Doctors are furious.

A record breaking turn out of 77.49% and a 98% yes mandate smashing the anti-trade union legislation that demands POSTAL votes for a significant size of the workforce who rotates on an at least an annual basis is undeniable.

🚨 It's crazy that the NHS has told 350 doctors training in anaesthesia that the NHS has no job for them after 3 years training.

At the same time we have massive shortages of, you guessed it, anaesthetists. These self-defeating bottlenecks defy logic. Statement from Royal College of Anaesthetists

1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: So we need to talk about NHS pay. NEW shocking [post DDRB] data just in 4/1/24 👇 (SPOILER: Not 'fair & reasonable')

We need to fix pay/retention to fix waiting lists- increasingly clear next GE will won/lost on NHS

Please read whole 🧵 & share widely/RT

For some groups in particular, the numbers are eye-watering.

Specialty registrars — junior doctors about 5-10 years into their professional career — would be earning *£20,000* more per year today if pay had kept up with inflation.

We have written to Amanda Pritchard to raise serious concerns about the way that NHS England are engaging with the national derogations system and we are seeking her urgent intervention. Read the letter:
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Prof Colin R Melville @gmc I recently underwent a 20 month GMC investigation into my practice having been referred by a family member. I had already been referred to the local SI panel, coroner and government ombudsman who closed immediately

Join us next week!

The Role of Academic Global Health: Reckoning with Our Past, Present, and Future

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

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The Prime Minister UK Prime Minister said today 'We were making very good progress before industrial action'

Waiting lists are a #PoliticalCHOICE

RT if you think this 👇was NOT 'good progress' before IA & govmnt needs to change course #PayRestoration

bbc.co.uk/news/health-66…

In time, what the exMD of Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust told said to parents will emerge. We reported him to GMC for his actions. They sat on it for 4 yrs then cleared him without speaking to the drs who reported him. Another institution that has failed

#lucyletby theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

So disheartening to see this from a consultant in the department I’m currently training in. Thankfully all our other consultants (those actively involved in acute care for our patients, unlike Dr Johnson) have been so supportive of our decision and right to strike.

1. Tomorrow i will be supporting the NHS #ConsultantsStrike
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➡️ i was from a working class background, i went to a state comprehensive. My dad left school at 16, mum at 12. I am the first / only member of my family…

Rishi Sunk has said that this year's public sector pay awards have been agreed in full but with no new or additional funding to cover them. There is literally no economic sense in this whatsoever. A short thread...

“They either don’t understand the impact of continued pay erosion on morale and retention, or they do understand and they simply don’t care”

Co-chair Vivek Trivedi speaking on BBC Breakfast this morning about the government’s negotiating position

#JuniorDoctorsStrike

Because of passport & visa privilege, global health meetings are becoming two-tiered:

Global North participants: in person, speaking, asking questions, socializing & networking

Global South: on Zoom, mostly off-camera, muted, asking questions via chat, or watching recordings

Lots of talk at the RCPCH conference about social determinants of health whilst staff are striking for a below inflation pay offer. The college needs to put its money where it’s mouth is. Support striking staff ✊ Unite at RCPCH RCPCH #rcpch23 Camilla Kingdon #CostOfLiving

10000% this

#RCPCHstrike

Disappointed in RCPCH email to members re:conference

About how can go ahead without staff & still b great

But the staff ARE the rcpch!

Nil about crossing picket lines &no real info about why striking

Unite at RCPCH
Sad days - how can college advocate
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Did you know?

95% of master's degrees in global health are in high income countries, with an average tuition of US$37,732

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