Chair of BMA West Midlands Regional Resident Doctors Committee Outgoing Co-Chair of BMA Welsh Doctors Committee alongside @ObaBabsOsibodu
Joined April 2023
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Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
It’s concerning to hear @wesstreeting state he’s not concerned about the NHS losing 1000s of doctors just because they’re international medical graduates.
UK graduate prioritisation is needed to address specialty training bottlenecks but needs to include protections for IMG colleagues already working here and contributing to the NHS.
Your @DoctorsVoteUK reps will continue to advocate regarding the need for these protections
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
"The Government’s latest offer fails to address the medical jobs crisis and does nothing to stem the exodus of medics from this country."
The health secretary must start treating doctors with respect, as @fletchjack writes in the @guardian 📢👇 theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
The @BMAResidents have been branded juvenile delinquents, moaning Minnie’s, out of touch with our grassroots
With an overwhelming 83% no vote on an 65% turnout these claims are put to bed for good
@wesstreeting the ball is in your court
Strikes will GO AHEAD from 17-22 December, after resident doctors in England voted overwhelmingly to reject the latest offer from @wesstreeting.
ALT Orange graphic with text: ‘Strikes are on 17–22 December’ for resident doctors in England. Shows a megaphone and voting result: 83.2% against offer, turnout 65.34%. BMA logo at bottom.
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
I don’t think people realise just how big this outcome is.
These percentages are high enough to win a statutory ballot and it was done in just 3 days.
The fallacy that their leaders were detached from their rank and file is dead.
Resident doctors are angry and unified.
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Strikes will GO AHEAD from 17-22 December, after resident doctors in England voted overwhelmingly to reject the latest offer from @wesstreeting.
ALT Orange graphic with text: ‘Strikes are on 17–22 December’ for resident doctors in England. Shows a megaphone and voting result: 83.2% against offer, turnout 65.34%. BMA logo at bottom.
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
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Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
🚨Resident doctors in England🚨
This is your chance to have your say over whether or not we should call off December strike action to explore the Government’s offer.
Check your emails and vote before 7am on Monday!
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
Our resident doctor strikes are covered by kind senior doctors to ensure that emergency activity goes ahead.
It is NHS England and yourselves that put patients at risk by pushing for elective activity when staffing is stretched.
That is dangerous and a source of shame.
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
Every day patients are lined up in corridors, sat on waiting lists for urgent care and suffering poor care due to chronic underfunding.
This will not be fixed without reversing years of poor workforce planning and keeping your word around restoring pay so we can keep Drs.
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
What the public wants is enough doctors so they can access medical care
It’s literally your job to ensure the NHS has enough doctors
You choosing to hold doctors’ jobs ransom in a trade dispute is a political choice you’re making
A choice the public is paying the price of
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
Hi @wesstreeting I’m asking in good faith. How does withholding any prioritisation for UK graduates win you any favours with the electorate?(considering the polls and who they are flocking to vote for). Why are you providing them further ammunition to use against you?
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
Mr @wesstreeting said in the spring he would do something to prioritise UK Grads etc, it's now the end of the year and he has done bugger all, why trust him now?
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
Can you remind us of your DDRB remit letter for 2024/25?
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
“We need a serious long-term sustainable solution to this crisis, and that’s within the secretary of state’s gift.”
Deputy co-chair @callumjparr speaking to @BBCNewsnight about the latest offer from government👇
“Do you think lives will be lost because of strike action?”
“I don't”
@bbcpaddy asks the BMA's Dr Callum Parr about the potential impacts of next week's planned strike by resident doctors in England.
#Newsnight
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
Your @DoctorsVoteUK candidates in the West Midlands have been out across the region, spreading the message to vote in the BMA Resident Doctor Committee elections. We will fight for FPR and increased training places.
Please follow the link to vote: elections.bma.org.uk
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
Post Leng it’s clear the associate project always was as evidence free as it was illogical
What needs answering now is why the Colleges & universities were so happy to champion a project that destroyed professional standards & jeopardised patient safety?
I want accountability
It was great to talk to @jeremycorbyn yesterday about pay restoration and our concerns regarding doctor replacement with physician assistants.
He was concerned about the taskification of healthcare.
Also struggled to understand why assistants were paid more than doctors
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
Absolutely crazy statistic
Paying Drs a mere £23/hr would end these strikes. It's a bargain for @wesstreeting
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
'Even if our pay was restored we would still be paid less than the Physician Assistants with their two year degree '
BMA Resident Doctors Committee Co-chair, Dr Ross Nieuwoudt told #BBCBreakfast his members feel 'a little bit tricked' by Health Secretary Wes Streeting as they began a five-day strike in England
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ep…
Dr Peter Fahey retweeted
It’s not the BMA “undermining the trade union movement”.
It’s a Labour Prime Minister, writing in the Murdoch press, urging junior doctors to break with their union leadership.
That’s a direct attack on trade unionism.
Solidarity with @TheBMA and junior doctors on strike.
Keir Starmer: Resident doctors should break ranks with the BMA leadership.
The industrial action that starts on Friday is in no one’s interests and medics should not follow their union down its dangerous and destructive route, he says.
thetimes.com/article/3fdcd57…
