It's been busy in the hospital this week

the reason why we call today good friday is because on a friday 300 years ago jesus managed to fit 30 mini chocolate eggs inside of his mouth and it was such a good friday we still celebrate it to this very day xox

Wierd how all those people telling United fans that Kobbie Mainoo is overrated have gone quiet! 😂

Healthcare has rightly learned from the human factors safety culture in aviation.

I asked my husband, a pilot, about this GMC plan to dumb down med school (because smartphones).

His reaction? Incredulity. “If the plane is going down I can only use what’s in my head.”

Quite.

BMA junior doctor members in England have voted by over 97% in favour of extending our mandate for industrial action, and to provide us with a mandate for action short of strike (ASOS).

A huge thank you to all of those who voted.

Read the full results 👇
bma.org.uk/juniorspay

Proctoscopy performed by PAs to rule out bowel cancer in patients with rectal bleeding.

I have questions! Patient safety, pathways, candour, funding, CoIs, supervision, missed pathology etc

Interested to see comments from Gastro & surgical colleagues.

pulsetoday.co.uk/pulse-pcn/pcn-…

For Junior Doctors

Today is the last safe day to post your ballot

Every kitchen counter ballot is a NO vote

Don’t be that person

If your ballot’s in your bag at work, get it, vote YES/YES, find your nearest postbox (likely in hospital), post back

postboxes.dracos.co.uk

CHPI showing again they are the stand out think tank when it comes to the NHS twitter.com/CHPIthinktank/…

BBC Newsnight uses our latest research to ask the question: why is the private sector charging the taxpayer so much to deliver more and more high cost cataract work on the NHS when patient needs haven't changed? We estimate that this might be costing the taxpayer £29 million

Wow, really. twitter.com/PhilSmithIsBac…

CHPI's Director writes in today's Guardian on how almost no areas of health and care services are off-limits for investors seeking to generate large returns. At what point did any political party put this in their manifestos? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Oxford Uni research proves privatisation leads to worse care for patients.

Use our #PledgefortheNHS tool to call on election candidates to:
💙 Fund our NHS properly
❌End outsourcing
✅Reinstate Health Sec's duty to provide healthcare for all
weownit.org.uk/act-now/pledge…

As covered on this evening's #Newsnight our report on the outsourcing of NHS eye care is now online here chpi.org.uk/papers/reports…

Rishi sunak emergency press conference 🚨

This fan and its little sign has just made my day

The suggestion that people going private could become the 'new normal' misses a major point. Just how did the UK private healthcare sector become big enough to make this possible? For an answer see our research in the 🧵theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

Our co-chair John Puntis: 'Moving work into the relatively small parasitic private sector is a policy decision aimed at undermining the NHS & growing a 2 tier system. NHS is being increasingly cannibalised by the private health industry” Front page today theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

This man, cosplaying the politician who cares, oversaw the ruination if the national health service. Never forget this

Everywhere I've worked, the controllable factor which can make or break a hospital's patient care is the link between executive, shop floor clinicians and fledgling staff. Staff need to see and feel management listen. Govt needs to support exec to deliver