@NHSEngland Why are you paying PAs and ACPs more to do the job of an F1/F2 doctor, despite the fact that PAs and ACPs aren’t even qualified or licensed to practise Medicine to the level of an F1 doctor?
Why are you saying there’s only money for 4.5k NTNs, when you’re making >10k new ACPs?
Seriously @cmwilliams99@fletchjack have you addressed the Dr replacement agenda with @jamesmurray_ldn as part of the negotiations? Can’t go further on pay . Can’t offer any more than 4000- 4500 training places but can afford 16000 BAND 7 ACP training posts to REPLACE you ?
Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?
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There is only one European nation with fewer hospital beds per capita than the UK
Sweden but they have the highest number of care home & nursing home beds
26% fewer care home beds
23% fewer nursing beds
Fewer hospital beds
Then people wonder why A&E is blocked
@BMA_James_Steen@Dr_XYZ They seem to be saying that medical rotas should be renamed so anyone can be on them
So it’s wrong for Doctors to be protecting the term ‘medical’ as a Doctor role
Despite the ‘medical rota’ being always Doctors historically
If that is no scope creep I have no idea what is
The Telegraph has reported that almost half of NHS hospitals are using advanced practitioners to cover doctors’ shifts.
Some of these shifts would ordinarily be covered by doctors in the final years of specialty training; often the most senior doctor on site below consultant level.
Every NHS colleague has an important role and should be valued. But different roles involve different training, responsibilities and limits. Medical rota gaps should not be quietly filled by blurring professional boundaries.
This is a system-level concern. Patients should know who is treating them, what their role is, and whether they are being assessed by a doctor. That matters for consent and accountability.
In 2025, 40,000 doctors applied for 10,000 NHS specialty training jobs.
That means thousands of doctors who could be training to become specialist GPs, consultants were unable to progress because the number of posts is capped centrally by the Government.
At the same time, 1,000 additional specialist training jobs that were due to enter the NHS pipeline were removed by Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer.
So we now have a system where doctors are trying to train, hospitals are struggling to fill medical rotas, and patients are left with less clarity about who is providing their care.
If the NHS does not have enough doctors on the rota, the answer is simple: train enough doctors, employ enough doctors, and give patients clarity about who is treating them.
https://t.co/4sdgWqcLNB
As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep
Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications
This should also be banned
Influence is being bought in Govt
Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy
idk if working in emergency is having a bog standard impact on me or breaking me cause i now dream about patients and medical procedures and wake up in a state of panic in the middle of my sleep