For those at GMC HQ it must seem impossible

Don't speak & let the narrative run away from you

Gaslight & make it 10x worse

There is a 3rd option

Admit the #PAproject has failed & is catastrophically out of control

Before more patients come to harm

Why is our government making doctors resort to taking strike action? The only other option is to leave the NHS, because continuing pay erosion is unacceptable.

PAs are not experts in any specialist medical role. PAs are a dependent role that requires supervision from a doctor and so by definition can never be an expert...

Furthermore to be an expert takes more than a 2 years masters. it takes a doctor 10-15 yrs post medical school to…

Dr Asif Qasim 💙 RCHT GMC Royal College of Physicians NHS England Experts? Qualified?
Who gave them this expertise?
Which qualification did they sit?

This is a major patient safety scandal. This NHS hospital is undermining gold standard healthcare and destroying high medical standards

Details on strike escalation for junior doctors in Northern Ireland 👇

Henry Jefferson I’ve added a small amendment:

So tell me Professor Melville🤔

Why should we pay annual fees for GMC to disregard the health & safety of ordinary ppl, trample on the lives & wellbeing of Drs & med students, & destroy such an essential profession?

#DefundTheGMC

Prof Colin R Melville Dr Navina Evans Amanda Pritchard
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Today like most week days 1.4 million people have had a consultation in GP practices
Half the population every month
Half are seen within 24 hrs of calling for an appt
However there aren’t enough GPs
8000 fewer than promised by the Govt in 2019
Instead they cut GP funding by 20%

Jenna Johnston Jay Liz Peecock @medicalmodelwithabriochebun If it really did save money, it would make sense, but as it's obvious to everyone except the people in charge that it's going to end up costing more, there's no logic there at all.

Liz Peecock Jay Jenna Johnston @medicalmodelwithabriochebun Yet the government is peddling this rubbish about there not being enough doctors, when the truth is there are plenty of doctors, but not enough job vacancies provided for them by the government.

Prof Colin R Melville thanks- what’s your view as part of the GMC of PAs being on doctors rotas?

Does the GMC have a position on this based on ‘protecting the public’?

My query to you as a senior clinician who does work around patient safety

Thanks for considering

Prof Colin R Melville Hey Colin, thanks for that - but we know how things stand at the moment already. Just in case you missed it, the question is actually 'Are the GMC laying the groundwork for future PAs to take the MLA?'

Please clarify. Cheers!

Clearly 'Just Stay' isn't working as a persuasive argument.

Royal Adelaide ED today has 17 UK doctors at Reg and Consultant level (only 9 are non UK in comparison)

I’m an NHS GP & I’m raising a 🚩

There’s a significant GP crisis in England

GPs are unemployed & can’t find work

Many having to leave their families to find work anywhere in the country

Ironically, there’s also a “GP shortage” in the NHS with patients struggling to get an…

Exclusive: GPs are driving across England, staying in hotels overnight and driving up to four hours on a daily basis to get locum work amid a shortage of shifts available. buff.ly/3JCdCOn

“Placeholders”

This is how toxic the NHS is. These people are doctors. There needs to be a revolution in UK medicine.

I spoke to a locum GP this weekend who is likely to give up her licence to practice as she has not had enough patient contact this year to prove competence (which is an annual requirement in England).

This is due to a shortage of work, because no one can afford to employ GPs.

What the hell is going?! PAs given direct access to the Foundation Programme?!

I am sick of the gaslighting by the powers above - falsely reassuring us PAs are not replacing doctors, whilst doing EXACTLY THAT behind our backs

PAs ARE NOT DOCTORS!

We are witnessing the…

Are there any consultants working in NHSE Workforce, Training and Education – EoE who can support our junior doctors?

PAs should NOT have access to the F1 teaching programme.

Especially when 99 qualified doctors, have still not been given an F1 post in your deanery.

Mrs C I work with some incredible PAs who support the ward and allow the FY1s to go on training. One even became a peer trainer during Epic installation. I’ve also heard them correct people when they’ve been called doctors ie they’ve done their role perfectly! (When they thought no…