Forensic Physician, Emergency Medicine SASG & Medical Examiner. Passionate about medical education & developing high quality care.

Joined February 2009
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That's a wrap! Thank you to all our delegates and speakers who made today's Northern Ireland CPD day such a success! 👏👏👏 👀 We look forward to seeing you at another #RCEMevent soon! #RCEMevents #RCEMcpd
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I’ve written to the Home Secretary to urge the Home Office to commit to continuing funding for @InstituteFAS The Govt have pledged to halve VAWG & so I urge them to support the vital work of the IFAS which is central to achieving this @safelives_ @BangorUni @AAFDA6 @centreWJ
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🚨: Lead Pharmacist Custody Healthcare 🚨: @BelfastTrust Excellent opportunity to be part of a fabulous team and to help shape and develop the service. jobs.hscni.net/Job/38541/bhs…
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This account-seen as a PA leader who @NHSE_WTE endorse -is suggesting the law needs to change to accommodate PAs re examination of children who may have been abused Here is what @FFLMUK actually said about PAs @NHSEnglandNMD @drcolinm are we all ok? fflm.ac.uk/wp-content/upload…
Replying to @InfamousGasman
1. Alder Hay employed a PA in a role and had no safety concerns. The Legal team wanted to safeguard against any potential miscarriage of justice. Therefore removed the PA from their role. They specifically stated the PA had no concerns about their role just that they weren't sure on the legality. This again is where the law needed to catch up with new situations and until that happened the safest thing was to stop. Post regulation the legal question could be posed about Pas supporting consultants and the law can decide. 2. PAs cannot prescribe and can only suggest pending verification. Anyone who does this needs to be referred via the misconduct policy of their employers. If the IT systems of trusts means that there is an issue with PAs and Doctors accidentally logging into each others accounts through shared computers and Rxing is an issue it needs to be stopped immediately and trusts need to stop letting their IT profiles be lax. Equally to safe guard this it's relatively straight forward for a pa profile to be setup that stops it and only allows verification from doctors. 3. vexatious means they were done to cause vexation. The police reports I've submitted this year were justified and whilst the people involved were deemed to have stayed just inside the lines it took time to deduce that. At no time have I been warned or cautioned for the reports submitted for wasting police times. Ergo, your accusation is, once again, meritless. 4. Your inability to grasp reality on this is unfortunate and a testament to the fact your morale compass is off.
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For the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine's 20th year, we are offering a special 20% Discount to our Annual Conference, which will take place at Royal Liver Suite, Liverpool on 09 and 10 May 2025. Visit our website today to view the programme and to secure your ticket!
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📢 Upcoming webinar alert! On Wed 27 Nov, Prof Margaret Stark will be presenting on the challenges of managing detainees with substance use disorders in police custody. Free for FFLM Members to attend. To book your place, click here: tinyurl.com/38e5arf9
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Besides the fact that @gmcuk should not be regulating PAs. PAs will pay £320 Drs pay £455 Yet a 1st year PAs earns £10,000 more than a 1st year Dr. Everything in the system is stacked to disincentivise & punish Drs.
In less than a month we will bring physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) into regulation – a milestone that will help strengthen patient safety and public trust in these professions. You can read our latest letter updating system leaders on progress on our website: gmc-uk.org/news/news-archive… Within it, we shared that: - We’re contacting PAs and AAs on the relevant voluntary registers to let them know the fee they’ll pay when they register with us. We expect the fee to be £320, subject to approval by our Council next month. More information can be found on our website: gmc-uk.org/pa-and-aa-regulat… - We’ve been engaging directly with PAs and AAs to help them understand the standards they’ll need to meet when they gain registration with us. - Our future public facing registers will make it easy to identify whether an individual is a doctor, PA, or AA with clear and prominent labelling. - We’re preparing to publish our report on the outcome of our consultation on the proposed rules, standards and guidance for regulating PAs and AAs in December before regulation begins.
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Alex Gorton (alexgorton at bluesky) retweeted
‘My main goal is that I wanted to practice medicine, and I don’t think you need to become a Doctor for that’ @medicalmodelbri @parthaskar @Xeon4f145d96s1 @Dr_Done_ @Doc_IonaCollins @DrNeenaJha @LittlePersonDoc
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Alex Gorton (alexgorton at bluesky) retweeted
Um,yes you do! It's illegal to practice medicine unless you are a Doctor.There are no short cuts to safe medical practice. You can train into a complimentary role with its own scope of practice-Nurse,Physio,Pharmacist etc-but go to medical school if you want to practice medicine
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Are you thinking about joining the FFLM? Applications are due by 19 November for consideration at the next meeting of our Membership and Fellowship Committee on 03 December. More information here: fflm.ac.uk/membership
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To mark the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine's 20th year, we are offering delegates a very special 20% discount to our Annual Conference, which will take place in Liverpool, May 2025. Use the discount code FFLM20 to secure your ticket! fflm.ac.uk/annual-conference…
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Delighted to say that the 3rd Edition of the Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine has been published sciencedirect.com/book/97804…
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📢 Attention all nurses, paramedics and pharmacists working in forensic and secure and detained settings! Did you know that the Subscription fee for 24/25 is only £30 See here for more details: fflm.ac.uk/membership
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New learning today ! @FFLMUK. Thanks Alex for a brilliant day of learning. Many thanks Barry for the invitation to attend.@AcpRvh
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Belfast today for more @FFLMUK training to support clinicians assessing people post #Taser #RaisingStandards #ProtectingTheVulnerable
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Alex Gorton (alexgorton at bluesky) retweeted
Physician associates should not be carrying out medical examinations of children who have reported abuse or who are at risk of abuse and should not produce evidence for courts, forensic doctors have said in guidance bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q217…
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One day until the FFLM SARC Best practice Day The booking deadline is 1pm today, please use the link below to book your place. fflm.ac.uk/event/fflm-virtua…
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We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬
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