Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney Twitter profile

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

‘Why didn’t you speak up sooner’ - I did along with hundreds of other women. But you can’t force others to listen. And it seems that middle aged women are often written off and ignored.

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1 year

Could not agree more. These 3 women have done, unpaid, the work that the Scot gov/committees should have done. That evidence based critique has had to be done on this way is damning to @scotgov

For Women Scotland

@ForWomenScot

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“Human beings can’t change sex. We’re not clownfish. Sex is fixed at birth." The wonderful @mbmpolicy telling it like it is!

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Margaret McCartney

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1 year

The screeching noise of widespread backpedaling

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

Pleased to announce that am I leaving the NHS for Harley Street, where I will be offering a monthly subscription service of total body MRI, 300 innovative blood tests of various sorts and a specialist interest in prescribing off license drugs via remote AI enabled consultation.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

10 months

me in the FT: GPs and the NHS. we (should be) the solution, not the problem. (so lovely to be writing for the FT again, sorry I look so washed out)

A GP’s prescription for the NHS at 75

Dr Margaret McCartney argues for an end to political quick fixes — and more power to general practice

www.ft.com

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

9 months

used to think 'be kind' was nice to advocate for in health services. now I think is used to stop people speaking up, police language, make us feel bad for saying what we see/hear. being truly 'kind' can also be about refusal to comply +should never be about popularity @gmcuk

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

3 months

My prediction is that 5-6 years time NHS general practice supply will be akin to NHS dentistry. I fear this is by design

Mark Green

@DrVoles

3 months

What an absolute joke. They really are trying to kill off General Practice aren't they?

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 month

Delighted to announce new venture. For too long medical tests have been too restricted to only people where there’s evidence of benefit. We think different. Everyone should be allowed them.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 month

I hope every single clinician who criticised those asking for evidence reads this report. The personal abuse/defamation has hurt. But healthcare leaders failing to listen when asked whether the evidence based thing is being done has hurt many, many more.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

4 months

NHS GP will end up 'doing a dentist'; GP led care will end up being available only to those who can afford it privately. Waiting lists in NHS, already too long, will get longer. good GPs will get burnt out and leave.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 month

I can never get over the fact that unpaid volunteers are doing more forensic analysis and holding to account than the people paid to do it by taxpayers

MurrayBlackburnMackenzie

@mbmpolicy

1 month

We and @ForWomenScot are calling on the Minister for Victims and Community Safety to stop misrepresenting the law.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

Where is evidence that more pharmacy prescribing will reduce workload of GPs? Fragmented care and net result of more activity won’t help. Far better to sort the small everyday time consuming things eg request to change rx from a 200mg tablet to 2X100mg due to ‘stock shortages’…

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

5 months

If you are interested in the way politicians try and influence the decisions that NICE takes about what drugs to approve, and what general practice does, and how evidence is regarded. please do read this. (I cannot tell you how many hours this took. What we found was shocking.)

The Pharmaceutical Journal

@PJOnline_News

5 months

A year-long investigation by @deb_cohen and @mgtmccartney has raised questions over the influence of the UK government and NHS England on NICE’s approval of cholesterol-lowering drug inclisiran

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

26 days

free access, bmj why the fuss about PAs?

Why the fuss about physician associates?

Features of the debate around physician associates (PAs) have crystallised a range of underlying problems in the NHS into a lightning rod. This now has serious implications for the future of general...

www.bmj.com

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

There is no way I would get into medical school now amd I would totally fail all those SJTs. But they are also horrific: what happened to encouraging people to think for themselves? They don’t reflect reality. Medicine NEEDs rebels

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@mgtmccartney

5 months

Who is advising @wesstreeting ? You urgently need people who understand recent history and NHS. Underfunding leads to ‘reform’ because the system shrinks to fit. General practice (scotland too) is on its knees. Does anyone care enough to offer an evidence based response?

Wes Streeting MP

@wesstreeting

5 months

This week I saw first-hand the difference that the @AustralianLabor government is making in Australia - with urgent care clinics that relieve pressure on GPs and A&E departments. @Keir_Starmer ’s @UKLabour government will adopt this approach with new Neighbourhood Health Centres.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

Hi @drlouisenewson this looks like non randomised study with no control group of selected patients attending your clinic and has not been peer reviewed, am I right? I can’t find a pre published protocol or registration, can you direct me? Thankyou

Dr Louise Newson

@drlouisenewson

1 year

I’m so excited to share this new, observational research with you. Current UK NICE guidelines recommend testosterone should only be considered for perimenopausal and menopausal women who have reduced sexual desire, but actually our research reflects what many of us notice in…

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

oh jeez @BBCr4today : prostate cancer - you are not giving useful information. screening is complex and contains harms. lead time bias needs accounted for. lobby groups need their campaigning information caveated and questioned

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

Preventive care is primarily about reducing social inequalities, population health, wages and work, pollution, childcare, travel infrastructure, etc etc - the nhs can’t do that. Statins don’t remove poverty. Real public health prevention takes place well away from NHS

RoySocMed

@RoySocMed

1 year

“I’m concerned that we patch people up and send them back to rubbish lives. We’re a sickness service and we need to become a health service.” - Professor Dame @HelenStokesLam #TacklingInequalities #Narrowthegap

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

30 days

it can be very hard to publicly change your mind. but when people challenge themselves through reading, critiquing and reflecting on evidence/actions, it can be a sign of great personal character to do so.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

5 months

an observation, the doctors who I think really are totally skilled, smart, dedicated, good ethical people....don't go around saying they are a 'top doctor' on their websites

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

"prescribed". I give in, I can't take it any more

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

1 year

Nature to be prescribed to GP patients in England for first time

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@mgtmccartney

1 year

So many folk who would not have dreamed of going private a decade ago now are as nhs waits appalling. GPs leaving the NHS as it’s unsustainable. GP will end up like dentistry - harder to get NHS care. A tragedy in plain sight and a governmental choice.

Patients paying £550 an hour to see private GPs amid NHS frustrations

Signs that NHS’s inability to offer prompt care is creating surge in people resorting to private care

www.theguardian.com

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

8 months

I really don’t think I’d apply to go to medical school again

Dr Tanya

@veggieequallife

8 months

This is the job where I was the on call doctor (extremely busy) & got messages from a PA working as 'registrar level' about ward jobs like prescribing & ordering scan etc. for patients whom the PA saw on the ward round. So that the PA can go to their own clinics & theatres.

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3 months

hello @KPMG , I would love to see what evidence you have that fragmenting primary care into tiny little shattered pieces is good for patients, staff, the NHS, or taxpayers

GP practices to stop same-day care as ICS effectively mandates new service

Exclusive: The third-largest integrated care system (ICS) in England will mandate the use of ‘same-day access hubs’, leaving GP practices with ‘complex’ patient care.

www.pulsetoday.co.uk

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

21 days

Where does the leader of this political party get science/health advice from? This is the new antivax movement

Michael Foran

@michaelpforan

21 days

Patrick Harvie, co-leader of the Scottish greens spreading misinformation about the Cass Report and stoking a culture war by refusing to deny or condemn his colleague Ross Greer’s description of it as a transphobic conservative report. This is irresponsible and dangerous.

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Margaret McCartney

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1 year

This stuff is heartbreaking. Does @wesstreeting think that people should be forced to come in face to face to speak to a dr for few mins for something that could have been done more conveniently on phone? The judgment on a broken profession is staggering

Dr Mark Porter

@drmarkporter

1 year

Latest @UKLabour release highlights that "just" 72% of 27.3 million GP appts in Feb 23 in England were face to face, compared to 85% of 25 million in 2020. Just? @wesstreeting We offered 2.3 million MORE appts. But only by cramming a quart into a pint. It's becoming unsafe.

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Margaret McCartney

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2 months

This is totally, totally nuts. Either you need standards and exams and years of training or you don’t. We are going backwards . UK primary care used to be ‘jewel in the crown’ of NHS. Now, esp with appalling %uplift in England, is designing it to fail. Utterly preventable tragedy

Zoe Wyrko

@geri_baby

2 months

The most vulnerable and complex patients to the untrained, unqualified ‘professional’. And worryingly that’s also the GP practice where I’m registered.

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2 months

When one considers the current concerns for actual patient safety in the UK, this seems …. Somewhat misjudged ⁦ @gmcuk ⁩ doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off | Environmental activism | The Guardian

UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off

GPs with convictions over protests face tribunals to determine whether they can keep licence to practise

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@mgtmccartney

4 months

What I would really like is for us to be having fewer distracting convos about how big a bunch of flowers/box of chocs are and more about what GMC recommend should be done about doctors who conceal large important financial conflicts from employers, patients or colleagues.

PulseToday

@pulsetoday

4 months

From the end of this month, doctors should not accept ‘an unsolicited gift’ unless it is ‘of minimal value’, defined as gifts such as flowers, fruit, sweets or cake.

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Margaret McCartney

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10 months

Hi @BBCr4today you seem to have just advocated a screening programme for dementia for 50year olds with no discussion of the multiple issues this raises. Where is balance ?

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

2 months

have had accusations that I am too serious and no fun. I am a lot of fun. (unpublished evidence, but peer reviewed)

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@mgtmccartney

29 days

now is a good time for easy spots on who really does not understand evidence based medicine, and are basing their practice and views on ideology instead.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

9 months

The job of a doctor is not necessarily to be kind | The BMJ

The job of a doctor is not necessarily to be kind

Kindness has made an appearance in the General Medical Council’s updated guidance Good Medical Practice , published last week. This is our lodestone, the thing doctors are meant to do in order to...

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 month

the only reason why medicine should have power is because it should act on evidence, and acknowledge and reduce uncertainty. anything else may as well be homeopathy.

Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

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People who passionately believe they are doing good can do grave harm. What matters is evidence. #CassReview

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Margaret McCartney

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1 year

⁦hey ⁦ @BBCr4today ⁩ - who didn’t respond to my emails / here’s a critique of your dreadful coverage Prostate cancer screening: what work should GPs stop doing so they can do this work instead? | The BMJ

Prostate cancer screening: what work should GPs stop doing so they can do this work instead?

On 12 January, the Today programme on Radio 4, which has around six million listeners daily, devoted a segment to screening for prostate cancer. The message was that men in Scotland were more likely...

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Margaret McCartney

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yet it's ok for drs to: conceal large financial conflicts of interest, offer utterly non evidence based £££ whole body screening nonsense, prescribe garbage for autism, spread myths about vaccination harm, or inject people with expensive evidence-free vitamin infusions for lucre

Plan B Earth

@PlanB_earth

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BREAKING: Doctor Sarah Benn found guilty of professional misconduct after being imprisoned for upholding vital sign. Full Story Here:

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

for all new guidance/lobby requests, 'gps should' etc, need to work out what % of primary care time the new *thing* will take up, and either 1)what we will stop to fit this in 2)what new resources we will need to do this. and don't start until you have sorted that. #NHSCrisis

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

4 months

Why do royal colleges exist? Why were they set up? Either we need training and standards and accountability for everyone doing certain jobs, or we don’t.

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@whitelab

4 months

@Dr_Done_ @RCRadiologists “What qualifications do you have for this role” “oh well, X consultant said I was competent to do it”. Does anyone know why national training programmes, standards and examinations exist? Anyone? 🤯

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

5 months

to all the people who send 'keep going' messages, I cannot tell you enough how much I appreciate it thankyou 💕💕💕

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

2 months

The power of someone you admire believing in you and making contact in the worst times should never be underestimated. Write letters to people you appreciate. Keep all your Thankyou notes ❤️

Suhana Ahmed

@SuhanaAh

2 months

Found an old box in the loft. In 2006, I started my career as an fy1 Dr @EKHUFT It's the year I took my only ever massive overdose. This is from my 1st ever consultant 17 yrs ago. He was the loveliest man & showed me how important kindness is #KindnessMatters

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

4 months

as an NHS dr, it makes me sad and angry to see the NHS being underresourced +politicians spending money on projects of little value to patients, which I believe to be unethical and unforgivable

Liam Fox MP

@LiamFox

4 months

As a former NHS doctor, it makes me sad and angry to see doctors involved in action which I believe to be unethical and unforgivable, given the harm being done to patients and the NHS itself

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

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I've got bad news

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

7 months

menopause has become a marketing extravaganza. herbal tea. wellness. do send me your most egregious examples. would love to see an RCT of fair pay and conditions vs workplace 'menopause awareness' sticker days

Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

7 months

dismaying proposals from the APPG on menopause ...many not evidence based. true 'menopause revolution' would recognise that conflicts of interest in healthcare -> bias and skewed information. no reply when wrote to the appg either. women deserve better

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

11 months

deeply amused that gov think that reducing time to train drs will help. hahhahhahaa. retention, retention, retention

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

Which political party has the best strategy for creating evidence based health policy? Right now I’m seeing very few politicians even acknowledge need for evidence let alone doing it

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

5 months

Hello health journalists. If reporting a ‘break through’ may I suggest 1) reporting any relevant conflicts of interest of experts quoted 2) referring to actual study for data rather than interpretation of meaning of that data by aforesaid experts 3) include info on effects

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 month

State of the art blood sugar constant monitoring, for people who don’t have diabetes. You can see your sugar level go up if you eat something. We will make a graph and tell you to eat more fruit and vegetables and less high sugar stuff. It’s an investment, you’re worth it etc.

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@mgtmccartney

1 year

hello @JimBethell - why don't you copy me in and let me reply? better, why don't you debate this with me instead of using silly emojis? I am a 'serving GP' - and proud of it. #demandevidencethinkcritically

Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

1 year

The NHS is a late-stage acute system built around people staggering into A&E/GP with lumps/bumps to be saved by expensive operations. Expensive madness! 🤡 Why is this? This article from a serving GP shows what's holding us back. 🙄 #HealthyBritain

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

Inverse care law. Sensitivity/specificity. Pre test probability. Waiting lists made longer caus people discussing results of unnecessary tests. No evidence for ‘empowerment’ -> improved mortality/morbidity. Primary care is falling over. Is anyone in charge vaguely interested?

Marsha David 🇹🇹🇬🇧 💙💜

@marshajdavid

1 year

@georgebellstarr @Tesco It empowers people to take preventative measures for their own health, so supportive. Hopefully they are accurate! Also, think if I had to get tests on the NHS, would have a very long wait.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

24 days

Omg @JimBethell I agree

Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

24 days

We cannot keep pouring an increasing amount of money into more doctors, hospitals, and medicines in the hope that we can treat our way out of our health problems. We need to look "upstream" and tackle the determinants of health. My speech in @UKHouseofLords on NHS.

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anyone else having a total panic that they are now at the age realised what they should do but now may not have enough time/qualifications/skill to do it. or is it just me or is this a midlife crisis

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if there was ever a time we needed strong medical leadership to give best care to a vulnerable group where quality of evidence is scant and risk of harm is high, it's right now. Scottish young people deserve same high quality care as the rest of the UK>

Puberty blockers: The medical controversy Scotland's experts don't want to talk about

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@mgtmccartney

6 months

Women deserve autonomy, dignity , and informed choice. I despair

Wibble

@NorthernArmyVet

6 months

@sueveneer @Serena_Partrick I saw this yesterday by Northwest Cancer Research, not one mention of women or female

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@mgtmccartney

1 month

Microbiome. We will measure yours and then tell you to eat more fruit and vegetables. Perhaps slightly more exotic ones.

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1 year

if this was true, GPs would not be burnt out/leaving/reducing hours/retiring early caus of stress. NHS GPs can leave and earn more money for less hassle in the private sector. what a needless conflict to have.

Hugo Gye

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1 year

EXC The NHS is too often run for the benefit of doctors, not of patients, Wes Streeting warns in @theipaper interview alongside Rachel Reeves. He promises a decade-long reform programme to empower patients to take control of their own care. Story:

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

8 months

dear @bbchealth :GPs access to testing is abysmal. I could fecking weep.

BBC Health News

@bbchealth

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GPs' lack of asthma testing is abysmal, charity says

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4 months

Am presuming that @rcgp will be discussing/ making a statement on PAs soon. Last time I asked on twitter no response but will try again: in developing policy, how will conflicts of interest be managed, esp GPs who train, employ, and examine PAs ?

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4 months

This is really great from @doctor_katie . Scotland is not much better. I definitely can’t continue like this. Plus: lack of functional IT, ‘urgent’ appts in sec care 37weeks in eg GI, meaning management pushed back to primary care, picking up workload from sec care /

Katie Bramall-Stainer

@doctor_katie

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1. Expert generalist GPs over skill-mix 2. Quality over quantity 3. Continuity over access 4. Autonomous patient-advocacy over banal service standardisation 5. Individuality over uniformity 6. Choice over compulsion 7. Human connection over AI 1/x

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1 year

One day I’m gonna write about a whole big bunch of stuff that I am absolutely furious about, and breathe

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

this is truly disappointing on multiple levels

Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

@trishgreenhalgh @EdTurnham @ProstateUK @trishgreenhalgh Why would you ask Prostate UK over the UK NSC? It is essential that men get high quality information which is clear about the risks - false positives are not a success story. 'Do it guys' is not shared decision making.

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will take years to train more healthcare staff- vgood long term, no help short term. gov has to take responsibility. decades underinvestment/investment in nonsense. but even with more staff, need to retain them and current staff. fair pay essential,

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. I used to think maybe I wasn't clever enough to understand Judith Butler. but here, lack of coherent definition and circularity of reason makes me even more sure it's an emperors new clothes situation.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

10 months

journalists: if you are writing about how patient organisation x and y are advocating for drug to get rapidly approved and prescribed: please ask 'are you being funded by the company making this drug?' and tell us in the copy. demand evidence and think critically etc

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on a medical speciality elearning website where they are talking about importance of diversity. they have a list of their important people, 2 chief editors and 10 subeditors. 0 are women

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Margaret McCartney

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1 year

I really am trying not to write despairing tweets about the state of nhs but the rising sense of dread. The damage to staff who could get paid more for less stress elsewhere is / has done. Lose the staff, sink deeper. 😢

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cervical screening invitations should treat women like adults free access BMJ

Calls for cervical screening should treat women like adults

Northwest Cancer Research, a cancer charity in the northwest of England and north Wales, has set up an eye catching installation at Manchester Piccadilly station.1 “Don’t keep ’em crossed” they say,...

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thinking might set myself up as a longevity expert dr, charge £££ for appts, do speshal tests/holistic therapies but actually: eat loads fruit+vegs, see people and do work/exercise you enjoy, keep your weight decent zone, don't smoke+drink,+ er don't be poor is more effective

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

4 months

over a decade ago I wrote 'the patient paradox' - people end up being made into patients when they don't need to be, meantime people who really do need to be patients can't get seen by a professional to be one. everyone loses.

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1 year

I don't understand why the @gmcuk do this, but will not act when doctors are selling quack vitamin drips, whole body screening nonsense, even when the @ASA calls it out. *that* is a patient safety issue

Dave Jones

@WelshGasDoc

1 year

A Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist has been suspended for 6 months for using his wife’s travel pass on the Tube. When caught, he admitted it immediately and took the fine on the chin. Not even a hint of a patient safety issue here. Absolutely pathetic.

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4 months

Headlines this morning on #Alzheimers implying that screening will be soon routine and beneficial. Unbelievable: the jama neurology paper in question says nothing about benefits to patients :

UnHerd

@unherd

4 months

The new Alzheimer’s wonder drug doesn’t necessarily result in a reduction in symptoms. @deb_cohen and @mgtmccartney : 👇

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it's possible to be deeply concerned about the food industry but also about the diet industry, and also think that health inequalities contribute massively to avoidable mortality and morbidity in the UK

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Margaret McCartney

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#cycling

NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria

@NIHR_ARC_NENC

8 months

🧵Dr Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney rounds off #SSM2023 delivering the Cochrane Lecture, emphasising how much we need evidence-based medicine, with some fantastic (& shocking) examples of when things go wrong when we haven't based health interventions on evidence.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

what the actual. Labour should be a sho-in, but this- absurd joke. Starmer lays bare ignorance: some bleeding->emergency; other- over the counter preps/or nothing needed. no one expects politicians to understand clinical detail - but so arrogant to assume you do. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Krishnan Guru-Murthy

@krishgm

1 year

"Why if you notice bleeding do you have to get a GP appointment, simply to get the tests that you then do yourself at home?" asks Keir Starmer in Telegraph. And a version of this on the BBC today talked of "internal bleeding". Did Labour check this with doctors?

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

4 months

Who could recommend a career in medicine to any young person? What a joke . NHS in scotland quietly collapsing around us

BMA Scotland

@BMAScotland

4 months

UPDATE: We are disappointed that the Order that will make the GMC regulator for PAs/AAs in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 passed through the Health Cttee at the @ScotParl this morning. This was despite the concerns we have set out that the GMC is not the appropriate or right regulator for these roles. 1/2

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

4 months

I absolutely hate bank holidays all I do is worry about going back to work, the work doesn't go away it just waits to get done and some stuff should not be waiting. and breathe etc @dave_dlt

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

19 days

The ongoing mystery! Why are junior doctors so unhappy? Why are they leaving for Australia ? 🤔

Trent Placeholders

@PlaceholdTrent

20 days

🧵We are 79 soon-to-be Doctors who are supposed to be working in the East Midlands, starting in three months. However, we don't yet know what jobs, hospitals or even which city we will be working in. We are distressed, angry and fed up. [1/2]

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

4 months

I have asked the @rcgp how they are going to manage conflicts of interest. Declaring is not enough.

Selvaseelan Selvarajah

@DrSelvarajah

4 months

RCGP Council plans to discuss scope of PAs in #TeamGP in March. I’ve asked NE London RCGP faculty members to give their views. Many have shared and will be taking forward their views to the meeting.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

5 months

Happy christmas ! Am at the stage in life where waiting for children to wake up…

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

the chasm between what primary care can potentially, wonderfully do, and what the reality is like making me heartsick/wake at 4am 😢

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

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UnHerd

@unherd

4 months

The state might be better off pouring money into social care than on unproven Alzheimer’s drugs. @deb_cohen and @mgtmccartney : 👇

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

4 months

The whole point of royal colleges is to uphold standards of profession If colleges are doing this, allowing a double standard to emerge: Who is/has benefitted? Either we need consistent standards or we don’t. I haven’t yet heard how the @rcgp plan to manage COIs in debate.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

On a train and a little toddler has been singing ‘I love you, you love me’ to his mum, at the top of his lungs, and it is quite the most joyful thing

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

20 days

I think my docman (GP computer system) crashed 6+ times today. loading is sooooo tedious. if NHS IT was sorted out productivity would increase, frustration decrease, and the sense that someone actually cared would probably bowl me over

Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

20 days

Docman doing my head in

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

6 months

oh @JohnLewisRetail . please don't have non evidence based private health screening instore. if it works, the NHS does it. Non evidence based screening just harms individuals and the NHS. long: short:

Should you pay for private blood tests ‘just in case’?

www.mailplus.co.uk

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

7 months

'innovation' - whenever I hear that word I think: what non evidence based intervention is someone trying to get past the usual regulatory structures that healthcare has evolved to try and make it safer?

Dr Robert Laurenson

@RobLaurensonD4P

7 months

Extraordinary response with Secretary of State for Health: The NHS workforce can not be safely expanded by this group of associates with only 2 years of training “it comes to standing up to the unions” It’s now nakedly not about patient safety- it’s about breaking unions

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 month

currently filling in a form where have to say what my contribution is to wider society and I'd rather eat my own eyeballs.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

10 months

would people please stop equating being alive/or dead with strength/not 'enough' strength, and brave/not brave 'enough'.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

2 months

you know those clinics advertising iv vitamin drips for all sorts of non evidence based stuff... I complained about @getadrip , and @ghoshmedical to @ASA_UK , in... January 2019. I challenged "whether the health and efficacy claims ... can be substantiated"

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

6 months

Where is the actual evidence that this will improved quality of services? N What is termed ‘innovation’ by politicians is very often non evidence based stuff that serve patients badly and makes profit elsewhere. Babylon ‘AI’ in the NHS was termed ‘innovation’ ….

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@LeftieStats

6 months

🚨 NEW: Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that he will hold the front door of the NHS "wide open" for the private sector if Labour win in 2024. He said: “We’re going to be holding the door wide open and encouraging them to come in.”

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

5 months

OK. this graph is extremely worrying. Q. is what the GMC and gov are doing now going to make this better, or worse?

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

5 months

Scriptswitch doing my head in. Out of stock items and pharmacies contact us to change back. @NHSGGC will save pennies per script but do they factor in GP /pharmacy time to deal with? Sick of coming in early to sort out this sort of stuff

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

How to debate uncertainty on social media, esp use of blocking others who disagree.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

going to swear allegiance to bicycles, chocolate, gin, books, thick socks, birdsong, evidence based medicine, maps, rouge noir, string quartets, skinnydipping, line dried fresh sheets, opera, blooming jasmine, watching lovely plump bumble bees+ of course my family etc

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

@trishgreenhalgh @EdTurnham @ProstateUK @trishgreenhalgh Why would you ask Prostate UK over the UK NSC? It is essential that men get high quality information which is clear about the risks - false positives are not a success story. 'Do it guys' is not shared decision making.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

4 months

if you are a doctor and take money from pharma but also think you are unconflicted cause it never affects your prescribing..... please remember that we are not good at judging our own biases....

Of principles and pens: attitudes and practices of medicine housestaff toward pharmaceutical...

Residents hold generally positive attitudes toward gifts from industry, believe they are not influenced by them, and report behaviors that are often inconsistent with their attitudes. Thoughtful...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

1 year

there is a need to sort out private/NHS interface, caus right now the NHS is taking the strain for poor quality/organised/systems of private healthcare, eg

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

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I would very much like to see what research @RishiSunak 's team have done on 1) current barriers to work 2) ability of sick/fit notes to remedy these or not 3) un/intended consequences of removal of this from GPs 4) training/evidence others will use....

Rishi Sunak sets out plans to tackle 'sick note culture'

The PM wants to strip GPs of power to issue sick notes but Labour says he has run out of ideas.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

22 days

And er….poverty?

Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

22 days

Public health is now hot. 🔥 Smartphone-free kids! 🔥 Smoke-free generation! 🔥 Sicknote-free culture! Join the gang at @Demos on Wednesday, March 24th, at 500 p.m. for an kick-ass discussion on the pivot to prevention. No nannies.

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Margaret McCartney

@mgtmccartney

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If only the NHS did more of this sort of stuff, we could easily get rid of the effect of years of underinvestment/austerity. See you on Harley St

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