Superb from Helen

6) Pasteurization (basic type) is “very likely” to inactivate H5N1 says the FDA. We also thought COVID was very likely not transmitting asymptomatically (it was), not likely airborne (it was), not likely lead to reinfection (it did), not likely have breakthrough infections (it

A PA - a person WITHOUT a medical degree running a telephone clinic with undifferentiated patients from home

Then videoing these consultations & posting them on social media?!

🚩 GROSSLY unprofessional
🚩 NEGLIGENT supervision
🚩 DANGER to patients

Have patients consented for

Absolutely spot on from Louella Vaughan & David Oliver on GMC's appallingly dumbed down vision for UK medical education.

Patients, doctors, med students, all health care workers - please read.

Just what on earth is our regulator playing at? 🤷‍♀️

bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Hospital Infection Control Guidance for SARS by World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003.

In contrast to this pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) advised at the time:

👉Airborne precautions
👉“N95 mask as a minimum”

(Retrieved via The Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/2003040322…)

Why did World Health Organization (WHO) “forget” this in 2020?

If you are an RCGP member, please give your views on the scope of PAs in #TeamGP .

Vital members give the feedback so that it can update policy and inform guidance.

This is madness
Spread dangerous anti vax info? GMC not interested
Attempt peaceful protest to save the planet?
Get suspended for 5 months.
In what way could this possibly harm patients or the profession?
GMC in self -parody mode now

What is quality in long covid care? Lessons from a national quality improvement collaborative and multi-site ethnography bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… via Trisha Greenhalgh et al

Best of luck with this one, Omar Mustafa
rcplondon.ac.uk/about-rcp/whos…

Updating our review paper while responding to reviewer comments. It's now four months out of date (sigh). Crowdsource question: any really good, groundbreaking epidemiological studies or clinical trials or mechanism studies of long covid published *since 1st Jan 2024*? THANKS!

Time to learn to like oat milk?

We had a lot of fun planning how to coordinate for this portrait!

Top tip: you can type 'I don't think that PAs should work in General Practice' into the 'Other (please specify)' box 😉

All @RCGP members should have received a personalised link to the member consultation on #PhysicianAssociates - please, please, PLEASE fill it in!

🚨🚨Lost for words again.

The danger that patients, like the one below, are put in when assessed by a PA instead of a doctor can lead to serious morbidity or death.

Is this what we want for our families?

Replacing doctors with PAs will be the medical scandal of this century.

As A PHE CCDC who investigated the first cases in UK residents…

If we didn't know Covid-19 was airborne on 1st Feb 2020…

We knew it (beyond reasonable doubt) by the 29th.

RCGP PA survey has been sent to members today.

It will conducted and analysed independently to help update policy.

Please give your input if you are an RCGP member.

Really important to hear from all GPs.

🙏🏾

RCGP to launch consultation on PAs in general practice buff.ly/3Ut426D #physicianassociates #GPworkforce #RCGP

So proud of cousin Bev Bev Summerhayes who will be one of the leaders in nursing and midwifery carrying the lamp on this commemoration day! Forever in awe of, and grateful to, these proud and committed professions.

Shark & Ray Diversity at Drawaqa Island, Fiji from my marine biologist son Rob who has a new research project to map all the species
youtu.be/qiP4HRmr97M?si…