Ram Moorthy

ENT/ Head & Neck surgeon based Berkshire . benign & malignant head and neck surgery, general adult and paediatric ENT. training and medical politics. Own views

[BMA Consultants @BMA_Consultants]

Consultants are working under unsustainable pressure.

Long hours and excessive workloads are putting doctors at risk of burnout and making it harder to provide the care patients need.

Consultants need the option of a shorter working week. The Government must act.

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[Ram Moorthy @rammoorthyENT]

@Tom_SkinnerBC The NHS at a local level has no interest in retaining senior consultants especially if they are unable to contribute to on call. There is a collective scratching of heads when the brand new consultant is not identical to the consultants with 20+years of experience .

[Ram Moorthy @rammoorthyENT]

@Roydini25 The graph explains the difference for consultants compared to the rest of the economy . Government opted to have a meaningful negotiation

[Ram Moorthy @rammoorthyENT]

@valhumphreys51 Unfortunately over the last decade Trusts have changed to micromanage doctors time to the minute. Therefore every activity to support service development, introducing innovation, education becomes an argument to have it recognised . Hence the problems we are now encountering

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

Ppl asking what’s the latest on the consultant demands. We’ve got a set of defined dates for talks with government, reporting back to consultants committee re chance of progress. We approach these in good faith but we need to be prepared to take action 1/ https://t.co/gQhraQPEKo

[The BMA @TheBMA]

Doctors have suffered the biggest salary reductions of any profession in the last 20 years, when inflation is considered.

This new research will come as no surprise to our members, but will the Government finally take notice? https://t.co/AbNqQfT5SU

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[Ram Moorthy @rammoorthyENT]

@trentconsultant Agree the ability to develop and innovate has become more and more difficult over the years - we are significantly behind other countries with introducing new technologies

[Ciara Walker @CiaraMBWalker]

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[Ram Moorthy @rammoorthyENT]

@trentconsultant @JamesCleverly Can increase threshold before stamp duty is paid , also progressive increase if owning more than 1 property

[Ram Moorthy @rammoorthyENT]

The article selectively reflects history: pay for residents / juniors was really poor when in the late 90s with overtime attracting only 1/3 of normal. This was correct by the 2000 contract. To get 80% had to work 56hours per week. Base pay is vital not relying on overtime

[Ash Paul @pash22]

Can @TheBMA feasibly still claim @BMAResidents doctors are underpaid?The case for industrial action in @NHSEngland is complicated, and perhaps undermined, by the way in which the union interprets the data, writes @TomHCalver https://t.co/xlda63pDPE

[Luke Mordecai @Shr_Nottingham]

Medicine is a distinct & elite profession & I’m getting tired of people trying pretend that there’s a shortcut to the years of hard work it takes to become a doctor

Tiered rotas are nothing more than gaslighting patients into worse care

I’m glad it’s being called out publicly

[Ram Moorthy @rammoorthyENT]

Did these 1000 posts actually exists or have the government used the strikes as an excuse to get out of a mess or have they created a range of rota gaps by pulling these posts and trusts will now have to recruit?

[Andrew Pierce @andrewpierceexc]

The junior DRs are a disgrace going on strike over pay. Even more disgraceful @Keir_Starmer cancelling 1,00 training places for bew doctors. Who are the losers? The long suffering patients

[Ram Moorthy @rammoorthyENT]

This type of debate is not new and despite a lot of talk it remains reliant on doctors . If the need to reduce residents then have to accept how will a service run without consultants or SAS doctors- is the public ready for a 2 tier NHS .

[Alastair McLellan @HSJEditor]

In January I suggested that 'The NHS is too reliant on resident doctors' https://t.co/2334PDRtSr. Today we publish an interview with NHS England CEO Jim Mackey in which he tells us: 'We’ll reduce our reliance on resident doctors in response to strikes' https://t.co/OLObFRTNIb

[BMA Consultants @BMA_Consultants]

A 3.5% pay uplift is a real terms pay cut for consultants in England. The role of consultant should be fully valued, including pay, hours worked and its complexity. We need to stand together to demand a better deal.

We are opening a ballot for industrial action on 11 May

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

I've been trying with the BMA research team to produce one graph to rule them all. Real terms pay with inflation indexed on the same graph. Look at the CPI dotted line, our pay, the average public sector worker, worker & our comparators. It's not pretty! ONS & NHS digital

[Louella Vaughan @DrLKVaughan]

How remarkably silly this article is!

I would argue the reverse - the attempt to move to a consultant-delivered, rather than the historical consultant-led, system is the CAUSE of many of the problems we see with the NHS.

The big experiment died out because:
1/

[Ram Moorthy @rammoorthyENT]

@ldwijesinghe Seeing many deciding on subspecialty at ST3 or 4 and this is too early?

[Ram Moorthy @rammoorthyENT]

Can this be extrapolated to surgery? Should there be more encouragement to train across the breadth of a specialty and then subspecialise much later (ST7 or 8) ?

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