HCSA – the hospital doctors' union
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The GMC tells doctors we must speak up with patient safety concerns. But fulfilling this duty can result in attempts to silence or remove us.
Protect yourself as you protect patients with HCSA's new guide to the playbook used by bad employers against whistleblowers.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
HCSA Junior Doctors in England have voted to strike over pay.
Junior Doctors’ pay has fallen 26% in the last decade.
This vote is a wake-up call to a complacent government. It’s time to negotiate a way out of this crisis.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#HospitalDoctorsUnion
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HCSA
#JuniorDoctors
in England will strike on Wednesday 15th March – for the first time in our history.
This is not a decision we've taken lightly. We must act now for our patients, our NHS and our own wellbeing.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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📢HCSA members have REJECTED the government's consultant contract reform offer.
It's time to get back round the table on NHS consultant pay. We need a package that invests in consultants and protects already depleted SPA time.
Our letter to Health Secretary
@VictoriaAtkins
👇
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BREAKING: HCSA junior doctors vote overwhelmingly to continue striking with a 96.5% YES vote.
Read more here:
#NHS
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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BREAKING: HCSA junior doctors in Scotland have voted to REJECT the Scottish Government pay offer.
HCSA members believe that
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
.
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Jeremy Hunt knows broken NHS pensions tax is driving senior doctors out of our health service.
Why hasn't he done anything about it?
#AutumnStatement
#budget2022
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HCSA is concerned that the GMC intends to bring associate professionals such as PAs under the same code of practice as doctors.
Dithering on regulation has led to 'scope creep'. There must be a red line where duties are only undertaken by doctors.
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Broken NHS pensions tax is driving senior doctors from our health service.
But don't just take our word for it. Ask Jeremy Hunt.
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Mark, cancer patient at Charing Cross Hospital, came out to show his support for
#JuniorDoctors
.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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We were due to meet
@SteveBarclay
alongside
@TheBMA
&
@TheBDA
today over medical pay but he cancelled
We still await a new time to discuss potential strike action by Junior Doctors and the growing exodus of Consultants and Specialists
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HCSA Junior Doctors will strike for 96 hours from 06:59 on 11th April.
We stand resolute.
The government must move seriously to resolve this dispute.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
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We are gearing up for our Covid report launch in parliament this afternoon, with our project partners
@EveryDoctorUK
, where we will share our findings with MPs and Lords.
Tag your MP in this tweet to ask them to stop by and collect a copy!
#MedTwitter
#doctorsUK
#NHSdoctors
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Powerful scenes at the Sheffield
#JuniorDoctors
picket this morning, with strikers out in force and braving the cold.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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🚨 BREAKING
HCSA consultants and SAS doctors have voted 77% in favour of strike action on pay – should current talks with the Department of Health and Social Care fail to yield results.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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At 06:59 tomorrow HCSA
#JuniorDoctors
will begin a 72-hour strike – the first in our history.
The government has left our members no choice.
@SteveBarclay
must drop preconditions and get round the table to resolve this dispute.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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Our pickets are set up and ready to go at Charing Cross and Sheffield for the
#juniordoctorsstrike
. Come and say hello if you are in the area!
Meanwhile Consultants and SAS doctors show their support for striking colleagues.
We all stand with the junior doctors
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Next month we’re launching our joint report with
@EveryDoctorUK
in
#Westminster
, where we will share doctors’ experiences of
#Covid
with policy-makers.
Keep an eye on our Twitter page for more information. Please RT
#NHSdoctors
#DoctorsUK
#Doctors
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📢 HCSA members are standing strong. Junior doctors in England will strike for 5 days in July.
There's still time for the government to get serious, get round the table and avert this strike.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
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📢BREAKING📢
HCSA
#JuniorDoctors
add more dates to the first strike in our history.
Members will strike across NHS trusts in England from the morning of 13th March to the morning of 16th March.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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HCSA junior doctors have begun a three-day full walkout.
The government is asleep at the wheel. Our message is simple: doctors, and our patients, deserve better.
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
#Doctorsstrike
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HCSA believes CEO Charlie Massey must take personal responsibility for the GMC's disastrous handling of the
#BawaGarba
case. His leadership has become untenable. He must consider his position to restore professional faith in the regulator
Full statement >
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Today
#JuniorDoctors
are standing together in an unprecedented 72-hour strike.
It didn't have to be this way. But after years of pay cuts and government inaction doctors are leaving and patients will pay the price. This was the only option left.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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📢HCSA junior doctors in England will strike for 72 hours from 14th–17th June.
The alternative is accepting an exodus of junior doctors which our NHS cannot withstand.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
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It has been a privilege to record the experiences of the medical profession, working in partnership with
@EveryDoctorUK
to pool testimony from our members.
We look forward to taking this account to parliament.
#NHSdoctors
#COVID
#Doctors
📢 Next month we’ll be launching our first ever report with an in-person event in parliament for politicians and policy-makers, alongside
@HCSANews
; our partners on this project.
‘Never Again’ spotlights personal testimony of members from both of our organisations...
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Incredible wave of public support on the
#JuniorDoctors
picket lines this morning!
Commuters, parents, pupils, nurses, posties, bus drivers all know that
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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'The government had a month since the last strike to come round the table and give us any meaningful offer, and yet they still haven't done that.'
HCSA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair Dr Karim Salem on why junior doctors have been forced to strike.
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
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‼️PAY UPDATE🧵: Following member consultation, HCSA Executive will take immediate steps to launch a campaign on pay, pensions and pay restoration on the following principles:
1⃣Reverse pay erosion for Consultants and other senior grades
2⃣Pay restoration for Junior Doctors
1/2
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HCSA has issued a statement in response to the ruling striking off Junior Doctor Bawa-Garba - calling for an "urgent review of the GMC approach to such cases". The full statement is available here:
#IAmHadiza
#BawaGarba
#ListenToHospitalDoctors
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Senior doctors are being driven out of the NHS by pensions tax. Important from
@katlay
,
@eleanorhayward
,
@imogent_
To retain senior doctors we must:
1⃣Scrap Annual Allowance in defined benefit schemes
2⃣Increase Lifetime Allowance & link it to inflation
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Up and down the country, Consultant and SAS doctors have stepped in to support Junior Doctors, keeping wards safe to make the strike a success. Your fight is a fight for all of us.
#JuniorDoctors
- the rest of the medical profession has your back.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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Day 2⃣ of the
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
HCSA members are back out on the picket line.
It's been amazing to receive such incredible public support!
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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Thank you for raising this important question.
Changes to taxation made by the treasury led to this crisis, not issues with the NHS pension scheme, so it cannot be solved with flexibilities to the scheme alone - the Government needs to
#scrapthetaper
Annual and tapered pension allowances are driving senior doctors out of the workforce. I've been pursuing this with
@hmtreasury
and today raised experience of constituent from Barrachnie.
In response to my question, Chancellor says announcement coming soon - hopefully good news.
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.. And we're back out for day 2 of the 72 hour
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
. Picket already lively at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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The Health Secretary has known for months we needed to talk about
#JuniorDoctors
pay. Now they want us to call off the strike with no tangible offer.
That's not negotiation, that's an ultimatum. Doctors deserve better.
HCSA President Dr Naru Narayanan spoke to
@SkyNews
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Solidarity with our colleagues
@TheBMA
following their overwhelming vote to strike.
Our ballot results show the incredible strength of feeling among Junior Doctors.
The government now has a window of opportunity: they must open serious talks.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨: HCSA Council votes to hold formal industrial ballot of Junior hospital doctors in England after a huge vote by members in favour
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#HospitalDoctorsUnion
Full statement👇
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Junior Doctors need your support to win. We must protect our patients and keep doctors in the NHS.
Support a Junior Doctor today but donating to our hardship fund 👇
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HCSA have met with representatives from the Treasury Select Committee this afternoon to raise the impact of pension taxation on the NHS.
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Come on
@MattHancock
, do the right thing
Front-line hospital staff battling Covid deserve the best possible protection
Let them have their second Pfizer dose within 28 days
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16
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Great to be out alongside
@theRCN
nursing colleagues demanding fair pay for NHS staff.
📷The York Hospital
#FairPayforNursing
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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Parents, patients, doctors, teachers.
We're marching together on Budget Day – 15th March.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#SaveOurNHS
#SaveOurSchools
@NEUnion
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HCSA junior doctors in England will strike again from 11th to 15th August.
The government has tried to impose an unfair deal on doctors. Only negotiation can end these strikes.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
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At 06:59 HCSA junior doctors continue the first strike in our union's history.
Hear from Dr Sarah Dawson on why junior doctors have been driven to this point – and how emergency care will be covered.
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
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Don't forget to show your support for HCSA junior doctors who will be on strike next week. 👇
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#DoctorsStrike
JUST ANNOUNCED: HCSA junior doctors will strike in a full walkout on 20th, 21st and 22nd September, then again in a further full walkout on 2nd, 3rd and 4th October.
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First they
#ClapForTheNHS
then they take away free
#nhsparking
for staff.
Not good enough, particularly when we are still telling people to avoid public transport where possible.
Come on
@MattHancock
, you need to think again.
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14
27
Day 3⃣ of the
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
Spirits remain high in the fight for fair pay!
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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We agree
We are not convinced a 50/50 approach will solve the pensions crisis
@MattHancock
. It is likely doctors will continue to drop their hours and extra work in the NHS to avoid a huge tax bill. We must
#scrapthetaper
@goldstone_tony
@BMA_Consultants
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"My Name is Sammy - I'm thinking of leaving the NHS"
You can listen again to last night's excellent and extremely important Radio 4 programme featuring
@sbattrawden
@TheDA_UK
, which highlights many of the issues currently facing hospital doctors.
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📢 HCSA SAS members have voted to REJECT the government offer in the England pay dispute.
It's time for fresh talks to agree a deal that properly values NHS SAS doctors – and benefits the full SAS workforce.
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11
27
Today junior doctors are taking strike action to stop an exodus of doctors from the NHS.
Here's how you can support the
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
:
👋Visit a picket
📢Tweet
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
💪Donate to our strike fund
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JUST ANNOUNCED: HCSA junior doctors will strike in a full walkout on 20th, 21st and 22nd September, then again in a further full walkout on 2nd, 3rd and 4th October.
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The
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
is about the future of the NHS.
Dr Claudia Paoloni from HCSA Executive spoke on BBC Radio 4's World at One today.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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14
24
HCSA's Council has voted that
@PHE_uk
guidance must change so facemasks are worn in all hospital areas.
All patients, with symptoms or not, are potential positive cases. We need action now.
@MattHancock
@10DowningStreet
@BBCNews
@itvnews
@Channel4News
#caringforthecarers
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26
HCSA members are rallying outside Conservative Party Conference.
We're here and ready to talk – where is the government?
#DoctorsStrike
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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7
24
HCSA is proud to stand with 18 other leading healthcare organisations in calling for
@DHSCgovuk
to strip
@gmcuk
of its power to appeal its own decisions.
Five years on from the Williams review, it's shameful that we're still waiting for action.
More ➡️
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Junior doctors deserve better. That's why we're balloting members in England for strike action.
✅Vote YES for full pay restoration.
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To launch
#HeartUnions
week, Dr Claudia Paoloni, HCSA President, talks about why it’s important to join a union.
❤️ Find out why you should join HCSA:
#ValentinesDay2022
#TradeUnions
@The_TUC
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13
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Newsnight’s report on University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust highlights the toxic culture of intimidation and bullying that pervades the NHS.
This national media attention is, in HCSA’s view, long overdue.
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This misinformation from
@StGeorgesTrust
is unhelpful & provocative
Eligible HCSA members with shifts starting from 06.59 13th - 06.59 16th March will be on strike
If you aren't in a union you can strike too - but better to join
@HCSANews
/
@TheBMA
/
@TheBDA
for support&advice
Is this how you want to operate as a trust
@StGeorgesTrust
@TotterdellJac
Are trusts trying to mislead employees that they cannot legally strike if they aren’t part of the BMA or HCSA? This is misrepresenting the truth and calls into question the integrity of your organisation.
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Doctors are leaving the NHS. The government is trying to plug the gap with physician associates without the same training.
👏
@MarieRimmer
MP at today's debate on the future of the NHS in Westminster Hall.
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10
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Today junior doctors across England are making their voices heard.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
📷Oxford 📷Sheffield 📷Birmingham
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8
20
HCSA president
@drclaudia_p
has today written to the
@guardian
to put the record straight on the causes and blame for the NHS Pensions crisis >
Blame the Treasury for the doctors�� tax trap | Letters
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7
19
Today's meeting with
@SteveBarclay
was civil.
He heard the case for urgent action on pay, the pay review system and pensions tax.
But he made no commitment to a fair pay settlement.
The ball remains firmly in the Health Secretary's court.
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12
19
HCSA
#JuniorDoctors
in England will strike on Budget day, Wednesday 15th March, alongside sister unions across the country.
Listen to our President Dr Naru Narayanan explain why we've been driven to this point for the first time in our history.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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14
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HCSA President Naru Narayanan issues a call for doctors to mobilise as “defenders of the profession” on pay, pensions, workforce, hostile disciplinary culture and equality for all.
Read the full article:
#NHSdoctors
#doctorsUK
#doctors
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6
20
'The public support has been incredible.'
Hear from junior doctors striking for fair pay 👇
“We are here to raise our voices”
Good to hear from
@HCSANews
members on the picket line at Whiston today and bring some union solidarity ✊
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
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0
16
19
NHS physiotherapists
@thecsp
are taking strike action tomorrow for fair pay and staff retention.
Are you able to show them your support? Find your nearest picket line here 👇
#CSP4FairPay
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6
20
NHS staff paid £86.2m in parking charges in 2018-19.
The Government is spending £500m on a meal discount scheme covering Monday-Wednesday for one month.
NHS staff are risking their safety every day and are advised not to use public transport. Please think again
@MattHancock
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15
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💬Hospital Doctors Focus Group: Were you a hospital doctor during the pandemic? We need your input to give voice to the medical profession.
With
@EveryDoctorUK
we are writing a joint report. Share your experiences from 7.30pm on Tues 24th Aug,
sign up👉
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18
20
This morning junior doctors commenced 96 hours of strike action.
Get down to your friendly neighbourhood picket line!
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
0
8
20
At 7am, junior doctors across England will strike once again.
They are doing this for the future of the profession – and of the NHS. And they need your help. 👇
0
8
19
HCSA junior doctors in England will strike for four days from tomorrow morning.
Members should not attend work between 07:00 on Friday and 07:00 on Tuesday.
Full details below 👇
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
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7
19
HCSA will open a formal industrial action ballot of junior doctors in England on 14th December.
Pay erosion has gone on for too long and cut too deep. It must be reversed. Doctors deserve better.
Full details➡️
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#HospitalDoctorsUnion
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13
16
Wow. What an atmosphere at the
@NEUnion
demo. Incredible turnout and unity of purpose. 🤩
Also hats off to our northern HCSA members, who are demonstrating closer to home in Newcastle.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#SaveOurNHS
#SaveOurSchools
0
6
17
We will now meet
@SteveBarclay
tomorrow morning.
We go in with an open mind but the government must realise the mood of the medical workforce.
Hospital doctors are leaving the NHS at a time we can least afford it. Morale is at rock bottom. Pay and pensions are at the heart.
We were due to meet
@SteveBarclay
alongside
@TheBMA
&
@TheBDA
today over medical pay but he cancelled
We still await a new time to discuss potential strike action by Junior Doctors and the growing exodus of Consultants and Specialists
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6
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PRESS RELEASE: Delaying the second Pfizer dose past 28 days for vulnerable hospital staff flies in the face of logic amid an upsurge in Covid-19
These plans must be reversed now
Full statement >>>
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13
18
HCSA Scotland junior doctors will strike for 72 hours from 12th to 15th July.
Now is the last chance for the Health Secretary to get real on junior doctor pay before an all-out strike.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
1
16
14
As
@Jeremy_Hunt
prepares to make his Spring Budget, tens of thousands of striking public sector employees come together to demonstrate, including HCSA
#JuniorDoctors
.
Fair Pay Now.
#SaveOurNHS
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
#SaveOurSchools
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
0
11
17
NHS pay offer ‘an insult to junior doctors’ which misjudges the threat of a post-Covid staffing crisis
Read the full HCSA statement here:
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HCSA was pleased to join Thursday's damp but determined
@ScottishTUC
rally in Edinburgh. Hospital doctors in Scotland deserve better.
#ScotlandDemandsBetter
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5
15
Grateful to have the incredible support of our colleagues
@NEUnion
.
Just like doctors, we can't recruit and retain the teachers we need without fair pay.
Doctors stand with teachers.
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6
14
The best way to ensure that clinicians don't face huge tax charges is to scrap the complex and misjudged reforms to pension tax relief that created this mess. The problem was created in the treasury, not the NHS Pension Scheme and that's where the solution needs to be found.
BREAKING: Government announces proposals to make NHS pensions more flexible so senior clinicians aren't facing huge tax charges, more coming soon on HSJ
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13
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📢HCSA will formally ballot
#JuniorDoctors
in Scotland for strike action over pay.
✉️Members: be ballot ready. Confirm your details now.
1
11
16
Thank you to our colleagues in
@DoctorsInUnite
for their solidarity as our Junior Doctor members prepare to strike.
They know first-hand what a critical moment this is for doctors and for our NHS.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
"We must act now for our patients, our NHS and our own well-being". Solidarity!
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Hospital staff are currently working under a legal sword of Damocles in a system on the brink
That's why we joined calls today for emergency laws to protect them
Colleagues at
@MPS_Medical
have pressed for this since last Spring - its time has come
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6
17
"Enough is enough."
HCSA General Secretary Dr Paul Donaldson sends a clear message to an audience of 40,000+! at
#PayUp
rally.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
#SaveOurSchools
#SaveOurNHS
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
0
12
16
📢HCSA JUNIOR DOCTORS FULL WALKOUT FROM 3RD - 9TH JANUARY
We enter 2024 even more determined in our fight for pay restoration.
#DoctorsDeserveBetter
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10
15
The government's failure to announce a pay award today ‘shows absolute disrespect’ for hospital doctors and their NHS colleagues
Read HCSA full statement here:
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6
16
📢Today's the day!📢
Striking Junior Doctors and teachers march together on
#Budget2023
to
#SaveOurNHS
and
#SaveOurSchools
.
Here's how you can join us 🧵
#JuniorDoctorsStrike
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6
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@guardian
HCSA General Secretary Paul Donaldson said any attempt to deploy students “into such a high-pressure situation” is alarming, with clear risks students could be asked "to do things beyond their skill level and without any indemnity to protect them".
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4
15
Action on doctors' pay must go hand in hand with fixing the pensions tax trap.
HCSA has written to Chancellor
@Jeremy_Hunt
to urge immediate action on pensions tax, which is forcing our most senior doctors out of the NHS.
His own committee called this 'a national scandal'.
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11
15
The government has applied the following pay award, backdated to April:
Consultants: 2.5% (DDRB pay review body recommendation)
Junior Doctors: 2% (below recommendation)
SAS grades: 2.5% (below recommendation)
Freeze on CEAs (rejecting recommendation)
All real-terms cuts vs RPI
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15
14
Only negotiation will end industrial action by hospital doctors.
The government's pay announcement is an imposed outcome funded by NHS cuts.
Full statement➡️
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10
15
Our response to the letter that we received from
@BMA_JuniorDocs
Sadly, the deal does not look any better to us after reading the letter than it did before.
We will continue to offer doctors chance to join our campaign for a better
#JDContract
at:
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@drmattuk
Hi Matt, this initial date is a day of action with our TUC sister unions on the day of the Budget.
We've been coordinating with the other medical and health unions and will of course continue to do so. We agree the profession must be united – all options are on the table.
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The HCSA has called for the GMC to be placed in special measures and its leadership team to be replaced after it was found to have racially discriminated against Consultant urologist Mr Omer Karim
Full statement:
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