GP, Clinical Director OOH, CL Urgent Care & Career Start Recruitment, ADME, FY2 & ST Ed Sup, Appraiser, ES RCGP Faculty Board. RNLI Doc. Views own 😀
Dundee, Scotland
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When you are experiencing domestic abuse, either during a relationship with an abusive partner or afterwards, your safety matters.
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Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🥳
A big shout out to the incredible @NHSTayside Out of Hours team on today & all our community & hospital colleagues also working to support patients who require medical help today.🤩 You are all amazing and thank you for all that you do! 😍
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Celebrating 20 years of the @NHSTayside Out of Hours Service and showcasing the amazing work done by our team everyday! 😍 #taysidetogether @nickynhstayside @sandramacleod14 @sevensian @DrGregorSmith @ManiraAhmad @MsGG1974 @AliCrawley02 @sbteez
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Today, we launched a new report on the Scottish GP Workforce and Socioeconomic Health Inequalities.
Thanks to @heraldscotland for covering the report and its calls for @ScotGov to support GPs working in deprived areas.
The full report can be read here➡️ rcgp.org.uk/getmedia/263e368…
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Thank you, @BMA_GP , sense and patient safety prevail.
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Our GP committee has passed a motion stating the role of Physician Associates in general practice is fundamentally unsafe. They are calling for an immediate stop to PAs managing undifferentiated patients with a longer term phasing out of the role entirely.
bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
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The BMA GP committee has passed a motion to:
🟢 Completely phase out PAs in general practice due to the role being fundamentally unsafe for patients
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🟢 An immediate halt of existing PAs seeing undifferentiated patients
@wesstreeting - over to you
Our GP committee has passed a motion stating the role of Physician Associates in general practice is fundamentally unsafe. They are calling for an immediate stop to PAs managing undifferentiated patients with a longer term phasing out of the role entirely.
bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
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This chart is a scandal.
Teachers, doctors and others earning fairly ordinary salaries can face marginal tax rates of more than 60%, and sometimes approaching 80%.
Rachel Reeves should reform income tax. Thread:
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Genuine question & not dumping on any role…
Nobody could argue that:
No-one can do the job of a GP better than a GP
In the same way that:
No-one can do the job of a pharmacist better than a pharmacist
No-one can do the job of a paramedic better than a paramedic
No-one can do then job of a nurse better than a nurse
So why, when there are swathes of unemployed GPs (experienced & newly qualified) & thousands of doctors unable to get into GP training…
Are we pouring money into getting alternate non-doctor roles to fulfill the role of a GP rather than using that money to fund GPs themselves for their own jobs?
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Yet another referral rejection from a hospital.
Hospitals are reducing waiting lists by rejecting patients and passing them around the system.
It seems that waiting lists have become more important than actually treating humans.
Whatever happened to choice @wesstreeting ?
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COST COMPARISON
Glastonbury weekend ticket £355
Full car service + MOT £235
Pet insurance £360
Football season ticket £495
5 take-away Coffees/week £3.75 - £975
Did you know that you get all your GP practice services for a year for £165
It’s too little & been cut £35
#GPCrisis
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Interesting isn’t it that GP workload is 20% higher, admissions remain less than 2019 and A&E is only slightly seeing more attendances
Perhaps our colleagues need to check some statistics
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@NHSTayside Finest ❤️
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Workplace flexibility is everybody’s business and is possible. Especially now there are so many parents in senior positions. It makes so much sense. Flexible timetables and WFH policies are necessary everywhere.
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firsthand the challenge of balancing childcare and career bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q319
Affordable childcare with extended opening hours, equitable access to child benefits, and better flexible working policies would help all doctors in their home lives
@DacreJane @scammell66
