Hannah Catrin

Writer, cake-maker, pasta-eater. Natural habitat consists of mountain tops and lakes.

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

We do not talk often enough about the doctor training numbers shortage. Previous governments have artificially created these bottlenecks for speciality training. We have 1000s of doctors who want to specialise but can’t.

This is a manufactured scandal that is going unreported.

[ClinOncDoc @ClinOncDoc]

Besides the fact that @gmcuk should not be regulating PAs.

PAs will pay £320
Drs pay £455

Yet a 1st year PAs earns £10,000 more than a 1st year Dr.

Everything in the system is stacked to disincentivise & punish Drs.

[tré easton @treeaston]

my god. just…my god.

[The NHS Whistleblower @ItsnotrightUK]

After a 22% rise we are still grossly undervalued and underpaid

[Josephine Cumbo @JosephineCumbo]

This @FT long read on the use of #PhysicianAssociates in the #NHS has generated hundreds of comments. A key concern is the lack of national standards around what PAs can and cannot do for patients. https://t.co/zGVdWuMTwF

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Either a medical degree & post grad exams are needed to safely practice medicine, or they’re not.

Incredibly, @gmcuk, @NHSEngland, @RCPhysicians & @rcgp have decided they’re not. Non-doctor substitutes, PAs, can treat you instead - on doctor rotas.

Did you consent to this? 🤷‍♀️

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

A revolt over patient safety and declining expertise is tearing the medical establishment apart.

🖊️ @pwhitakerwriter https://t.co/kt0eUGxUq5

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

The situation with Physician Associates is unnerving and opaque

I've covered this a number of times on @LBC and it seems to be getting worse

[ClinOncDoc @ClinOncDoc]

Hi @RCSnews

Can you explain how a PA is working at ‘mid level’ above junior doctors with less than 1 year’s experience?

Why do doctors have to go through:
5 years medical school
2 years foundation
2-3 years core surgical training
MRCS exams

…to be considered ‘mid level’?

[@profchloeorkin.bsky.social @profchloeorkin]

1 Thread on #mpox which is in the news again since a returning traveller was diagnosed in Sweden with a new more dangerous strain which reached Europe for the first time.

In the 2022-23 global outbreak I was clinical advisor to @WHOEurope

Here’s what I think you need to know.

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

Men tend to choose higher paying careers like doctor, engineer, lawyer, or CEO.

While women tend to choose lower paying careers like female doctor, female engineer, female lawyer, or female CEO.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

🚨IMPORTANT: UPDATE ON PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES SCANDAL

@TheBMA has called on Health Secretary @wesstreeting to stop dangerous substitution of doctors as 13,000 doctors add their names to letter warning of grave concern & risk to patient safety over current use of MAPs in the NHS

[Anaesthetists United @AnaesUnited]

Why are we pushing for legal action over Physician Associates and Anaesthesia Associates?

What is the aim of the case?

This short video explains why this action is so important for patient care.

https://t.co/IhN6hYARUs

[Dr Matt Kneale (🦋drmk.link) @drmattuk]

Elected BMA reps are obliged to ask you to support the deal, as it was a condition of the negotiations.

Read between the lines. I'm not an elected rep, and can tell you that you should be rejecting a 4.05% uplift.

Strike again. Reject the deal.

[James Marshall @jamesmarshall42]

If this masked torchbearer isn't revealed to be Celine Dion then what are we even doing #OpeningCeremony

[Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman]

Are women ‘leaving it too late’ or is society and the government withholding resources that make motherhood more accessible

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

When I vote I don't want unaffordable tax cuts.

I want hospital beds.

Libraries reopening.

Trains that run on time.

Kids who aren't too hungry to learn.

Rivers that don't run with slurry.

Local councils not bankrupted.

Politicians who don't venally line their own pockets.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I’m simply horrified to see @NHSEngland now literally breaking the law in how it misrepresents physician associates & other allied health professional - who are NOT doctors - to the public.

These posters are from the Bradford District & Craven Health & Care Partnership. 1/n