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Zohaib

8 months

This is mad - working at the level of a consultant neurosurgeon and you could be paid £33,790 (12+ years of doctoring + 5/6 years of medschool) But offering a PA (undergrad + 2 years masters) over £51,000! You can’t blame doctors for striking it’s beyond a joke. #nhs

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Dr Done

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The UK is becoming so surreal.

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Zohaib

9 months

@Patticus @usamasyedMD Wrong. In many cultures they used to wash regularly and use perfumes long before it was popular in Europe. You’re looking at this through a very narrow lens

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9 months

@Patticus @usamasyedMD Both mask unpleasant body odours. The aim is to smell pleasant.

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2 months

Both F1s (docs) and PAs now have GMC licences. PA can see undifferentiated patients in GP/A&E and do clinics - all of which is too dangerous/unsafe for the doctor to do until years of training. Plus PA is paid 15k more. Doctors are just calling for some level of equality.

@gmcuk

GMC

2 months

🧵1/3 Last night, the House of Lords approved the anaesthesia associate and physician associate order. Regulation will help assure the public that AAs & PAs have the required knowledge, skills and experience to work safely. It will also help to increase the contribution PAs & AAs…

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Zohaib

3 months

It took us dumb medical student months for some reason. Who knew you could teach everything GI over a lunch break 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Dr Amir Khan GP

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Teaching postgraduate physician associates this lunchtime...going through everything gastrointestinal! They’re very clever so need to bring my A-game!

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Zohaib

3 months

Why does a doctor need the MRCS to get onto a surgical reg rota but a PA doesn’t?

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Zohaib

20 days

£68,000 for a PA with 1 year experience. Doctors are criminally underpaid. This is more than a registrar is paid at the highest pay point (ST6+). Continue to strike.

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@medicalmodelwithabriochebun

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@parthaskar @ChrisHopsonNHS @PrimaryCareNHS @NHSEngland It’s criminal

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Zohaib

4 months

It’s actually scary how isolated doctors are in the UK. These strikes have exposed how only the BMA really has our backs. NHSE has been nothing more than a government mouthpiece. Don’t forget the GMC who are ready to throw you under the bus for claiming a laptop. #NHSCrisis

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1 month

As a training lead you’d think they’d utilise the PA to help with ward work so the doctors can learn endoscopy. But no - they prioritise the PA to learn endoscopy and the doctors to do TTOs. Why?

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Keith Siau

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@ExplosiveEnema2 @RCHTWeCare @FPARCP @BritSocGastro @UKGastroDr @parthaskar @DrAsifQasim @DrLKVaughan @DrSteveTaylor @AlisonGeorge10 @Dr_Done_ @Doctors_Vote As the training lead for @RCHTWeCare , and having signed off this PA, let me respond. Non medical endoscopists provide a significant and important contribution to endoscopy procedures in the UK whether we like it or not. They all have to go through a robust certification process…

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Zohaib

8 months

Context for why PAs being in theatre/clinics annoys doctors: Doctor: numerous surgical exams, published multiple papers, attended several courses, been to national/international conferences - presented at these conferences, 2 bottlenecks/interview processes. PA: apply for post.

@Dr_Done_

Dr Done

8 months

Med regs don’t save lives; Physician Assistants do. Sorry what exactly are the paeds surgery doctors doing at @ImperialNHS ? Discharges? Making and printing lists? Ward jobs?

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Zohaib

21 days

A junior doctor was struck off for not supervising a PA “correctly” - what they mention in the tribunal is that this junior doc didn’t RE-examine and Retake the history from the patient. This is actually insane. We didn’t sign up for this.

@Doc_IonaCollins

Iona Collins.DOCTOR.

@Doc_IonaCollins

21 days

A fitness to practise tribunal (MPTS) determines that a PA's history should be repeated by a doctor and a PA's examination should be repeated by a doctor too. DAUK's report in Pulse explains more 👇

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Zohaib

3 months

Why is medical school 5 years in most countries when a PA can see and prescribe for undifferentiated patients after 2 years. Even after 5 years you don’t see F1s in A&E.. but it’s okay for a PA? Make it make sense!

@DrEilidhMaria

Eilidh 🦀

3 months

This is a complete fabrication @RCPhysicians , and you should be extremely embarrassed that you would put something like this up. - PA does not necessarily have a biomedical science background. False. - there is *nothing* on the PA curriculum, nor has there ever been in the…

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9 months

@Patticus @usamasyedMD I just don’t like clickbait titles “body odour is a myth” etc - it’s not

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Zohaib

3 months

Has anyone figured out why an FY1 doctor is paid significantly less than their PA colleagues yet? And is anything being done to rectify the situation?

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Zohaib

9 months

@Patticus @usamasyedMD No one says it’s healthy to use deodorant. It’s for the betterment of society.

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Zohaib

1 month

So what’s the point of medschool if you can just train anyone? Either you need the 5 years med school, 2 years foundation, 2 years core training and 6 years registrar training - or you don’t. Can’t have one rule for one group.

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Ronald MacDonald

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Tom Gray, consultant gynae: "... I think a PA could work at almost any grade within medical training, right up to senior registrar level if they're appropriately trained ..." (timestamp: 15:59)

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Zohaib

2 months

If a PA is allowed this level of responsibility with no surgical exams or bottlenecks - what is stopping SHOs having half decent rotas?? Why are doctors being used for service provision and PAs elevated to registrar ranks

@Dr_Done_

Dr Done

2 months

Ortho PA: ‘You’ll notice this looks a lot like what a reg or fellow would do, and it is, however I’m not taking anything from the fellows or registrars’ …What about the reg or fellow that could be doing your job instead? ❌ Make it make sense ❌

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Zohaib

3 months

F2s can’t locum in GP land but a PA can. Why?

@ClareGerada

Clare Gerada

3 months

@Cleverclog67596 @ExplosiveEnema2 @rcgp F2 cannot work unsupervised in PC. They are training grade & largely supernumerary. I would like every Dr , irrespective of end speciality , to spend at least 6/12 rotating through PC from ST1.

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Zohaib

7 months

There is no longer an argument to not scrap Foundation and core training. If PAs can specialise after a 2 years masters degree, then a medical student with 5-6 years should also be given that same respect. Anyone convince me otherwise?

@Dr_Done_

Dr Done

7 months

Truly truly, I could not pick the worst part of this. I’ve highlighted 3. Thoughts? I am so fed up of reading this nonsense on a daily basis at this point. SOMETHING has to be done.

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Zohaib

3 months

Medical professional = Doctor. Unless you’re in the UK/NHS. This will just further blur the lines and confuse the public.

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GMC

3 months

🧵The updated #GoodMedicalPractice2024 uses the term ‘medical professionals’ as a collective term for doctors, physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs), rather than listing out each individual role for every reference. We haven't removed doctors from the…

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Zohaib

2 months

The healthcare in the UK is a joke. Imagine other countries looking in - no jobs for doctors after 6 years of training because they’ve allocated slots for a role designed to help them 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Dr Done

2 months

Med students/new F1s are being shafted again See the below email confirming 99 have been put in a ‘placeholder group’ in East of England due to no places Meanwhile HEE is pushing trusts to recruit PAs to a foundation program - guess where? THIS IS INCENTIVISED REPLACEMENT ☠️

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Zohaib

2 months

In which profession does this exist? There are national standards. If you train to be an orthopaedic surgeon - you can’t then go and perform brain surgery just because your colleagues say they feel like you’d do a good job at it.

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@IncogAssociate

2 months

A universal one-size-fits-all scope regardless of competence, experience, training and skillset is significantly more dangerous. Scope should be set by those overseeing the training, CPD and development of the PA. Not by keyboard warriors. Scope also evolves with experience.

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Zohaib

2 months

This has been one of the driving factors for the hostility in the debate. Why are PAs treated as something better than a junior doctor. GPs have made it clear any doctor that isn’t a qualified Gp shouldn’t be seeing undifferentiated pts - it’s in their contracts. Why can a PA?

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Uwa Ima-Edomwonyi

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@DrNeenaJha @parthaskar @NHSEngland @NHSE_WTE @RCPhysicians @NHSEmployers @trishgreenhalgh @mmamas1973 @doctor_oxford @JanetEastham @DrAsifQasim @DrLKVaughan @RowanHarwood @UKGastroDr @AntonEmmanuel2 @rcgp It’s all ‘slightly’ messy @DrNeenaJha There’s a new GP contract that states: “Supporting guidance will also be issued to clarify that NON-GP DOCTORS should not see undifferentiated patients, and that they continue to be required to operate within their sphere of competence”

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Zohaib

3 months

I recon the next set of strikes will be vs the GMC

@TheBMA

The BMA

3 months

The GMC continuing to blur the lines between doctors and PAs is no longer tenable. PAs are not doctors and are not medically trained. The lived reality is that this is causing significant confusion for patients. (1/2)

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Zohaib

7 months

“‌There have been cases where I’ve scrubbed in and opened a patient surgically and dissected down to a vein and harvested the vein for a bypass procedure.” Not sure how this frees up surgical trainees 🤔 I think the cat is well and truly out the bag. All thanks to the PA podcast

@amapresident

AMA President

7 months

"A physician associate in neurosurgery told the Physician Associate Podcast that he had “zero training in neurosurgery or neurology” during his course...‌he now “scrubs in and operates on things like subdural haematomas” Truly unbelievable🤯🤯🤯 @TheBMA

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Zohaib

1 year

This is shocking. ⁦ @gmcuk ⁩ hasn’t applied for certification to allow UK medical students to sit the USMLE exam this year. Forcing med students and junior docs to stay in the UK by de-certifying our medical degrees isn’t the way to go. #nhs ⁦

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Zohaib

1 month

@Matt_L_Nash @DrHuw @Matt_ParaACP @Dr_Done_ @VirtueOfNothing @FICMNews This has to be one of the most remarkable statements made. Why do you need surgeons? You can cut an apple with a knife - what’s so special about the body.

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Zohaib

24 days

No formal neonatal training in their 2 year crash course. But straight onto the reg rota with oncall commitments?! Make it make sense.

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@medicalmodelwithabriochebun

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Neonatal Physician associate on the ST 1-3 doctor on call rota . At the level of ST 1-8 on the organisational chart When will this madness STOP🛑 @JanetEastham @carolvorders @parthaskar @Dr_Done_ @NHSEngland @ExplosiveEnema2

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Zohaib

7 months

This gets more wild the more it’s looked into. Doing surgical post grad exams to “show equivalence” ?! You should only be allowed to sit those exams if you are a doctor and went to med school. There’s no shortcut in becoming a surgeon - otherwise what’s the point 🤔

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Zohaib

3 months

“Trained to be generalist practitioners” So a PA is now a GP (minus the -ist) This is coming from the top. Confusion by design.

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Zohaib

2 years

A slap in the face to all nhs workers who gave their all to this government (and got nothing but claps in return) How is @Jacob_Rees_Mogg mocking social distancing guidelines and boldly stating the police won’t investigate the event??

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Zohaib

2 months

They really thought they could get away with manipulating data in front of medical consultants - the disrespect is wild. These are highly intelligent professionals who have been forced to learn statistics and publish multiple papers to get to where they are. Shame.

@RCPhysicians

Royal College of Physicians

2 months

Following the #RCPEGM on the role and regulation of physician associates (PAs), the RCP has now published the full data from its pre-EGM member survey.

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Zohaib

3 months

😂😂 agreed. I can’t learn all of gastro in a 30min lunch break - if you can hats off to you - you’d make a great doctor

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anonPA

3 months

@traineENT Maybe you’re not as sharp as you think you are

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2 months

@UKGastroDr @RCPhysicians @FPARCP I guess the BMA and many doctors felt RCP and co haven’t been clear and required some clarity for its members who will be supervising. If anything’s it’s because of a failure on the RCP end. BMA shouldn’t have had to write it.

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Zohaib

2 years

This is why people think surgeons should just stick to surgery 😭 how can this be your take on the shambolic situation where we have 800 qualified doctors who have only 1 employer (which is massively understaffed) being left in limbo with 50k+ debt and 5-6 years of med school

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Zohaib

3 months

The amount of investigative journalism this pizza account has done will never be appreciated 😂 Uncovering scandal after scandal

@Xeon4f145d96s1

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@Xeon4f145d96s1

3 months

I said I would send out an FOI to find out more information and would share when I heard back. (As apparently it’s my job to chase illegal prescriptions and not the CQC’s). Thank you @JanetEastham for investing this properly and thoroughly. A short🧵.

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3 months

Hmm.. I wonder who told you to delete your anon account after comments like this.. PA school = Med school Undergrad in anything science = preclinical med school PAs being trained in irmer for requesting scans

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Zohaib

1 month

So we no longer need anaesthetists to intubate - “intubation is the same as putting in a cannula” 😐 What other specialties can we get rid of with this attitude?

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Zohaib

1 month

This is shameful @MFTnhs - core surgical training is incredibly difficult in most trusts as you’re used as just another sho. I’d be fuming if I worked there. You need allocated theatre time to progress to the next stage but no one cares. Normally You have to fight for it.

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Dr Done

1 month

Paid £10+K more than doctors to have fun At @MFTnhs of course

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Zohaib

7 months

I don’t agree with this one. We are just not paid enough. It’s never a race to the bottom. For comparison, £51,000 is the salary for an ST3/4/5 doctor. (7 years after med school) Upto £9000 LESS than this advert for a PA. This is just another reason why we are striking.

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Dr Done

7 months

Can officially state that PAs are, in fact, paid too much.

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Zohaib

2 months

My reply to the post below

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Kamran Abbasi

2 months

Ahead of the @RCPhysicians extraordinary general meeting, president @DrSarahClarke explains why there is a role for physician associates in the NHS @bmj_latest

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Zohaib

4 months

Completely inappropriate for a PA to be head/deputy of examining medical students. If you haven’t done the course/exams how can you be leading in teaching it?! Also using the title of Dr in this scenario, when he has PhD in fungal infection in fruits, is extremely misleading.

@manLikeTeaa

T 🇵🇸 🦀

4 months

How is the head of medical school exams at Bart’s a PA, personal assistant, when he’s never been a doctor?! Where did he get his fake doctorate? Not on the gmc register. Make it make sense!!

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Zohaib

4 months

For me the whole tone was set at “Dear Phil” - when he addressed NSHE it wasn’t with first names etc. Phil is a professor and should be addressed with respect in official communications.

@ShaunLintern

Shaun Lintern

4 months

NHS England responds to @TheBMA accusations over strike exemptions:

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Zohaib

3 months

So when you get PAs telling you they went to med school and practice medicine - it’s because this is being fed to them from the very top.

@ExplosiveEnema2

ExplosiveEnema

@ExplosiveEnema2

3 months

Leaders of @FPARCP again comparing PA studies to a medical degree… Presentation given to hospital managers to encourage them to employ PAs Is this appropriate for an arm of @RCPhysicians ? Doctors are being replaced Source:

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Zohaib

2 months

Why is it always the super specialist hospitals that trainees are dying to get experience at - let along trust grade doctors.

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Dr Done

2 months

I’m getting fatigued with this nonsense GOSH needs cancelled

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Zohaib

3 months

@iDrSunny Apparently enough work to go around 😂 so much robotic surgery that no one wants to assist so PAs have to do it. F1s just want more edn ward time.

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Zohaib

8 months

I don’t understand why london hospitals which have the highest competition ratios for any specialty don’t just increase the number of training posts for anaesthetic registrars.. it costs the same and surely would be more beneficial for the public in the long run?

@AnaesUnited

Anaesthetists United

8 months

Epidural anaesthesia is a common form of pain relief in labour. While it is very safe in experienced hands, complications can occur. Similarly, most LSCS are uneventful. Both of these procedures have serious risks. Labour ward is not the place for AAs.

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2 months

Almost begs the question why a GP needs 5 years minimum after 5-6 years of med school to see undifferentiated patients

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2 months

We’re taught a bit of everything therefore we are generalists which makes us perfect for seeing undifferentiated patients in GP ‘ @rcgp is this safe ?

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Zohaib

8 months

Just checked taskrabbit for an electrician and the prices ranged from £49/hr (very little experience) to £170/hr (10 years experience) - day time hours. The comparison just shows how ridiculous this situation is.

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Dr Tanya

@veggieequallife

8 months

*£27.5/h* for a doctor to be working in the middle of the night in a last minute fashion. Rising to £52/h for likely the most senior doctors working onsite at night. In an emergency call out way. Any specialists would be happy with this rate? In the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT! 🤣

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Zohaib

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This is the head teacher who thought to defend a ban, in court, on pupils taking 5mins at lunch to pray - which involves kneeling and standing silently. To me, this goes to show the insidious Islamophobia that is rife in our educational system under the guise of secularism.

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Katharine Birbalsingh

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My statement regarding the verdict on our ban of prayer rituals at Michaela.

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Zohaib

7 months

The more I’ve thought about it - the main issue I have with this is that for a doctor going through medschool and the traditional route - to get regular weekly clinics / theatre sessions you have to be ST3+ If this is possible within 2 years - doctors should have this option.

@Dr_Done_

Dr Done

7 months

I’ve had it. We need to shut this down. Surgical trainees, what do you think of this nonsense? Why are you giving up your lives whilst this is happening?

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@RCSEd Some clarification regarding who can and cannot operate their own theatre lists/clinics would be nice. If he doesn’t need exams/publications/courses etc to do this then we need to reevaluate the whole system surely?

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2 months

Outrageous/criminal that a PA can be performing surgery independently with their own assistant - no surgical exams or bottlenecks again Again. If a PA is being allowed this, why are doctors made to jump through numerous hoops/courses and exams?!

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Zohaib

7 months

@cannula_service I’ve been told that PAs are doing tonsils and grommet lists in Plymouth for years now 😬 not sure which patient would agree to that!

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Zohaib

3 months

Not asking to remove the role. Just to regulate it and create national guidance. It shouldn’t be up to local trusts to decide how far they can go. Also I think it’s important to ask what will the difference be between doctors and PAs once they are able to prescribe/order scans?

@hayleymagill

Hayley

3 months

No matter what your stance is on PAs, the NHS is not just going to get rid of the role. I’ve described an example of what I experienced a good use of the role was and received backlash. Either you can get angry and create divide, or you find a way to make it work for everyone.

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3 months

@iDrSunny @ELHT_NHS How can that be legal. It’s not what they’re trained for is it?

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Zohaib

3 months

We also need to train on the more simple cases so we can identify the complex ones

@Azeem_Majeed

Professor Azeem Majeed

3 months

I am increasingly hearing rhetoric from politicians and NHS managers about the need to remove “simpler patients” from doctors; thereby allowing them to focus on “complex patients”. But for doctors, seeing an unending stream of complex patients is professionally very challenging.

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@drkeithsiau @ExplosiveEnema2 @RCHTWeCare @FPARCP @BritSocGastro @UKGastroDr @parthaskar @DrAsifQasim @DrLKVaughan @DrSteveTaylor @AlisonGeorge10 @Dr_Done_ @Doctors_Vote Funny that in your time when training I’m sure you didn’t have to fight with non-doctors to get endoscopy lists. Ladder pulling at its finest. If there was a lack of doctors who wanted to up skill then I’d get it. But that’s not the case at all.

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Zohaib

7 months

Consultant pay now is equivalent to SHO pay from the past!

@DrLindaDykes

Dr Linda Dykes @[email protected]

7 months

Regrettably I will be striking from 0700... in real terms, I earn roughly the same - after 18 years as a consultant - as I did towards end of Registrar training (Band 2A/sometimes Band 3 rotas). Newly appointed consultants on equivalent of not much more than I had as Yr 5 SHO.

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2 months

Another British doctor lost - wish him all the best! If we don’t fix our nhs this will only continue and I don’t blame them at all

@Nawaz_ZS

Nawaz Z Safdar

2 months

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Zohaib

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This post is indistinguishable from a doctors post. Either you need med school or you don’t. Can’t have it both ways.

@parthaskar

Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥

23 days

I have looked at this job plan And I am sorry - but the leadership @NHSE_WTE @PrimaryCareNHS have lost control over issues around competence in the zeal to tackle GP ‘gaps’/ locums Please stop ‘Associate Physician’ This is not a typo It’s deception @rcgp start calling it out

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This doesn’t even take into consideration the fact that the doctors have done 5-6 year of medical school + additional degrees, been moved all over the country and been a doctor for over 4 years prior to having these responsibilities that PAs are being given.

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@uroCESR Then why are they on the reg rota? Tbh even SHO rota/oncall isn’t what they’re there for. They aren’t meant to be taking referrals are they?

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Zohaib

3 months

Not replacing doctors eh? Not taking away opportunities from trainees. Not working independently.. hmm

@UKGastroDr

𝗗𝗿 𝗔𝗷𝗮𝘆 𝗠 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮

3 months

I have heard of a NW Gastro dept that has a PA who is: JAG certified in OGD, providing independent lists incl. 2WW Does 2 clinics/wk On the in-reach rota Answers GP A & G requests Works autonomously under “indirect supervision” of a Consultant Gastroenterologist 1/4

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8 months

Imagine the competition if they said you can have a paediatric surgical job in St Mary’s imperial where you have clinics/theatre - this is better than the london core training jobs 😂 the whole thing is a joke. Not to mention they would be paid more!!

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2 months

@NawalYousaf_ @UKFPO Randomly allocated the waiting list?! That’s madness

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Zohaib

11 months

How has it been 8 months and he still doesn’t understand the @BMA_JuniorDocs @TheBMA position?? We aren’t asking for 35% all this year - we are asking for a multi year deal to restore the pay that’s been lost.

@SteveBarclay

Steve Barclay

11 months

My letter to the BMA Council Chair today:

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3 years

The pandemic for junior doctors: How it started: nhs heros, free food, discounts, weekly claps How it’s going: Excluded from pay rise, protests + death threats, calls for doctors to be hung, GMC showing record levels of burn out and emotional exhaustion #nhs #COVID #NHSPay15

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4 months

GPs will be used for “indirect supervision”, ordering scans and writing prescriptions. Oh and taking the blame for mistakes as they should have been supervising 🤷🏻‍♂️

@iDrSunny

Dr Sandeep Bansal

4 months

The lack of insight is truly scary. How many non GPs would it take to replace 3 GPs and deliver the same patient outcomes and care. According to Timmy here its 3... So why do we need GPs at all?

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4 months

@Dr_Done_ Reading the tier systems it reads like a doctor job

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3 months

@ClareGerada Really poor take on this. Look at the cancer diagnostic/treatment/wait times in the last 10 years - the results are horrendous. To blame the strikes is a joke. The fault lies squarely on the government who has wrecked the nhs

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Zohaib

3 years

Exam prices increased in line with inflation.. if only junior doctor salaries would also increase by inflation. Just keeps getting worse.

@MRCPUK

MRCPUK Examinations

3 years

The Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK has announced a change to the fees for the MRCP(UK) Part 1 and Part 2 exams. Read the full news item here >

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Zohaib

10 months

2 years in the making but finally published some original research in Clinical Otolaryngology. Looking at head and neck cancer and the need for more localised triaging systems. We looked at the 3 most common systems used. #cancer #headandneck #ent #otolaryngology

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3 months

@ianshenderson @r1chardf1tzg3r1 😂Dw you won’t ever get one

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2 months

Like we’ve been saying - non clinical staff and management will substitute doctors with PAs. And now it’s happening

@iDrSunny

Dr Sandeep Bansal

2 months

Patient: I would like to see a doctor please Appointment given with a PA Patient: this is with a PA, could I have it with my GP please? Receptionist: ‘they are doctors… they do the same thing’ Other patients also completely unaware This is a huge problem.

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3 months

@TheSalariedPA This is what doctors were sold but the sad reality is in practice we aren’t seeing this. Many PAs being trained over rotating staff to make life easy for the department etc

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4 months

@DecentraliseP @SkyNews The fact that hand hygiene is almost unheard of in the UK. Majority of people don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Zohaib

2 months

They don’t represent you. They represent your supervisors - The people in charge of defining scope. This is very welcomed by all doctors. Not sure where the gmc/nhse/rcp have been for the last 20 years.

@IncogAssociate

IncogPA

@IncogAssociate

2 months

You do not represent us. Why are you writing guidance for PAs. You have consistently belittled, undermined, disrespected, and advocated for the eradication of our profession. Now, you draft guidance for us, still diminishing our role by referring to us as assistants. Grow⬆️

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2 months

What was the point of the meeting. Why can’t they be transparent?? If they’ve accepted loads of money from the government to roll out PAs just say so.. why is it all so shady

@GMCharlatan

Assistant to the Physician Assistant’s Assistant🦀

2 months

Ex RCP bod. "We are legally obliged to not pause"

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@sk_weeks Not saying they’re unable to. I’m saying priority should be given to train doctors to do it.

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7 months

@RachelEasto @cannula_service You can’t have one profession having to go through 5-6 years medschool, FY training, get into core training (if not take extra years out), then try to get into ST training and finally get an operating list (still not independent). Vs a 2 year post grad degree.

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4 months

@Doc_IonaCollins They can deliver the service on the cheap by replacing GPs with MAPs & the gov/NHSE are heavily funding it to be done this way

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2 months

@medicalmodelbri Fully funded and paid more than most junior doctors 🤷🏻‍♂️

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3 months

@BiochemistDan Yeah I know he understands that but it doesn’t give a good impression to those he is teaching. And it adds to the rhetoric that medschool can be done in 2 years and you can walk into an SHO/reg rota on day 1

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2 months

@medicalmodelbri @gmcuk @TheBMA @djnicholl These roles are being designed by senior consultants who would rather have someone they can train and keep long term - at the expense of rotating SPRs - it’s a shame really.

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Zohaib

8 months

What ChatGPT would pay junior doctors if it had to design a hypothetical healthcare systems based on the NHS in the UK. It suggests we are criminally underpaid in the first few years of training. For a 40 hour week it suggested £45,000-£60,000 base salary. AI > Tory Gov. #bma

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9 months

Classic NHS: I remember starting f1 on Gen surg nights a few years back. I was told by the team that I didn’t need to come in for induction and that the night shift would be my induction 😂😬 Safe to say I remember that night years later. #nhs #surgery

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3 months

@uroCESR Also how can it be okay for that PA with no exams or national standard be allowed. But for doctors you need the exams? Is that fair?

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2 years

So we have 800 FY1 doctors on a reserve list waiting for a job in the NHS but also have massive workforce shortages.. make it makes sense?? @sajidjavid #nhs #UKFPO

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3 months

It’s all a game to them. If it was about the money it would have been sorted out on day 1. They’ve cost the tax payer 2xs more by delaying and not negotiating

@Doctors_Vote

DoctorsVote 🦀 #TellThemAgain

3 months

📢 CALL TO ACTION: FEBRUARY STRIKES 📢 📆 Strike dates: 24th February (07:00) - 28th February (23:59) In the face of continued government stalling and their refusal to engage in meaningful discussions on pay erosion, we are compelled to take a stand. 🚨 Here’s what you need…

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@DrEilidhMaria @lwarburton92 They genuinely believe the 2 year PA masters = a 5/6 year mbbs

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2 months

@Xeon4f145d96s1 Genuinely worse than you think it is.

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@ExplosiveEnema2 @FutureHealthJ Plot continues to thicken 😂 isn’t that a COI

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2 months

If you tell patients you went to medical school they will think you’re a doctor. There is no equivalence

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3 months

@uroCESR So if a consultant knows it’s not safe and allows it to go ahead without voicing concerns - they’re complicit. Raising concerns about patient safety is part of being a doctor.

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3 months

I’d like to see the rota for the 3 PAs vs the SHOs/F1s - can almost guarantee the F1s are not assisting in robotic surgery - they’re probably forced to do the EDNs from the ward.

@GeorgesUrology

St George's Urology

@GeorgesUrology

3 months

3/4 As an example, our PA who assists robotic surgical cases has hugely facilitated console time for our junior doctors, and helped train in assisting robotic surgery. So let’s talk about how we can all work in synergy.

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3 years

More than double a foundation trainee salary + on par with locum rates for senior house officers in London.. Pick broccoli - strenuous work outdoors Doctor - 6 years of Med school /debt + stress of life and death decisions

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@carbdiem Looks like a basmati rice commercial

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25 days

@LBC @mrjamesob Praying for 5mins on a lunch break in a private room really isn’t asking for much. Islamophobia is so institutionalised now that it’s the norm. Education is about leading a well rounded life. They aren’t asking for much at all.

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@TheBMA @gmcuk @DrPhilBanfield Need to find out who was involved with the decision because this is shameful. GMC being potentially used as a political weapon is a new low.

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