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Paul Kerr retweeted
As always, we would like to thank our strike dogs for bringing their owners to the demos yesterday. 🐾
#FullPayRestoration #PuppyPower
Paul Kerr retweeted
Dr Helen Kerr, NIRDC deputy chair, spoke to @BBCRadioFoyle ahead of today’s announcement of the secondary care doctors’ ballot results.
Listen back in full at 7.12 here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002xg…
@helekerr
Paul Kerr retweeted
Resident doctors in Northern Ireland, the ballot for industrial action is now OPEN. 🚨
📮You should have received your ballot by post, post it back before closing date of 8th June!
If you did not receive your ballot, email [email protected]
Paul Kerr retweeted
Resident doctors in Northern Ireland: it is important that we can contact you for your views. Make sure your details are up to date.
Check we have your:
👉 Valid email address
👉 Place of work details for all your roles
Sign into your BMA account here brnw.ch/21x2hRb
Paul Kerr retweeted
The NHS is rapidly becoming a laughing stock of the world. Thinking doctors can be replaced by others with less training.
Patients will suffer because of this.
Shame on you @wesstreeting & @Keir_Starmer
Mackey: We’ll reduce our reliance on doctors in response to strikes ift.tt/mTSjKP4
My daughter Dr Orla Kerr is fundraising for Air Ambulance Northern Ireland. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/orla-ker…
@AirAmbulanceNI @RCEMvp_NI
Paul Kerr retweeted
"There's not a lot of privacy or dignity"
A nurse-in-charge at the emergency department of the Royal Victoria Hospital speaks to UTV about the daily reality facing patients and staff.
Paul Kerr retweeted
🚨 Our Adult Emergency Departments are under extreme pressure.
⚠️ Please only attend an ED if your condition is life threatening, urgent or needs immediate attention.
🕗 Anyone attending with a non-urgent condition will have a very long wait to be seen.
ALT An ambulance waiting at an Emergency Department. Text on a red banner at the bottom reads: Our Adult Emergency Departments are under extreme pressure.
Paul Kerr retweeted
We’ve been pushing against the normalisation of corridor care today across several media outlets. It isn’t inevitable, but it needs political will and good leadership to fix. Maybe in 2026 …?
“It’s basically impossible to provide decent care in a corridor… There's no privacy. We're unable to examine patients properly. We're unable to treat them properly.”
@RCEMPresident talked to @GMB about the now 'normalised' but unnacceptable practice of corridor care.
Paul Kerr retweeted
The dire state of corridor care and overcrowding in Northern Ireland’s EDs has been revealed following a new survey of lead consultants.
Carried out on the morning of 8 December, across all nine all ages EDs, it revealed staff are dreading coming to work, departments are over capacity with patients being cared for in non-clinical areas, and there’s no resuscitation spaces.
Read more, including recommendations to address the crisis, here: rcem.ac.uk/press-release/mor…
Paul Kerr retweeted
Question here is why?
Where is data on numbers of delayed discharge, causes and responses?
Estimates suggest on any given day, 500 people in NI medically fit to go home, but stuck in hospital.
Is it simply a lack of home care packages?
How can we fix it, without the data?
NI cares for more people in hospital corridors than elsewhere in the UK. @RCEMvp_NI @RCEMLearning @RCEMpresident More on this across @BBCNewsNI bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm20…
Paul Kerr retweeted
More people in Northern Ireland are treated in hospital corridors compared to elsewhere in the UK, according to a new report by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. bbc.in/4oJJ7I7
Paul Kerr retweeted
WSJ with a devastating, intensely-sourced article demonstrating how Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff tried to sellout Ukraine, the U.S., and Europe for money. It's so bad one of our European allies shared evidence of the planned business deals. A must-read.
wsj.com/world/russia/russia-…
Paul Kerr retweeted
This is remarkable.
BREAKING!!! Rubio confirmed to Senators what I and other brilliant colleagues, such as @michaeldweiss , had been saying all this time: this is russian wishlist and was leaked to U.S. media by russia, full stop!!!
Paul Kerr retweeted
Grok’s Conclusion:
“This document is almost certainly translated from Russian into English by a native Russian speaker or a non-professional translator. It is not originally written in English.
Paul Kerr retweeted
A minor difference @NewtonEmerson is that well over £1bn (one billion) has been invested in GP in England. It’s £1m (one million) here.
England are still in dispute, mainly over an online access issue that we can only dream about here.
An Irish Times piece from July on the Stormont-GP stand-off. An identical dispute played out in England last year.
The BMA here has over-played its hand and can't believe its bluff has been called. That doesn't mean the minister won't backtrack of course.
irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/…
