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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

2 months

In 2014 life dealt me an out of the blue, terrifying, life-changing experience. It shattered me into pieces. My reaction to it was grossly misunderstood by my peers, and by colleagues I had previously trusted too. I lost my health, via major surgery, and then my job 1/11

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

5 months

So in past 24hrs - since nailing my flag to the “PAs are not the same as GPs” issue… I’ve lost about lots of followers 🤷‍♀️ Who knew that truth flushes out fakes? If YOU want care from your local surgery to be from a fully qualified GP…. gimme a follow. I stand by my values 💪

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 years

Sometimes there are no words. We’d not seen our daughter since Dec 2019 when she left UK to work for 12months in #Australia . 24 months and a Pandemic later… she’s home… a month ahead of when she said! 😉 And in time for #Christmas . #BestSurprisePresent #Love #Family #FullNest

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

#bbcqt Whose advice would you prefer listening to? @LindaBauld - a Professor with massive epidemiological knowledge and scientific insights? Or a CRG politician, and a guy who runs a chain of pubs?

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 months

@LucyGoBag FFS 🤦‍♀️ THATS OUTRAGEOUS. As a GP more than once I personally experienced ‘flooding’ ….mid 10 minute consultation. That was hard enough to deal with, in my late 40s as a knowledgable medic, and with only one other human in the room. For a teenager in a full schoolroom 🤯🤯🤯

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 months

@NHSEngland @NHSPracHealth So PLEASE… sign @doctor_oxford letter in support of the restoration of @NHSPracHealth services. Know the saying “Your life in their hands”? Let’s ensure those hands (and minds) are as well as they can be. For all our sakes. Thank you 🙏 11/11

An Open Letter from NHS Staff to the Health Secretary and the CEO of NHS England

13th April 2024 Dear Victoria Atkins and Amanda Pritchard, We are writing as NHS staff members to express our dismay and disbelief at your decision to cut back mental health support for NHS hospital...

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 months

@NHSEngland @NHSPracHealth If the humans in @NHSEngland have even a shred of decency and humanity; they will undo this heinous act tomorrow. The #NHS as a whole, is entirely reliant on its people. It’s workforce. It’s clinicians. Anything other than a rapid U turn and full apology is unthinkable. 7/11

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 years

#HMG are REALLY trying to hide the #Covidnumbers .. Just logging my #LFT result on #NHSApp and this appears. If #tests are no longer free, how can any meaningful #selftest #Covid19 #data be gathered? 🙄🤷‍♀️ ⁦ @CMO_England ⁩ ⁦ @TheBMA ⁩ ⁦ @MartinRCGP ⁩ ⁦ @UKHSA ⁩

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 years

@criminographer @DarrenBowes3 Lost for words. Sending love and strength to help you through each day. That photo with his kind eyes will stay with me a long time

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 months

@NHSEngland @NHSPracHealth I personally, will not rest until @NHSPracHealth is open again to all in Secondary Care who previously had access. And I will campaign vigorously for access to be widened; WHEN @NHSEngland realise ONLY way it can proceed, is by supporting and funding this vital service 8/11

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

5 months

What an incredibly patronizing school ma’am tone 🙄 These aren’t naughty school kids Victoria. They are the bulk and backbone of the NHS, the medical profession and also the future of healthcare in Britain. FFS just restore their pay please 🤷‍♀️ #PayRestoration #JuniorDoctors

Peston

@itvpeston

5 months

“I very much hope they’ve had time to reflect and they're able to come back with reasonable expectations” Health Sec @VictoriaAtkins says junior doctors' “unreasonable demands” are stopping a pay deal being agreed Watch tonight ⬇️ 💻 LIVE 9PM @itvpeston 📺 1045PM @ITV #Peston

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 months

@NHSEngland @NHSPracHealth It is simply absurd - and cruel in the extreme - to deny @NHSPracHealth care to those who pledge their own lives to caring for others. To care for the health of this nation. Any politician who disagrees, is very welcome to DM me and to arrange a 1:1 discussion. 9/11

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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@NHSEngland @NHSPracHealth I have personally facilitated so many medical seniors and ‘names’ into @NHSPracHealth care - good people who were paralyzed by stigma, and unable to locally access care they deserved and needed. I’ve lost count of the suicidal Drs who are still alive thanks to NHSPH 6/

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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@NHSEngland @NHSPracHealth My life was saved by the care I was lucky enough to be able to pay for - the vast majority of the #NHSworkforce cannot do that. Nor should they. I shouldn’t have needed to either. Occ Health formally advised what I needed. It was not available on the #NHS . Still isn’t. 10/11

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

1 year

Disappointed that she consciously chose not to answer with a resounding ‘Yes’ to this fundamental question… Stick up for your staff please. #PayRestoration

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

1 year

"Do you think doctors and nurses in this country are worth more than they are paid?" asks #BBCLauraK "Pay is a matter for unions and the government" says NHS England Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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@NHSEngland I got better, because I personally paid for the care I needed. Despite having NO INCOME at all for over 18 months. Later I joined @NHSPracHealth as a Clinical Lead in advance of the national service rollout to GPs. I worked there for 5 years. It is an awesome service. 4/11

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 months

Genuine Q to public. Who would you prefer to see at yr GP practice? A. Fully trained Dr (5yrs Med School plus further 5 years of postgraduate training to become a UK GP) who fails final exam by 1% and is then not permitted to work in GP at all. B. Physician Associate. Which/why?

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 months

Just checking that we all agree..... Chilled Sauvingnon Blanc and a fish finger butty absolutely IS a balanced meal for a Monday evening? Image from Google cos mine just disappeared too fast to be photographed (and it was made with brown bread so extra health points there!)

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 months

After almost a year in no man’s land…. Jobless - but not yet well again… I personally paid many thousands ££ to see specialists and then to access excellent psychological therapy. Because in my area there was NOTHING available on the NHS. Literally NOTHING. 2/11

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 months

#BBCLauraK Please ask @VictoriaAtkins to explain in detail, how it helps ANYONE… to abruptly defund ( from Mon 15th April) the @NHSPracHealth mental health care of doctors who work in hospitals. Akin to removing accessible effective fire extinguishers and then lighting a fire.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

2 months

Joining #BBCLauraK Health Secretary Victoria Atkins Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper Green co-leader Carla Denyer Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith OMass Therapeutics CEO Ros Deegan Writer John O’Farrell Sunday 9am @BBCOne

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

10 months

Hey people… Ya know like you guys, the proper real humans.. My friends…and the friends of my friends… The fabulous people that I have met via Twitter.. Do you even see me anymore? On a very conscious countdown to an exit from this stupidly fucked-up platform…

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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Which? Or both?

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

5 years

Be kind, it’s really not difficult. #bepolite #saythankyou #respect #care #compassion @FMLM_UK @ClareGerada @CNagpaul @civilitysaves

The BMA

@TheBMA

5 years

"Somewhere along the line, the NHS has forgotten kindness" - how can we create a better culture for our members and colleagues? Have your say as part of our #NHSFuture project

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

5 months

This newspaper is really not my usual diet… but this time? Bang on point. Read, and beware. This is huge. Doctor support staff accused of illegal prescribing and missed diagnoses across UK

Physician associates accused of illegally prescribing drugs and missing diagnoses

Patients’ lives put at risk by support staff who have failed to respond appropriately to medical emergencies, dossier reveals

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 months

@doctor_oxford @RCPhysicians Dear Britain 🇬🇧 I’m a recently retired #GP and sadly… like @doctor_oxford I am genuinely fearful of the political masterplan that this Government now has in mind. I’m also an #NHS patient with a life partner who is reliant on that #NHS care. I just want to scream #WAKEUP 🤷‍♀️

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

Hello #MedTwitter May I ask for some love tonight? It’s been quite a day. And Thank You 🙏

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 months

@NHSEngland @NHSPracHealth When I left @NHSPracHealth in 2022 to focus more on my freelance work, NHS PH was really thriving, and was providing vital care for Doctors and senior #NHS staff across the country. Although I was never a PH patient myself; they supported all my professional endeavours 5/11

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 years

Someone very close to me is undergoing major surgery today for colon cancer detected via screening programme. I don’t often ask the Twittersphere for anything - but today as I await updates, I will accept on his behalf, all the love, luck, and prayers you can spare 🤞❤️🙏❤️🤞

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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In 2016, an @NHSEngland Assistant Medical Director spoke with me F2F about the vulnerability of my #GP career if I did not resume GP work within weeks. “What a shame NHS PHP is not available to you - it’s exactly the care you deserve. I’m so sorry it’s unavailable to you” 3/11

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

1 year

Direct negotiations without preconditions… offered again by @BMA_JuniorDocs And @SteveBarclay writes via biased media whilst hiding in his holidays.. Who do you trust/support? #PayRestoration

Steve Barclay

@SteveBarclay

1 year

I have the utmost respect for junior doctors, but the @BMA_JuniorDocs ' demand for a 35% pay rise is unreasonable. I remain ready to meet the BMA as soon as they call off strikes and put forward a realistic proposal. Read more on this @Daily_Express 👇

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

I’ve spent the last three years (voluntarily) trying to get @NHSEngland to support GP returners. Why did you wait until a Pandemic before starting to listen? Still happy to discuss the why and the how @MattHancock - you have had my card for 12 months.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

Have just heard yet another young GP has died by suicide. Not someone I know personally, but one of our tribe. Pre-deceased by his wife, so now 2 young children are parentless. @NikkiKF @ClareGerada @DoctorsDistress @Jochurchill4 @didoharding @Prerana_Issar @MattHancock

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

Our daughter just landed by air from Spain. 11minutes after landing she walked straight through all airport ‘processes’ without a single check of anything relating to Covid status/paperwork etc. And people wonder why #COVID19 is surging again in England. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

5 years

#RCGPAC To sustain GP clinical work for 30+yrs with the enormous emotional burden of care, GPs need more than personal resilience. Prevention is always better than cure. When will routine access to funded Clinical Supervision and debrief be built into Training and GP careers?

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

It’s been a week. And then some. I have witnessed the very best of #NHS #care and #compassion , alongside the very worst of #NHS pressures - all from the perspective of a worried wife. My husband remains in hospital, tho now improving 😮‍💨 I just hope #ourNHS can also be rescued

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 months

I am truly without words. The shocking @NHSEngland decision to cease funding @NHSPracHealth for Sec Care staff is just beyond the pale. DISGUSTING 🤬 @VictoriaAtkins @wesstreeting @doctor_oxford @mancunianmedic @djnicholl @AmandipSidhu01 @TheDA_UK @TheBMA @DoctorsDistress

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Important service update.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

@gmcuk @DrAndrewGreen This @gmcuk reply also does not acknowledge the moral distress experienced by clinicians working in unsafe environments. That moral distress, (knowing that you cannot actually provide what the patients need), makes clinicians ill. @NHSPracHealth @bma @TheDA_UK @DoctorsDistress

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 years

@eliistender10 Listen more, talk less. Never ignore your instinct Find joy every day Give generously, take little Failing is great learning Be curious, ask questions Learn to love yourself Look after your body Take care of others Be kind always

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@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

@MrAndrewCotter Such an absolute joy listening to you @MrAndrewCotter . You and #OliveandMabel have made so many people laugh during this very difficult #COVID19 filled year. #dogs #wellbeing #laughter

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 months

Shocked at how empty the HoC chamber is… Where the **** are all the elected MPs? Imagine if #TeamGP just decided not to turn up to work tomorrow - cos the business of the day looked a bit uncomfortable/tricky/busy. Just sayin…

The BMA

@TheBMA

4 months

Thanks to Dr Dan Poulter MP for securing last night’s important adjournment debate on Physician Associates (PAs), and for outlining serious patient safety concerns over the expansion of these roles.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 years

Was pondering which fabulous #charity or worthy cause to donate to this #Christmas in lieu of sending out hundreds of cards. Last year it was @TrussellTrust . #Foodpoverty is still rife and I still donate food. But this Christmas, the work of @Depheruk has really touched me.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 months

Doctors … becomes ‘medical professionals’.. Dumbing down by stealth - and without appropriate consultation. No doubt justified by HMG adding PAs into the GMC regulatory system 🙄 #GoodMedicalPractice2024 @parthaskar @VictoriaTzB @DrSteveTaylor @doctor_katie Your thoughts?

GMC

@gmcuk

4 months

🧵The updated standards for all UK doctors are now in effect #GoodMedicalPractice2024 You can access a new digital version of the standards on our website. We've improved how these are presented and structured, so you can quickly find the information you're looking for 🔎

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

@CarlOakden @DanNethercott @apnoeaboy Your special team, helping the special machines do magic, are indeed very special - because even when people have something they could have avoided by having the thing they don’t believe in…. Your special team is still kind and caring. I hope someone is being kind to you too. 🤗

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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@RobJimFleming You are a human first, a medic second. It should not surprise anyone that you might suffer the same illnesses as others. Though we know stigma is rife - and damaging. Thank you for your honest share. I wish you a smooth recovery. Take all the time you need. You deserve no less.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 months

Anyone else just feeling completely knackered and wiped out today by all the sadness and badness out there? Being an empath is exhausting. So I’m going have a long and replenishing afternoon nap now. And hopefully when I wake up the world will feel less broken 🫣

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

5 months

@parthaskar @KamilaRCGP @rcgp Nicely phrased @Partha . During my 3yrs on RCGP COUNCIL (19-22) we did discuss SAS in General Practice. Excellent debates and I believe a fair outcome - best paraphrased as “needs lots more thought/debate b4 it could work safely”. Don’t recall any mention of PAs then. And now?🤯

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 years

My eyes seem to be leaking. Love her to bits. Fabulous Programme #DameJudiDench

BBC Two - Louis Theroux Interviews, Series 1, Dame Judi Dench

Louis Theroux meets Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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@mjv__1 I’m so sorry this is happening to you. I am also so embarrassed by this country’s abject neglect and total disrespect for our future medical workforce. Just know that your peers DO love, value and respect you for who you are - and the immense potential that you have. 🤞4 u

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

@SimonDGregory @Freedoc_be My condolences Simon. 😥

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@DrLucyHenshall

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@DrSimonHodes @BethMatthewsz @charliemackesy @DrSimonHodes I’m so happy it helped. I love this book. I have gifted copies to many friends - and received multiple copies myself too ❤️. @charliemackesy you know what you have done. I just want to thank you again 🙏 My 2020 @comicrelief purchase hangs on our kitchen wall

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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Happy Birthday Me ! 👀

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 months

I’m a lone, now clinically retired member of #TeamGP And yet… I feel my professional voice has never felt stronger and more relevant than it is now.l If #GPRetention and #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare matter to you…then let’s join hands to unmask the truths and realities now

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@DrLucyHenshall

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It’s been one hell of a tough weekend for anyone who cares about the mental health of #NHS staff. So if you are shocked, hurting, or angry at what @NHSEngland have done to @NHSPracHealth and those it seeks to care for… pls know that there is a growing army of activists - ready.

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@DrLucyHenshall

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@janemick @katemcclelland7 Exactly - it takes ten years minimum to become a GP

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@DrLucyHenshall

4 months

@JimBethell @HelenRSalisbury Interesting you choose to quote only these national leads in NHS England - none of whom are practising GPs. None of whom have FRCGP as they all come from other disciplines within medicine. Have you also sought out the views of @doctor_katie @DrSteveTaylor @lizzie_toberty ??

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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This is shocking reporting @BBCBreaking #Migraine ended my GP clinical consulting career and it continues to blight my life now. Not a minor illness - but a genetically determined neurological disorder causing huge distress and significant disability. #MigraineAwarenessWeek

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I’m sorry,⁦⁦ @BBCBreaking ⁩ but we really don’t need you to add to #migraine stigma by referring to it as a ‘minor illness’.As ⁦ @DehennaDavison ⁩ has highlighted,migraine may be a life-changing neurological condition. Please raise awareness,don’t perpetuate myths.

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@DrLucyHenshall

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@JasonManford Please use your platform and influence to shine a light in the truth of all this. So the solutions come from those who CAN fix things. Patients can’t. GPs can’t. Government can, and must. Patients need their GPs GPs are all patients too. We are on the same side. #GPCrisis 2/2

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@DrLucyHenshall

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How is it possible that I’m almost 60 and this iconic and wonderful film is almost 30 - and yet tonight is the first time we’ve actually met? #ShawshankRedemption #Hope

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@DrLucyHenshall

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@lozzlemcfozzle @OrthopodReg Keep a diary. Document all related conversations. Keep all emails. Document the quotes others in the Trust give you, which can be useful evidence on a plate. Don’t doubt yourself. If there is bullying at work, then it’s high time it was exposed. @TheBMA

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@DrLucyHenshall

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@LornaMoxham My late mother-in-law was a nurse first, then she studied medicine, and became dual-qualified as a paediatrician and as a paediatric surgeon. My father-in-law never went to med school but he had two PhDs. One nurse, a Professor and four doctors between the two of them 😂

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@DrLucyHenshall

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Twas a Pharmacist who rang me - and in the end a good useful discussion with a helpful outcome. But please folks… just introduce yourself by name and role. It’s not rocket science and the medical records will prove who you are/were anyway - so why the hesitancy?? #TeamGP

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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That’s not an apology, that’s #victim -blaming of the very worst kind. 🤬 Shocking response from ⁦ @MPGeorgeEustice ⁩ ⁦ @DisRightsUK ⁩ ⁦ @DisabilityGovUK ⁩ ⁦ @HannahPopsy ⁩ #COP26

COP26: Boris Johnson apologises to minister over wheelchair access

UK prime minister says sorry for "confusion" to Israeli minister who was unable to get into COP26.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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Massive SHOUTOUT of love and support to every single one of the children of our key workers. Brave, proud, resilient and extraordinary young people who truly understand what their parents do for others. WE SALUTE YOU ALL. #staysafe #staywell #COVID19

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@DrLucyHenshall

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@SalBrinton This is a really sinister form of Government lead Darwinian selection. If you are CEV, try to: “….avoid people/places with the the unseeable virus, and don’t mix with asymptomatic carriers either ….” 🤷‍♀️ Guess that’s my hubby stuck at home again for the next 6-12 months …

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

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@ShaunLintern Shaun please tell it as it is. This isn’t just a backwards step but a blatant disregard for the mental welfare of an entire Secondary Care workforce traumatised and damaged by over a decade of cuts AND the brutal experiences of a Pandemic. Cutting this support feels criminal 😡

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 months

For those who might struggle to understand the impact of this outrageous funding cut… Peter’s 4minute blog explains it succinctly. Please add your voice to the call for a rethink.

Doctors’ Association UK 💙

@TheDA_UK

2 months

✍️| Dr Peter Bailey, who has worked for NHS Practitioner Health for five years, has written about the decision to roll back mental health support for hospital doctors and staff.

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@DrLucyHenshall

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@DrNeenaJha Children have a very beautiful way of just being human don’t they. If only more of that natural child’s curiosity and simple love for each other persisted into adulthood. Anyway, more importantly ….How ARE you Neena? How are YOU?

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When the neighbours make you cry ❤️👏🙏👏🙏👏❤️ #OurNHSPeople #keyworkers #Covid_19

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@DrLucyHenshall

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@natalieben @JimBethell @TheBMA @TheDA_UK @EveryDoctorUK Absolutely do not recognise this ridiculous claim. @JimBethell exactly how many GP consultations have you conducted personally? Listen to the lived experience of actual GPs who have conducted in excess of 100 000 consultations personally … and pls stop making things up 🤷‍♀️

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

@DrAndrewGreen @MattHancock Especially when it was made absolutely explicit in yesterdays no 10 briefing, by the scientists, that the drug would only be used to treat Covid 19 INPATIENTS requiring oxygen or ventilation 🙄

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

Just how low can #racists go? Horrendous. Great quote from his Mum. Wise words - painfully true. These three incredible young men deserve our love, and gratitude for all they do - on pitch and off. ⁦ @MarcusRashford ⁩ ❤️ ⁦ @Sanchooo10 ⁩ ❤️ ⁦ @BukayoSaka87 ⁩ ❤️

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

1 year

@SteveBarclay Oh FFS give us a break @SteveBarclay This is literally what GPs do, and the public know that. Quit your media ‘launches’ and please just get on with the Health Secretary role, ie putting right an NHS crisis of your own making. #GeneralPractice #TeamGP needs support NOW.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

Such powerful presentations from @Dr2NisreenAlwan and Clare Rayner on the realities of #LongCovid @SOMNews @UKVRA @UofGlasgow #LongCovidSummit #LongCovidandWork Up next the awesome @lesleymacniven

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

Today is first day of a new job for a GP we have facilitated back to work after an unexpected 18 months off for damn good reason. What a vile welcome from @Telegraph and media at large. Please remember GPs are each #humantoo and are doing their very best. @NHSEngland @NikkiKF

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

Reflecting on a day when 3 experienced GPs each individually thanked me for my kindness, and my willingness to support their return to GP work. All newly introduced to me this week. Sad - that being supportive of others is so unusual. Happy - that my efforts make a difference 🤷‍♀️

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 years

I’m a #GP - married to a fellow GP who is CEV. He was clinically active late summer until an illness, then trauma. Despite his triple vaccinated status he developed #Covid on Christmas Day. He’s just fine now 😁 I have stayed Covid-free. #Vaccines save lives #GetVaccinatedNow

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

5 months

@BubsandJacks And in some cases it really IS best to see a GP - because they are the expert generalist with the training and expertise to manage uncertainty and complexity, and assess risk/benefits of interventions. All the others have a potential place too - In addition, not instead of GPs.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

@RevRichardColes Rang an ex-patient of mine who lives alone. I’ve not been her GP for over 5 years now, but we still speak by phone. I thought she might be lonely and enjoy a chat. Week later a brand new copy of a book she mentioned, arrived here by post. She’s 99, almost blind and housebound

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

@KentLMC_Rocks Please take your leave. And use it to rest, relax and replenish yourself. With my @NHSPracHealth Clinical Lead hat on… I’m advising that it’s the only right thing for you to do. End of.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 months

@BluePeterGeorge We do have a huge shortage of doctors And we also have many experienced doctors who cannot now find work, because under resourced practices cannot afford to employ them (instead they are incentivised to employ others via ARRS scheme) Both are true - it’s deeply worrying.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

@blackpoppies14 @Dr2NisreenAlwan Credibility shredded.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 months

Is there anything more lovely, and loving, than the intentional gaze of a very beautiful black Labrador ? She’s really very poorly 😔 and we love her soo soo very much. #DogsofTwitter #Dogsarefamily

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

@Sathnam Like waiting for a bride to come into view. View from my house this morning. The anticipation is exhausting. This tree is why we bought this house almost 15 years ago.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

1 month

@rcgp @KamilaRCGP @KamilaRCGP what is College doing about the insane reality of experienced GPs being nudged off the Performers List by @NHSE , bcos they literally cannot find suitable work thanks to ARRS funded staff taking precedence? They take other jobs, then NHSE say that ain’t GP work 🤷‍♀️😡

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

Decaf with hot choc AND a splash of Baileys to round off a better weekend than the week before it. Hubby home from hospital, improving, and tomoro is a fresh start. Thank you for your kindness and friendship. I’ll be thinking of you all tomoro #TeamGP #RAOK Lean in together ❤️

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

@trishgreenhalgh Overqualified for the job?, undervalued by the recruiter? But HUGELY respected by our profession. Savour the affirmation and just carry on being you!

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

@ClareGerada Because the entire system just does not recognise the transitional zone for what it is - possibly the most fragile part of the whole patient journey. It’s not the fault of Primary Care or Secondary Care. But of underinvestment everywhere. Please don’t be divisive @ClareGerada

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 years

@Parody_RCGP Why do women need to speak to a GP to get an abortion? Surely this should be self-referral?

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

@michelledrage @ClareGerada Forgive me stating the obvious - but most of us live several hours from the nearest Nightingale Hospital anyway. And I’m not aware of any successful NHS staff cloning exercise since Covid first wave either. Deeply deeply worrying times.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

@EmmaKennedy I know which figures I’m inclined to believe too 😢 😧

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

#FestivalofRemembrance So humbling to listen to this wonderful 95 yr old WW2 #veteran My late father would have been 98 this year. I have watched this ceremony ever since I was a young child. Because he taught me about what my Grandfather did in WW1. #WeWillRememberThem

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 months

Serious Q to clinically retired Drs (ie who have relinquished GMC Licence) In current climate of regulatory chaos, is there any merit at all in staying on the #GMC Register without a Licence? It used to be viewed as a mark of ongoing professionalism 🙄

Fees and funding

Information on the different fees you will need to pay to be on the register.

www.gmc-uk.org

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

‘He had become depressed and his job was incredibly pressurised.' The everyday reality for so many GPs. I trained in Sheffield in the coal mining era - I saw and understood the health impact of industrial injury, of hazardous working conditions. Why is the NHS any different?

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 years

Today (non-work day) I had 1:1 dialogue with 5 UK trained GPs. All in their 40s and 50s. 3 are no longer in clinically practice as already ill-health retired. 2 been/are long term sick. Youngest probably soon leaving the #NHS for good. Where’s the workforce growth @MattHancock ?

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 months

#TeamGP I need your thoughts I’ve now seen enough individual GPs, who are doing excellent but atypical/low volume clinical work, being picked off and challenged/hobbled by NHSE Appraisal processes, to believe this is a deliberate pattern, not a glitch. Who does it help? 🤔🤷‍♀️

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

6 months

#TeamGP Just had a phone consultation (submitted an eConsult on Monday re a potential need for medication change). Caller opened with “I’m ringing from the surgery” Had to ask 3 times just to establish the caller’s name and role… they kept repeating the same opener …🙄

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

4 years

This is just brilliant.

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@NursingNotesUK

4 years

A paramedic has found an innovative way to communicate with hard of hearing patients while wearing a face mask.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

2 years

@trishgreenhalgh My worst was circa 20yrs ago when told I was “The darling of the Conference’ after I spoke briefly at podium about GPs childcare costs More recently … tough, courageous, feisty, tenacious… Maybe I am, but who ever uses those words about men? I’m just doing my stuff...

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

1 year

How’s your #Monday ? Mine was a very early/hungry start to the day! 😂 Feeling good now, and thanks to modern anesthesic agents - minor procedure all done and dusted, with no after-effects and hopefully off home in an hour or so.

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Dr Lucy Henshall FRCGP - Being Lucy

@DrLucyHenshall

3 months

@AlanHorrox @peterandann Of course! - the mainstay of General Practice is GPs who have passed all the requisite exams 😊 But those who miss the final GP exam by a hairsbreadth are still highly trained Doctors with 10 years of very focussed education…so why are they barred from working in any practice?

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