@wesstreeting It’s a pay dispute. Doctors voted for full pay restoration. £4/hr more for F1s isn’t unreasonable. Telling the public you won’t provide them with more trained doctors is.

@wesstreeting There has to be movement on pay in a pay dispute. You are happy to pay for doctor replacement with non-medic roles, but not for doctors. Your job is to deliver a safe health service with a sustainable workforce, not use jobs as a threat whilst patients continue to wait for care.

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

The NHS annual budget is ~ £200 billion Let me show you and explain how £40 billion a year of it is being wasted 🧵 👇🏽

Artificial bottlenecks. Manufactured crisis. Governments for years has pinned the blame on BMA for apparently veto’ing medical expansion despite the BMA not having any power (and also forgetting the point was lack of jobs post training). But here we have it from the horses

@Dr_Done_ @wesstreeting Show me a healthy secretary who doesn't understand how healthcare works…

@_Sheryl_H

Why did you delete this @wesstreeting? https://t.co/WrhpycafA5

Saying pay is not on the table in a pay dispute is not negotiating. Fixing the training job crisis is your job, it’s embarrassing that a dispute even had to be opened. Just increase doctors’ pay to the point where a new doctor is only paid a little less than an assistant role 🙏🏻

This is why resident doctors are striking. When you wait 12 hours in A&E to see a doctor, remember that.

As I said to you in the room, the labour government did not give 28%. About 12% of that was given by the tories via DDRB (iirc), and stating it like this ignores the catastrophic pay erosion doctors have experienced (~50%). In fact, doctors are still paid less than before the

It’s one of the single biggest problems of our generation of resident doctors and medical students coming through. Yet it feels like senior colleagues want to sweep it under the carpet. Can’t fix training if we can’t access it. For shame. (3/3)

I raised this multiple times with Prof Whitty when approached for feedback and was told that they didn’t want to include it as it’s covered by the Leng review. But Prof Leng didn’t want to cover it because it’ll be covered by the medical training review (2/3)

The medical training review is finally published. Can anyone spot the 🐘 in the room? Zero mention of lack of opportunities because of non-doctor training, despite royal college and BMA surveys noting this immense problem (1/3)

Wes Streeting has failed to commit to concrete proposals on pay or jobs. We are left with no choice but to strike. We will strike between 07:00 Friday 14th November and 06:59 Wednesday 19th November. This will be a full walkout.

🚨Doctor substitution🚨 “Enter NHS as a HCA ➡️ Diploma ➡️ NA apprenticeship ➡️ NA ➡️ Top-up BA ➡️ RN ➡️ Masters ➡️ ACP ➡️ Work as a *doctor* No need even for GCSEs, let alone systematic study of anatomy or physiology” If only we had doctors available to work as…doctors 🙄

And the punishment for selling out your junior colleagues is… A final salary pension, DBE and a seat in the House of Lords. Zero accountability

I have had the pleasure of working with @waterman_harry across both @BMAResidents & @rcpsychTrainees committees. He is genuinely fantastic to work with and I guarantee you won’t find a harder working, nor more level headed rep. I would urge Northern doctors to vote for him 🦀

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@waterman_harry is everything you want in a rep - hardworking, dedicated, with a track record of effectiveness. Northern doctors, vote him in as your RRDC chair!