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Franny B retweeted
"supported by RCoA": so much support that RCoA members forced an Extraordinary General Meeting so college leadership would hear grave concerns from anaesthetists who'd been ignored
"regulated by GMC": who decided that rubberstamping poor quality training was a risk worth taking
Franny B retweeted
#nottingham A&E department has 52 nurses, paramedics , physios , radiographers playing Dr on a tiered rota.
Apparently this is exciting and innovative.
The results speak for themselves
@ShaunLintern
Franny B retweeted
None of us work in a vacuum: what happens in 1° care affects patients and staff in 2°, e.g. the stream of total crap A&G requests from noctors, or the dog-sick laparotomies I keep having to anaesthetise because their serious pathology has been missed by the unqualified.
Franny B retweeted
➡️PAs should be supporting doctors, not filling workforce gaps
➡️PAs should not see undifferentiated patients in our specialties
➡️Supervision should be provided by consultants or SAS doctors, not resident doctors. 4/5
Franny B retweeted
Two different medical regulators have essentially sanctioned the use of the term Noctor.
Which is great, because they sanction plenty of other contractions too and Not-A-Doctor is no different.
Thank you Louella for paving the way.
This whole episode has been quite stressful.
But it does clarify that not one but TWO regulators do not think that the use of the term 'noctor' (not-a- doctor) meets the bar for a full investigation.
It is NOT inherently derogatory of offensive.
bmj.com/content/bmj/394/bmj-…
Franny B retweeted
Having been involved with medico legal practice for over 25 years - and having some legal qualifications - I have contacted my Indemnity Insurance provider to make it clear - I will only take clinical responsibility for a case when I have written in the notes and signed it 🤓
Franny B retweeted
UMAPs claim Leng was biased - driven by an aim to appease the BMA
Court rejected this as a ‘bare allegation of bad faith that is unevidenced’
Allegations of a ‘toxic environment’ & sex and race discrimination - rejected
@UMAPsUK must STOP posting these untruths @parthaskar
Franny B retweeted
GP refers child to hospital appropriately
Nurse doing a job they should never be doing, ignores referral, misses the diagnosis a third year medical student would make & inappropriately discharges child to worse possible outcome
Dropping professional standards causes harm : FACT
Franny B retweeted
This is horrific and is it the portend of things to come in the future if @UMAPsUK PAs are allowed to see undifferentiated @NHSEngland pts in primary care? @BMAGPRegistrars and @BMAResidents will carry the entire legal liability sponge and will be at huge risk of being thrown under the bus of legal accountability without a second thought IMO
Franny B retweeted
The anonymous contributor list to the latest PA document is so entirely on brand for a project mired in conflicts & opaque “evidence” since day 1
How can anyone in healthcare leadership bang the transparency drum whilst thinking this is ok?
As appalling as it is unsurprising
Franny B retweeted
@lengreview please can you tell us the names of all the members of the advisory panel that produced the PA guidance? Please can you also provide their COI statements.
Franny B retweeted
The decision to change their name from assistant to associate was made unilaterally with no input from the people they are supposed to assist. It was done to con the public, now real physicians have spoken up, the assistants are unhappy their title reflects their qualification
A trade union has been granted permission by the High Court to bring a judicial review challenging a decision to rename physician associates and anaesthesia associates as “assistants”
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…
Franny B retweeted
🚨 EXCL: Patients are being harmed and dying because the NHS is replacing doctors with 'advanced practitioners', medics have warned.
GIFT LINK ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/gift/ca90b76…
Franny B retweeted
“Why can’t a paramedic just do training in breast lumps & then see breast patients like a GP?”
Thank you for asking this.
This question underpins the lack of understanding of medical training & the very foundation of medicine.
I’ll explain why this is so unsafe …
🧵 1/n
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Franny B retweeted
in the meanwhile...
Training posts in radiology...cease.
Absolute genius at all levels.
'There is no attempt at doctor replacement' @DrLKVaughan @DrDLittle @RCRadiologists
medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-t…
Franny B retweeted
Nothing disappears @RCoANews xitter.gq/Dr_Done_/status/179810…
1/ Interesting choices from @RCoANews
Some video refreshers for or those who don’t recognise the new leadership
During EGM Dr Toni Brunning’s key points were:
🔹Doctors are a limited resource
🔹Using AAs instead frees up docs to do specialties they don’t want to do
☠️
Franny B retweeted
I must have missed the BMA saying they had any research, let alone telling journalists there was a campaign underpinned by it ?? 🤷♂️
At any rate, it seems we both agree that you stopping digging is the smart move here
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