Oli Fletcher

Working to integrate the NHS & Social Care in Somerset. @dundeeuni grad. Bath in the rugby, Chelsea in the football.

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

1/4 2020 has been hard work. Most of us in public service have been working longer hours, at a faster pace, and on covid projects outside our comfort zone.

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

@DrEilidhMaria You're right, I do think PAs need a different regulator. I just worry that the outcome is that the regulator stays GMC but PAs face abuse from patients for being "not a real doctor" rather than recognition as its own profession.

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

A health scientist or other healthcare professional who spends 3 years at uni, works for 10 years and then spends 2 years training as a Physician Associate has different training, not less than a doctor.

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

@ISCP_Helpline My thinking is: No training is the same as medicine but that doesn't invalidate a PA from delivering good patient care. My fear is we don't achieve a different regulator for PAs (which is a good idea) we just open up colleagues to abuse from patients.

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

@Joellambert @DrEilidhMaria Ten years irrelevant to being a doctor, aye. But a PA isn't and shouldn't try to be a doctor. No prescribing, no specialty training. Let's not let government divide and conquer. All professions are on the same side.

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

But the real problem I have is that we are all on the same side, and it isn't pro-doctor to make Physician Associates the target of public ire.

[Harry Quilter-Pinner @harry_qp]

Astonishing stat: 40% of council houses sold through Right to Buy are now rented by private landlords (up to 70% in some places) at double the cost of council housing. Presumably with many of those renters supported by housing benefit. Utter madness!

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

I appreciate this involves having money after Christmas, but err, it's a lot easier than learning to joust.

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

The "tiny change" I swear by is celebrating Twelfth Night; makes the start of January much less of a comedown, all the Christmas crackers are half price, and you get an excuse for any gifts you (or your children) expected but didn't get.

[The Guardian @guardian]

100 tiny changes to transform your life: from the one-minute rule to pyjama yoga https://t.co/rqjYhQs0eT

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

I went to cook dinner at 8-14. Even match, I said, not going to see many tries.

[Bath Rugby @BathRugby]

JOB DONE 🔥

Huge performance by the whole squad.

🤝 @veezugroup

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

@RachelWardbooks I bought 1kg of ginger, thinking I ordered 1 piece once... Whoops!

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

@allymackenzie17 Welcome to Somerset my friend!

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

1 more - tea on the floor while playing with children (on the occasion not knocked over or lapped up by dogs)

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

The best types of tea:

-The tea brought to you in bed on a Sunday morning
-The tea that comforts you after bad news, gives you the energy to carry on
-The leaning on the worktop after cleaning the kitchen tea (usually held in two hands)
-The “struggle to take a glove off as someone hands it to you” gardening break tea
-The tea you almost forget to drink when you’re in a rush but you remember it just in time
-The hotel room tea
-The tea with a cooked breakfast
-The recovering in hospital tea
-The tea on the freezing sidelines of a Sunday League football match
-The back at the desk after a long meeting tea
-The first tea of the day
-The first tea of the new year
-The tea you take to bed
-The tea while slapping a new coat of paint on the walls
-The tea in the shed
-The tea while staring out the window on a rainy Saturday afternoon
-The tea you celebrate with (and calm down with) when you’ve just received very good news
-The tea you didn’t expect to be offered
-The tea in a museum cafe
-The free tea
-The tea after an argument
-The tea that gives you an excuse to open the good biscuits
-The tea with a view
-The tea with buttered toast
-The “afternoon tea” with lots of little sandwiches and cakes
-The tea in a tent while camping
-The tea from a flask on an Autumn hike
-The tea while reading a book in an armchair on a rare day off with not a care in the world
-The tea after a hard day at work
-The tea after getting in from a run / bike ride
-The first tea back in your home after a holiday
-The picnic tea
-The ‘break up a long car journey’ tea
-The tea you make for someone and they say it’s a really lovely cup of tea, one of the best teas they’ve ever had
-The tea made by your Mum/Dad

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

Devolution deals and Danelaw. Correlation or causation?

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Is inheritance tax really as unpopular as people say? Thanks to the generosity of @wethinkpolling, we've exclusive new polling evidence. Thread:

[Katherine Nolan @kathnolanspark]

Such fabulous news! So proud of the @sparksomerset Spark iT team. Fabulous achievement and well deserved.

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

There’s a word in modern German slang, Knäckebrottelefonierer, which describes a person who talks into their phone while holding it in front of their mouth like a cracker. It literally means “crispbread phoner”

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

When local multi-agency action comes together with good public policy and political leadership, good things happen.

[Emily Darlington MP @emily4MK]

5 years ago Milton Keynes was dubbed ‘tent city’ by the media. Today, no one needs to sleep rough on our streets. How did we do it? A thread by the Cabinet Member responsible 👇

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

@Anna_L_Fletcher this feels woefully like me attempting to talk to Ben about bikes

[Claire E. Aubin? @ceaubin]

Regularly haunted by my own hubris - tried to set my bf up on a playdate with my coworkers husband because they both “really like bikes.” Anyways, it turns out her husband was in the Tour De France

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

@NHSLocalGrowth @NHSConfed @Carnall_Farrar @BenRichardson49 @ConfedMatthew @hannahjfarrar So well deserved, Michael!!

[Oli Fletcher @Oli_Fletcher]

Until the UK moves away from discretionary planning at least for public infrastructure, costs of new rail projects or anything else are going to escalate just like HS2. Rules need to be predictable, processes needed to be faster. Even if environment means the answer is no.