The UK is broken.

I speak to people in the real world - they are stupid.

Willingly so.

Honestly, I expect poor turnout and Tories exceeding expectations.

Some will say this is due to local elections, the Tories will try and claim success.

But this is dire.

Alectinib improved disease-free survival compared with chemotherapy in patients with early stage, resected ALK-positive non–small-cell lung cancer. jwat.ch/4b1ji0q

NEJM Jyoti D Patel

Bidens support for Israel’s brutal policy of collective punishment could well cost him the election with waning support from younger voters and then what happens Ukraine Eastern Europe and the world.

Not good enough ! If you delegate regulation to local (demand based conflicted decision makers) what the hell is the role of GMC as a regulatory body ?

Trisha Greenhalgh Eilidh 🦀

Gardaí have arrested a man after an apparent attempt to abduct a 2-year-old child in Dublin city this afternoon. The incident happened in the Sheriff Street area rte.ie/news/2024/0502…

We don't have a problem with your staff. We have a problem with the trust.

PAs are not experts in any specialist medical role. PAs are a dependent role that requires supervision from a doctor and so by definition can never be an expert...

Furthermore to be an expert takes more than a 2 years masters. it takes a doctor 10-15 yrs post medical school to…

From: “helping out with the more routine tasks to free up doctors’ time to take on more complex work”

To: “experts in their specialist field”

All with just two years training? 🤔

Is there a gun pointed at someone’s head somewhere in Whitehall?

Blink 3 times.

Karl Runser Lindsay Beyerstein Magdi Jacobs Also, we know Trump Administration II would be WAY worse than Trump I. How? He’s telling us so. He’s telling us what he would do if elected again! time.com/6972021/donald…

I was included on the #TIME100HEALTH list of 100 individuals who most influenced global health this year. time.com/6968406/sholto…

Matt Le Tissier wants Dr Ranj to be investigated and deplatformed for his comments on ‘This morning’ 2021.

The same time 2021 ‘good morning Britain, Dr Malhotra was claiming the jab was the safest of all drugs and hesitancy was due to misinformation. 🤷

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The Conservative party hits a new low of 18% with YouGov.

If repeated at a general election, they would fall to just 32 MPs, with even Rishi Sunak losing his seat

Another plug for the #weight centric management of disease. Any disease.

If your #GI #cardio #psychiatry #obgyn #medical society is due to draft new guidelines, pls reach out! You should have an #obesity expert on board

Bollards for Binface

The question was about PAs covering “doctor’s shifts” it was specific.
The reply was “726 medic shifts”

It’s completely disingenuous for RCHT to dismiss concerns on good faith interpretation on information they provided.

PAs are not “expert” as well h/t Ollie Burton

Expert is just not an appropriate word to use. The *whole point* is that PAs are not experts and therefore are much faster to deploy than experts, who take many many years to train and are more expensive. The term fails to mean anything if it's used this way.

NEWS: Dozens of student demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in Gaza have entered King's College Circle at the University of Toronto and are setting up tents

They chant, 'End the surge let them breathe!' and 'U of T pick a side, ceasefire not genocide!'
University of Toronto

Small rant alert…we are a small charity run completely by volunteer medical students and doctors. We offer free mentoring, mock MMIs, PBL sessions and events to students in schools- we just need the teacher lead to sign them up. Recently we have had 5+ teachers no-show (1/n)