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Radiologist/CIO. National Clinician Adviser on Pay & Pensions ( @TheBMA ) & Dep Chair @bma_pensions . Passionate re NHS. Thoughts mine. Tweets personal

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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1 year
Thread🧵👇 on today's pension tax changes #BUDGET2023 ✔️AA⬆️to £60k (prior £40k) ❌? AA indexed to keep value ✔️LTA Abolished ✔️Good but partial fix to #FixNegativePIAs (no carry forward/back) ❌Taper remains but ✔️⬆️Adjusted £260k (prior £240k) ✔️⬆️Min £10k (prior £4k)
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1 year
1/ BREAKING - #Budget2023 🧵 is now live Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt is on his feet and starting to give his speech. I'll be tweeting live on anything related to NHS pensions in particular (& lots of changes expected so pay attention!) Read to the end, & RT once you have!
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1 year
The NHS is completely BROKEN It WASNT broken by COVID/Ukraine/inflation(*delete excuse) It was broken by deliberate CHOICES to break it RT if you want this/next government to make CHOICES to properly fund the NHS, reward its staff & provide better healthcare for UK population
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Merry Christmas to all those working in the NHS today Many staff in the NHS are grossly underpaid (even on Christmas day👇) but none more so than Junior Doctors who frequently graduate with >£100k debt RT to support them & ask government to pay them ALL fairly #PayRestoration
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1 year
👋 @BBCNews This “news” piece by @NickTriggle on @BMA_JuniorDocs strikes is one of the most unbalanced one-sided pieces of govmnt propaganda I’ve seen in a while. So much for “impartiality” #TimDavie - littered with errors and bias
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Why are doctors demanding the biggest pay rise?

How junior medics have reached the brink of their biggest walkout, in a fight for a 35% hike.

www.bbc.co.uk
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Please @Edwina_Currie , shut up! There are 7.2m million people on waiting lists👇, a problem created by political choices & > decade of underinvestment. This wasnt caused by doctors (or anyone else) striking, but #PayRestoration will go a long way to sorting it RT if u agree
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Every one of these doctors has patients waiting in pain. Every single one.
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1 year
1/29 We need to talk about these graphs 👇 We have nurses & junior doctors on strike & consultants potentially joining them very soon. Lets talk about inflation & pay. How to fix this car crash (& perhaps more importantly, how NOT to). Please read full 🧵 to end and share / RT
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1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: So we need to talk about NHS pay. NEW shocking [post DDRB] data just in 4/1/24 👇 (SPOILER: Not "fair & reasonable") We need to fix pay/retention to fix waiting lists- increasingly clear next GE will won/lost on NHS Please read whole 🧵 & share widely/RT
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: No wonder jnr doctors & nurses don’t feel valued. Not everyone is “feeling poor”equally @bankofengland . What gvmnt has done to their pay 👇 is an absolute disgrace RT if u think @SteveBarclay @Jeremy_Hunt @RishiSunak should #PayRestoration & save our NHS
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Bravo @RobLaurensonD4P @BMA_JuniorDocs V good performance on #PoliticsLive well worth👀full 5 min clip calling out the total nonsense that it is government & NOT doctors, who have unilaterally stopped talks RT if you want gvmnt to get round the table & make a *SERIOUS* offer
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1 year
Simply unbelievable from @GregHands "Public services are getting better" I dare you, @GregHands , look at the graphs below and tell me the NHS is "better". I'll wait
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Greg Hands to Andrew Castle, “Public services are getting better.” Wes Streeting, “He’s living on a different planet.’ #JuniorDoctorsStike
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2 years
1/ A thread about annual allowance in 21/22👇 [+ new free tool] Many will have received a nasty brown envelope from @nhs_pensions this week. If you have (and even if you haven't) you may need to take action. Pay attention and share (please RT) with colleagues who may need this!
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7 months
1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: OK on the eve of junior/consultant strikes, we need to talk about these charts (NEW data just in!) 👇 We need to look at them to fix waiting lists & its increasingly clear next GE will be won or lost on the NHS Please read the whole 🧵 & share widely / RT
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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3 years
Chuffed to have received a letter from the Chancellor @RishiSunak today. Finally, it appears, the penny has dropped! #ScrapAAinDB #SavetheNHS #PayingtoWork #AFD
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2 years
1/ As one of the leading experts on pension taxation in NHS I've personally reached out to @trussliz @RishiSunak with my thoughts on this existential threat to the NHS & solutions If you want #TalkToTony I'd be happy to explain this complex issue. Read 👇& RT if you agree
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2 years
Real Case😢 54yr GP partner, 6 sessions working 50s/week Take home pay 22/23: £45,600 Annual allowance 22/23: £29,000 Net pay after pension tax bill paid: £16,600. Hrly net pay: £6.38 Outcome: Retiring age 55 "main reason for leaving = pension taxation" RT if concerned for NHS
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1 year
1/ This is a *really* important thread🧵 re current pensions consultation. I need you to take time to read it properly & watch the 2 videos / modelling done with @gdcuk They are trying to steal your pension, whilst pretending they are fixing a problem. Read, 👀 2 videos & RT
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2 years
BREAKING: U-turn on the Oxford Comma
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3 years
DISGRACEFUL: Example doctor👇 This is what @RishiSunak wants to do to your pension on Wednesday by removing indexation to the LTA (which may never return). (Yet another) stealth theft of your pension worth between £187k-£303k. Feeling underavlued? Pls RT if you agree scandalous
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2 years
1/30 BREAKING 🧵 New @CommonsHealth report 👇 "Its a NATIONAL SCANDAL that senior doctors are being forced to reduce their working contribution to the NHS or to leave it entirely because of NHS pension arrangements" Highlights & my analysis. Pls read to end & share/RT👇.
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8 months
The Prime Minister @10DowningStreet said today "We were making very good progress before industrial action" Waiting lists are a #PoliticalCHOICE RT if you think this 👇was NOT "good progress" before IA & govmnt needs to change course #PayRestoration
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👋 @Edwina_Currie Crikey why didn’t @TheBMA think of that! Oh wait ALL @BMA_JuniorDocs have seen pay eroded disgracefully, but consultants have fared even worse than juniors 👇 Which is why @BMA_Consultants balloting next month unless govmnt gets serious #PayRestoration
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Edwina Currie
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1 year
Then the @TheBMA should campaign to raise the pay of the most junior doctors. But they aren't. They're striking to increase pay of all doctors in the NHS below the rank of consultant - and that's people on very high salaries indeed. With large pension contributions on top.
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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4 months
1/ *Deeply* worrying from @RishiSunak @10DowningStreet on @bbclaurak Watch the clip in full 👇and pick out the blatant untruths - its so unbelievable they went unchallenged Laura K? Apparently "The government has now reached resolution with every other part of the NHS. ....
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1 month
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: The resolve of @BMA_JuniorDocs is going nowhere: Feb '23: 98.01% vote to strike Aug '23 : 98.37% vote to strike March '24 : 97.97% vote to strike RT if you want @10DowningStreet to get serious & make a credible offer, show a path towards #PayRestoration
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10 months
1/ VITAL🧵 So people have had a couple of days to digest the DDRBs "independent" reports & their imposition by governemnt. TLDR;they represent further MASSIVE pay cuts. Lets start with some history and look at what happened BEFORE the current high inflation Pls read all/RT
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6 months
Wow! Who knew that staggeringly large waiting lists were not caused by covid/doctors strikes but rather a "decade of underinvestment in the NHS, chronic staff shortages & neglect of social care have undermined efforts to tackle it"👇 Answer: Most voters in next general election
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The Health Foundation
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6 months
Our new analysis of the NHS waiting list shows that, on current trends, it could peak at 8m by summer 2024. Read about how a decade of underinvestment in the NHS, chronic staff shortages and neglect of social care have undermined efforts to tackle it ⬇️
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10 months
1/ Short 🧵 on lies, damned lies, & statistics I've seen some rather misleading use of statistics on the BBC / Sky today, its not clear whether they dont understand the differences, or they are trying to mislead Please read all & share / RT
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3 years
Delighted to see Prof Van Tam vaccinating yesterday in his FFP3 mask 👍 Please can we ensure healthcare workers on COVID wards and other red areas are all afforded similar protection with adequate FFP3 PPE3 (and proper gold standard vaccination with 2 doses as per @who )
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4 months
Wishing all NHS staff a Happy New Year! In my opinion *ALL* undervalued, worst of all our junior doctors & the future of UK medicine- look at NYDs disgraceful rates of pay👇 RT if like me, you want govmnt's NY resolution to return to negs THEY abandoned to make a credible offer
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2 years
Congratulations @Jeremy_Hunt Delighted that that we - *FINALLY* - have a chancellor that knows what a complete car crash pension taxation is for retention in the NHS; and that waiting lists of 7m+ are a car crash for economy Will be in touch #FixTheFinanceAct #TaxUnregistered
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UK Prime Minister
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2 years
The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP @Jeremy_Hunt has been appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer @HMTreasury .
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4 years
1/ A thread about annual allowance in 19/20👇 Many of you will have received one of these nasty brown envelopes from @nhs_pensions this week. If you have (and even if you haven't) you may need to take action. Pay attention and share (please RT) with colleagues who may need this!
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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2 years
BREAKING: Cons Pay 4.5% award= 6.5% pay CUT Doctors - Pls RT if you have had enough of further disgusting erosion of our pay (& therefore pensions) on the back of c30% pay cuts over the last decade Journos - suggested headlines👇 describing FURTHER *massive* pay cut for drs
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3 years
1/ A thread [1/2]about your NHS pensions, tax & the age discrmination “McCloud” case👇 OK this is complicated stuff, Im going to take you through it step by step. But its important, and will affect your pension, so buckle up and pay attention! Please share & RT/share awareness
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1 year
1/ Thank you once again to @wesstreeting today in the House of Commons "It's also absurd .. we still have doctors retiring early for no other reason than the pension rules create an active financial disincentive for them to work" Watch the clip in full & RT
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5 months
BREAKING: Consultant strike ballot in and its another resounding "YES" Thank you @BMA_Consultants
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10 months
1/ IMPORTANT🧵: Its been a busy week. A new #workforceplan - (supposedly) #RETENTION central to it, to help #CutWaitingLists . But something is missing from the plan... a plan for PAY. I produced that chart 👇 2 months ago, new pay & wait data are just in - pls read to end & RT!
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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2 years
When are you going to stop this lunancy once and for all @RishiSunak @sajidjavid @Jeremy_Hunt @BorisJohnson You *cannot* fix waiting lists until you sort this - like you did for the judges. AA/LTA are destroying the NHS, on your watch RT if you want them (☝️) to fix it @TheBMA
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Professor Claire Hopkins
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2 years
Alerted to another year of pension fines as I work too hard for the nhs. So, I’ve asked to cut my hours and will decline all future requests to cover extra operating lists. No longer willing to pay to work myself into an early grave. #nhscrisis
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3 years
1/ A thread about annual allowance in 20/21👇 [+ new free tool] Many will have received a nasty brown envelope from @nhs_pensions this week. If you have (and even if you haven't) you may need to take action. Pay attention and share (please RT) with colleagues who may need this!
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9 months
Excellent below from Bart’s CEO Charles Knight “We have to recognise there’s a global problem in healthcare workforce. There’s no point in having remuneration here that’s not internationally competitive, it’s not going to work & you will see a brain drain from this country”
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'Normally in a war when soldiers are expected to fight at the frontline, everyone knows that you can't do that all the time.' As the NHS turns 75, St Bartholomew's Chief Executive Charles Knight tells @HenryRiley1 why its morale has dropped to an all-time low. @mdstbarts
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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3 years
Don’t know the original source of this but well said! #freedomdayUK #freeDUMBdayUK
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1 year
1/18 THOUGHT for the #Coronation W/E: Our NHS is a "jewel in the crown" of UK. But pay in the NHS has been #RoyallyScrewed 👇 If you want to understand why nurses, junior doctors (& potentially consultants) are striking, start with this graph Short🧵 pls read to end & share/RT
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1 year
Massive response 77% turnout with 98% YES Well Done @BMA_JuniorDocs 👏 #EnoughIsEnough #PayRestoration This is a great result for junior doctors & also for the *patients* they serve RT if you want @SteveBarclay @Jeremy_Hunt to do the right thing
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Junior Doctors
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Junior doctors have voted YES to strike action in England. This is a giant step forward for junior doctors and #PayRestoration . Thank you to everyone who worked so hard for this. Keep an eye out for next steps. #BMADoctorsVoteYes
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3 years
Very sad to have lost my Auntie Robbie overnight after getting COVID (& double vaccinated). This nightmare is not over. To quote Robbie's wise words 4 days before she passed away "Bloody Boris wants to open up everything!! He's mad!!" Pls rethink your idiotic plan @BorisJohnson
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1 year
@enixmeta @Conservatives @UKLabour Im sorry you think I'm a #Lying Dr and have presented data only from 2008 to only show the current government and have ignored @UKLabour where the problems "began". I chose the graphs I did because they were from government, but if you want to go further back look at the @FT 👇
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3 years
1/ Thread about Salary Sacrifice / Leasing & NHS pensions 👇(INCLUDING A free little tool to do the sums) One of the things I get asked about almost daily is car leasing in the NHS. Some of the quotes for electric cars (now with zero “BIK” tax) look almost too good to be true
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2 years
1/ Very grateful to @wesstreeting for tackling medical retention head on today "First we would take immediate practical steps. Why is it that government is sat idly by while doctors are forced to retire early for no other reason than a cap on their pension contribution, which ..
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1 year
1/2 I used to regularly describe the NHS as "on its knees". Sadly we now are beyond that point frankly & it's lying face down, unconscious (and with rising water). I suspect many of my colleagues will be tuning into @bbclaurak this morning & wondering what the panel including
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10 months
So @SteveBarclay asks @thetimes - You have 6 fig salaries why are cons. striking? - Per article, median salary £126k - Had they looked was £119,200 in '09👇 - That's worth £180,804 in May 2023 (CPI) - Destruction of pay 2009-23 is *MUCH* worse in the NHS RT for #PayRestoration
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1 year
Thank you @Jeremy_Hunt and colleagues at @hmtreasury for listening to our concerns and acting
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Jeremy Hunt
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1 year
Employment 💼 We will remove barriers that prevent people from working👇
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1 year
I voted YES ☒ YES ☒ to #FixConsultantPay YES ☒ #FixPay > #RestorePensions YES ☒ to give juniors some hope its worth staying YES ☒ to help reverse disgraceful >7m waiting lists YES ☒ to help #RETAIN our NHS staff in NHS YES ☒ to help patients Dont wait, vote NOW & RT!
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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4 months
1/ Another brilliant interview by @_VivekTrivedi on @BBCBreakfast 👇 As you say @scotgov had the courage to continue negotiations when strikes on the table, avoiding the need for ANY strikes in Scotland, & finding a resolution. Why does @VictoriaAtkins @RishiSunak not do so?
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1 year
BREAKING: Leading economist @RichardDMurray1 Chief Executive @TheKingsFund dropped out of @nhs_pensions as he couldnt work out AA liabilities When leading economists cant work this out, its not fit for purpouse. *COMPLEXITY* is a *MASSIVE* part of the problem #taxunregistered
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1 year
1/ BREAKING - #Budget2023 🧵 is now live Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt is on his feet and starting to give his speech. I'll be tweeting live on anything related to NHS pensions in particular (& lots of changes expected so pay attention!) Read to the end, & RT once you have!
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1 year
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: With well over 120 THOUSAND vacancies in the NHS, waiting lists just hit its HIGHEST ever level at >7.33 MILLION Current (& future potential) government need to FIX PAY to fix recruitment & #RETENTION RT if you want Rishi to fix this mess #payrestoration
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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3 years
Unless issue of ridiculously punitive pension taxes are resolved @sajidjavid @RishiSunak , I’m afraid it’s entirely predicable waiting lists are going up Need to start listening to @BMA_Pensions & offer an enduring solution (like the judicial pension scheme) RT if you agree!
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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2 months
This is leadership 👇 Well done @doctor_oxford for sticking to your principles and standing up for the profession (which is what all the Royal Colleges *should* be doing)
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Dr Rachel Clarke
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2 months
I was deeply honoured to be invited to be a keynote speaker at this year's @RCPhysicians annual conference. But after last night's #RCPEGM I can no longer, in all conscience, give my speech. I feel duty bound to share in public my reasons why.
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BREAKING: Excellent press release @BMA_Consultants @Vish_Sharm "Gvemnt has once again imposed a savage real terms pay cut on consultants. When inflation is running at more than 11%, this is nothing short of insulting." "This “final offer” & flat refusal to engage in further…
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2 years
1/33 Retirement age in the NHS & Pension Tax 🧵 - FACT vs FICTION This is a *really* important thread. Its complicated, please read ALL carefully & share/RT The graphic below is meant to describe the same doctor, one is (I believe) completely incorrect. Read on find out which
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2 years
Incredibly sad to see a consultant anaesthetist- who has worked in ICU since COVID, talking against vaccines. In other news, according to yesterdays @ICNARC report, vaccines are *spectacularly* good at keeping you out of ICU (&having natural immunity is really not an excuse)
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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7 months
If you are wondering why juniors & consultants are striking - this why 👇 Their pay has been comprehensively destroyed even vs CPI which is governments own preferred measure of inflation. Everyone else & comparator professions, not so much! Read the full 🧵& pls share / RT
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: OK on the eve of junior/consultant strikes, we need to talk about these charts (NEW data just in!) 👇 We need to look at them to fix waiting lists & its increasingly clear next GE will be won or lost on the NHS Please read the whole 🧵 & share widely / RT
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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Oh FFS @MailOnline you do realise the NHS budget is circa 200 billion & has over 1.2millions staff? £1m (as in 0.0005% of 200 billion budget) spent on an exhausted workforce and you are moaning? Maybe you should actually value the NHS & respect those who bust a gut for it.
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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These graphs are *terrifying*👇 It all feels a bit like the MMC/MTAS debacle all over again So important that we open up sufficient training numbers to fill workforce shortfalls *and* ensure those not in formal training get mirrored T&Cs
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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I'm confused, doctors taking industrial action because pay is MASSIVELY DOWN to 22/23 (so for example 26%🔽 for @bma_juniors & more for @BMA_Consultants ) Govt latest brainwave to offer 3.5% in 23/24 vs predicted inflation 7.9%, further *massive* pay cut
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Government recommends 3.5% pay rise for nurses and other workers

Nurses, teachers and police officers would get below inflation rises, under government proposals.

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Dr Tony Goldstone
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. @RishiSunak if you *really* have same aim as @BMA_Consultants & want to reduce waiting lists / fix our broken NHS, NOW is the time to step up to plate & #FixConsultantPay (& juniors) - this 👇is *NOT* sustainable. You *MUST* start to *reverse* erosion, before its too late RT!
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BMA Consultants
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Consultants in England have voted a resounding YES to taking industrial action this July. ✅Turnout: 71.08% ✅Yes votes: 20,741 – 86.08% Together we can #FixConsultantPay now and for the future. Read more:
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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Have accepted a National Clinician Advisory role @TheBMA on Pay&Pensions. Working with a team of tax accountants, lawyers and actuaries to refine pension model incl. 08 scheme, GPs & consultants across 4 nations; helping shape pay & pensions policy through this complex area
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1/46 Today @bma_pensions have written to @BMA_GP highlighting urgent issues regarding Annual Allowance in 22/23 related to inflation & *manifestly wrong* way AA is calculated. A vitally important 🧵 incl free tool. Pls read all carefully/share. Needs fixing, by government. NOW
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THOUGHT FOR DAY: In 2021 LTA@£1.073m = public sector pension of £46,657 before breaching With inflation 10.1% '22, 7.9% '23 LTA should be £1.423m buying same pension of 46.7k Instead LTA will by 27/28 be real terms £818k = pension just £35.6k! RT if you agree➡️NHS collapse 📉
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1 year
@ShaunLintern @RishiSunak The DIRE performance in the NHS👇is precisely nothing to do with strikes, and very little to do with COVID (though has worsened). Its everything to do with poltiical choices. And those choices extend to #payrestoration
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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10 months
Excellent statement @BMA_JuniorDocs "SoS has said there can be no talks while strikes are planned–🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿has proved him wrong. He said above 5% wasn’t realistic-🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿proved him wrong. He refused to even acknowledge the concept of pay restoration–🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿proved this is not only possible but…
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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3 years
Data from @MattHancock today In UK 12,383 delta / indian variant cases - of which 464 presented to ED - of which 126 patients admitted - 83 no vaxx - 28 1 dose - Only 3 both doses #GetVaccinated
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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2 years
At @BMA_Pensions we’ve written to @KwasiKwarteng @theresecoffey outlining what will & crucially what *wont* work to fix the #NHSpensioncrisis The NHS is, literally, on the brink of collapse - they MUST act now RT if you want them to listen #FixTheFinanceAct #TaxUnregistered
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1/ NEW & IMPORTANT: LOTS of new data this week incl new pay data 28/3/24 👇 NEW charts incl NHS satisfaction (SPOILER: Its grim #MindTheGap ) MUST fix pay/retention to fix #WaitingLists - next GE WILL be won/lost on NHS. Please read whole [long bumper] 🐇🧵 & share widely/RT
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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8 months
It’s time to stop gaslighting & start talking @SteveBarclay Your @Conservatives waiting lists are killing patients in unprecedented numbers & only 1 in 10 believe your nonsense it’s due to striking NHS workers 👇 RT to demand @RishiSunak & Steve get real about #PayRestoration
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Steve Barclay
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8 months
Today’s announcement from the BMA of more doctors’ strikes is extremely disappointing. I know it will weigh heavily on the minds of their NHS colleagues and patients – both of whom are shouldering the brunt of the BMA’s relentless and now co-ordinated strike action. (1/4)
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1 year
Completely agree with the House of Lords on this The chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt should urgently read the report from the former chair of @CommonsHealth @Jeremy_Hunt and act on its findings with punitive pension tax destroying retention RT if you want him to listen (to himself)
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Lords Science & Technology Committee
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1 year
The recommendations by the Health and Social Care Committee on NHS consultant pensions and tax should be implemented at the earliest opportunity to remove any perverse incentives for early retirement. 8/
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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. @wesstreeting message to NHS staff is "the cavalry is coming". Thank you again today saying you have called for "months to fix the perverse incentives in doctors’ pensions that are forcing them into early retirement" - GREAT RT if you want to hear @UKLabour plans to fix this
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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2 years
1/ Peri-retirement in NHS & Pension Tax 🧵 + free tool- #doesntpaytostay This is a *super* important thread. Sorry it's complicated, pls read ALL carefully & share/RT. Its vitally important you #knowYOURnumbers so @bma_pensions built a free tool to help - you could save >£100k
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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CONSULTANTS: Whilst this soap opera of gvmnt distracts themselves with infighting, NHS continues to burn🔥 - this week 👇far from "cutting waiting lists" reaching their *HIGHEST EVER* at 7.42m Please help, we MUST turn the NHS around Please. Vote. TODAY #Payrestoration & RT
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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I voted YES ☒ YES ☒ to #FixConsultantPay YES ☒ #FixPay > #RestorePensions YES ☒ to give juniors some hope its worth staying YES ☒ to help reverse disgraceful >7m waiting lists YES ☒ to help #RETAIN our NHS staff in NHS YES ☒ to help patients Dont wait, vote NOW & RT!
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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@jburnmurdoch @FT @NHSDigital @NuffieldTrust @ONS @bankofengland @OBR_UK @theRCN @unitetheunion @SCoRMembers 29/29 Our NHS is on its knees (left). Our 7m+ waiting lists and rising avoidable deaths are not due to striking NHS workers, or (just) covid, but due to political choices. RT if you want government to make the choice to fix this mess now & properly #payrestoration #fixDDRB
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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2 years
Rumours @Jeremy_Hunt may be next Chancellor Glad Jeremy understands what a car crash the pensions taxation is in the NHS - would really like an early meeting if he is #TalkToTony @BMA_Pensions - lets get this long standing car crash for the NHS fixed, & properly. RT if agree!
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2/ Grant an immediate exemption for doctors to public sector pension rules which are currently forcing them to retire in their fifties in alarming numbers.
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1/ 🧵I can't keep up with Mr Barclay's claims about consultant's pensions, last month (17th July @thetimes ) it was £60,000 pensions, now the claim is "consultants when they retire *now* aged 65 will get a *tax-free* pension of £73,000" ?!
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This morning on @bbcr4today the Health Secretary @SteveBarclay said Consultants get a "tax-free pension of £73,000 a year" when they retire. This is categorically not true, and we expect him to issue an urgent correction. Here's why 🧵 (1/5)
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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4 years
A(nother) thread about Annual Allowance (errors) AA tax is very complicated! But common errors by employers, pension schemes and sometimes advisors could cost you many £’000s. Pay attention and share (please RT) and I'll talk you through common errors and correcting them
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4 years
30pc pay cut over 10 years and putting you lives on the line for 2.8% ..... Sorry it’s a poor show @RishiSunak @MattHancock @BorisJohnson . Completely unsatisfactory RT if you agree!
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Coronavirus: Above-inflation pay rise for almost 900,000 public sector workers

Doctors, teachers and police officers are among those who will get a salary increase of up to 3.1%.

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Dr Tony Goldstone
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2 years
1/ The @DHSCgovuk pay recomendations to DDRB are beyond disgraceful. With inflation already at 5.5% and rising rapidly (likely to exceed 6-7%) a 2% “pay award” would represent the *biggest pay cut* to doctors Ive seen in 2 decades of doctoring RT if you have had enough …
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1/3 Hmmm according to our Prime Minister @RishiSunak the main reason for our waiting lists -the cause apparently of **7.5 MILLION ** is now due to "one very simple fact industrial action in the NHS"
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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Important: I met with @hmtreasury Office for Tax Simplification & I am delighted they have now reported I suggested they should consider scrapping AA in DB and LTA in DC and I am delighted this made it to their report Let’s hope government listens RT!
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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10 months
Thanks @5_News @catherine5news for the credit & excellent report - much more balanced reporting of the figures than Ive seen elsewhere in the media today!
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Channel 5 News
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10 months
Consultants in England with @TheBMA have started a two day strike. It means only emergency care and a small amount of routine work- so-called Christmas Day cover - will be provided. Health correspondent @catherine5news reports #strikes #doctorstrikes #seniordoctors
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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2 years
“ The NHS is at breaking point and unless the Government acts it will collapse completely” The BMA took aim at ‘punitive’ rules on pension taxation which it says has led to a tripling of doctors taking early retirement in the last 13 years.
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NHS could 'completely collapse' with almost 50% of senior consultants set to go

It is the latest dire warning about the state of the health service.

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Dr Tony Goldstone
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5 years
On-call for last 72 hours, 24 to go- tired & weary -I'm 44. Tragically a colleague died in service over the w/e, given 40 years to the NHS, working shifts. @csjthinktank thinks we should ↑SPA to 75, taking our pension with them. #nothanks #dontworktillyoudrop RT if you agree!
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11 months
Completely agree with @RidgeOnSunday patients NEED an appology for delays in getting appointments, operations etc. But as to WHO should be appologising, Im pretty sure its not striking doctors, nurses or other healthcare workers. RT if you think gvmnt should say sorry for 👇
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Would you like to apologise to patients who are going to have appointments cancelled because of strikes? BMA's @RobLaurensonD4P repeatedly refuses to apologise but says he 'can understand the strikes will cause an immense amount of frustration' #Ridge
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3 years
Its REALLY bad out there folks. 1️⃣PLEASE stay at home 2️⃣We MUST vaccinate ALL NHS staff, absolute priority above ANYONE 3️⃣If possible staff 1st dose in the next 2 weeks, 2nd dose per @WHO If NHS falls over, this will cost MANY more lives. Pls #ProtectTheNHS RT if you agree!
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Thrilled to be elected as Deputy Chair @TheBMA Pensions Committee alongside my co-DC @Krishanx & Chair @Vish_Sharm -backed up by a fantastically knowledgeable committee & Secretariat. Next few years are going to be challenging for pensions. Rest assured, we've got your back.
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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2 years
1/22 Short🧵 on a free new "McCloud" calculator for most NHS staff👇 You may have preconceived ideas about "McCloud" or worse still, don't know what it is! This tool should help you explain what it is, & how McCloud might affect YOU, for example if a doc or a nurse. Pls shr/RT
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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9 months
Please please someone tell me it’s April 1st or this is a joke? Maybe actually *valuing* staff and *PAYING* them them their worth would make them feel valued? Who knows maybe Oz/NZ/Canada/Ireland have loads of these ponchos? #PayRestoration
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3 years
Completely agree @doctor_oxford . Looking at a single doctor is pointless when the profession as a whole has had a pay cut of 30pc over a decade. And comparing different professions equally pointless. Meanwhile, in other news, the Mail pays its editor over £2.5m/yr
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I see the Mail has starting trying to pit doctors against nurses to distract from the disgrace of @BorisJohnson ’s planned real terms NHS pay cut. Predictable. Cynical. Please don’t fall for it.
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@JohnRalfe1 @ftmoney The problem is John, your suggestion is a load of bol*&£"s. Remember why AA was introduced A fat cat banker on £5m would be able to put in £5 to their pension with 30% tax relief. Complete nonsense. Why dont you go away & actually learn how pension tax works in the NHS?
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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Thank you @RhonddaBryant for asking @GuyOpperman this excellent question "One of the things preventing people getting back to work is that they waiting for operations thanks to the massive NHS backlog. One of the things making that even worse is that lots of doctors are retiring
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1/ Thank you once again to @Dr_PhilippaW @BMAScotland yesterday in the HoC Watch the whole clip & RT! "of course, we need reform of the mess of the NHS pension. The lifetime and annual tax allowance system is penalizing senior staff if they do extra work. Many are refusing
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1/ Another 🧵 on lies, damned lies, & statistics ( @SteveBarclay did another media round yesterday) I've seen some rather misleading use of statistics on the BBC & eslewhere on doctors pensions... so lets dig a bit deeper into Mr. Barclay's stats Please read all & share / RT
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1/ Very concerned about comments on waiting lists from @RishiSunak yesterday to @BrineMP to @CommonsLiaison A number of factual errors need correcting IMHO .....
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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Want to know what's happened to avg gross pay, in real terms (CPI) from March 09 - Dec 22 see below👇 If you work in the NHS your pay has been BRUTALLY slashed in real terms- the rest of the economy, not so much If you havent already - Return Your Ballot RT for #PayRestoration
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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3 years
BREAKING: Johnson: we’ve given as much as we can (to our chums, often without proper procurement or due diligence, & with billions squandered) As for the NHS.... abandoned with an insulting 1%
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Dr Tony Goldstone
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1/2 BREAKING: @NHSEmployers CEO calls for AA to be scrapped in public sector "The govmnt still need to do more. The chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt now has an opportunity in his upcoming Spring Budget to end application of annual allowance pension taxation to public sector pensions
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