The NHS makes FY1/2 years a few days short of 2 years exactly so that is doesn’t have to keep your pension Any role in the NHS pays a pension after 2 years of service - they deliberately screw you over and don’t tell you until you enquire

Our analysis of the impact of physician assistants on cardiology training in the UK

Most people have no idea how bad the UK doctor training system really is. It demands double the training time of other countries, pays doctors less at every stage, and then often keeps them “junior” even after they finish all their training. Look at the numbers. 🧵⬇️

To all the MPs telling Drs they are greedy, take a long hard look at yourselves and tell me you’d be happy on your 2015 salary, or even 2010 (£65,738), because that is what you are asking of Drs.

✍️ | We have written an open letter to the GMC over the recent publication of good practice advice for doctors who supervise and work with physician associates and anaesthesia associates https://t.co/ifKM3qqBX8

Statement from our legal team: The GMC is fighting this case because it wants to be a regulator that regulates only at the most superficial level and not in response to the most serious risks. Our clients are determined to change that. #AUvsGMC https://t.co/iAvuuQRH7G

Blurring the lines between doctors and physician associates is a serious risk to patient safety. So it’s welcome news that @AnaesUnited legal challenge, which we are supporting, will proceed to a full High Court hearing.

POV: 🔹 You’re a new physician associate from 2021 🔹 By virtue of simply being not a doctor, you get featured on the ‘Breast Unit Consultant Staff’ page 🔹 Consultants bow before you and recognise ‘the importance of keeping my role interesting’ 🔹 If you’d gone to medical

Merry Christmas to all those working in the NHS Many staff in the NHS are grossly underpaid (even on Christmas day👇) but none more so than Resident Doctors who frequently graduate with >£100k debt RT to support them & ask government to pay them ALL fairly #PayRestoration

It’s as simple as this tweet from @gmcuk The new ‘Director of Standards’ (LOL) for the doctors’ regulator, wants non-doctors to do tasks that Consultants would normally do. I.e, those without a basic medical degree to do things that normally require the skills and knowledge

If ever there was evidence of a captured regulator it is this post. It’s not about ensuring high quality clinical standards of the professionals it regulates. It’s about political collusion to curate a regulatory environment tailored to the desires of the state, not patients.

Today we’ve published our new interim guidance on the scope, supervision and employment of physician associates working in medical specialties. In the guidance, we’re clear that: - PAs must support – not replace – doctors and have a nationally defined ceiling of practice - PAs

I really think the BMA should now ballot its members for a vote of no confidence in the General Medical Council as a regulator and the subsequent inevitable success to withdraw our funding of the organisation. They can be the General MAP Council.

“Patients deserve better than this cavalier approach to regulation. They deserve a medical regulator that listens to the medical profession.” BMA council chair @DrPhilBanfield responds to the outcome of the GMC’s physician associate and anaesthesia associate consultation.

I will write more fully on this shortly - but this is a breathtaking abdication of responsibility by the UK’s medical regulator. This is mass medical deregulation - the @gmcuk literally saying PAs can do whatever they want if their local employer says they can. An NHS scandal.

The Irish Medical Council (GMC equivalent in Ireland) are taking a stand! They state: “As the independent body which regulates doctors in Ireland, they are NOT the appropriate regulator for physician associates” The 4 reasons they give below: 🧵

Read the #StateOfMed report @gmcuk 2 things stand out: 1. There are NO shortage of doctors (Stop trying to replace them with less trained staff & make safety,quality & productivity worse) 2. An indictment of failure of leadership @NHSE_WTE re doctors training -AGAIN. Poor ++

The RCP has today published an updated position on physician associates working in secondary care in the medical specialties: there is a limited role for PAs in secondary care as long as they are supported by clear supervision arrangements, professional regulation, and a

Dear @gmcuk - Look what you are enabling.

It’d be ABSURD to question whether a dentistry degree is necessary to work as a dentist Or whether a pharmacy degree is necessary to to work as a pharmacist So why on Earth is it in question whether it’s necessary to have a medical degree to practice medicine like a doctor?!