How can trusts defend clinical negligence claims if major procedures are carried out by people without a medical degree, surgical training and, currently, professional regulation? Would anyone really have given informed consent to this? NHS Resolution must surely stop this.

A final year student I supervise is stressed AF as they’ve been RANDOMLY given a region of the UK for work but have not been given a JOB and won’t be given one til 4 weeks before STARTING but they have to apply for a visa which takes EIGHT weeks?!

How the hell is this ok UKFPO?

There is no oncology unit anywhere in Ireland insisting covid boosters as condition for treatment.

And if it’s “indistinguishable from sepsis” are you sure isn’t sepsis ?
It’s known to happen in cancer patients
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One track mind and an axe to grind - your aren’t putting…

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Glad this has been finally picked up but some important qs remain: are incentive payments being used to create new jobs quickly & what is being done to avoid a larger mess next year?
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#HellomynameisJulie Walsall Healthcare University Hospitals Birmingham The Royal College of Surgeons of England What was the actual point? They didn’t do them alone and they did easy ones. They essentially removed perfect training opportunities from good CT2s and ST3/4s. They should be doing the hot clinic so the trainees can do this. Awful.

🗣️ | “Many will be moving away from home, some will have family, caring responsibilities and will need to put things in place.'
We share the concerns of final year medical students who have yet to find out which hospital they will start work in.
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This story has inspired us to help doctors across the country to negotiate for each and every extra-contractual shift. Head to doctor-ratecard.co.uk to find out how. Enough is enough. 🧵

In a TED interview, Vaughan said that she was often asked, “Why do you do all this?’ to which she replied, “There’s a simple answer: it’s the right thing to do.”

She was never afraid of anyone

Jenny Vaughan | Just Culture for all in healthcare neurologist and medical law campaigner bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Dear St George's, University of London

Please correct or remove this misleading post.

PAs are not essential and your statement is misleading.

It is clear that you have failed to understand that the real concern of doctors is St George's, University of London having used PAs in place of doctors; they see the…

'If [there's] a genuine desire to improve working lives, we need a bolder vision - pay restoration, quality training opportunities and cancelling student debt.'

NHS England Doctors’ Association UK 💙 DAUK GP Committee 💙

I’m sorry but this thread is brazen doublespeak.

Your raison d’etre, GMC, is to uphold standards in medicine for the benefit of patients.

Yet you deny what is manifestly happening across the NHS - PAs replacing doctors. Openly, explicitly.

So how can anyone trust you?

Another tribute to legend Jenny Vaughan | Just Culture for all in healthcare
In The BMJ John Illman

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📨 | 'Many of our MPs have broken laws, which have not resulted in their suspension from parliament.'
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Rishi Sunak Conservatives I would quite frankly rather eat two bowls of shit than vote conservative.

Dr Sarah Benn was suspended from the medical register for peaceful climate protests because an oil company obtained an injunction to stop demonstrations.

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Great thread, Tom.

You don't even need to be affiliated with a Union for this government to spy on you.

DHSC were monitoring me, too.

Back in November 2023, following an investigation which revealed teachers had been spied on and blacklisted from public events by civil servants in the Education Dept, I sent a subject access request to DHSC (thanks to the DAUK’s Dr Matt Kneale for the chat GPT wording 😂)

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I have been in about 15 hospitals across the UK and I have never, ever seen a female only hospital ward. So this is a truly bizarre statement to make. Even obs and gynae isn’t distinctly for XX.