Representing and Supporting GPs and Practices across Lancashire & Cumbria
Preston, England
Joined June 2013
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Sent to hospital urgently- by ambulance, your GP, or to A&E? Please don’t leave before you’ve been seen. A long wait doesn’t change why you were sent, and your GP can’t pick up where the hospital left off. Watch our short film 👇 #NHS #AandE #PatientSafety youtu.be/7HC0W_Se38A
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The people who approved this post should be embarrassed (and probably fired)! You’d think the MAGA bunch have taken over. Is GP a source of joke and amusement for these guys?
You can now request appointments at your GP online.
We're working with GPs to make it easier to get an appointment, when it works for you.
Find out more:
gov.uk/government/news/onlin…
ALT Drake making a disapproving gesture in the top panel with the text "Calling your GP at 8am" and an approving gesture in the bottom panel with the text "Request an appointment at any time."
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If government wants GP access to improve, it should stop with gimmicks and start with solutions:
+Recruit and retain more GPs
+Invest in primary care infrastructure
+Respect clinical complexity
Healthcare ≠ haircare. ✂️🚫👩⚕️
@DrSteveTaylor @doctor_katie @BMA_GP @BBCHughPym
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The Health Secretary @wesstreeting says it’s “bizarre” that it’s easier to book a haircut than a GP appointment.
This disappointing comparison is not just wrong - it trivialises the complexity and seriousness of General Practice. 🧵
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GPs are being asked to open up online consultation software from 8am-630pm Mon-Fri from 1/10/25. No flexibility from @NHSEngland @DHSCgovuk @wesstreeting around suspending it if completely overwhelmed or staff sickness limits capacity. Patient safety will be compromised by this..
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Fellow UK residents - please don’t be in a hurry to go down the route of an American health system. This is what awaits you on the other side 👇🏼 and then read this thread👇🏼👇🏼
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Thank you to @nwlmcs chief executive @JanjuaAdam and East Lancashire GP @MDzi for speaking with me about this issue.
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Big NHS interview on @BBCr4today with @amolrajan and @AmandaPritchard - and it was all hospitals, hospitals, hospitals. Only mention of GP was how hard it was to get an appt. Come on R4 you can do better. Gen practice is the only part of the NHS with year on year zero deficits….
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All with fixed funding … not payment by activity . All with limited premises investment. All with no working capital investment by government. Not a bad return ….
General Practice provided 370,000,000 appts in 2024
1.5million a day
Despite the workload transfer from Trusts
This is what NHS productivity looks like @AmandaPritchard
@NHSEngland needs ICBs to protect practices & build their capacity in 2025/26
@wesstreeting @SKinnock
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My BMA video on Collective GP Action recorded at the England LMC conference last week. The profession is being taken for granted and enough is enough! youtube.com/watch?v=jBon3Hpa…
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Thanks to @JanjuaAdam and the rest of the @nwlmcs team for this mornings event. Very useful time spent sharing ideas with colleagues 😊
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.@NottsLMC, @nwlmcs & @LondonwideLMCs have condemned far-right racist and Islamophobic rioting and have released guidelines on what practices can do to protect staff and patients. #CallingItOut #TeamGP #GPnews
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🌟We are also visiting
🐂 Durham Tues 18
🌉Hull Wed 19
🤍Leeds Wed 19
❤️Preston Thurs 20
⛰️Carlisle Thurs 20
🍎 Hereford & Worcs/Glos/Avon/Salop Thurs 20
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I featured on ITV News last night discussing the pressures the NHS is facing and the financial difficulties GP Practices find themselves in due to chronic underfunding. The risk of privatisation is very real if urgent action isn't taken soon. Highlights 4 - full clip online@ITV.
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Today I saw a family with 3 kids under 7 - absolutely no access to a dentist despite the mum ringing around. This is pathetic in a supposed first world country. Embarrassing. Politicians with no understanding of GP are pushing it towards the dentist model. Can’t let that happen.