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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

Thanks for taking the time to speak to us @moneillsf - the pressure our health system is under needs addressed urgently for the sake of doctors and their patients #sfardfheis22

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 months

Junior doctors in Northern Ireland have overwhelmingly voted to take strike action. Junior doctors across Northern Ireland will stage a 24-hour walkout on the 6 March. Read more here:

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

"When we treat each other with respect, when we feel psychologically safe, we come up with better ideas." Chris Turner of @civilitysaves talks about the importance of courtesy in fostering a better NHS at our 'Better Culture, Better Care' conference. #NHSfuture

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 months

(1/2) We offer our support and solidarity to our nursing and healthcare colleagues. It is a shameful reflection on the treatment of frontline healthcare workers that they feel they have been left with no alternative but to strike for fairer pay.

RCN NI Northern Branch 💙

@RCNNI_NorthernB

4 months

📣 NEW #RCNSTRIKE ANNOUNCED: Members in @RCN_NI on AfC will strike on 18 Jan as unions fight for fair pay and parity with UK colleagues. “It's nothing short of immoral...we have no choice but to take further action” Read More: #FairPayForNursing

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

We are pleased to welcome Prof Martin McKee graduate of @QUBMedEd as the President Elect of The BMA for 2022-23 @martinmckee

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Derry GPs Tom Black and Ciaran Mullan in the COVID centre at Derry's Altnagelvin Hospital which opened this morning at 8am. Read BMA guidance for GPs on the new centres - We urge the public to support frontline health service staff by staying at home.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

8 months

Ahead of the Widening Participation in Medicine event next week in Belfast, Eimear Mac Siacais shares her remarkable path to becoming a doctor. Read her story:

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

1 year

BMA have consistently warned that without investment in our workforce people would walk away, and the situation at Daisy Hill is evidence of that failure. We cannot afford to go one more day without a local health minister in place. Read more >

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

"I’ve already seen the impact of the current situation on the mental health of the patients I see and also have seen the impact on my colleagues working on the frontline." @Lewis_Derv appeals for people to stay at home over Easter to stem the spread of #COVID19 @BelfastTrust

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

WATCH: "I and my colleagues will be looking after the sickest patients with COVID-19. Some of them will not survive." NI frontline doctors are urging the public to observe guidelines on social distancing & essential journeys over Easter. Read more:

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

8 months

WATCH: BMA's Northern Ireland consultants committee have voted to ballot consultants in Northern Ireland for industrial action. Read the full statement -

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

WATCH: "I work with children with cancer and they have to come out to go to hospital to get their vital treatments and they must be protected from COVID-19. Please, for their sake, stay at home." Dr Carole Cairns pleas to the public to #StayHome over Easter. @BelfastTrust

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

"We are now heading into the biggest pressure point for COVID-19 and we need to keep slowing the spread of this pandemic." @UBMcE appeals to the public to stay at home as we enter a key period in the battle against #COVID19

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

15 days

Details on strike escalation for junior doctors in Northern Ireland 👇

BMA NI Junior Doctors Committee

@NIJDC

15 days

🚨 Next strike dates announced for Junior Doctors 48 hour full walkouts 📅 7am 22nd May- 7am 24th May 📅 7am 6th June- 7am 8th June 📥 Check your inboxes!

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Important info for GPs about new Covid centres in NI here: @AlanStout19 We will very rapidly establish ‘Covid Centres’ in each Trust area staffed by GPs and support staff, using our unique skillset to help manage the anticipated large numbers of patients

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

We're proud and happy to support our nursing colleagues today. No decision to strike is taken lightly! Now more than ever do we need meaningful HSC transformation. Time for politicians to be brave and step-up. #safestaffingsaveslives #PayParity

Rita Devlin

@rita_rdevlin29

4 years

@RCN_NI the support from @BMA_NI and our medical colleagues is so appreciated by RCN members. We work shoulder to shoulder with each other and see and understand the pressures. We all want to deliver the best care possible for our patients and we want to be valued and safe.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

7 years

Congratulations to Belfast consultant @sarahedderwick on her election as deputy chair of @TheBMA 's UK Council.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

"Doctors across Northern Ireland offer our support and solidarity to nursing colleagues." BMA NI responds to Royal College of Nursing ballot for industrial action -

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Great news that we will have a second medical school in Northern Ireland - by training more doctors here we can increase our workforce! @AlanStout19 @TomblackBlack @DrAnneCarson @JuniorDoctorNI

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

The threats made against @RobinSwannMoH are disgraceful and completely unacceptable. As with all HSC staff, the Health Minister is doing his upmost in unprecedented times. We are all in this together.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

WATCH: "These are challenging times for all of us and in the NHS we continue to do our very best to look after our patients." Consultant surgeon Sandra McAllister appeals to the public to #StayHome over Easter Bank Holiday @setrust @BMA_Consultants

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

Comment from Dr Tom Black, BMA NI Council chair said, “We are currently at a critical stage in the health service; as we emerge from the pandemic and begin to look at genuinely rebuilding our health service into one that meets the needs of patients in Northern Ireland.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

22 days

Consultants in Northern Ireland are to be balloted on industrial action. NICC chair @David_Farren outlines why they have taken this decision. Ballot opens on 7 May 2024 for five weeks. Join. Vote. Win.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

BLOG: 'Lessons I learned from failing an exam.' @NIJDC member and academic GP trainee @JohnnyStewart1 writes about why it's ok to fail -

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 months

Thanks to @PMcReynoldsMLA for coming to show his support for the junior doctor strike today! #fullpayrestoration

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

We are checking today to make sure that medical students on clinical placements are also included in this proposed payment and will update med students on this as soon as we can.

Robin Swann

@RobinSwann_MLA

3 years

Delighted to announce earlier my intention to give students on non-salaried clinical placements, across all year groups, a £2,000 payment in recognition of their enormous contribution during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

Very disappointed to hear there will not be a three year budget. We need to be able to make long term plans to transform our health service but short term budgets hamper progress. @TomblackBlack @AlanStout19

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

11 months

Dr Clodagh Corrigan @SAS_DrClodagh speaking on the motion (15) she brought today which passed. Disabled doctors are no less valuable than our able bodied doctors. This is a positive move forward for disabled doctors in NI and the UK. #ARM2023

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

Unfortunately working in Northern Ireland is less attractive for consultants from elsewhere - no pension mitigations, no CEAs, pay awards not paid in a timely fashion. We need to make Northern Ireland a place consultants want to work in @David_Farren

Daisy Hill Hospital is forced to halt emergency surgery

Daisy Hill Hospital managers say it is an "interim" measure due to ongoing recruitment challenges.

www.bbc.co.uk

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

We continue to support @RCN_NI 's strike action. Time is running out for our HSC service. Now more than ever do we need elected reps to resolve the political impasse, get back to work and urgently address HSC transformation and the workforce crisis before it's too late #payparity

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 months

BMA NI Council Chair @TomblackBlack joined the demo at Altnagelvin this morning, showing his support for full pay restoration.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

WATCH: "We are now heading into the biggest pressure point for COVID-19 and we need to keep slowing the spread of this pandemic." Consultant microbiologist & @NHSCTrust Infection control doc @David_Farren urges you to #StayHome over the Bank holiday. @TheBMA @BMA_Consultants

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 months

BMA welcomes the appointment of Robin Swann as health minister: “We need the Minister to immediately pay the 2023-24 DDRB recommended uplift and commit to an additional, immediate above inflation pay uplift for all doctors in NI." Full statement:

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

7 months

We welcome the action taken by NI Trust CEOs in trying to address the lack of funding for a pay uplift in Northern Ireland. Junior doctors and consultants will continue to plan to ballot for industrial action to address the long-term issues around pay parity and pay erosion.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

For many med students who will now be looking at where they want to develop their career, Northern Ireland is increasingly looking like a place that does not value drs and the huge contribution they make to our health service. We will continue to lobby DoH on this issue. Ends.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

Congratulations to Dearbhail Lewis @Lewis_Derv and Stephen Moore @scribb who have been elected joint deputy chairs of the NI consultants committee!

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

10 months

🌈 What an electrifying day at #BelfastPride ! Feeling the love and support from every corner as we proudly marched alongside @rcgp_ni . 🏳️‍🌈 Embracing diversity and equality! #BelfastPride2023 Read more about BMA’s work in LGBTQ+ equality in medicine

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Doctors and all frontline HSC staff are treating the most sick and vulnerable – including those without #COVID19 – amid serious staffing shortages and capacity issues. We welcome the support of our elected reps and the public as we approach the busy winter period.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

10 months

BMA in Northern Ireland is deeply concerned at the budget situation in Northern Ireland. We have been told that there is no funding for a pay uplift to be awarded. Read our full statement:

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

WATCH: "I will be working myself over the next two weeks to try to keep our patients safe and to try to keep the service working. Please, please help us to help you and stay at home." NIGPC chair and frontline GP @AlanStout19 appeals to you to #StayHome over Easter. @BMA_GP

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

8 months

Great to have so many pupils here at our widening participation event - finding out more about a career in medicine #wideningparticipation

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

STATEMENT: Medical and nursing leaders call for restoration of Stormont institutions to address the deepening crisis in healthcare

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

Great interview with trainee doctor @JohnnyStewart1 in today’s @irish_news Shielder doctor involved in landmark Covid vaccine trial reveals 'jubilation' of breakthrough after struggles in lockdown isolation via @irish_news

Shielder doctor involved in landmark Covid vaccine trial reveals 'jubilation' of breakthrough after...

Shielding, taking part in breakthrough vaccine trials and having a baby.

www.irishnews.com

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

#SASbyChoice : Clodagh Corrigan speciality doctor in emergency medicine says being a SAS doctor is a rewarding career choice not 'second best'

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 months

(2/2) We look on in frustration as colleagues in the rest of the UK receive pay uplifts while we receive nothing thanks to an absent Assembly. Meanwhile our health service lurches from crisis to crisis with the worst waiting lists and staffing gaps in the UK. This cannot go on.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

"We SAS doctors are a vital yet understated pillar of the health service who simply do not get the recognition we deserve." Ahead of #SASWeek22 , NISASC chair @leannehdu writes about the need to celebrate this important branch of practice -

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

11 months

No functioning government for the past year, a health service under more pressure than it has ever been with practice contract hand backs, huge ED waits, an inability to discharge patients once they are in hospital and waiting lists that now stretch years. @AlanStout19 at ARM

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

(1/3) Many doctors in training members have expressed concern to us about the lack of adequate changing facilities and poor availability of scrubs at some hospital sites across NI. @NIJDC has written to all health trusts asking for this issue to be addressed urgently.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

7 days

📣 CONSULTANTS STRIKE ACTION NICC have agreed that if given a mandate by members following the ballot, strike action will take the form of a twenty-four hour strike from 7am 26th June to 7am 27th June 2024. Read more information here:

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

Pressure on HSC staff over coming weeks will be immense. Please show your solidarity by doing what you can to stop the spread of covid. Respect and recognise the difficult circumstances they are working under. Remember, there is no excuse for verbal or physical abuse on staff

BBC News NI

@BBCNewsNI

2 years

Northern Ireland's health service facing "worst winter ever" as Omicron variant spreads, unions warn

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

We are pleased to welcome @QUBelfast graduate @martinmckee as the new BMA president; we look forward to working with him on plans to improve communication with the public on health issues and the need for investment in health #ARM2022

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

Together with @rcgp_ni we were pleased to welcome @RobinSwannMoH to The Family Practice in Antrim to hear more about current GP pressures #GPneverclosed

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Better Culture, Better Care conference: GP trainee @drcoyote gives us his takeaways from @TheBMA 's first conference on culture within the NHS #NHSFuture @CNagpaul @civilitysaves

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

WATCH: "This is a cruel disease. We have all seen what it can do on our television screens and unfortunately, tragically, closer to home." Dr Paul Darragh urges people to help stop the spread of #COVID19 by staying at home this Easter.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

8 months

Important update for junior doctors in Northern Ireland! Join BMA here -

BMA NI Junior Doctors Committee

@NIJDC

8 months

WATCH: NIJDC have voted to move to ballot junior doctors in Northern Ireland for industrial action. Read our full statement -

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

8 days

Thank you to @niahealth for listening to @David_Farren @FiGriffin2 and @leannehdu talk about the workforce crisis in secondary care. Urgent action needed now on pay to reverse growing staffing gaps among frontline doctors. Future of HSC depends on this action.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

Great to see Motion 19 on banning conversion therapy passed at #ARM2021 . It is unethical and extremely harmful.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

(1/2) It is beyond unacceptable for doctors and frontline HCWs to be threatened for doing their jobs, whether the threats are online or in person. They are treating the most sick and vulnerable in pressurised circumstances and should never be made to feel frightened for doing so.

The Nolan Show, BBC

@BBCNolan

3 years

"I'm frightened" - medical chief reveals threats issued on him and colleagues

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

We and @RCN_NI have been warning of a workforce crisis for years & urged elected reps to address the problem time and time again. The decision of its members to vote in favour of strike action will not have been taken lightly and we continue to respect and support their decision.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

Congratulations to all final year med students and now our newest doctors who received their final exam results today in what has been a year like no other. Whether you got the results you wanted, or hoped for better, you should be proud of what you have achieved 🧑‍💻 👨‍🎓 👩‍⚕️

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

#SASbyChoice : Choosing the SAS pathway was the right career choice for @leannehdu . Here she writes about how #COVID19 showed how integral this branch of practice was to the workforce during the pandemic response and continues to be.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

We welcome the news that the parties are going to return to government. However, this is just a first step in fixing our health service and creating a system that meets the needs of medics and patients. @TomblackBlack @JuniorDoctorNI @DrAnneCarson @Carcair1 @AlanStout19

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

1 year

"Doctors across Northern Ireland offer our support and solidarity to junior doctors in England." Statement from BMA's Northern Ireland council on junior doctor strike action in England.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

6 years

Dr Stephen McAleer has been elected the new chair of @NIJDC . Stephen takes over from Mr Chris Hoo who served as chair since May 2016. Many thanks to Chris for his hard work and congratulations to Stephen!

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

We have been warning this would happen - senior, experienced doctors leaving due to pensions. We need action now or this will just be the first of many...

John D Woods

@johndwoods

2 years

Big day for me. Over 36 years since I started in the NHS. Retired from my consultants job solely due to pension taxation.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Delighted to see @niexecutive has agreed ring-fenced funding for @Economy_NI and @UlsterUni to progress much-needed graduate medical school at Magee. School will go some way to addressing chronic clinical staffing gaps that were brought into sharp focus by #COVID19 response.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

5 years

Conference unanimously calls for a second medical school to help address the workforce crisis and make sure they work outside Belfast #NILMC19

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

"This is only the start of it. The next few months it will get worse and we will see more hospitals having to take the same action as Craigavon has done tonight. Doctors are extremely concerned about what lies ahead and the pressure they are facing is simply unsustainable."

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

"We’ve never seen anything like this before and naturally many of us are anxious about ourselves, about our families, about our co-workers and – most importantly – about our patients." BMA NI Council chair @TomblackBlack thanks all healthcare workers battling #COVID19

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

ICYMI: “Without that political leadership we are in dire, dire trouble.” @AlanStout19 speaking on @BBCgmu this week on how lack of NI Executive has had detrimental effect on the health service as we approach winter. Full interview (1:15:38)

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

Speaking on @BBCNewsNI tonight @DrAnneCarson outlines our ask - those who have received their first Pfizer dose should have the second within the timeframe recommended by the manufacturer and @WHO

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

5 years

Many thanks to @LeoVaradkar for dropping by the BMA stand at @belfastpride today.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

29 days

NI's med student finance system is overly complicated and unfairly penalises students from poorer backgrounds. Graduate med students do not receive the same financial support as they would elsewhere in the UK. At a time of acute medical staffing shortages this is unacceptable ⬇️

Belfast Telegraph

@BelTel

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"Students from Northern Ireland are having to take out ruinous bank loans, work multiple jobs or drop out altogether - to say nothing of those who have had offers and had to reject them once they learned of this discrimination." ➡️

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Good to see this statement from @healthdpt today “working to significantly increase our testing capacity, so that we can support testing of health and social care workers.” Need to get medics who are fit to work out there seeing patients.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

1 year

BLOG: “It's very distressing to triage referral letters in the knowledge that grading a referral as routine condemns the patient to a wait of several years, or possibly to never being seen at all." Consultant Ralph Roberts on the NI waiting list crisis -

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

The situation now is extremely serious and likely to get worse. Staff are under huge pressure - stay at home and protect the NHS

Robin Swann

@RobinSwann_MLA

3 years

A joint statement from our six Health Trust CEOs tonight, our health service is under pressure, like never before, please play your part, follow guidance, you know what to do! Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives!

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Disappointing to hear the Derry covid assessment centre has had to close due to nurses self-isolating – testing for frontline staff is now an absolute priority. Centre will be open again Monday

Dan Stanton

@DanStantonrep

4 years

A new GP led assessment centre for suspected cases of Covid 19 at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry has closed due to staff sickness. BMA says 40 nurses off due to sickness or isolation. Due to re-open on Monday.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

1 year

Doctors across Northern Ireland reiterate their support and solidarity to junior doctors in England as they commence their next round of industrial action.

The BMA

@TheBMA

1 year

Today junior doctors in England begin their 2nd round of strike action for #PayRestoration We thank you all for your support #JuniorDoctorsStrike

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

8 years

Congratulations to Mr Chris Hoo on his election as Chair of BMA's Northern Ireland Junior Doctors Committee.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

"We are trying our best for our cancer patients, continuing to diagnose and treat those patients we can." Consultant breast radiologist Linda Johnston asks you to support her and all health service workers during the #COVID19 pandemic by staying home. @SouthernHSCT

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 months

🧵(1/3) At a time of severe recruitment and retention problems, pay erosion and poor workplace conditions, permanent removal of these charges would go some way to boost staff morale.

Department of Health

@healthdpt

2 months

Health Minister seeks deferral on hospital car parking charges legislation More info:

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

6 years

This announcement is welcome news for junior doctors working in Northern Ireland and is something we have been lobbying for over the past few years.

Department of Health

@healthdpt

6 years

The Department of Health today announced its timetable for establishing a single employer for doctors in training in Northern Ireland

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 months

Engaging this morning with @dhoneyford on junior doctor and health issues along with our @RCN_NI colleagues #AP24 #allianceparty

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

#SASbyChoice : Disillusionment with the treatment of the SAS grade has not stopped @qsiobhan from speaking up for her colleagues. Here she writes about her role in the SAS contract negs and the importance of challenging workplace perceptions of the grade

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

5 years

Congratulations to @DrAnneCarson who has been reelected as deputy chair of @TheBMA 's Northern Ireland Council for the 2019-2020 session.

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

1 year

🧵HSC workforce crisis: As @TomblackBlack made clear today at @CommonsNIAC , we have simply do not have a enough doctors for patient need. Today's @healthdpt vacancy rate stats spell this out clearly:

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

BLOG: The deprivation of liberty component of the Mental Capacity Act goes live today. @Lewis_Derv blogs about what all doctors need to know about these important changes - https://

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

5 years

Statement from BMA Northern Ireland on @RCN_NI vote to take industrial action

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

'Better Culture, Better Care' conference: @DrIainKennedy gives his thoughts on the effects of good and bad workplace cultures on NHS organisations and how that influences patient care #NHSfuture Full conference report -

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Congratulations @RobinSwannUUP on your appointment to Health Minister. We look forward to working with you and @healthdpt to resolve the issues in our health service @TomblackBlack @AlanStout19 @DrAnneCarson @Carcair1 @JuniorDoctorNI

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Our #BMACareBoxes are on way to hospitals across NI, packed with essentials for ALL frontline health service staff. Take what you need & we will replenish. Feel free to add items too! Many thanks to @RadissonHotels & Belmont Hotel Banbridge for donating items #JoinTheFightBack

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

4 years

Good luck to all new medical students beginning their journey to becoming medics of the future today 👩‍💻🧑‍💻👩‍⚕️

QUB Centre for Medical Education

@QUBMedEd

4 years

As soon as we saw you we knew your grand adventure was about to happen - this morning we have the pleasure of welcoming 292 new medical students @QUBMedEd to our new C25 curriculum #LoveQUB

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

📢THREAD - Update for medical students regarding the Department of Health's proposal to award a £2,000 payment to students on non-salaried clinical placements, across all year groups, in recognition of their contribution during the #COVID19 pandemic 📢

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

6 years

Former NI GP leader Tom Black elected chair of BMA Northern Ireland Council @TomblackBlack @TheBMA

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

6 months

Good to catch up with @moneillsf at #ardfheis23 today to highlight issues facing doctors in NI

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 years

Thanks to @QUBGPsociety and QUB Obs & Gynae Society for inviting us along to its #DearColleague event. Excellent panel discussion with @mlchealth @SiobhanKirk15 @ursulaamason @DrGerryG Learn more about #Menopause via @BMJLearning modules -

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

7 days

ICYMI: Our secondary care committee chairs @leannehdu , @FiGriffin2 and @David_Farren briefed @niahealth yesterday on the impact of poor pay and conditions on workforce. Watch it back here (scroll to 1:28:02) -

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 months

Joint statement on pay from the chairs of BMA's Northern Ireland junior doctor, SAS and consultant committees -

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

3 years

#COVID19 showed us that nurses are the backbone of the health service. They deserve fairer pay and better working conditions, especially after the past year on the frontline. #NursesDay

RCN Northern Ireland

@RCN_NI

3 years

Today is Nurses' Day. RCN Northern Ireland Board Chair @fionadevlin64 says it is time to reflect on our incredible profession and be proud of the significant and positive impact nursing staff have had on patients and families over the past year 💙

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BMA Northern Ireland

@BMA_NI

2 months

Northern Ireland junior doctors begin a 24-hour strike action from 8am this morning over pay. Read more -

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