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Both F1s (docs) and PAs now have GMC licences.
PA can see undifferentiated patients in GP/A&E and do clinics - all of which is too dangerous/unsafe for the doctor to do until years of training. Plus PA is paid 15k more.
Doctors are just calling for some level of equality.
🧵1/3 Last night, the House of Lords approved the anaesthesia associate and physician associate order. Regulation will help assure the public that AAs & PAs have the required knowledge, skills and experience to work safely. It will also help to increase the contribution PAs & AAs can make to caring for patients, as part of the UK’s multi-disciplinary workforce.
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Physician associates make job harder, not easier, say thousands of NHS medics dlvr.it/T2CbpK
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Why is there always money to bomb people, but never any money to feed, house or care for people?
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🧵/ The government doesn’t want you to know it, but it is currently conducting a massive, un-evidenced, cost-cutting experiment in the NHS, replacing doctors with so-called physician associates. 1/n
theguardian.com/society/2024…
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Here’s the deal: you pay an extra £10 in tax, and Rishi Sunak’s government expects you to be happy with the £2 they give you back.
A cynical giveaway from a weak and out of touch Tory government.
It’s time for change, with Labour.
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Junior doctors didn’t waste billions of taxpayers’ money on dodgy contracts.
Junior doctors didn’t sell off our health service.
Junior doctors didn’t cause record-high waiting lists.
The Tories created this crisis. Solidarity with junior doctors striking to save our NHS.
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This idiot is our health secretary. She thinks 'junior doctors' are 'doctors in training'. The reality is that they are all hospital doctors who are not consultants - in other words, the majority of all doctors, and many of them have considerable experience. Is she being deliberately insulting, or is she just gratuitously rude?
Victoria Atkins: "Junior Doctors or Doctors in training as I prefer to call them" #Insulting
#BBCBreakfast
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'If they can turn you against doctors, they can turn you against absolutely anybody.'
@mrjamesob highlights how the right-wing media's 'attempted public pillory' of junior doctors indicates a wider problem.
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So Pret baristas will now be earning up to £14.10 an hour.
New NHS doctors - after their 5-year medical degree, whopping £80,000 of student debt, & life & death responsibilities - get paid £14.13 an hour.
And the government wonders why they're striking?
bbc.co.uk/news/business-6481…
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Junior doctors devote their lives to the needs of others.
They do not take strike action lightly. They do it because the future of our NHS is at stake.
I will be proud to join them on the picket line.
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NHS starting salaries:
• Paramedic- £19,000
• Nurse- £24,907
• Junior Doctor- £28,808
Tory MP salary:
• Tory MP- £84,144
• Cabinet Minister- £151,649
Tories voted for all of this.
They are intentionally destroying the NHS.
Back the NHS workers please.





















