Jury is still out whether Wes Streeting MP would be a good thing for the NHS (if he'd get the memo about retention that would be a start), but this interview with Phil Whitaker left me feeling excited to be part of what the NHS might become under Labour newstatesman.com/politics/healt…
LBC Ben Kentish Phil Whitaker This graph alone should be enough to sink the Tories
The NHS always suffers under Tory governments
They ruin it every time they get in
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Phil Whitaker Sadly they have imposed the US model of basic medicare/Medicaid & despite ploughing £billions of public £ in, limited numbers of patients will only get v basic care while £billions are siphoned off in profits & excessive admin- not on staff wages tho
Listen to the GPs here...
Selvaseelan Selvarajah Phil Whitaker Katie Bramall-Stainer Steve Taylor
DAUK GP Committee 💙
The answers are closer to home...
Are #PharmacyTechnicians like
#PhysicianAssociates to
⬇️ #NHS Costs by
⬇️ Skills
➡️ Endangering #Patients ?
Wes Streeting MP Paulette Hamilton MP Taiwo Owatemi MP Barbara Keeley 💙 🇺🇦 Margaret Greenwood MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan Labour Health The BMA Dr Done Janet Eastham PulseToday Phil Whitaker
Prof. Kevork Hopayian Phil Whitaker Rest assured that not all of us are complicit in “letting” the NHS go down the pan. Many of us have been fighting it tooth and nail for many, many years now.
Let’s make sure we place blame where appropriate.
'I have been a GP for over thirty years, and this is incomparably the worst I have ever seen.'
GP and medical journalist Phil Whitaker reaffirms to Natasha Devon 🌈💙 that the NHS 'is in a crisis'.
Dr Rachel Clarke Doctors’ Association UK 💙 Trisha Greenhalgh Phil Whitaker Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 The BMA DoctorsVote 🦀 #TellThemAgain Patients don't even realise they're not being reviewed by doctors
Lawrence ExplosiveEnema Faculty of PAs @ RCP RestoreGP Dr Ali G #StandWithUkraine #CeasefireInGazaNow 💔 Dr Sandeep Bansal Selvaseelan Selvarajah Katie Bramall-Stainer DocInTheHeed 🦀 Phil Whitaker Dr Goblin My ideal safe prescribing process:
The patient sees a GP. End of story.
Dr Rachel Clarke Dr Bharat Pankhania Doctors’ Association UK 💙 Trisha Greenhalgh Phil Whitaker Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 The BMA DoctorsVote 🦀 #TellThemAgain Its disgusting these doctors need our support 100%
Escoffier’s love child 🦀 (🗑️ 🔥) Dr Ali G #StandWithUkraine #CeasefireInGazaNow 💔 Neena Jha Dr Sandeep Bansal The Cricketing Doc™️ 🇵🇸 Parody RCGP (not a doctor) Dr Done platinumpizza™ ExplosiveEnema Tim Ricketts Eilidh 🦀 Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 Dr Asif Qasim 💙 Mamas A. Mamas 𝗗𝗿 𝗔𝗷𝗮𝘆 𝗠 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮 Selvaseelan Selvarajah Heather Ryan Dr Goblin Ollie Burton Iona Collins.DOCTOR. Dr Helen Salisbury Katie Bramall-Stainer Helen Fernandez Adam Skeen Cllr Dr David Nicholl Richard Marks - London Anaesthetist fairweathercyclist💙 Dr Kate Cushing #SaveOurNHS Richard Fitzgerald 💙 🦀 Dr Roddy Neilson Tim Lane 💙 Jan Hansel Dr Lizzie Toberty 💙 Phil Whitaker Dr Ian Jackson#FBPA#FBSI 😷🏴🇪🇺 Yes. The push needs to continue particularly with the GMC.
ExplosiveEnema Dr Done Faculty of PAs @ RCP RestoreGP Dr Ali G #StandWithUkraine #CeasefireInGazaNow 💔 Heather Ryan Dr Sandeep Bansal Selvaseelan Selvarajah Katie Bramall-Stainer The Cricketing Doc™️ 🇵🇸 DocInTheHeed 🦀 Phil Whitaker Dr Goblin You’re running 2hs behind, seeing the pts entire family in a 10min appt which they arrived 5mins late for, and, to top it off, URGENT MESSAGE pops up on your screen ever few secs from the 17 ARRS colleagues you’re supervising “laxido plz”. Welcome to Modern General Practice.
“It purred like a Rolls-Royce. It was a brilliant time to work in the NHS. What’s happened is a slow motion car crash.'
Speaking to Ben Kentish, Phil Whitaker reflects on public satisfaction in the NHS hitting a 40-year low.
I have just finished #whatisadoctor ? written by Phil Whitaker .
Really excellent book showing how we may save general practice.
Continuity of care, too much Medicine, supporting the work force…
Every chapter a gem.
Wow. Thankyou so much everyone for your moments!
Trisha Greenhalgh Sabena Jameel Acrobaticlama Simon Hodes, General Practitioner Dr Anita Raja Dr Soumitri Chakraborty (she/her) Seb Phil Whitaker Dr Aaliya 💙 Stephanie deGiorgio
I'll be sharing your collective wisdom tomorrow!
#GPmomentum 2/2
A brilliantly insightful look at the NHS' history and present from Henry Marsh in The New Statesman in which he reviews FIGHTING FOR LIFE - 'a kaleidoscopic history of the NHS' - by Isabel Hardman & WHAT IS A DOCTOR? by Phil Whitaker newstatesman.com/culture/books/… Viking Books UK