Surrey GP, Husband, Father, Tech lover, Amateur cyclist, Professional Woke-man, Croydon Boy. Opinions my own, RT is not endorsement
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Why has it become the new normal to verbally abuse #nhs staff? My thoughts on the matter
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@Parody_RCGP @DrSimonHodes @danielgoyal @DrYvetteDocGP @DrSelvarajah @DrShanHussain
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Read that again...
£50,000,000!
Fiftee million pownds.
50 million big ones.
That could have paid for at least 2 or 3 GP Partners.
A British cardiologist involved in treatment guidelines received £50m from drug research contracts, reports #BMJInvestigation.
The case shows what’s at stake in the debate around transparency of doctor-industry relations
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
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One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days!
Wow!
What a thing to claim!
And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it.
Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄
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ALT Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Pretty much sums up the current situation for GPs
Seen on Facebook 😂😂
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Celebrities, rich people and ex-prime ministers should not make health policy. Prostate cancer screening is just not as simple as some are making out. There are real harms caused when people are treated unnecessarily.
Just heard on the ten o clock news waiting lists are falling.
In totally unrelated news - on a daily basis we receive another query from a patient who has been removed from a waiting list without their consent.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out Wes
#NHS
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Waiting lists are falling because they are being manipulated.
1 in 4 GP referrals to specialists are to be rejected.
How do you have the gall to stand there crowing about the state of the NHS @AlexBallingerMP?
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Objectively and subjectively, my speciality (GP) has a foot on its throat and in the direst state since I’ve been a doctor. It got worse since the election. A lot.
✅ The best ambulance response times in half a decade.
✅ Waiting lists at the lowest levels in three years.
✅ Best A&E performance in four years.
Health Secretary @wesstreeting praises staff helping to improve the NHS, but is 'frustrated' to narrowly miss other targets.
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🧵A "quiet" Friday morning in general practice. Real numbers from one small rural GP surgery in Surrey. Post-Easter, skeleton crew, nothing dramatic. This is what quiet looks like. @doctor_katie @Parody_RCGP @medicalmodelbri @DrSteveTaylor
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The government has wasted £3bn on the cost of the doctor strikes.
They could have used that money to resolve the dispute and still have billions left over.
Even the £300m cost of this current strike could have been put into a deal and there would be no strikes.
Mismanagement.
This month- sadly - I step down from my GP partner role. Have been going through a lot on a personal level, I need to be a better husband and dad, and hopefully rediscover my love for General Practice. But fuck me Wes, you are not making it easy to find things to enjoy…🧵
It’s often said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results. TOP DOWN REORGANISATIONS DO NOT WORK (if you hadn’t guessed, I don’t really like top down reorganisation 😆)
As ever, shout out to @Parody_RCGP @DrSteveTaylor @dave_dlt and many, many others for continuing to highlight how bad things are in GP-land.
As for @wesstreeting and @DHSCgovuk…just be a bit less shjt please.
The good news is it should take you minimal effort to achieve this!
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Where has been your support for overwhelmed GPs
Instead you have pilled on the pressure
Failed to listen to concerns & use the media to spin a negative narrative
I have never been so disappointed with Government in 30year of being a GP
You are failing patients, work with GPs
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In the wake of the unfunded ask to do more , see more and treat more patients - why does funding in GP matter and why are we in crisis as a result
@DrSteveTaylor @Parody_RCGP @doctor_katie
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