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Adam Skeen

@Adam_Skeen

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Final year GEM student. Ex-Physician Assistant. BMA U.K. Council. BSc (Hons) Pharmacology. 中文.he/him 🏳️‍🌈

West Midlands
Joined February 2010
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@Adam_Skeen
Adam Skeen
1 year
Thank you for highlighting @IncogAssociate I'm happy to address this publicly. 🧵 It is interesting to note that the tweets you have cherry picked were written a matter of weeks into the course. (1/7)
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@fletchjack
Jack Fletcher
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Doctors face some of the most disgraceful employment practices in the NHS. Fixed term contracts are the standard. Some contracts last 1 year 48 weeks to avoid basic rights. Why no permanent contracts, with probation, & education from day 1? Let’s get this fixed @wesstreeting.
@bmj_latest
The BMJ
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#BMJInvestigation finds thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards. Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer” https://t.co/k8wqs0KYl3
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@JamesTitcombe
James Titcombe
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So, in response to @ShaunLintern’s Sunday Times exposé at the weekend, more than 1,000 midwives, doulas, hypnotherapists, acupuncturists, and others have signed this open letter - which claims that "normal birth at any cost” - a key finding of the Morecambe Bay Investigation
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@parthaskar
Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥
28 days
The names of people who refused to accept that PAs were being used to replace doctors-and undermining training- and tried everything possible to undermine attempts to highlight this as well as the @RCPhysicians vote during EGM: Evans; Melville; Mcleod; Whitty; Powis The people
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@AlexJDeighton
Dr Alexander Deighton
29 days
Whilst @DHSCgovuk and @wesstreeting make basic employment a negotiating tactic against doctors, I've followed many in getting a job offer from an Australian hospital where I will be better valued
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@DrLKVaughan
Louella Vaughan
1 month
Evidence-free interventions are a big bugbear of mine. Especially for complex interventions rolled out across the NHS. I have skeptical of SDEC services for some time. First systematic review here done by a good team. https://t.co/jNYmqz7WdR 1/
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@BMAResidents
Resident Doctors
2 months
"We don't have enough doctors and yet thousands of doctors are unemployed." Dr Arjan Singh explains the paradox of the NHS workforce in England and why 97% of FY1 doctors balloted for strike action to end the unemployment crisis.
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@DocShivSharma
Dr Shivam Sharma
3 months
I’m re-standing for Chair of BMA North Thames RDC. Our team will fight to: ✅ Deliver FPR in Labour's term ✅ Increase London weighting and locum rates ✅ Fight scope creep ✅ Expand training & consultant posts with recruitment reform Please vote for us: https://t.co/zhXtMNIFak
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@FareedAlQusous
Fareed Al Qusous
3 months
I'm running for deputy chair for Severn RDC this year. As the former chair, I've arranged pickets and spoke to media. I've also spoke at ARM and passed policy opposing Palantir. I'll be advocating for increased training, FPR, and anti scope creep. Vote 👇 https://t.co/aWjAnrloUo
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@sumitriptan
Dr Sumi Manirajan
3 months
I'm running for London Council. I negotiated the 22% pay uplift, broke the locum cap locally as an f1/2 & won back incorrectly deducted strike pay. I'm standing with an experienced & driven team to scrap the locum cap and revise London weighting. Vote: https://t.co/NNtiXh6tSR
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@SecretPhysician
Secret Physician
3 months
What has the BMA resident doctors group achieved this year? A sincere thought, as it’s been very quiet and there seems to be a lot of bios on elections claiming success that I simply do not see on the ground.
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@_MarieTolan
Marie Tolan
3 months
Yorkshire doctors, I’m running for election to the Regional Residents Committee. Electing me will ensure accountable leadership, open communication and no doctor being left behind. ✅VOTING NOW OPEN: https://t.co/jiw3FZve5z
@BMAResidents
Resident Doctors
3 months
Time to have your say and choose your regional RDC representatives. Voting is now open in regions across England. Learn more: https://t.co/jQhKCsJgeD #VoteRRDC
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@parthaskar
Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥
3 months
For what it's worth? The @RCPhysicians need to- in my opinion- stop doing 'letters' or 'raising issues' to a Long Term Plan which encourages more replacement of doctors. Leadership should be brave enough to withhold support of such documents- rather than being weak- in the
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@Mike88881221
Mike
4 months
The claim is repeated in the official Programme Specification, approved by @UniOfSurrey & @gmcuk "Accredited by the General Medical Council (GMC), this primary medical qualification entitles the holder to apply to the GMC for registration to practise medicine in the UK"
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@goldstone_tony
Dr Tony Goldstone
4 months
I commented at the time of the Coroner's report into the tragic death of a Pamela Marking (presenting with undifferentiated abdominal pain & vomiting, due to an obstructed femoral hernia, but misdiagnosed with "epistaxis" by a PA) that PAs should not be seeing undifferentiated
@Mike88881221
Mike
4 months
As the reaction from @UMAPsUK to the Leng review becomes more hostile, their leader has accused Dr Karen Henderson, HM Assistant Coroner for Surrey, of printing "AU rhetoric" in a Regulation 28 Report following the death of Pamela Marking. "AU" refers to @AnaesUnited
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@fletchjack
Jack Fletcher
4 months
Answering new FY1s today re an underpayment affecting them Interrupted by admin team mid-convo as 2-3 mins late from lunch: “Lecture theatre. Now.” Day 1. Herded like infants. Interrupted. Spoken down to Welcome to the NHS from @STSFTrust postgrad! Raised by @BMANorthernRDC
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@cmwilliams99
Callum Williams
4 months
Nice to see BBC impartiality What about the trust that lied to the BMA. The trust who requested one because consultants couldn’t use the EPR. Derogations are for exceptional circumstances not deliberate poor planning by the NHS
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
4 months
'Hardline' BMA blocks pleas for strike doctors to work
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@medicalmodelbri
@medicalmodelwithabriochebun
4 months
One thing I know for sure is that PAs HATE @BMAResidents . I can feel the bitterness coming out of the screen . He spent 20 well paid years cosplaying a GP with NO EVIDENCE of safety. He admits that he couldn’t get into Med school. That’s where the hatred comes from.
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@ERunswickBMA
Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈
4 months
I see we're at the stage of the dispute where anonymous government sources lie to the Guardian in an attempt to divide us. Don't they know we are stronger than this? We ARE @TheBMA #DoctorsStrike
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@jabberwock951
Jonathan
4 months
@SkyNews @NuffieldTrust @TrevorPTweets @thomasdolphin Incredibly misleading to compare the average full-time salary to salaries including compulsory overtime. Yes, if you work six days a week you earn more than if you work five. That doesn't make working six a better deal.
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@TheBMA
The BMA
4 months
We have agreed a derogation at St George's Hospital, London for 1 resident doctor anaesthetics registrar for a day shift on 28th July 2025. This will allow a specialist consultant neuroanaesthetist to cover for an urgent paediatric cancer case.
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