Calling #AcuteMedicine units. @jfdwolff and I are starting an online #JournalClub to discuss research relevant to our work in acute medicine. The plan is that acute medical units across the country can ‘tune in’, via MS Teams, every other month, over lunch time.
I’m an oncologist and I love my job. But I’m striking because I know first-hand that the NHS is failing our patients with cancer and I’m striking because I know first-hand that the NHS is failing its workforce. https://t.co/Liv26cn8Or #ConsultantsStrike
Just in case you thought that it was industrial action by nurses & doctors that created waiting lists for hospital treatments, here's something from @FinancialTimes
The Consultants of Dorset hospital have written a letter to @SteveBarclay
They strike tomorrow
This letter is incredible
I challenge anyone to refute a single point in it
Worth a read for you too @wesstreeting
I’m interested to know what working class parents would be able to do for their child/children if they received an extra £5435 per child for up to 3 children on top of their salary? The same people getting this amount for their kids want you to believe there’s no money for yours.
@10DowningStreet The thanks is most evident from the running down of wages, short staffing, underfunding and forcing us to provide a service that is not good enough for any patients, I can feel it in the moral Injury myself and my colleagues experience daily. How dare you. #ToriesOut
@wesstreeting No short jokes? Still looking to privatise it and failing to retain staff or support strikes though. You are a traitor to the working class.
Our survey of UK medical students shows an already overcrowded medical education system under significant strain. Behind the headline of the doubling of medical school places...
@SteveBarclay@RishiSunak @NHSEnglandNMD
#NHSWorkforcePlan
@wesstreeting Considering your complete lack of a plan to deal with staff retention and thirst for privatising the NHS, the short joke feels like a cheap shot. Support the striking workers rather than tweeting like a mean girl. Pathetic. Tories are scum, but you've betrayed the working class.
@hazkent@mhdksafa It's totally heartwarming for completely uninvolved people to sacrifice some of their money for the good of fellow man, but not in a way that would benefit everyone for god's sake. That would be communism
@CleoKenington @KatPaton13 The f1s need to campaign to change the system that they did not implement in the first place and have absolutely no knowledge of prior to starting work and absolutely power to change
My f1s are the backbone of the team and our patients are lucky to have them. You're a disgrace.