Seren Boyd

Writer with special interest in health, international development, sustainability... and people | @TheDrMagazine @theBMA

[Seren Boyd @Seren_Boyd]

Just loved ‘Illuminated: Voices from the beach’ @BBCRadio4 just now - especially the ice cream seller from Afghanistan whose story epitomises the dignity of work 🍦

[The Doctor Magazine @TheDrMagazine]

Here's a link to our latest newsletter.

In it, you'll find:
🩺Analysis of @TheBMA survey on doctor substitution
🧾Concerns about mental health assessment fees
💸The @IPPR making the case for tax-funded healthcare

All that and more, here:
https://t.co/nyQtr6USIr

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A sicker next generation will be tough for doctors to care for. Lack of access to green space, secure jobs and acceptable housing has reduced life expectancy in the UK in its most deprived areas https://t.co/SzQqurkuyf

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Our latest newsletter is with @TheBMA members now.
In it, we:
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Hear what doctors in Wales want from their new government
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Speak to doctors in Scotland about change they'd like to see
🩺Hear two doctors reflect on changes for F1s between 1989 and 2025

All that and more, here:
https://t.co/lxr6LmnJjQ

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Ahead of tomorrow’s Scottish Parliament election, @JenTrueland spoke to doctors across the country to find out their priorities.

Today's focus is on general practice, health inequalities, rurality and the plight of medical students [1/6]:
https://t.co/7YFcOsiCj8

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Wales needs Welsh doctors & doctors who are passionate about improving its health system 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

So why are are doctors & medical students who are committed to Wales finding it so hard to find job & training opportunities there?

Read our pre-Senedd election piece in @TheDrMagazine👇

[The Doctor Magazine @TheDrMagazine]

Those moving to Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿to train or progress their medical careers face limited opportunities to stay.

In her third feature ahead of this week's Senedd election, @Seren_Boyd talks to three doctors and a medical student about what must change [1/5]:
https://t.co/JlK34Rws5n

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Definition of 'moral injury' in the medical workforce right here 👇in a piece about secondary care in Wales for @TheDrMagazine @TheBMA

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Secondary care in Wales is sick, with corridor care normal, long waiting lists, the largest health board in special measures.

Ahead of the Senedd elections, @Seren_Boyd asks hospital doctors what they want from the new government [1/5]
https://t.co/LLd8qojTHi

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It's tough in general practice in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Local surgeries, like the one I visited in Merthyr for @TheDrMagazine, are the destination for all unmet need

And GPs are having to absorb those pressures, while being treated 'like a political football'

#Senedd26 elections @BMACymru

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General practice is stretched to breaking point in Wales.

GPs are desperate for change.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿In the first of three features on the NHS in Wales ahead of the Senedd elections, @Seren_Boyd asks staff at a surgery in Merthyr Tydfil - where demand overwhelms capacity every day - how they are coping. [1/5]
https://t.co/q9TpUW3BjN

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@AndrewRJBoyd @CBCUKofficial @OpenDoorsUK Looks like you will be in excellent company!

[Seren Boyd @Seren_Boyd]

A Friday like no other in the company of doctors who care deeply about the climate and the inspiring @robintransition who dared us to reimagine the future of healthcare…. Now just got to condense a hugely hopeful, joyful, creative day into a piece for ⁦@TheDrMagazine⁩

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‘An extraordinary feat’

As the latest report from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry praises the overall success of the UK’s vaccine roll-out, @thomasdolphin calls on the government to ensure that doctors’ are included in planning for future pandemics.

Read our story👇

https://t.co/HqzNa2ve6m

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How things have changed, for better and for worse.

This exchange between two F1s, 36 years apart, is touching and funny... especially lines such as 'I have no idea what some of those words mean.'

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Consultant rheumatologist Anisur Rahman and F1 doctor Sarah Al Saad recently worked together.

They discovered that each had written accounts of their F1 lives, in 1989 and 2025.

So, they imagined a correspondence between their F1 selves. Read it here👇
https://t.co/vYC3e1G13P

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Our latest newsletter is out now📨

In it, we:
💁Hear from psychiatrists about professional boundaries
📢Report on the latest @BMAResidents strike
🩺Cover how asylum seeker doctors can now work in the NHS

All that and more, here:
https://t.co/48WOSFITtw

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What strikes me again and again in talking to doctors is the difference that kindness can make – to them and to patients

Where professional boundaries are allowed to extend, it's often kindness that gently pushes them

Thanks to these 3 psychiatrists👇for daring to push

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How much of yourself should you bring into your work as a doctor? Should professional boundaries be redrawn?

These are the questions at the heart of psychiatrist Glenn Roberts’ project Personally Speaking, which asserts that human connection is key to good medicine [1/4]
https://t.co/O4eAHxOCdA

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‘We coped, but only just’

Yesterday’s third instalment of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry ruled that the NHS went into the pandemic in a parlous and unprepared state, with total collapse only avoided due to the ‘superhuman’ efforts of staff.

Read our story👇

https://t.co/Du527rAg21

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Today's Covid Inquiry report recounts the pandemic’s truly devastating impact on doctors, and our patients.

Watch @thomasdolphin speak to press this afternoon

[The Doctor Magazine @TheDrMagazine]

Our latest newsletter is with doctors now📨

In it, we:
🩺Interview a GP taking an innovate approach to alcohol misuse
🫶Speak with the widow of an NHS doctor whose family faces an uncertain future
✍️Report on the @BMA_Consultants conference

Find all that here:
https://t.co/MQtOj8UT5p

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What can GPs do when patients disclose significant problems with alcohol?

One GP shares how she worked with @SHAAPAlcohol and @RCGPScotland to create a set of down-to-earth and realistic resources, including a podcast.

@JenTrueland reports [1/3]:
https://t.co/gn95KPwKgJ

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Overseas staff, including many doctors, make an invaluable contribution to the NHS.
To mark #OverseasNHSWorkersDaywe take a look back at some of our features where we hear their stories 🧵[1/4]

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#RareDiseaseDay is a reminder to doctors to 'Think Rare'

3.5m people in the UK alone have a rare condition. It takes on average FIVE years to diagnose them

To be more #RareAware read our 2024 feature: https://t.co/NzpcQQX5UE