Great start to RCGP Annual Conference. Chris Whitty is inspirational and says in response to the negative GP Press (eg.Daily Mail):Never worry about criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from!
On my way to an event hosted by
@Keir_Starmer
and
@wesstreeting
to discuss health policy. I will be raising the issues of how important it is to support GPs to improve patient care and the vital need to support GP retention schemes and get GP numbers up. Desperately needed!
Talking about valuing our doctors and reasons why they are leaving medicine in their 30s and their 50s. One MP in attendance. We need to speak to many more!
Thanks so much to everyone who has sent messages of congratulations and good will! I’m looking forward to the challenges ahead, and for your input and support. There is much to do!
I’m hearing your concerns about the PA role and what this means for general practice. I assure you that we’ll continue to strongly defend the expert role of GPs and that no role will ever be a substitute for the crucial work we do.
Off to next big meeting with
@PreetGillMP
Labour Primary Care lead to discuss what steps politicians need to take to improve patient care in general practice. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- we need more GPs!!
Listening to Hillary Clinton talking about Gutsy (Welsh) Women at Swansea University today. What a privilege - think about all the gutsy women in YOUR life and value them !
Good to meet
@wesstreeting
on Tuesday to discuss Labour’s plans for the future of general practice. A good chance to set out our
#RCGPManifesto
seven steps to save general practice
#BBCDebate
Why is Boris promising new hospitals when it is General Practice that is the cornerstone of the NHS and in dire need of proper funding?? And what about increasing Child Poverty and investment in Social Care?
Read our joint piece about what needs to be done to relieve NHS pressures. I’m doing the media rounds with College Officers to highlight the very real crisis in general practice and the pressures our members are under.
@Keir_Starmer
Great to have a chance to meet face to face and tell leaders why we need more GPs. Hope to have a longer chat next time and go into the detail of what’s needed - RCGP Manifesto says it all.
I also did my first Park Run last Saturday! It felt great, despite finishing somewhere near the rear of the pack! (I’ll get better...) Over 700 people ran in Cardiff! I’m going to sign our practice in Mountain Ash up for the RCGP Parkrun toolkit!
A great
@parkrunUK
@HMPHaverigg
today. Great turn out but especially chuffed to see one of our lads do his first 5k today after coming through the parkrun Practice scheme. Started volunteering but, now 2 and a half stone lighter, was confident enough to run. 41 minutes. Awesome😀
@DrTedros
@WHO
@rcgp
@NHSuk
A pleasure and a privilege to meet you and colleagues at WHO. We have much we can do together to work towards Universal Health Care across the world
First big political meeting of the day. Off to meet Primary Care Minister
@andrealeadsom
to discuss our manifesto for how politicians can save general practice and safeguard our NHS.
Great discussion from RCGP Council on the ‘Vision for the Future of General Practice’ - it will support and promote the essential role of GPs as expert generalists in the decade to come!
@rcgp
We stand in solidarity with the people of Turkey and Syria, after the destructive earthquake in which thousands of lives have been lost.Our thoughts are with those colleagues and members who have family & friends in the region and with everyone affected by this terrible event.
Jodie Blackadder-Weinstein in Question Time #
@RCGPAC
says the College needs to learn from the mistakes of politicians and be much more transparent with members. Bravo!
Great day with Med students and F Drs meeting in their first Cmttee
@rcgp
Euston Square in the same room one of the first NHS committees met back in 1947!
Just at the start of the 3rd annual British Society of Lifestyle Medicine in Cardiff! Great line up and a real buzz!!
I’m speaking on ‘Pills or push-ups? Is social prescribing the answer to the problems of our NHS?’ #
@BritSocLM
Great, important interview on the haemorrhage of GPs from service - BBC Today at 8:10. But we need solutions now, not just airing problems we already know about!
Done it! First practice ParkRun, just as promised in a radio interview back in October 18!! Thank you Graeme, Simon, Katrina and Will for coming with me!!
Today, I did some teaching to 2nd year PA students
@SwanseaMedicine
. These soon to be PAs, like the ones in clinical practice currently, are going to be critical in the MD team. We need more of them in GP!
@rcgp
@NHSMillion
@BBCPolitics
@BBCOne
Looking forward to appearing
@bbclaurak
tomorrow, and hearing what Victoria Atkins has to say about her plans to ensure general practice and the wider NHS get through the winter months.
What a treat!!
#Bevanmasterclass
about to begin in Cardiff discussing patient co-production with Don Berwick
@BevanCommission
. How to make it work in real life, what really matters to the patient ...how we can do it in Wales.
My response to GP practice data being published- Govt should focus on addressing the root cause of the unrelenting workload and workforce pressures GPs and our teams are working under and support them to deliver high-quality and safe patient care.
What does exceptional patient-centred care feel like? 💭
Bevan Advocate and inadvertent NHS 'mystery shopper' Barbara Chidgey (
@LeadinginWales
) shares her experience:
Such a fab day with
@rcgp
’s first Pride. A small part of a much wider effort to address health inequalities. Grateful to be able to share in the celebration of diversity in our community and patients 😁
#TeamGP
#PrideRCGP
We’ve joined forces with
@RCollEM
and
@RCPCHtweets
to issue this advice to parents and healthcare professionals regarding cases of Strep A during this time of winter pressures
@medicaccountant
@centrallakesGP
I’m so sad to hear this - Kaye was training in Ladybarn when I was a partner there in the 1990s, and we worked really well together. A fantastic GP, it’s so frustrating that she and many like her are being forced to do this by poor external support.
Many congratulations to the team - great collaboration between RCGP and academic Mcr GPs!! Lots to take home about our new GPs’ career intentions.
@SharonSpooner
@jongibsonHE
@rcgp
Graduate Entry Medicine Virtual Graduation Celebration 2020 - YouTube. A great memory of a great celebration and a fantastic new cohort of doctors from Swansea! Well done everyone!!
Graduate Entry Medicine, Swansea Univeraity Medical School, is committed to tackling racial harassment for our students and has signed up to
@BMACymru
@BMAStudents
charter to address the unacceptable barriers faced by BAME students
RCGP Council taking place today. We need a stronger and more positive communication strategy with our public - we are not being supported by the govt or NHS sufficiently for people to understand what is going on in our practices
Don’t forget neighbours ... And have a good chat at the same time - loneliness in our teeming country should not happen, but it does, with concomitant ill health associated!
If you're got plans to visit older relatives this weekend, make sure they keep warm indoors to help prevent serious health problems. See more advice on how to
#StayWellThisWinter
:
#ThursdayThoughts
Huge thanks to
@RCGPAC
& all
@rcgp
team for making
#rcgpac
#babyfriendly
this year! Being able to engage, teach and connect with
#teamgp
whilst being a present & loving Mum of a 10 week old has been empowering, inspiring & motivating! THIS is how you retain people 👍🙌❤️
@vdgmeu
@BevanCommission
#leadershealth19
Helen Howson explaining on driving innovation and transformational leadership in health and care. Prudent healthcare explained! Looking through a different lens.
We want to promote a supportive culture & a healthy working environment for doctors and we believe this starts at medical school. We’ve signed up tp
@BMACymru
@TheBMA
charter to support mental health and well-being of our students
An opportunity too to look at new ways of training GPs, to prepare the next generation for the challenges a changing patient demography and new ways of working.
#RCGPCouncil
member: training of GPs must be significant in future vision. Also need to ensure that being a GP is seen as a 'progressive career route' - GPs change position re what kind of GP they want to be (partner, salaried etc) as they progress through career
Great day ahead at hybrid RCGP Council despite Eunice doing her worst! Learning from Covid, Relationship Based Care, Remote consulting and how to keep our Members engaged and involved all on the menu…
Want to positively influence leadership development for trainees? Educators are invited to provide insights to inform the development of new guidance on leadership development for doctors in training -
https://www.survey
.
Great evening celebrating 50 years of the MRCGP exam, great reminders of times past and thoughts of times yet to come...thanks to all those who work so hard to design and deliver it.
Feeling so privelledged to be representing the trainees at the
#MRCGP50
anniversary Met so many great people from the college including past winners of the Fraser Rose Medal. So proud of our college and all the people who work hard to support the Exam and College
@TeamGP
Success! Over 90 new 4th year students signed up to the GPSoc mailing list this evening - and here are some of the societies we agreed to hold collaborative events with in 2018/19.
@TeamGP
@rcgp
@GPEG_Cambridge
RCGP SE Wales Faculty and Bevan Commission holding an informal educational supper to discuss their work in Primary Care, transforming practices, streamlining workload,and ensuring future sustainability of the NHS. Be there!
The maker of disinfectants Lysol & Dettol has issued a press release telling people not to inject themselves with disinfectant after President Donald Trump suggested disinfectants and light could be injected into the human body to kill the coronavirus.
At the Life Sciences hub, listening to
@MichaelMarmot
talking about what’s on his mind - stalling life expectancy from 2010. Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that make them sick?
@BevanCommission
@lifescienceshub
Attending my first Welsh Medical Committee meeting online. Exciting range of committed doctors across Wales to discuss the many issues facing us and all wanting to influence and support Welsh Govt thinking in the coming difficult months.
Happy Social Prescribing day! Lots to do, evidence- based evaluations coming through to provide foundations ... exciting to think we can find ways to help people way beyond our consulting rooms and prescription pads !
Chris Ham making the important point that unless Social Care is adequately funded, the NHS 10 year plan cannot be properly implemented…elementary, my dear Watson! Why wasn't it covered in the Plan?
Leaders in Healthcare
@leadershealth
- conference have just voted overwhelmingly in favour of a ‘no Brexit’ solution knowing that Dominic Raab has resigned.
Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Chair of CRUK spoke in Cardiff yesterday. Primary Care’s future is bright - but we must welcome digital and technological innovation in personalised genomic medicine, AI and prevention, to really benefit our communities and realise their potential.
Great atmosphere and inspiring opening speech by Helen Stokes-Lampard @
#RCGPAC
today in Liverpool! Roll on 4 year GP training and training in practice!
Agree wholeheartedly with Sarah Wollaston! Prevaricating and trying to keep alive a poor deal means we will run out of time to get any deal worth having and perhaps a no deal after all.
First day back on placement today as a med student (rather than as a nurse) only did 8:30-16:30 and I am knackered.
Can I have my own lockdown now to recover from the last one please? Tbh, could do with 12 weeks off. 😴😴😴
@katherinemaskel
@RcgpFaculties
@TeamGP
@rcgp
So sad your longest GP placement is only 4 weeks’ long! We are advocating at least 25% of UG Clinical placement time should be in GP! How else can we demonstrate the true intellectual and stamina requirements, and joy of the Doctor/ Patient relationship?!!
"I warmly welcome this milestone. E-prescribing would represent a big step forward for general practice. Upon becoming Health Minister,
@Eluned_Morgan
emphasised e-prescribing as a priority and we are grateful for her continued drive to deliver this service." -
@ChristmasRowena
Easter is supposed to be a a celebratory/ joyous day but I am deeply saddened & heartbroken by the terrible attacks on churches & hotels in Sri Lanka (I have visited these places when visiting my family & friends) My prayers are with everyone affected 😔😥
#SriLankaAttacks
The Tenovus Choir singing at the Public Health Wales Research Showcase - the power of arts and culture in maintaining health and wellbeing! Lots we can do in Primary Care!!
A beautiful seasonal reminder of the wonderful Lorna Tapper-Jones, a gift in bloom from a lovely friend and inspirational teacher, greatly missed 🌸
@HawthorneKamila
@kerryhood
@CardiffMBBChC21
@rvautrey
@rcgp
Well done Richard, I’m so looking forward to working with you and my thanks to everyone who stood for the elections recently - great to see such enthusiasm to work for the College!