So the govt are using GP funding to keep local pharmacies afloat.?
Pharmacies are funded 3x HIGHER rates than GPs, for only 7 conditions.

This is not GP decompression, it is GP DESTRUCTION.

We have published a new statement, which updates our position on medical associate professions and the expansion of the physician associate workforce: rcpe.ac.uk/college/colleg…

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An FOI request from BMA Scotland to Scotland’s health boards has revealed a total of 1076 whole time equivalent (WTE) vacancies, compared to 439 reported by official figures.

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Today we have written to the Chief Executive of NHS England requesting a pause to the further expansion of MAPs across the NHS while significant patient safety concerns persist.

free access, bmj
why the fuss about PAs?
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Important time for BSG & its members.

Two open letters signed by BSG Trainees & members raising concerns of the impact of PAs on training, and a call for a wide reaching consultation to explore the merits, concerns & appetite for PAs working in Gastroenterology.

More often that not...

When individuals in positions on power use #bekind to shutdown debate...

It's because you are asking the right questions!

Had a 4th Year Medical student with me today

He was fantastic- exactly at the level I’d expect for his stage

But in no way capable of running a clinic independently…he’d be aghast even at the suggestion!

The fact we have PAs with HALF his training running clinics in the NHS

Can I wish our Sikh community in Scotland and all those celebrating across the world a very happy Vaisakhi.

Many Sikhs will be enjoying time with their family and communities, as well as partaking in Seva (service), my best wishes to them all.

Vaisakhi Diyah Lakh Lakh Vadhaiyan

As Sikhs across Scotland celebrate #Vaisakhi , First Minister Humza Yousaf is thanking them for their unwavering support for the most vulnerable members of our communities.

13% of doctors are ‘very likely’ to move abroad in the next year, and another 17% ‘fairly likely’ to do so.

The GMC’s survey findings should raise loud alarm bells for government.

Read our press release on the new figures. bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

BSG trainee committee response to Physician Associates in Endoscopy

Well, looks like not all is united at the ⁦BSG⁩

Nurse - profession
Physiotherapist - profession
OT - profession
Radiographer - profession
SALT - profession
Cardiac Physiologist - profession
Doctor - profession

….all members of the MDT or MPT - multi-professional team

PA - not a profession. An occupation or job. Studying a

A consultant gastroenterologist as good as telling UK medics that if he wants to train a PA, he will.... junior doctors and IMGs can 🖕🏽, go cry about your (lack of a) training programme in a corner somewhere

ExplosiveEnema

A reminder that as things stand?
As per NHS England Workforce, Training and Education We are Primary Care?

A non-GP doctor can’t see ‘undifferentiated’ patients
as it’s unsafe

A PA (a non-medic) -with far less training & experience-can

And RCGP -the college of GPs have yet to have a stance on this

Facts-yeah? 😳

For ANY lay person, alarm bells would automatically ring:

“The professional reason to be a PA (over a doctor) is you stay a ‘generalist’ & therefore can work in ANY specialty at ANY point in our career without the need to take any formal training

…whereas doctors would have to

This is what happens when you fail to value the professionals at the heart of the NHS. Doctors vote with their feet.

Neil Gray MSP
Wes Streeting MP
Victoria Atkins

No more claps, potbanging, badges, awards - do what needs to be done......Before the trickle, becomes a flood

On behalf of @ScotGov, Cabinet Secretary Angus Robertson laid a wreath at the memorial to abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Douglass drew huge crowds when he toured in Scotland in 1846 to educate people on the slave trade.

Read more here ⬇ scotland.org/inspiration/le…