The Conservatives, Department of Health and Social Care & NHS England have decided, rather than being the ‘stepping stone’ year to signal safety, stability, and hope - 2024 will instead signal reduced patient access to GP services as well as likely closures of GP practices across the country.

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A word of caution here, folks:

👉1.9% = a disgrace
👉to match 2019/20 we need 8.7% putting this derisory offer into context
👉 #FPR for salariedGPs ~ c£450m
👉Total practice income/patient has ⬆️ by only £15 in a decade -
Yes! *£15*

Nice words won’t save General Practice

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'You will have your shift, do your work, you will be rewarded for the points you score based on patient satisfaction outcome measures, you’ll have your review on the website as to how good you are.' Dr Zoe Norris's dystopian view on general practice in 2044 bit.ly/42Or762

If anyone thinks that racism is only about tackling issues in white individuals?

Then you aren’t aware enough

The views of many from South Asian community towards black colleagues are equally abhorrent

And reflected in #NHS

Challenge your own bias

“Colourism” is a thing.

0️⃣5️⃣ working days left for Department of Health and Social Care NHS England to offer safety, stability and hope for GP practices across England for 2024/25….

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General Practice Dr David Wrigley Dr Samira Anane Philip Banfield 💙 Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 The BMA

I worked as a GP in care homes during the 1st wave. Wearing limited &homemade PPE. Asking patients I’d just met what their end of life preferences were, with my face hidden behind mask and visor. Seeing the impact of no testing before discharge. And so many deaths #Breathtaking

1. Expert generalist GPs over skill-mix

2. Quality over quantity

3. Continuity over access

4. Autonomous patient-advocacy over banal service standardisation

5. Individuality over uniformity

6. Choice over compulsion

7. Human connection over AI

1/x pulsetoday.co.uk/news/breaking-…

I don’t always know the right words to say, but as a physician and human, the violence toward medical facilities and patients in Gaza is awful and heartbreaking. To all my colleagues in health care risking their lives to save others, my heart is with you.

Stick to your guns all those taking part in the #JuniorDoctorsStrike . The #NHS needs staff so it needs #PayRestorationNow for a safer future NHS - strong support from your #GP colleagues round the country

How long can ministers stick to the shaky line that they can't talk to Junior Doctors while they seek a 35% pay rise when the public back doctors? Negotiations have to happen eventually - as they did with other unions. #JuniorDoctorsStrike

The junior doctors operating on your appendix are paid just £66.55 between them. For a potentially life-saving procedure, which lasts about an hour.

Is this a fair price to put on high quality healthcare?

#PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorsStrike

To any #JuniorDoctors feeling wobbly tonight about tomorrow - you are doing the right thing. Pay restoration needs to happen to safeguard the profession & the future of the #NHS . General practice is with you #BMA #PayRestorationNow

Mike Taigman thetimes.co.uk/article/7f3603…

Do you know what the GPDF is?

TBH neither do we, but they have a powerful function in General Practice.

Find out more here and about the recent controversy too.

Watch: youtu.be/NHFe4IhSL7I
Listen: buzzsprout.com/1772540/126114…

I can’t have a cocktail yet today because #domisstillabadman 😭😭

The anti-GP violence, abuse & aggression continues unabated. This is our waiting room WilsonStreetSurgery y’day after a patient trashed it. Negative media narrative, anti-GP rhetoric, unrelenting demand & unrealistic expectations leads to this level of violence. Where will it end?

Dear Iberostar I am currently staying at lanzarote park with my young family and tonight I am fuming. This is the entrance to the main restaurant at 6pm tonight when we took our 3yr old and 5yr old for dinner… long thread incoming 1/7