Can’t get a GP appointment. Granny stuck on a trolley in A&E for 12 hours waiting to be seen. Doctors replaced by non-medically qualified Physician Assistants. Meanwhile, doctors without training jobs are delivering pizzas to make ends meet. What a crazy world!
England is 40,000 doctors short of the EU average.
Yet fully qualified doctors are unemployed, some driving Uber to get by.
Waiting lists remain at record highs while government policy blocks doctors from working.
This is political failure on an industrial scale.
New @rcgp data shows 4,200 GPs finished their training last week.
But many are struggling to find work.
That’s why we’re calling on the Government to urgently provide ring-fenced funding to fix the GP unemployment crisis. https://t.co/EP1d22bunB #endGPunemployment
Today, we've written to @SKinnock
Too many patients are unable to access the care they need, yet the new cohort of GPs are facing unemployment.
We' re asking Government to urgently consider additional ring-fenced funding to address this crisis as soon as possible.
Dear NHS patients,
Whilst you’re waiting:
🚩 > 12 hours in A&E
🚩 Weeks for a GP appt
🚩 Months/(years!) for a hospital appt
Just know that there are >20,000 UNEMPLOYED doctors right now thanks to this government.
‘No additional funding’ for 2026/27 GP pay uplifts, Streeting tells DDRB
So more cuts in patient access with GPs underemployed or unemployed
20% real terms cuts in funding since 2016 mean less access for patients
@wesstreeting@SKinnock
https://t.co/sHYJYLAPxF
📣 Five days of strike action starts today.
These strikes could have been averted, if @Wesstreeting had a credible offer for us to consider.
✊ Find your nearest picket: https://t.co/HyLGfwqpqg
Stick Together. Strike Together. Win Together.
There is more to this than Drs pay
It’s about power over healthcare & future of the NHS
Cut the pay of staff, retention is poor, productivity falls & the claims of a broken NHS grow louder
Private sector steps in, paying less, shareholders win
Public loses healthcare & pays
What ever transpires in the coming days and weeks my thoughts are with the people inside Iran who’s main worry is not attack by Israel or the US but from their own government who are brutally cracking down right now arresting & executing a large number of innocent people to strike fear in the population to stop an uprising. This is the reality of a regime clinging to power at any cost. #IranIsraelConflict
I am a palliative care doctor who is not opposed to AD.
But on the eve of tomorrow's vote, it boils down to this.
Enshrining in law a state-funded right to die, while not enshrine a similar right to the palliative care that might make life worth living, is deeply wrong. 🧵
“We cannot afford to waste the time, talent and dedication of our future GPs”
GP across the country are facing unemployment.
Yet, patients are struggling to access the care they need.
That’s why we’re calling on the Government to #endGPunemployment https://t.co/Htww8tRY2G
Urgent:
The Freedom Flotilla ship is expected to reach Gaza within the next 20 hours to break the blockade.
The coming hours are very critical — we must focus on them and amplify their voices.
If you see this, reply with a dot . spread it 🥹❤️
This is excellent.
Streeting can cosplay the reasonable party, but doctors know that there is nothing reasonable about a doctor being on £17ph or being paid less than PAs.
Reasonable would be taking another meaningful step towards Full Pay Restoration. 0.9% real uplift isn't.
‘Israel is systematically bombing Gaza’s population, indiscriminately, whilst systematically starving them.’
Dr. Victoria Rose, a British plastic and reconstructive surgeon, speaks to MEE after returning to London from a 3.5-week medical mission at Nasser Hospital in Gaza