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Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
I spent time with some awesome newly qualified GP Fellows yesterday
If you’re a newly qualified GP, or recent-ish CCT & job hunting, do you want a practice role or a PCN role like ARRS?
(I know what I’d advise, & what I’d choose - but I want to check…)
@m_ratwatte @bma_gp
87%Practice-based (salaried)
13%PCN-based (ARRS)
563 votes • Final results Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
The @Conservatives, @DHSCgovuk & @NHSEngland have decided, rather than being the ‘stepping stone’ year to signal safety, stability, and hope - 2024 will instead signal reduced patient access to GP services as well as likely closures of GP practices across the country.
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Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
A word of caution here, folks:
👉1.9% = a disgrace
👉to match 2019/20 we need 8.7% putting this derisory offer into context
👉#FPR for salariedGPs ~ c£450m
👉Total practice income/patient has ⬆️ by only £15 in a decade -
Yes! *£15*
Nice words won’t save General Practice
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The GP committee had a good & productive meeting with @andrealeadsom
She listened to concerns regarding GP funding, ARRS, retention of GPs & the need for GPs to be supported
There are more patients per GP but also a shortage of work for GPs
She told us that GP was a priority
Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
'You will have your shift, do your work, you will be rewarded for the points you score based on patient satisfaction outcome measures, you’ll have your review on the website as to how good you are.' @dr_zo's dystopian view on general practice in 2044 bit.ly/42Or762
Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
If anyone thinks that racism is only about tackling issues in white individuals?
Then you aren’t aware enough
The views of many from South Asian community towards black colleagues are equally abhorrent
And reflected in #NHS
Challenge your own bias
“Colourism” is a thing.
Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
0️⃣5️⃣ working days left for @DHSCgovuk @NHSEngland to offer safety, stability and hope for GP practices across England for 2024/25….
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@BMA_GP @DavidGWrigley @Sammyyrra @DrPhilBanfield @ERunswickBMA @TheBMA
I’ve created this video to help people understand the financial distress GP practices are under. Please share widely to create awareness and start conversations about how we save General Practice. #TeamGP #NHSCrisis
I worked as a GP in care homes during the 1st wave. Wearing limited &homemade PPE. Asking patients I’d just met what their end of life preferences were, with my face hidden behind mask and visor. Seeing the impact of no testing before discharge. And so many deaths #Breathtaking
Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
1. Expert generalist GPs over skill-mix
2. Quality over quantity
3. Continuity over access
4. Autonomous patient-advocacy over banal service standardisation
5. Individuality over uniformity
6. Choice over compulsion
7. Human connection over AI
1/x pulsetoday.co.uk/news/breaki…
Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
I don’t always know the right words to say, but as a physician and human, the violence toward medical facilities and patients in Gaza is awful and heartbreaking. To all my colleagues in health care risking their lives to save others, my heart is with you.
Viewpoint: do health care professionals have any responsibilities to speak out about the conflict in the Middle East? ja.ma/49qfTI0
Stick to your guns all those taking part in the #JuniorDoctorsStrike. The #NHS needs staff so it needs #PayRestorationNow for a safer future NHS - strong support from your #GP colleagues round the country
Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
How long can ministers stick to the shaky line that they can't talk to @BMA_JuniorDocs while they seek a 35% pay rise when the public back doctors? Negotiations have to happen eventually - as they did with other unions. #JuniorDoctorsStrike
NEW: Over half of Britons support junior doctors taking strike action ipsos.com/en-uk/over-half-br…
ALT Ipsos Chart: Support remains highest for nurses, ambulance workers and junior doctors taking strike action As you may know, workers from some sectors have been considering or have participated in strikes this year. From what you know or have heard, to what extent, if at all, do you support or oppose strikes by each of the following, if they did decide to strike? (% strongly or tend to support) Nurses 60% Ambulance workers 60% Junior doctors 54% Teachers 46% Railway workers 35% Civil servants 33% Border force / passport control staff 33% University staff 32% Driving examiners 27% Base: 1,092 Online British Adults 16-75, 31st March – 1st April 2023
Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
The junior doctors operating on your appendix are paid just £66.55 between them. For a potentially life-saving procedure, which lasts about an hour.
Is this a fair price to put on high quality healthcare?
#PayRestoration #JuniorDoctorsStrike
To any #JuniorDoctors feeling wobbly tonight about tomorrow - you are doing the right thing. Pay restoration needs to happen to safeguard the profession & the future of the #NHS. General practice is with you #BMA #PayRestorationNow
Tomorrow junior doctors across England will start round two of our strike action to restore our pay. Don't go to work, don't cross a picket line. Stick together, fight together, win together. See you on the picket lines! #JuniorDoctorsStrike #PayRestoration #JuniorDoctors
Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
Do you know what the GPDF is?
TBH neither do we, but they have a powerful function in General Practice.
Find out more here and about the recent controversy too.
Watch: youtu.be/NHFe4IhSL7I
Listen: buzzsprout.com/1772540/12611…
Dr Zoe Norris retweeted
The anti-GP violence, abuse & aggression continues unabated. This is our waiting room @wilsonstsurgery y’day after a patient trashed it. Negative media narrative, anti-GP rhetoric, unrelenting demand & unrealistic expectations leads to this level of violence. Where will it end?
1/3 Beware of #fraud #scams - Xmas day interrupted by alert from @NatWest_Help re possible fraud. Spoke to helpful team, card refunded & reissued 👍🏻Two mins later call back from them. Colleague forgot to go through emergency security questions - need to repeat verification
2/3 v confident man, knew details of fraudulent transactions. Didn’t sound quite legit. When I said I wasn’t convinced call was genuine & wld ring back Natwest team myself was told to f** off. Clearly this was the fraudster trying to get info and thankfully his act wasn’t spot on
3/3 They’ve tried again this morning with an automated call from “Natwest bank” asking me to input date of birth - be careful!! Easy to fall for and persistent @actionfrauduk @WhichUK @NatWest_Help