Great to see this initiative, Martin. Perhaps next time it can include wider 'what matters most to you' conversations and the role of advance care planning. @drkathrynmannix @SpeakForMeLPA @MyWishesApp 👏👏👏

There is overwhelming evidence that the policies & funding of NHS England & GMC are set on replacing Drs with PAs When stating PAs have been integral to the NHS for 20yrs they are lying 2015 there were just 15 PAs in General Practice & 109 in hospitals

Nothing to see here, just the Head of Workforce for @NHSEngland using an inaccurate, one-sided & context-free Times piece to double down on the insinuation that the only issue with PAs in the NHS is ‘online toxicity’ from a small number of rogue doctors. You must know, Navina,

And another one… this is beginning to look awfully coordinated… Nothing to see here, just the National Medical Director of @NHSEngland using an inaccurate, one-sided & context-free Times piece to double down on the insinuation that the only issue with PAs in the NHS is

The NHS is lowering the bowel cancer screening age in England from 60 years to 50 years with the aim of detecting cancer at an earlier stage. The change involves sending home-testing kits which can identify signs of bowel cancer before symptoms appear to people aged 50 to 52.

Join us @GoodGriefFest for this session with Robert Neimeyer and Caroline Ng, facilitated by the brilliant @freyabromley. Part of our course When Grief is Complicated - now open for registration for just £25. https://t.co/lpEid2zzG0

GPs spend considerable time supporting families, gathering information, and making carefully written CAMHS referrals, only to have them rejected. This is frustrating for clinicians and, more importantly, for the children & young people and their families.

"We are clear that treating patients in corridors, on chairs and other inappropriate spaces is in no way acceptable and must end." We've joined @theRCN calls for an end to treating patients in unsafe spaces. Read our letter to @wesstreeting here 👇 https://t.co/dyYRcoHnlq

Researchers at Warwick now think more women are driven to suicide by their domestic abuse perpetrator than are murdered by him. Often the police don't make the link https://t.co/kGsiBnonub

Great to see another medical journal giving a platform to these crucial issues - well done @libby_sallnow and co-authors 👏👏👏

🩺| "Why won’t the Department for Health just fund the employment of 3,500 under and unemployed GPs, who can offer the expert care patients need and are extremely good value for money?" @DAUK_GP committee on Government plans to cut waiting lists https://t.co/4Tt138pRw8

Dear @wesstreeting, My timeline is filled with experienced GPs desperate & unable to find work Want to solve the crisis of patient access to a GP? I suggest you start by employing existing GPs instead of diverting funds to find their lesser skilled replacements. An NHS GP

🚨 And now Derriford Hospital in Plymouth declares critical incident after more than 300 people attended its A&E yday with 200 of those needing to be admitted for care: https://t.co/UM0N6ey0Av

8 major hospitals have declared critical incidents in the last 24hrs alone. Some of the 100s patients are stranded on trolleys, in corridors & in the back of ambulances will likely die there. This isn’t normal, inevitable or attributable to viruses alone. It’s a catastrophe.

I looked at this and confirmed this is the main problem with the NHS plan By removing the skilled clinicians at the beginning of the pathway it has massively raised the cost and time of the whole journey A GP would have managed this without all this time wasted and imaging -

Honestly don’t know where to start with this one. Sarah could just see an actual GP, receive a diagnosis of rhinitis and a referral to an audiologist. Without being irradiated for no reason, and wasting the time of an ENT registrar. https://t.co/Gc52ntgNIw

So more work for private hospitals to cut waiting lists...the sector has many potential safety risks as the government and NHS well know. Recommendations from the Ian Paterson inquiry have still not been implemented, leaving patients at risk. Read my thread below:

The private sector don’t do better care. They do better carpets, they do free parking, they do easy, picking-off care, they do staff poaching, they do union-undercutting, they do leaving the NHS to train the staff, mop up the emergencies, and crumble under the impact. For shame.

Devastating from @LiamThorpECHO on the hellish conditions for patients & staff alike inside our A&Es. This is why the crisis in social care needs fixing now. Not in 2028 - now. Because when hospitals run out of beds, the results are catastrophic 😔

Wes #Streeting thinks patient choice via a revamped #NHS app is going to bring down waiting lists. However, choice requires excess capacity in the system, which is precisely what the NHS doesn’t have! Stop listening to the Tufton street clowns