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John Alcolado

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1 year

The invidious position of junior doctors is that we spent years teaching them how to be good doctors,failing them in exams for any shortcomings, then they are thrown into an NHS that is so poorly funded & staffed that they can’t deliver the standards we told them were essential

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John Alcolado

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If you are a retired doctor, before you express your views about current junior (and senior) doctors pay, just reflect on the fact that your final salary scheme pension is INDEX LINKED to inflation and perhaps support a similar standard to those actually working

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John Alcolado

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1 year

I was on Acute Medical Unit for 21 hours over the weekend. My observation is that the trainees/“juniors” worked incredibly hard and the acuity and complexity of the patients are a world away from when I was a houseman in the 1980s

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Comparisons not always helpful but for those interested I got paid £13,000 pa for first house job in 1986 (1:3 rota), equates to around £49k now. No student debt and bought my first house for £35,500 with 100% mortgage & got £100 back for furniture! Free hospital accom & parking

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Well, some medical school must be proud of how they taught communication skills to their medical students !

Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge

@SkyPoliticsHub

1 year

"If you asked the average person on the street if they would be happy to pay a doctor £19-an-hour I think you get a resounding yes" @RobLaurensonD4P told Sophy that Steve Barclay was "pinching pennies" in the dispute over the 35% pay rise demand #Ridge

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John Alcolado

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1 year

During my time as a Director of Medical Education I fought this tooth and nail…cancelling (contractually required) teaching for the most junior doctors is unacceptable. Trusts get 100% of FY1 salaries yet can’t give them the minimum training to ensure they are safe…shocking

Shaun Lintern

@ShaunLintern

1 year

🚨 Extreme pressure at @WalsallHcareNHS has seen all teaching for doctors cancelled next week - the trust has also told staff it is seeing its worst ever pressures in A&E:

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

I was at a Board meeting of a certain Trust that voted to re-instate parking charges for patients, relatives and all staff and then later sent an email out to Board members asking them to register their cars so they could be exempted!

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Cardiologists with private practices seem to have form on telling junior doctors they should not strike

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 years

In recent years,perhaps a function of getting older,I have sometimes wondered if our recent medical graduates were as well-prepared as we were #boomer . Too many tick-box OSCEs? From what I have now witnessed, the reality is that they are dedicated & brilliant

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 years

Chester Medical School will take its first grad entry med students in Sept 22.However,due to lack of government funds & cap on places for UK students,we can only take international students.Meanwhile NHS desperately short of doctors & UK students can’t get place to study medicine

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Anyone with me for nominating @RobLaurensonD4P and Dr Vivek Trivedi for @HSJnews Awards 2023 Clinical Leader of the Year category? Would love to see how they report and cover that one!

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Dr Sarah Clark has been re-elected as President of @RCPhysicians 1998 votes to 1749. Although I did not win, I am glad I stood and contributed to the debate and came closer than I initially expected.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

When I was a Foundation School Director back in early 2010s, the number of FY doctors not going straight into specialty training was low enough for me to offer them 1:1 advice and support. Now a more common question is “what are you doing for your ‘F3/F4” year

Nathaniel

@DrNatBroughton

1 year

@NHS_HealthEdEng Splendid work!

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

5 months

Just preparing to work this Christmas weekend, 37 years since my first…anyone remember when we actually closed wards over Christmas because of spare bed capacity and had sherry and chocolates in the sister’s office ?

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH STAFF BECAUSE YOU DO NOT PAY THEM A FAIR WAGE…..what don’t you understand?

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

1 year

Being stuck on hold to your GP when you need to see a doctor is deeply frustrating. We will end the 8am rush for appointments by making sure patients are either given an appointment immediately when they call or directed to a more appropriate service.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

3 months

My understanding of “Martha’s Rule” announcement is there is some money for 100 hospitals to print posters & leaflets. No new money for more critical outreach, staff or resources…Good to empower worried patients/relatives but real risk is lack of resource in overstretched system

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Taking medical histories, examining people and starting them on treatment whilst they are sat in a waiting area or lying on a trolley in a public corridor were not on the curriculum or in medical school/Royal College exams.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

5 months

Support to all my colleagues taking part in action industrial action today in support of fair wage and conditions whilst highlighting the perilous state of the NHS. I know you have not taken this step again lightly. You are our future

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

Well I listened intently and will be voting for all 5 motions #RCPEGM

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Doctors should only have to explain once to Dept of Health, Treasury, PM, employers, media, and across Government why there is a retention and staffing crisis in the NHS

Lawrence Dunhill

@LawrenceDunhill

1 year

'Patients should only have to tell their story once across social, primary and secondary care' - senior NHS boss tells #Hsjprovider

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

Done…

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Can’t move for doctors and nurses in NHS hospitals…there are so many that they are literally sitting around waiting for patients to turn up and wishing the waiting lists were longer…Can I have a job in the Government based on my misleading statements please? #sarcasm

Steve Barclay

@SteveBarclay

1 year

📈The latest stats show record numbers of NHS staff, with over 5,100 more doctors and over 11,800 more nurses working in the NHS compared to January 2022. The NHS will soon publish a long term workforce plan focused on recruiting and retaining more staff.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

SJTs for Foundation School selection

Neil Stone

@DrNeilStone

1 year

What's the worst test in medicine and why is it mycoplasma serology?

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Personal view, and not necessarily that of any organisation with which I may be associated: I continue to unequivocally support my younger colleagues (“junior” doctors) following their announcement of industrial action on March 13-15.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

The hours I have spent trying to explain this! If a med school takes 100 new students each yr, in steady state, it will graduate 100 doctors each year, whatever the length of course..shortening to 4yrs only increases output for a single, one-off year, at price of less trained drs

Mark Toshner

@mark_toshner

2 months

Can someone teach our NHS & medical leaders basic maths. Shortening training doesn’t lead to more doctors, just doctors working independently for around 5% longer over their lifecycle. This is a solution for what?

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

10 months

I sometimes still wish I had got another couple of hundred votes in the Presidential election back in April, or that Members were allowed to vote. Just transfer the fee ! Who has the greatest financial reserves here? Trainees or the College ?

Dr Alice Hughes

@aliceehughes

10 months

I appreciate it hasn't been easy for @MRCPUK , but to cancel an exam and insist you pay another £657 upfront for the next PACES diet and get the refund for the cancelled sitting later really isn't optimal with the cost of things at present

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 years

Quite simply the best hospital I have ever worked in over my 35 years in the NHS

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

@trentconsultant @dr_lungs @mreschen @OutbreakJake On top of their basic salary, doctors are able to supplement their income by buying lotto tickets, potentially boosting their take home to over £1m each year, (pitched to DHSC as next comms piece)

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

For those concerned about media reports of doctor apprentices working straight as school leavers, defo worth reading HEE documentation. Lots of lazy media reporting today…but defo major concerns regarding funding and support for clinical placements for this route 1/2

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

This April Fools article was clearly published a day early by mistake in the Times. “Take over” = elected mandate (98%) Junior doctors strike: How a Reddit rebellion took over the British Medical Association

Junior doctors strike: How a Reddit rebellion took over the British Medical Association

The future of the NHS was on the table but across it, facing the health secretary, were scenes bordering on farce.During talks to avert the most disruptive st

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

9 months

I feel the Royal Colleges should commit to capping any exam and membership fee rise to no more than the average doctor pay increase. They generally have far higher financial reserves than those sitting the exams

David Little

@DrDLittle

9 months

As a Head of School I’m deeply uncomfortable with the @RCRadiologists raising their exam fees by 22% this year. I know inflation is high, costs have gone up, and college exams don’t make a profit but 22%, really?!? Doctors are genuinely struggling to afford their exams!

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

I am also standing so please go onto website, read election statements and watch videos and then make your choice

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

3 months

Over 42 years since starting medical school and after nearly 38 years working as a doctor, a long day on acute medical unit yesterday reminded me afresh that medicine is hard…intellectually, practically and emotionally but also personally (if not financially) rewarding

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 years

We are going to need lots of physios and pulmonary rehab specialists over the next few years. The acute phase, ICU pressures and peak admissions will last weeks/months..but the sequelae will last years. Let’s start planning longer term workforce and service needs now

The Sp⚽️rts Physio

@AdamMeakins

4 years

Polio, Spanish Flu, WW1, COVID19.... physio has responded and risen to the challenge before, it will do so again!

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

As an update on my standing for @RCPhysicians President earlier on year, and losing narrowly to incumbent, I am pleased to report that the College will convene a group to consider the issues I raised, including voting rights for Members and review of canvassing rules

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

£17bn in 2021-22 to healthcare companies….cost of junior doctors pay restoration <£1bn a year…everything costs money but where to spend is a political decision (assertion that triple lock pensions not inflationary but pay restoration will be, is another example)

Tussell

@Tussell_UK

1 year

150 healthcare companies earned over £17bn from the public sector in FY21/22. Find out who they are & who they're working with in our latest report:

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

2/2 I have previously tweeted and written about this, including my view that it is the wrong solution to the wrong problem but being driven by apprenticeship ideologues and is more about churning out cheaper doctors than a real desire to sort workforce issues

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 months

@drmattuk I have investigated this and the original email appears to have come from an NHS employee and not from Aston medical school. We will ensure our partner NHS trusts are aware of our examiner requirements

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

But you didn’t share the survey data with Council, despite Council literally meeting a few hours before the EGM…so how can trust be regained by this statement?

Royal College of Physicians

@RCPhysicians

2 months

We are undertaking a major governance refresh that is being led by Council members and we are committed to modernising the college and its working practices as quickly as possible.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

Almost a year to the day…i have mixed emotions still

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

12 days

Medical Royal Colleges that have spent years sucking up to the Torys and trying to exercise “soft power” are now busy trying to lay the foundations by sucking up to the Labour Party in anticipation of next election…perhaps just represent your members, fellows and professions

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

11 months

I don’t often post family stuff but it’s great to welcome Lucy Taylor to the family having married my son Nathaniel. Its taken a wedding but now a third Alcolado on GMC register. Every blessing to both of them

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

I predict an increasing number of Foundation posts coming out of the UKFPO recruitment system and being ring-fenced for graduates of the local medical schools….this year’s system will just accelerate a return to what used to happen in the 1980s

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 years

A couple of days with local GPs @drliza_revivepx training at local field hospital has taught me that if it were not for the, relatively invisible, work they are doing in the community, our hospitals would have been overrun as in Lombardy and Madrid. World class primary care in UK

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

“Won’t austerity cause real harm to people?” Government: “yes,but short-term price is worth paying for long-term benefit to country”Doctors “we are striking to help preserve long term future,staffing levels & safety of NHS” Government: “You are callously causing short-term harm”

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Royal Colleges will still need funding to run these (but at cost, not profit), so best solution is probs for employers and/or NHS (education) to fund Colleges direct, or make cost 100% reimbursable. Motions all well & good, but need realistic plan to operationalise

Milo Kostusiak

@MiloKostusiak

1 year

Motion 1 passed! BMA will lobby to abolish membership exam fees! #JDConf23

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

3 months

Want to see future of general practice in UK? Take a look at what has happened in dentistry when professionals are driven-out by imposed contracts & market forces have free rein. Part of proposed solution is for dental hygienists to work “to top of their scope”…sounds familiar?

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Our younger and newer NHS doctors and colleagues deserve our full support as they battle to ensure their working conditions will allow them to provide the standard of care they are desperate to provide,and which we trained them for.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 years

“There isn’t clinical placement capacity for more medical students” I’m told.…me on MAU this weekend no medical students, but 60+ inpatients with range of symptoms, signs and diagnoses,from eosinophilic vasculitis to myeloproliferative disease,to diabetes, and team keen to teach

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

It’s hard to keep up…the @RCPhysicians website and official channels are silent and no official emails…Fellows and Members learning of resignation of Deputy Registrar and u-turn regarding data publication on Twitter from council members

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@UKGastroDr

2 months

Happy to announce that @RCPhysicians will publish data from the pre-EGM members’ survey across platforms before 9 am TOMORROW 18/3/24. It should have been out earlier. I am pleased data can be reviewed by fellows before voting for the #RCPEGM motions closes. 1/2

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Voting for the @RCPhysicians Presidential election has now closed. Whatever the outcome, thank you to the 3800+ Fellows that participated. The result will be announced shortly after 630pm today.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

RCP London College Day has come around…annual election of President (by statute)…I predict some interesting developments, one way or another, before the day is out and I will be posting later #RCPEGM

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 months

@parthaskar @AstonMedicine @RCPhysicians @RobJimFleming @OrthopodReg @trishgreenhalgh @morefluids @Rezaidi @doctor_oxford @doctorhelgi @DrSelvarajah @drphiliplee1 @eveosh Partha.. I have investigated. I did not come from Aston medical school but from NHS employee. Working urgently to ensure all NHS partners are aware of our examiner requirements.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Excellent from @parthaskar

Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥

@parthaskar

1 year

“The public knows that the failings in the NHS aren’t the fault of this generation of doctors who face burnout, understaffing, stagnant pay, unsustainable debt, and a lack of career progression or opportunities to specialise…” Via @bmj_latest

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

In 6 days time the RCP London will have a President with a new elected mandate. I am standing. Please take a look at election materials on website and make your views known. It is a binary choice. Ask Fellows you know whether they have voted. Around 75% won’t have voted yet.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Well if there was no IA, there defo would be no talks…JDs tried for almost 2 years and Government refused. So to now say stop IA and we will talk is classical gaslighting.

🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦

@DrOKaneAgain

1 year

Really unbalanced interviewing on R4 today calling on @TheBMA to call off strikes & enter talks in junior doctors’ dispute. Doctors are willing to negotiate. @RishiSunak & @SteveBarclay are the ones refusing to talk. Why not come to ACAS, Steve?

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

@TCleare Correct, they were long hours but we were often in bed by midnight when on call and the registrars and senior registrars used to go home to bed, especially if we were on ward cover rather than intake. The number of beds covered was also much smaller. Different times!

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@Jcalcolado

1 year

Thank you for putting out your own statement rather than just going with the insipid @AoMRC statement that was sneaked out at end of last week

Royal College of Emergency Medicine

@RCollEM

1 year

RCEM statement on upcoming industrial action by junior doctors @RCEMpresident Read full statement here:

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

10 months

This tweet either deliberately attempts to mislead regarding the nature of pay increments and need to maintain their relative value or exposes an inexcusable fundamental ignorance of basic economics…from a Government department. Don’t take people for fools

Department of Health and Social Care

@DHSCgovuk

10 months

⬆️ Junior doctors will get a pay rise of between 8.1% and 10.3% depending on where they are in their training. This is a fair and reasonable increase as recommended by the independent pay review bodies. Full details below 👇

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 years

Congratulations to my youngest son, Simeon, on his A level results today and confirmed offer to study Computer Science @cardiffuni @CompScienceCU

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

We can discuss and reach different conclusions but to try and close down a debate by asserting that an “idea” is ill-judged and damaging sounds like an attempt at censorship. It’s failing to listen to criticism that has got training pathways to where they are today.

PulseToday

@pulsetoday

1 year

'The idea that an apprenticeship scheme cannot work within the medical profession is both ill-judged and damaging. Especially considering similar schemes have played a vital pathway to train many of the NHS’s nurses,' says Nichola Hay MBE

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

As you start returning to work after the industrial action tomorrow, it would be a good time to discuss with your consultants what they have learnt during cover and if they have any new insights into what could be done to make your jobs easier 1/2

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

My time line is full of examples of appalling ways doctors, especially early-career ones, and academics are being treated. It’s as though all those organisational development, leadership programmes and culture statements/graphics are all for show

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 month

I would also like to see all future candidates standing for President of RCP London to state in their election materials whether or not they would accept an Honour from His Majesty the King on leaving the role…it is possible to decline these or make clear they will be accepted.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

9 months

Earlier this year I challenged the incumbent President of Royal College of Physicians London & she won by a narrow margin.I suggested some governance changes including allowing members to vote & was pleased to learn my suggestions were being explored..however don’t hold breath

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Voting in @RCPhysicians elections including for President now open. I am standing. No canvassing allowed but Fellows & Members will get email from CES with access to election site.Only Fellows may vote.Vital to get good turnout so please vote & encourage Fellows to do so

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 years

If you are a clinician, please, please find time to get involved in early years medical student teaching. The students really appreciate it, and it will ensure the basic sciences are taught in a relevant way. Don’t just get involved in clinical placement teaching.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

I also had benefit of the 1995 NHS pension scheme with normal retirement age of 60 (despite it being eroded in recent years by tax charges) I don’t believe current generation of doctors are worth any less or that UK economy or GDP in 2023 is in worse position than in the 1980s.

John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Comparisons not always helpful but for those interested I got paid £13,000 pa for first house job in 1986 (1:3 rota), equates to around £49k now. No student debt and bought my first house for £35,500 with 100% mortgage & got £100 back for furniture! Free hospital accom & parking

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@Jcalcolado

1 year

Reality is no time is a good time now, given state of clinical academic training pathways & funding. We have seen collapse in research MD/PhD amongst clinicians. I don’t advocate back to old days when everyone felt they had to do MD/PhD but defo need to review current pathways

Dmitri Nepogodiev

@dnepo

1 year

What is the best time to do a PhD as a clinician? Typically FY2 = PGY2 (intern years) CT = PGY3-4 (junior resident) ST3 = PGY5 ('mid' resident) @aneelbhangu @rupert_pearse @NatalieBlencowe @DrJamesGlasbey @_tomabbott @drjackoids @JohtChandan @KKCheng4 @adbeggs @ewenharrison

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

10 months

I have been humiliated & had my basic human rights denied because the private Coutts Bank has refused to open an account for me despite my agreeing to pay in my NHS consultant salary. It must be enough because @MailOnline say doctors are rolling in money

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

29 days

Anything but a personal apology or acceptance new leadership is required to move forwards

Royal College of Physicians

@RCPhysicians

29 days

Our president Dr Sarah Clarke said: ‘The RCP’s strength comes from our community, and I acknowledge that our engagement with you needs to improve. I want us to work together to restore trust and be the professional association that you deserve.’

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

5 months

Nominations for @RCPhysicians council soon open. Last year I stood against incumbent President & narrowly lost. I have decided not to stand again this year, to see if proposed changes discussed at AGM materialise. In meantime, I may stand for another role to try & effect change

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@Jcalcolado

2 months

Remember there is also an election for members of Council and Academic VP ongoing…closes Monday. Please read the statements and vote…we have seen how voting can make a difference… #RCPEGM

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

The reluctance of providing source data/info is usually inversely proportional to the likelihood that the withheld data supports any biased or flawed apriori hypothesis, or, for those who find Likert scales too difficult…people hide bad stuff not good

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

A reminder to all… #RCPEGM

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@Jcalcolado

2 months

@parthaskar @NHSE_WTE @NHSEmployers @doctor_oxford @mmamas1973 @trishgreenhalgh @AntonEmmanuel2 @MRCPandFRCPs @RoshanaMN @OrthopodReg @RobJimFleming @Rezaidi @DrLKVaughan Choice of words…..

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 years

Almost 2 years after joining @uochester @UoCMedSchool an exciting milestone today as we interview prospective applicants to start on our graduate entry medicine programme for Sept 2022. Enormous thanks to all that have helped get us this far

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

All the medical Royal Colleges do need to ensure they listen to the “grass roots” and properly represent their members and fellows. Otherwise they risk becoming anachronistic old folks clubs

David Little

@DrDLittle

1 year

With regret I’ve decided to vote against the proposed @RCRadiologists governance changes for 3 reasons: - concerns about diluted radiologist influence - lack of risk assessment of proposals - no specific examples of what could be done better under proposals Sorry @halliday_kath

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 years

New Executive Dean of Medicine appointed

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

@parthaskar @RCPhysicians @NHSEmployers @ShivaniM_KC @mmamas1973 @trishgreenhalgh @DrLKVaughan @UKGastroDr @doctor_oxford @RowanHarwood @OrthopodReg @RoshanaMN @AntonEmmanuel2 …and whatever change in leadership is required to restore confidence in the College

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John Alcolado

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What I don’t understand is why the pensions “triple lock” was not considered inflationary but committing to raise public sector salaries at least in line with inflation is considered unaffordable and destabilising to the economy. Is it perhaps due to who generally votes how?

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

6 years

We are still here @DerbyHospitals despite the adverse weather. Many thanks to rest of team, especially on MAU and ED and Estates for keeping access roads open

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

I knew about Occam’s razor, in medicine…a single unifying diagnosis is generally better than suggesting multiple ones to explain a clinical presentation, but I have now been reminded of Hanlon’s razor….

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

5 years

Proud and delighted to welcome our largest ever cohort of Graduate Entry Medical students on their first day with us @MedicineUoN @UonAnd @UoNSU @UHDBTrust @UniofNottingham @ShearerWest

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

11 months

I long for a time when the medical Royal Colleges move towards being more vocal in supporting and lobbying for their members and fellows rather than falling into the trap of focusing on being close to government in closed rooms..influencers not lap-dogs

Roy Lilley 💙

@RoyLilley

11 months

Everyone knows but no one does anything. >The Royal Colleges and professional associations… have no influence. >NHSE have no power to publish their own plans. >The DH is up to its armpits in dissembling and distraction.

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

6 years

@chickspond @eddiemair @LBC It’s LBC...always looking to the right

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

3 years

I used to stress that having a full cooked breakfast when I stayed in a hotel would put on weight but it’s been over a year now without one and no weight loss..so when hotels open again I will tuck into a full English as a priority

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

5 years

After an evening watching our @HouseofCommons debate it was so refreshing to switch over and watch #thebighospitalexperiment I wonder which of the two work places and public servants people think are most worthy of our admiration? @UHDBTrust

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 years

15 minute break between virtual meetings with cup of tea and roses in garden. Some things about remote working I will miss...

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Unpopular opinion…I don’t begrudge MPs a single penny of their salary… brass necks must be very expensive to buy and maintain

🇺🇦 Dr Kevin O'Kane 🇺🇦

@DrOKaneAgain

1 year

MPs’ pay review body says that “MPs play a vital role… & this should be reflected in their pay”. The starting salary for an MP (no experience necessary) is £86,584. A doctor (5-7 year at university & typical student debt of £100k) starts on £29,384. Who would you pay more to?

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 months

@drmattuk @NHSE_WTE The debate is so polarised I think the use of precise language is indispensable…note the different use of words ��must” and “should” and, by inference must not vs should not

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

I can’t understand why anyone would pay £629 a year to be Fellow @RCPhysicians and then not vote in these tumultuous times. I am standing but just please vote even if it’s not for me. Read the statements & videos, chat to younger colleagues that don’t have a vote and log on today

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

I think I might enjoy my retirement (when it eventually arrives)…..

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 month

2-factor authentication for my multiple work email accounts several times a day feels a bit insecure…will be great when they introduce at least 5-factor authentication to include a daily trip to the local Notary public to have my ID verified in person

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 years

Congrats to all, especially those Graduate Entry Medicine students I had honour of knowing @MedicineUoN @UonAnd @UHDBTrust . Turns out we didn’t think of a pandemic scenario for a PBL case..one for the next curriculum review! You are all awesome

Uni of Nottingham Press Office

@UoNPressOffice

4 years

Our final-year @MedicineUoN students are being graduated early to offer them the opportunity to support the NHS response to the #COVID19 pandemic #weareuon

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

1 year

Would be nice to see @RCPhysicians have a greater media and public presence in these tumultuous times but glad @RCEMpresident continues to take the debate to the public

Royal College of Emergency Medicine

@RCollEM

1 year

Dr Adrian Boyle @RCEMpresident writes @NewStatesman about beds, the gridlock in the #NHS & the crisis in emergency care: "Those shocking images dominating the news bulletins need to be a wake-up call & a catalyst for change." #ResuscitateEmergencyCare

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

2 years

This week marks 2 years since I came to @uochester @UoCMedSchool . It’s been hard work but with great colleagues and how better to mark our progress than sending out our first offers for grad entry med programme & interviewing for next cohort of PAs

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 years

@adamgordon1978 @elinlowri My all time fav is when I signed a letter, with a cursory check-over, and it went out saying “I have asked his mother to give him a smack at bed time to help with his hypos”

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

5 years

I just want to say thank you to all the volunteers @UHDBTrust . I know we rush past you most of the time but we really do appreciate all the work you do in our hospitals

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John Alcolado

@Jcalcolado

4 months

@DrHuw @drmattuk They are not

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