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.MUFC.Trekker. Star Wars nut. Pro NHS. Proud Yorkshireman. Pro trade union. Hate Tories. EM consultant. Learning guitar. Views my own

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Sandip Patel
5 months
@LouiseAllard18 I did 120 hour weeks No med school debt Free accommodation Mess with Sky TV and snacks Separate dining room House in London 65k I'm 💯 behind my colleagues Why not back the future of the NHS, instead of dumping on them in public? Just a thought
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4 months
@THEJamesWhale As a consultant providing cover tomorrow, i fully support my colleagues taking strike action
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6 months
I'm voting for industrial action I'm not worth 1/3 less than I was in 2008 I'm voting to stop my colleagues from retiring early or just leaving the country I'm voting to save the NHS from Tory privatisation I'm voting to get waiting lists down @ShazBMA @BMA_Consultants
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Sandip Patel
3 years
@MPritchardUK Bit rich coming from an MP! I'm having my bathroom done at the moment and not a single patient of mine volunteered to pay for it. Imagine that..🤨
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Sandip Patel
2 years
Why do some doctors get paid £14/hr whilst Aldi pay its til operators £12/hr? Something is badly wrong here. #payrestoration
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Sandip Patel
1 month
The GMC are asking the public whether they're OK with people doing a 2 year course should be used as substitutes for doctors It takes a minimum of 10 years to become a GP and 13 to become a consultant....
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Today, we’ve launched our public consultation about the rules, standards and guidance needed to implement the regulation of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs). Legislation has been passed for us to regulate PAs and AAs. We’re now consulting on proposals…
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Sandip Patel
8 months
On strike today because we want the gvt to see that 15 years of imposed pay cuts is driving people out of the profession Waiting lists have been rising for over a decade We have 9000 medical vacancies EDs are overcrowded They are destroying the NHS on purpose
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Sandip Patel
1 year
@DPJHodges Cheated on his wife and left her and their 3 kids Inaction as SoS killed thousands Dodgy PPE contracts Broke his own lockdown rules A real prince
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Sandip Patel
1 month
@medicalmodelbri For the last time PAs are NOT a profession PAs bring nothing to the MDT that doctors can't I've been called a porter Meh
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Sandip Patel
2 years
@Mistywoman1 He believes so strongly in Britain that : He doesn't live here He makes his products overseas
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@simonbuckley4 @TheBMA @goldstone_tony @AmandaPritchard @NHSEngland @theartfu1doctor As a year 13 consultant, I almost voted yes and then saw the anger from my younger colleagues and the JDs. I voted no Everyone needs to win this dispute Together
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Sandip Patel
8 months
@NHSDDICB They are NOT medically trained You need to go to medical school and get your MBBS before you can call yourself medically trained Stop conning the public A 2 year degree course with an exam with a 100% pass rate is not medical training
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Sandip Patel
3 years
@MPritchardUK Pretty sure I pay for my own mortgage and I (nor any of my 150000 colleagues) haven't been jailed for fiddling my expense claims either
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Sandip Patel
2 years
@pritipatel @BorisJohnson I'm ashamed to have the same surname as you. My dad came from East Africa and became a newsagent too but, unlike the pair of you, didn't become a sellout and patsy for xenophobics pulling the ladder up after themselves
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Sandip Patel
7 months
@ColinaCoco PAs are not HCPs Come and do GEM and do it right Unregulated and their scope creep is a danger to patients I don't recognise the training and wouldn't have them in my ED apart from as scribes and low complexity procedures ACPs on the other hand add massive value to the team
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1 year
@Dr_BellaR I've just watched a YouTube video of a UK trained FY3 comparing payslips between Oz and here She didn't like it here and she did in fact "sod off" elsewhere How many just like her? Surely its cheaper to pay JDs properly and retain them? I need them to care for me when I'm old
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2 years
@Gastronaut89 Asking an unwell person to come into work anyway constitutes harassment in my book
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Sandip Patel
10 months
@nysuri What a total waste of time Should have been resolved locally
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@VictoriaAtkins @UKParliament Dear Junior Minister in Training Atkins Go away and find a credible politician to deal with us Off you trot...
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Sandip Patel
7 months
@drbosheaGP @IMT_latest @RCGP_RoI @aausgp_ireland @CormacLucey @irishmednews @RealEddieHobbs Have you actually stepped in an ED at any time in the last 20 years, Brendan? You might recall we don't see folk in time order and quite a lot of our patients are rather sick and need critical care input that can take hours
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Sandip Patel
11 months
@noconne @srturaga What an awful take on this issue Doctors make massive sacrifices along the way accruing huge debts and then suffering accelerating pay erosion You forget that consultant pay is eroding at a far quicker rate
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Sandip Patel
4 months
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DARLING DAUGHTER, LEAH 15 TODAY !
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Sandip Patel
10 months
@jeffsprogress An intelligent person would take the hint and get the funk out
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Sandip Patel
19 days
@BMA_James_Steen Nowt So why are we paying people nearly 50k to do a job which serves no purpose?
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Sandip Patel
11 months
@DacreJane I have no PA No desk No office We hot desk on a first come, first served basis Our pay has fallen by a third in the last 15 years And now I pay to go work because of the AA issue I'm losing friends and colleagues to other countries Other than that, it's great
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Sandip Patel
11 months
@stevenmarwood3 @BMA_JuniorDocs I'm the son of 2 factory workers I work WITH receptionists and porters Take your hate elsewhere
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Sandip Patel
1 year
Cheers, Reds! @AlternativeMUFC
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@cml_smith You booked it in advance and made every effort to contact the rota people Just go This is outrageous
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Sandip Patel
1 year
@ellieflynn Not just him The newspaper editor who thought it was ok to print such a vile article in the first place
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1 year
@Dr_BellaR It's like slagging off the band because you can't get tickets to the gig
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@EstherClift @IOWNHS @melisapasi You should not be using your doctorate title in the context of healthcare It is misleading
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Sandip Patel
11 months
@FPARCP @TorbaySDevonNHS If you want the responsibility that goes with a Middle Grade role, go to medical school and do the PG training
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Sandip Patel
2 years
@AcmeDR Old fart here: you need to get paid for your time. Vocation it may be, but it's also a job and we are all being exploited. Claps don't pay the rent
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Sandip Patel
1 year
@Doctors_Vote If you're expected to be available to work, then you are de facto on call and should be paid for it We had this when I was an SHO where we carried a bleep for 1 week on our nights off and were expected to be available to work The BMA threatened to sue We got large cheques
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Sandip Patel
10 months
@WiseBadger15 @phillip_baldry @AcpSofi @cn150 @KarenDunderdale @ULHT_News There's only one type of consultant, and it's none of the above
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Sandip Patel
10 months
@SteveBarclay The DDRB is rigged Starting salary is far, far below 134k You do not value us You have not come to the table in months We will break you
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Sandip Patel
1 year
@RidgeOnSunday As a practising doctor, I am becoming increasingly disillusioned by some of the statements made by Mr Streeting and Sir Keir. They clearly don't understand that working WITH doctors, instead of alienating them, is the key to sorting out the mess that the Tories have made
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Sandip Patel
2 years
@DrHoenderkamp Can we just agree that many , many GPs have worked themselves into the ground combining F2F with remote consulting? There are some local issues , but the vast majority have worked themselves into the ground. And I'm an ED consultant,before you ask
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2 years
@errongordon @GNev2 @Carra23 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. A dyed in the wool Manc and 100% scouser agreeing on 1 key issue
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Sandip Patel
10 months
@RishiSunak Having a selfie with someone who slashed your pay year after year Shame on you
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Sandip Patel
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@BladeoftheS @LBC @LBCNews Why is Sangita off air whilst Ms Johnson gets to spout utter drivel?
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Sandip Patel
9 months
@jasaunders90 @Alexsahistul You are not comparing like with like and doctors are a heterogeneous group who all have vastly higher levels of training
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@mmamas1973 The GMC are unfit regulators and we that fund them (including their private healthcare plans) must see that they answer to the public for endangering them
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3 years
@NoContextBrits @Parody_RCGP None of them. They're all franchised crap . A good family run place runs rings around every one of them
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Sandip Patel
2 months
@DrNeenaJha Wholly agree. Cathryn has failed to acknowledge her role in this debacle and misrepresentation of data. I think sanctions are warranted, not a happy escape to further prosperity
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@DrEilidhMaria Just insulted 55000 doctors with just one sentence Over promoted backbencher with a prior track record of a massive COI,who is in way over her head
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Sandip Patel
6 months
@Delilah15707758 @amxxny97 @Keynotecid So you put your wounded ego before patient care? Nice one
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Sandip Patel
1 month
@Bilal11246014 What am I watching? Look at the heart rate This lady is conscious Why is she strapped down? Why is it being filmed?
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Sandip Patel
3 months
@UMAPsUK The undergraduate degree has zero equivalence with medicine A false equivalence Medical training is rigorous and strictly validated The PA degree is a wild west free unvalidated free for all with an exit exam which is so easy, it is embarrassing
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Sandip Patel
11 months
@Thornton_health Another ridiculous take on this issue Yes, we are leaders But we are tired of being trodden on by a monopoly employer which has corrupted the DRBB & imposed 15 years of real terms pay cuts on us We're not demeaning ourselves We're standing up for ourselves Together Jog on
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@DrUmeshPrabhu Have you bothered to actually gauge the widespread concerns expressed by the profession, the media and the BMA, and the scope creep and lack of regulation? Training bottlenecks ? ARRS? Unemployed GPs?
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Sandip Patel
7 months
@dr_merritt Then why are there training bottlenecks for JDs? Anyone who fits the criteria for HST should get a training number There is no need for PAs unless we need a scribe or help with low complexity tasks
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Sandip Patel
3 years
@MHA_92_ 11 years an ED consultant with MRCP and FRCEM and I don't know. I'll be resigning on Monday
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@IncogAssociate @DocShivSharma @Doctors_Vote @Xeon4f145d96s1 @MichelePaduano @TomStocks1982 @Doc_IonaCollins @DocAnonX @DrPhilBanfield That is an absolutely specious argument How can anyone examine another person on something they aren't trained to do themselves? An incredibly awful equivalence and woeful attempt to elevate PAs to our level of training and knowledge
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@Parody_RCGP Years of experience as a doctor? Want to work in PC ? Nah! Unvalidated 2 year course with a 💯 pass rate after a degree in zoology? COME ON IN!
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Sandip Patel
2 years
@benglishteach Every hospital stay I've ever had, there's been a halal option, so I'm finding your story hard to fathom
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Sandip Patel
1 year
@CatalinaWynMixr @ccAndrewBaker There's been stories about this issue. No one ever seems to be in there buying stuff
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Sandip Patel
9 months
@Dr_Done_ This happened to me at my GP surgery. Flat out refused to tell me his specific title
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Sandip Patel
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@mjv__1 Terribly sorry to hear this, Michaela I'm the son of 2 factory workers and have never had to worry about this I'll be encouraging all my colleagues to advocate for JDs and end this PA/AA experiment
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@thomasdolphin Er, Tom.....
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Sandip Patel
7 months
@RodricJenkin @drcolinm @GMC Horrified for you, Rodric The GMC is a rogue organisation that is unfit for purpose It is even a registered charity
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Sandip Patel
8 months
@csubbe @HelenRSalisbury @gmcuk GMC is for regulating doctors We have HCPC for everyone else
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Sandip Patel
11 months
@KayBurley Kay, We are not asking for a pay rise. We are asking for our pay to be restored to 2008 levels. It is the gvt who have inflicted 15 years of real terms pay cuts on us who are at fault
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@VishwajeetP4t3l We had the best health service bar none 14 years ago I wonder what changed? It wasn't doctors! Doctors ARE the BMA!
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6 months
@Xeon4f145d96s1 1. PA is by definition NOT a profession 2. Doctors take responsibility, not avoid it ,because we are trained to 3. The profession is waking up to this insidious threat to patient safety and the training of REAL doctors 4. PAs SHOULD fear the BMA.
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Sandip Patel
4 months
@ShaunLintern The profession is slowly waking up and realising we are NOT going to be taken for mugs Infantilised at work Undermined by our own RCs and regulatory body Gaslit by an NHS hating gvt Gongchasers selling the profession down the rivet
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3 months
@thomaswoodcock @TheBMA We've got doctors stuck in artifical bottlenecks Doctors losing heart and leaving And some consultants are selling them down the river to train up unqualified people Looked at some doctor rotas, lately?
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4 months
As a proud northerner, how on earth have I produced 2 children that hate fish and chips ? Aghast
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5 months
@Xeon4f145d96s1 So the assistant is paid twice that of the doctor Strike
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1 year
The hero of the hour! @TheStrokeAssoc @sonaldack
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Sandip Patel
10 months
@ClareGerada @DeanEggitt @TheBMA @BMA_GP I don't have a single PA in our ED and haven't met a single one in my hospital Nor do I think they should practise independently. That is for GPs and consultants We love our multidisciplinary team , but the buck stops with doctors. Our ACPs are well supervised
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Sandip Patel
7 months
@lynnehall @F365 @markgoldbridge @ManUtd Paul Parker is a Utd legend Part of Fergie's first great team Won every domestic honour and still loves Utd Have a word with yourself
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Sandip Patel
1 year
@BMA_JuniorDocs @SteveBarclay @RobLaurensonD4P @_VivekTrivedi Well said No backing down Consultants are with you
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5 months
@Xeon4f145d96s1 My understanding from RCEM is that they haven't decided on the PA scope As a fellow, I would expect a say in the matter If not, I would be considering whether I wanted to continue paying my subscription
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8 months
@ERunswickBMA @RCollEM @RCEMpresident Do we need to comment ? As a RCEM Fellow , examiner and trainer, I am concerned with the perception that any non doctor shares equivalency with our HSTs
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@timricketts_ @ShaunLintern In my defence , I once staged a one man sit in when medical staffing told me I'd have to wait until next month for my salary I got the money that day
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@DrRobgalloway @Keir_Starmer NEVER trust a Tory with our NHS
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2 months
@gmcuk We don't need PAs and AAs We need doctors to stay in the profession Conflating PAs/AAs with doctors is a danger to patient safety
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5 months
How is a doctor's assistant being offered twice the pay of the doctor's? To the public: do you want real doctors treating you or their unqualified and unregulated assistants who have a fraction of the training and are often paid more?
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How is this acceptable @BucksHealthcare ? Doctors are NOT worth half a Physician Associate. FY1s, this is how they value you. Look how they value your replacements. STRIKE.
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@Xeon4f145d96s1 We know we're on the right track when this fascist loving rag does a hitpiece on you
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@drmattuk I'm going to have to wear a hat labelled "I am a consultant AND I went to medical school where I trained to be a doctor"
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@nandwics How about actual doctors seeing sick people rather than unqualified, unregulated wannabes?
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1 year
@NickTriggle A dreadful article Sloppily written and omitting key facts Then again, the organisation you work for doesn't appear to have any standards, does it?
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3 years
@ksb79 @DrSelvarajah Police action, surely? This is utterly appalling.
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Sandip Patel
10 months
@ClareGerada @iDrSunny @DeanEggitt @TheBMA @BMA_GP Twisting yourself into pretzels defending the indefensible You'll be saying the dead are "differently alive", next
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6 months
@ERunswickBMA I think we lose hundreds of person hours a day to crap IT in our organisation
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2 years
@ChiutaSacha You took 19 m 59 s too long Well done
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Sandip Patel
10 months
HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY NHS! I'm proud to work for it It's saved my life twice We need to cherish it and protect it from those who want to destroy it
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1 year
@RobLaurensonD4P @RishiSunak We're with you and will provide the cover We might be asking the same of you guys next month...
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10 months
A short message from me about the upcoming industrial action by NHS consultants
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@TomStocks1982 We will set your scope and in my ED, I will decide who you see IF we let you in which , personally, I never would
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2 years
@Lamboozler You can be humble AND be paid your worth. Huge respect to porters who are undervalued and underpaid
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Sandip Patel
30 days
That's my parents arriving in the UK in 1967. Came here with nowt and had to put up with some really poisonous attitudes. Worked hard all their lives including working 7 days a week, glass ceilings, racism & being treated as 2nd class citizens. They were indomitable
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Watching #Defiance makes me so sad & angry for what my parents had to endure so they could give us a better life. I'm forever grateful for their tenacity.
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@BucksHealthcare So why pay people who can't initiate treatment, prescribe or order radiological tests more than F1 and F2s and the same as some registrars? By that logic you must pay medical students £60 per hour during IA
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@Doctors_Vote @ELHT_NHS @ELHT_CEO Where is: rustling sweet wrappers Chewing gum Flicking spit balls Hitting others with a ruler
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5 months
@mancunianmedic @thetimes Gotta love a bit of indentured servitude Capitalism for me but not for thee
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5 months
@NHSEngland In what way do they "enhance patient experience"?
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1 year
@Xeon4f145d96s1 He's brought this on himself No sympathy
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