@docmog

proud to be an NHS GP. mum of 3 plus border terrier. like walks on my doorstep Water of Leith, Wardie Bay, Silverknowes. love France 🇫🇷 esp Chamonix

Joined April 2016
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Just one line - Times Health Commission - Highlighting just in case it’s missed GPs aren’t paid on activity but receive £163 /person/year on average, this is 20% less than 2016 if it increased with inflation GP activity has increased 20%, hospitals are doing no more 🤷🏻‍♂️
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An all time classic. 🤣 #TrumpMentalHealth
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Ben Shankland is a GP, but the rightwing press would tell you he’s an enemy of the people. Don’t listen | Polly Toynbee theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Ben Shankland is a GP, but the rightwing press would tell you he’s an enemy of the people. Don’t...

As the Tories slash primary-care funding, our doctors are doing their best in terrible circumstances. We must resist the idea that they’re to blame, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Scottish junior Doctors accepted pay offer & no strikes ▪️12.4% this yr ▪️inflation beating pay rises for 3 yrs ▪️commitment to full pay restoration ▪️removal from “independent” pay review body Attracted by better pay & conditions? Now just over the border, not only Australia/NZ
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If Sunak wants to save the NHS, start with GPs GPs aren’t just ‘gatekeepers’. They provide most of the care that people need and ensure that hospital services are only used when they add value. thetimes.co.uk/article/if-ri…
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NHS has become a National Hospital Service rather than a National Health Service 66% of the NHS budget spent by hospital trusts, up from 64%, only 9% is spent on primary care The number of consultants has grown by 26% since 2015 while GPs fallen by 7% thetimes.co.uk/article/how-t…

Why spending more on hospitals won’t fix the NHS

There are brightly painted bicycles in the corridors at Aarhus hospital in Denmark. The doctors and nurses use them to get around the 500,000 sq m estate, which

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Average person per year in UK spends - £300 on coffee £250 make-up and hair care £915 alcohol £360 Vet Insurance for pets £260 Car maintenance and repair You get what you pay for usually 🤔😳 #GPCrisis
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Half the population consult General Practice every month The average number per person is 7 per year Some people consult a lot All this for £163 It’s not enough & GPs are leaving Unless you all want to pay £100 for every private GP consultation #GPCrisis blame MPs not GPs
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NEW: we need to talk about NHS staff retention. At a time when Britain’s healthcare system is acutely short of workers, *1 in 7* UK-trained doctors are practising overseas. No other developed country is like this, which immediately tells you there’s a problem. Let’s dig deeper:
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Just a GP! Not a specialist - ONLY a generalist But ONLY a GP Can consult the elderly, the child, the mother Deal with moans, bones and groans Switch between a death & the gift of life Hold the tension of end & grief Know old and young ONLY a GP #TeamGP
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What a pleasure! Lunch with my distinguished predecessor as Clackmannanshire MP - George Reid. Parliamentarian at both Westminster and Holyrood, journalist and diplomat. I last saw George when I visited him at Westminster as a 15 year old schoolboy in school uniform!
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Dr. Pye@DrPyeMusic11 Mar 2023
Maybe Gary is far more informed than many on here give him credit for. @GaryLineker #Linekergate #GaryGate #MOTDboycott #GaryLinekar
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It was inevitable. The song is a mess, like the situation the BBC has found itself in. But this one's dedicated to all the dudes showing solidarity with @GaryLineker on @BBCMOTD. ⚽️🎶 #IStandWithGary #GaryLineker #BBCQuestionTime #WatfordFCManagementApproachNeeded 🐝
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“May I ask the Prime Minister, from whom are his government taking inspiration: Nigel Farage or Enoch Powell?” @theSNP’s Stephen Flynn says the governments new immigration bill is an “absolute disgrace”.
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Has to be said, James nails it yet again, so much so, it has upset someone
kerry ✊💙Dont let Farage kill our NHS@hewitson1022 Feb 2023
James O’Brien performed an amazing take down of Laura Kuenssberg today, the clip went wild then LBC deleted it 😏 Did #bbclaurak & the beeb get legal involved🤨 The video fell into the void until @AnarchyUK3 shared a copy with me 👍 I’ve sped it up to fit the time frame
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GPs perform more than a ‘gatekeeper’ role for the NHS They see, consult, treat, manage, care for 1m people a day NHS/MPs/Media underestimate the work the NHS will fail due to lack of investment in Primary Care For every 1 person attending A&E - 15 consult a GP #GPCrisis
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'It doesn’t take a health economist to calculate that if even a small proportion of the unfiltered patients in primary care took themselves directly to the door of secondary care, the financial woes of the NHS would rapidly escalate,' says @docmartin68 bit.ly/3l05IFk
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While @Jeremy_Hunt prepares to give his speech criticising 'Declinism' there's this from the @nytimes on the depths of the UK's decline. No amount of Hunty rhetoric will change the reality. But a new government might.
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The contrast between England and Scotland's ambulance response times is stark (comparing whole-nation metrics: Category 2's vs Ambers on 90th percentile responses). Scotland had a problem in December 2022, England disintegrated.
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GPs receive £163/patient/year 5% of NHS Budget This pays for staff, buildings, equipment etc #GPCrisis Blame MPs not GPs
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