2025 data released today. Please see comments for second set of CT1/ST1 specialties graphs.

[JBS @jbsticks]

After signing Eberechi Eze, Arsenal’s net spend is now higher than Chelsea over the last 10 years.

Trophies won in that time:

Chelsea -every domestic, European, and world trophy they could possibly win in club football.

Arsenal - two FA Cups

Chelsea back it up with trophies.

[Didier Drogba @didierdrogba]

We are WORLD CHAMPIONS @ChelseaFC

[Robert Howard @ProfRobHoward]

Every day, it seems, progressively out of touch millionaire doctors wheel out from their mansions or escape from Jurassic Park to lecture those who are currently doing the job about what they should expect for doing the job.

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

The bottom line with all NHS staff, not just doctors, is that unless you make the NHS a decent place to work, with a decent enough salary to be able to pay off your debts and afford to buy a house near where you work, or at least know where you’re going to be working in the next six months, then people will either leave the NHS or pursue a portfolio career. I combined medicine, journalism, broadcasting, teaching and comedy for 35 years. I think I paid back the debt for my training, but I never felt obliged to work full-time in the NHS.
Resident doctors have every reason to be angry, with the growth of non-doctors taking over their work, with a significant risk to patient safety, and the lack of specialty training places for them to pursue in the NHS. And there are many newly qualified GPs who can’t get work. This is all far more complicated than just restoring pay. And medical leaders are as much to blame as successive governments. The medical professional also has to sort its own shit out.

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

‘This year there will be qualified doctors without a job.’

‘We’re seeing GPs driving Uber now.’

This is not made up news it’s the facts @wesstreeting

And needs resources & a workforce plan

[ExplosiveEnema @ExplosiveEnema2]

There's no money for Doctors

But plenty of money not only for PAs, but for PA Ambassadors who are paid to push PA propaganda!

Doctors are being replaced

[Dr Robert Laurenson @RobLaurensonD4P]

Would you wait almost 2 months when a portion of your wages are being withheld from you?
https://t.co/HWMlncHmCt

[Jon “Stugotz” Weiner @stugotz790]

Rory. Bryson. Augusta. Sunday. The rare put the kids to bed at 2:30 PM.

[Miscounted Cash Flow @Miscountedcf]

The bartender at the microbrewery showing me the 100 ipas they serve right before I ask for a Guinness