Jack Fletcher
@fletchjack
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Doctor | interested in critical illness | chair @BMAResidents | chair @BMANorthernRDC |🌹| he/him
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Joined September 2010
insanely proud of our new #doctorsmess - it was the outcome of a fabulous group of people coming together and having a laugh painting until 3am one weekend it’s not often that you see, let alone make, genuine and sincere change in the NHS but we did it! the NHS needs more of it
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📢 Last strike day tomorrow! ✊ The strike is working ✅ Our demands are fair 🙏 Huge thanks to colleagues for covering 📍 Final South East picket: Portsmouth, tomorrow 10am #FairPay #jobs #Solidarity
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I completely agree with @stefanohat’s words. Nobody is asking for a massive payrise overnight. We are turning doctors away from the NHS at a time when we desperately need more. We also need to stop the exodus of doctors from the NHS - valuing them by restoring pay over a
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“You cannot retain talent by keeping it in the dark. And the public should resist a manufactured narrative that these strikes are about greed. They are about whether, in a decade, our children and parents will have enough doctors to care for them” 🎯 https://t.co/1z0o3zctFn
inews.co.uk
The public should resist a manufactured narrative that these strikes are about greed
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I spent today on the picket lines as a resident doctor in England. We’ve reached a point where NHS doctors who want to care for patients - who’ve undertaken years of training - are being left without jobs. Not because the NHS has enough doctors but because the Government has
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Huge thanks to all the resident doctors who stood strong in the rain on the picket line at St Thomas’. Your courage and solidarity are what keep this fight alive for fair pay, jobs, and the future of our NHS.
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Dr Brown spoke with the BBC at our picket. She wants to become an A&E Consultant. However, last year 14 doctors applied per A&E training place and she was unsuccessful. It is a disgrace that patients are waiting hours in A&E, when doctors like Poppy are locked out of training.
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As our resident doctor ballot opens in🏴 today, it's great to have the support of RDC Chair @fletchjack from the picket line in London. We stand with colleagues in 🏴 and thank them for their support. Residents in Scotland, take Jack's advice - vote early and vote yes!
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Explaining why circumstances are untenable for resident doctors to @ChronicleLive today on the picket line at the RVI. Gov needs to wake up + invest into doctors for the future of the NHS and patients. With a meaningful expansion on training places and not a real terms 2% pay cut
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'Wes Streeting still doesn't understand why resident doctors are on strike' ✍️ @fletchjack for LBC Opinion https://t.co/wlp62qQaSB
lbc.co.uk
Resident doctors do not take the decision to strike lightly, writes Dr Jack Fletcher
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Stunning turnout from @BMANorthernRDC resident doctors (despite the rain!) at the RVI in Newcastle! ✊🧡 Clear message from our members to government - solve the jobs crisis and stop eroding our pay. @TheBMA @BMAResidents
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Down at @TheBMA protest at St Thomas’ Hospital - chucking it down with rain but the residents and medical students (and dogs) here are unbothered. Interviews that @fletchjack and I were giving kept being interrupted by supportive tooting from passing cars and lorries. ✊🚗🚚
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Why are resident doctors striking? 30K applicants for 10K training posts while patients cry out for doctors. And our pay is still 21% down verses 2008, with government proposing a real terms 2% pay cut next year… @BMAResidents
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Yorkshire & North East Pickets 14 November 2025, 8-11am 👉Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Green Area, Glossop Road, Sheffield 👉Hull Royal Infirmary, Anlaby Road, Hull 👉Leeds General Infirmary -Jubilee Wing - Leeds 👉RVI - on main Queen Victoria Road - Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Thunderous applause from NHS managers… …whilst front line staff and their representatives are forced back on strike to fight for jobs and prevent a real terms pay cut.
At NHS Providers just now @wesstreeting delivered tough attack on the BMA and resident doctor leaders ahead of the 5-day strike starting this week. He said the BMA is "increasingly behaving in cartel-like behavior" and puts NHS at risk. Received a spontaneous applause from crowd.
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We give trusts plenty of time to plan their cover during lawful industrial action. NHS trusts who flood this safety critical process with inappropriate requests are abusing it, and are putting patients’ lives at risk. We will put patients first, even when some NHS trusts don’t.
"As doctors, we at the BMA wish to ensure that, while resident doctors are taking lawful industrial action, patients remain safe" Today, @thomasdolphin and @ERunswickBMA have written to NHS leaders to ensure the derogations system is used properly during strike action
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The graph is stark. Thousands of qualified doctors, unable to enter training. Look at the gov solution. 1000 jobs this year? As someone applying to training now, this is a drop in the ocean and is not going to help me. Drs Tell @wesstreeting on picket lines @BMAResidents
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Looking forward to Northern Doctors uniting at Friday’s picket, 8am at the RVI Newcastle Supplies arrived today! 🪧🪧🪧
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Foundation doctors: join us at 7.30pm tonight for a webinar on the upcoming industrial action in England. Your resident doctor committee leadership team will be on hand to update you and answer questions. Register now: https://t.co/zvnsYLeZWP
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Are you an international medical graduate (IMG) resident doctor? Got a question about upcoming industrial action in England? Join us online at 6pm tonight to hear from your UK resident doctor committee leadership team. https://t.co/cP3NSUnQFz
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