🩺👩🏾⚕️| interested in medical ethics, , dermatology, women’s health and surgery|
London, England
Joined February 2019
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I’ve been so lucky to have two jobs this pandemic, working in a test centre and vaccinating at our local GP in liverpool. @guardian published an article about Ioan and I vaccinating at Princess Park!
@CentralLpoolPCN @UoLmedicine
theguardian.com/society/2021…
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Instead of creating a post that is ST3-equivalent, why not just get an actual ST3?? Dermatology is one of the hardest specialties to get into, there are doctors who would give their right arm for this opportunity.
Why have the consultants in this department agreed to this?
Jumping through sooo many hoops from MRCP exams to PGCERTs, publications for such a competitive speciality - one of the hardest too and essentially being replaced instead of creating actual ST3 post.
It’s clear from the competition ratios doctors want to do dermatology
Dr P retweeted
We've heard loud and clear that members are worried about job certainty just as much as pay.
We'll be balloting employed FY1s from 8 September.
If you're an FY1 in England update your details to get your ballot bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/res…
ALT The image shows a ballot box on an orange background, with the text FY1 ballot opens 8 September.
Dr P retweeted
🌟 Feeling incredibly grateful and excited to have not one, but TWO of my posters presented at the BAD (British Association of Dermatologists) conference in Glasgow this year! 🌟
#BAD2025
Dr P retweeted
Reading through UK MedReddit, I’m truly gobsmacked at the state of postgraduate medical training.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of doctors are being denied access to further training because the government has refused to proportionately increase training numbers
The NHS is crying out for doctors, yet at the same time, we’re forcing many into unemployment and denying them further training
@wesstreeting , what is the plan? Many cannot afford to wait years for reform, urgent change is needed now. At the very least, there must be accountability for this colossal failure in workforce planning
@natalieben @PeterStefanovi2 @CommonsHealth @parthaskar @AmandaPritchard @LaylaMoran @DrAsifQasim @doctor_oxford @NHSE_WTE
Dr P retweeted
This is really tiresome.
There were 3702/3783 offers (LMG/IMG). That’s a 49%/51% split.
Accepted offers 2048/2561 (LMG/IMG). That’s a 44%/56% split.
It is true LMGs are more likely to reject a GP job at 1654 rejections, however, IMGs also rejected 1222 GP jobs.
Dr P retweeted
The Times didn't publish the letter we sent in reply to this article.
Here it is.
@jameskirkup @thetimes
Dangerous article. Physician associates - PAs - are a deliberate and dangerous lowering of standards and the whole thing needs to be stopped ASAP. Medics are pushed to the brink — by doctors thetimes.com/comment/columni…
Dr P retweeted
@wesstreeting You must abolish the £1.4 BILLION pound ARRS GP replacement scheme or you will have c. 10,000 GPs unemployed next year. UK trained doctors turning to charities 😲
Dr P retweeted
If @wesstreeting thinks he can get away with offering doctors 2.8%, then he’s in for a shock.
The 2.8% pay offer the govt has put forward is not only insulting, it is also derisory.
Doctors are ready to go back out on strike for full pay restoration stronger than ever before.
Dr P retweeted
Medicine in the UK no longer guarantees job satisfaction, career progression, a salary that reflects the skill set, or even employment. How far has a career in medicine fallen?
Dr P retweeted
Angry you’re waiting YEARS for surgery?
Angry that you struggle to see a GP?
Angry waiting months for a hospital appointment?
YOU SHOULD BE!
You are being lied to by the government.
There is no shortage of doctors.
Your doctors are:
⚠️ Unemployed & having to apply for universal credit
⚠️ Stacking shelves in Tesco
⚠️ Working as an Uber driver
⚠️ Moving abroad
The “doctor shortage” is being DELIBERATELY CREATED to have a reason to replace them with non-doctors & create a 2 tier health service.
We are all just pawns in their game.
Dr P retweeted
I really think the BMA should now ballot its members for a vote of no confidence in the General Medical Council as a regulator and the subsequent inevitable success to withdraw our funding of the organisation.
They can be the General MAP Council.
Dr P retweeted
Charlie Massey is a Cameron appointment.
Has @gmcuk been taken over by @iealondon ?
Dr P retweeted
Every day for the last 97 days I have asked you politely to release the results of your public consultation on PAs. The fact that you have failed to do so - ignoring multiple FOI requests to do so too - is disgraceful.
So much for your NHS duty of candour, @gmcuk.
This week, we've written to leaders across the healthcare system about our preparations to regulate physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs).
This includes information about how we’ve worked with organisations representing patients, doctors, PAs, AAs, employers and educators to develop our approach.
Read the letter in full on our website gmc-uk.org/news/news-archive…
Dr P retweeted
Simple question no one seems able to answer:
If PAs are ‘mid-level healthcare professionals’
What is an:
F1?
F2?
SHO?
Core trainee?
Registrar?
We’ve called these roles ‘junior’ for decades.
How do PAs w/ a fraction of training end up ‘mid level’ before fully qualified Drs?
Dr P retweeted
Releasing a “doctored” report 2 hours before the Goal debate, with no raw data, has shown
1) they were watching
2) they had been trolling us all along
3) they don’t care about patients or doctors
Dr P retweeted
I fully agree. The BMA should take the lead and form the British Medical Council for doctors. GMC can continue as a register for doctors' assistants
Dr P retweeted
Dear fellow doctors,
We need a new regulator
The GMC was set up by us in 1858 to uphold medical standards & protect the public by differentiating doctors from non-doctors
Not only have they failed, THEY ironically are the ones legitimising non-doctor practice
Enough is enough
Dr P retweeted
The situation: My hardworking stepson has been offered an interview for Law at Oxford. He is the only applicant at his large comprehensive to apply & achieve this. The school cannot help him 😭 Can anyone here offer to help/ chat to him? Msg below & I will follow for DM 🙏🏾🤞🏾
Dr P retweeted
So the GMC say PAs can do whatever their local employer says they can - therefore absolving GMC of all responsibility for mistakes made by these cut price minimally trained medical staff doing Doctors tasks.
DOCTORS - refuse to supervise PAs!
Why should you when GMC won’t?
Today, we’ve published a report on the outcome of our public consultation on the proposed rules, standards and guidance that we’ll use to implement the regulation of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs).
The report:
- details the key changes we have made as a result of the feedback received
- provides a comprehensive breakdown of all responses
- addresses a range of broader issues raised during the consultation.
We’ve also shared our findings with relevant bodies across the system to encourage them to act on feedback that relates to their areas of responsibility.
We’re grateful to the over 3,000 individuals, including doctors, patients, the public, PAs and AAs and organisations from across the four countries of the UK who shared their views.
We carefully considered all feedback, and this will help to make sure that our approach to regulation supports patient safety.
The final rules, standards and guidance will be approved by our Council before regulation begins.
Read the full report on our website gmc-uk.org/about/get-involve…
